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• Designs
  • Designs overview & concepts
  • Designs list
• Modeling
  • General overview
  • Modeling results for our designs →
    • The basics
    • Our assumptions
    • T7 polymerase diffusion
    • tRNA diffusion
    • ComK/ComS system
    • Parameters
  • Results of our passive diffusion model
  • Toward assisted diffusion
• Data
• Results
  • Achievements
  • Methodologies →
    • Microscopy
    • Micro-fluidic
    • Integration in B.subtilis
    • Kinetics
  • Parts list
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• Human practice & Safety
  • Human practice
  • Safety
  • Brainstorming
  • Bonus track

Design List

New devices

We designed entirely these new devices. They are usually composed of an emitter, a receptor and an amplifier sub-unit.

	YFP concentration This design relies on a TetO-array which allow us to concentrate YFP-TetR fusion proteins.
	T7 RNA polymerase diffusion In this design, we introduce the use of the T7 polymerase both as the transfer molecule and as the auto-amplification system.
	tRNA amber diffusion The tRNA amber is the smallest molecule we are trying to get pass the nanotubes.

Using bistable switches

During our brainstormings, we noticed several natural or artificial bistable switches that could serve both as a receptor and an auto-amplifier. One molecule carefully chosen could toggle the switch in another position. All we have to do is see if it diffuses through the nanotubes.

	ComS diffusion We took advantage of a switch already existing in B.Subtilis (the ComK/ComS switch) and tried to see if we could toggle it from one state to the other using molecules diffusing through the nanotubes.
	Sin Operon
Lambda switch	Lambda switch