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- | {{Team:KULeuven/Components/Component|2/22/Miss_Blue_vanillin_sensor.png|Vanillin Sensor| | + | {{Team:KULeuven/Components/Component|2/22/Miss_Blue_vanillin_sensor.png|Vanillin Sensor|The vanillin receptor senses the vanillin concentration outside the cell. This information is needed to create the feedback loop in order to control vanillin synthesis. When the sensor senses vanillin a protein, virA, binds a phosphor. Afterwards virA gives the phosphor to an other protein, virG. VirG, with phosphor, in turn binds on a vir box triggering transcription. this way the transcribed component is proportional to the concentration of vanillin.}} |
- | The vanillin receptor senses the vanillin concentration outside the cell. This information is needed to create the feedback loop in order to control vanillin synthesis. When the sensor senses vanillin a protein, virA, binds a phosphor. Afterwards virA gives the phosphor to an other protein, virG. VirG, with phosphor, in turn binds on a vir box triggering transcription. this way the transcribed component is proportional to the concentration of vanillin. | + |