Team:UT-Tokyo

iGEM UT-Tokyo

Welcome to iGEM UT-Tokyo

Welcome to the UT-Tokyo team's wiki for iGEM 2011. This site will be updated as we progress through our project.

If you would like to get in touch with us, please contact us by email or on twitter (@UT_Tokyo).

Project Overview (as of 2011/7/14)

Our team project is the creation of "E. Coli attracted to stress."

This project consists of two parts: detection of stress and "positive stressotaxis." To detect stress, we use the promoters of the SOS genes, coding for proteins involved in well-known DNA-repair mechanisms. There are various SOS genes in E. coli and therefore we think it is possible to detect various ranges of stress using different promoters. In addition, combining stress-responsive promoters with chemotactic factors, we aim to create E. coli that swim towards the source of the stress.

We propose that the resulting machine possessing these functions may be useful for applications such as bioremediation and environmental screening.

Safety proposals

Our answers to the safety questions can be found here.