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As of the 2009 Jamboree, not all aspects of our project have been completed. Looking forward, we intend to complete, test, and characterize our lock, key and jammer. Once this is done we intend to do the same for a second set of lock, key and jammer that have different sequences and will therefore not interfere with the first set. This second set will be configured to detect a second molecule, distinct from the first. When this is completed, we will try adding logic gates, allowing us to address nine different combinations: high, medium and low concentrations of arabinose combined with high, medium and low concentrations of whatever we choose as our second molecule, possibly an antibiotic. When plated on media with two perpendicular gradients, we should be able to independently control each square of a 3x3 grid, possibly displaying 9 different colors of fluorescent proteins, or generating other metabolites, such as indigo. | As of the 2009 Jamboree, not all aspects of our project have been completed. Looking forward, we intend to complete, test, and characterize our lock, key and jammer. Once this is done we intend to do the same for a second set of lock, key and jammer that have different sequences and will therefore not interfere with the first set. This second set will be configured to detect a second molecule, distinct from the first. When this is completed, we will try adding logic gates, allowing us to address nine different combinations: high, medium and low concentrations of arabinose combined with high, medium and low concentrations of whatever we choose as our second molecule, possibly an antibiotic. When plated on media with two perpendicular gradients, we should be able to independently control each square of a 3x3 grid, possibly displaying 9 different colors of fluorescent proteins, or generating other metabolites, such as indigo. | ||
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Revision as of 00:59, 22 October 2009
'Overview of the Traffic Light Biosensor:
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").
Subparts:
1. A variable sensitivity biosensor
2. A lock-and-key logic gate system
Miscellaneous Data
We also produced a couple tools to help out the project:
- Biobricks.zip - Fasta file containing every biobrick from [http://partsregistry.org/cgi/partsdb/pgroup.cgi?pgroup=List Here]
- http://www.pkts.ca/bb - Biobrick digestion engine - enter the name of a biobrick plasmid and biobrick insert, and this will show you the product of an EcoRI and PstI digestion/ligation as a FASTA file (suitable for viewing in your favorite program).
- http://www.pkts.ca/brickedit/ - Biobrick picture maker - enter a sequence of letters corresponding to the icons, and the program will produce a concatenated file of the Biobrick.
Links
http://rna.tbi.univie.ac.at/ - a package of prediction tools for RNA structures; we used RNAfold to annotate the key and lock structures
http://mobyle.pasteur.fr/cgi-bin/portal.py - a set of web-accessible bioinformatics tools including Mfold, which determines 2D RNA structure and draws it
http://frodo.wi.mit.edu/ - Primer3, a primer design program
