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Synthetic Biology | List of Figures
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Figure 1: Trans-/interdisciplinarity of
synthetic biology; from Polizzi (2013) ................................................................. 10
Figure 2: Strategy for
synthesising the genome of Mycoplasma genitalium (Glass 2012) ............................................. 25
Figure 3: Strategy for making a synthetic bacterial cell (from Glass (2012)) .................................................................. 26
Figure 4: Overview of exemplar DNA assembly techniques (from Ellis et al. (2011)) .................................................... 27
Figure 5: The assembly of a
Mycoplasma mycoides genome in yeast (Gibson et al. 2010) ........................................... 29
Figure 6: Bistable genetic toggle switch. Figure from Gardner et al. (2000) .................................................................. 33
Figure 7: Regulatory devices: a) oscillator, b) riboswitch, c) artificial scaffold protein. Figure from Purnick and Weiss
(2009) .............................................................................................................................................................................. 34
Figure 8: A simple genetic system with model equations. Figure from Arpino et al. (2013) .......................................... 36
Figure 9: Modularisation of a taxadiene biosynthesis pathway. Detail from a figure of Ajikumar et al. (2010) ............ 38
Figure 10: Schematic representation for basic part “promoter“ in the BioBricks™ assembly (iGEM 2014) .................. 39
Figure 11: Schematic representation of a composite part (ribosomal binding site – protein coding region –
terminator) (iGEM 2014) ................................................................................................................................................. 40
Figure 12: Schematic representation of a device consisting of a basic (=promoter) and a composite part (ribosomal
binding site – protein coding region – terminator) (iGEM 2014) .................................................................................... 40
Figure 13: Producing biofuels and renewable chemicals by means of synthetic biology; adapted from BIO (2013);
TM….trade mark .............................................................................................................................................................. 46
Figure 14: INzyme
TM
Plant Expression (Agrivida 2012b) ................................................................................................. 50
Figure 15: Dynamics in the biological engineering application space. ........................................................................... 94
Figure 16: Evolution of innovation .................................................................................................................................. 95