With advantages of low substrates cost, high optical purity of end products and environmentally friendly fermentation process, microbial production of valuable chemicals grow rapidly. Compared with static microbial strain engineering strategies, such as gene deletion, overexpression and mutation, dynamic pathway regulation is a new approach that balances cellular growth and chemical production. Quorum sensing is a natural microbial communication system responsible for cell-density-related cell behaviors. Accordingly, quorum sensing systems can be employed to achieve dynamic regulation in microorganisms without the need for manual intervention or the use of chemical inducers. In this review, natural quorum sensing systems are firstly summarized. Then, recent progress in using quorum sensing circuits in the field of metabolic engineering is highlighted. The current application challenges of quorum sensing systems and future perspectives in microbial synthesis of chemicals are also discussed.
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