Team:Imperial College London/Autoinduction

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Please delete as completed.
Autoinduction feedback from todays session.

1) Mention the purpose of AI - No timer because...
2) Don't link to the temporal control page here.
3) Have a rationale section.
4) Add what teams can reuse from this module.
5) Have a conclusion of the page at the end - couple of lines.


Module Integration - Autoinduction



Overview

The autoinduction process switches on Module 2 following the accumulation of a predetermined concentration of polypeptide. The term 'autoinduction' was chosen as the flipping of this switch is triggered by the chemical composition of the media in which our chassis is grown. Thus the 'on signal' orginates from inside the system: hence 'autoinduction'.

Rationale

Before embarking on the creation of an autoinduction switch we reviewed a number of possible alternatives. A genetically encoded timer was initially considered however these present a considerable number of problems:


Genetic Timers Autoinduction Switch
Existing genetic timers are unable to provide a long enough delay.