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Project

Being self-organized, highly tolerant and moduled are the main reasons why we chose biofilm as a new synthetic system. Researchers have found that an oxygen gradient is established automatically with the depth of biofilm. Such property allows us to use oxygen sensitive promoters to artificially induce a differentiated expression through the spatial distribution of cells. The natural capability to sustain higher levels of toxin renders biofilm a more stable expression system.   Furthermore, convenience and generality makes our biolfilm system highly applicable. Biofilm is formed automatically, which saves much labor compared with traditional bio-reactors. The reaction system can be easily designed and cater to different needs simply with a change of downstream reporter genes. One possible application of our biofilm system is in ethanol production, where the product of one reaction is immediately passed to the next level and the toxicity of ethanol is minimized as produced at the surface layer.

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