Team:AUC TURKEY
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Team
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Project Description
This year we are working on the project 'BacteCooler 2.0'. In this project our aim is improve our last year project BacteCooler. Last year, in the beginning of the BacteCooler project we decided to use our project in real life as a product. This year we analyzed our project in terms of adaption BacteCooler to reality and found three main problems. Our solutions to these problems are; 1) For safety of our project we should develop Kill-switch mechanisms. This mechanism activate on case of our bacteria contact with air. So we are working on the promoters that sensible to molecules in the air. 2) In our BacteCooler project our enzyme Urease catalyzes the urea in the environment. After this catalyzation reaction NH3 come out and accumulate in the environment. This accumulation of NH3 causes the increase of pH and alkalization of environment. After this increase of pH our bacteria will be dead. For the solving this problem we designed a circuit that activated with pH sensible promoter and then produce an acidic buffer protein that buffering this pH increase. 3) Final and the biggest problem is over-night incubation time problem. For the solving this problem we should develop a system that secrete our urease enzyme quickly after the increase of temperature. We examined some of the iGEM projects and find some solutions that suit our project. This year for get a more efficient and exact results in our project we started to learn protein expressions experiment like Western-Blot, SDS-Page and ELISA. Also we working on modelling for get more information about how our project will work on practice. Finally we can say that in this iGEM HS 2014 adventure, we will try to solve these three problems with successful and much fun.
Notebook
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Results/Conclusions
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Safety
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Attributions
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Human Practices
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Fun!
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