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Biosensors have a diverse variety of real-world functions, ranging from measuring blood glucose levels in diabetes patients to assessing environmental contamination of trace toxins. The majority of these sensors are highly specific for a single input, and their outputs often require specialized equipment such as surface plasmon resonance chips.
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Our project aims to create a biosensor that recognizes a specific target and alters its output fluorescence from green, to yellow, to red as a function of concentration up to critical levels (hence, a biological "traffic light").
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!align="center"|[[Team:British_Columbia|Home]]
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!align="center"|[[Team:British_Columbia/Team|The Team]]
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!align="center"|[[Team:British_Columbia/Project|The Traffic Light]]
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!align="center"|[[Team:British_Columbia/pBAD|pBAD Promoters]]
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!align="center"|[[Team:British_Columbia/LockandKey|Lock and Key]]
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!align="center"|[[Team:British_Columbia/Jammer|Jammer]]
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==The Bacterial Traffic Light==
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Click the colours of the traffic light to learn about its different subparts!
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The goal of our project is to construct an ''Eschericia coli'' bacterial "traffic light", that responds to increasing concentration levels of a given input (in our case, arabinose) with green, yellow, and red fluorescent outputs. Our project is unique because it is an analog biosensor, capable of responding to a continuous variable signal, rather than a binary biosensor that only signals on/off.  
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The Traffic Light is composed of three distinct subparts:
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* The [[Team:British_Columbia/pBAD|pBAD promoter family]]
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* The [[Team:British_Columbia/LockandKey|lock and key riboregulation system]]
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* The [[Team:British_Columbia/Jammer|Jammer]]
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For a summary of our actual results, see [[Team:British_Columbia/Total_Results|here]].
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      alt="Sensors: This links to the pBAD promoters that sense the arabinose."
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      alt="The Jammer: this mRNA sequence blocks the key from opening the lock."
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Latest revision as of 03:58, 22 October 2009

E.coli Traffic Light:
A flexible, modular, and transparent system for multi-level assessment of variable inputs.'

Biosensors have a diverse variety of real-world functions, ranging from measuring blood glucose levels in diabetes patients to assessing environmental contamination of trace toxins. The majority of these sensors are highly specific for a single input, and their outputs often require specialized equipment such as surface plasmon resonance chips.

Our project aims to create a biosensor that recognizes a specific target and alters its output fluorescence from green, to yellow, to red as a function of concentration up to critical levels (hence, a biological "traffic light").


Click the colours of the traffic light to learn about its different subparts!

Sensors: This links to the pBAD promoters that sense the arabinose. Lock and Key: this controls when the colors are produced The Jammer: this mRNA sequence blocks the key from opening the lock.



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