Team:BYU Provo/Team OxyR/The Beginning
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5 January 2011
Colon Cancer Detection Questions
Can isopeptags be used to detect a cancer biomarker and then create a response inside the cell? If not, what other transmembrane proteins can?
Heat Production
[http://openwetware.org/images/f/fd/Cold_Switch_Mechanism.jpg Diagram of proposed mechanism]
What's a good "cold switch" - a riboswitch that would stop transcription at a specific temperature?
Does the UCP1 create enough heat, fast enough, to make a difference?
Does activation of UCP1 harmfully inhibit ATP production? Or can we overproduce ATP to compensate?
CO Detection
Can E. coli be altered to survive in CO long enough to detect it?