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Project description -Our biological system acts like a cigarette smoke detector. -To build our system we use E.Coli bacteria. - We modify our cells so that they can detect Acetaldehyde, which is a substance found in the cigarete smoke. Upon binding of Acetaldehyde to AlcR, AlcR acts as an inhibitor for a gene transcription. This is where our genetically engineered circuit? / pathway? starts. With a number of inhibitors and activators, we crated our circuit such that it gives rise to a GFP product once a certain concentration of Acetaldehyde is detected from the air. Thus, our circuit acts as a band-pass-filter for Acetaldehyde concentration.
We will place our genetically engineered cells in a microfluidics channel and will supply them with a flow of Acetaldehyde. We will also design our cells to degrade Acetaldehyde, so that a concentration gradient of Acetaldehyde is created throughout the channel.
