Team:British Columbia

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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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|Formed in March 2009, this iGEM team is the first to enter from UBC, and hopes to do its alma mater proud.
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  * To manipulate the sensitivity of a whole-cell biosensor
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  * To implement a logic gate-based decision system within the biosensor
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The general scheme is to prototype the manipulations using an arabinose sensor coupled to a GFP reporter. ''
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Click the colours of the traffic light to learn about its different subparts!
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<img src="/wiki/images/thumb/f/fc/E_coli_Traffic_Light_General.png/950px-E_coli_Traffic_Light_General.png" width=950 usemap="#trafficlight">
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      alt="Sensors: This links to the pBAD promoters that sense the arabinose."
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      alt="Lock and Key: this controls when the colors are produced"
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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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