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| - | <td colspan="2" class="info-18"><p class="info-18">Bank has two states changing during the cultivation. (6) and (7) describe Distribution state. LacI represses the translation of TetR as described in first term of (8). RhlI will distribute C4HSL which represents money. On the other hand, (8) and (9) describe Collection state. TetR represses LacI. AiiA decomposes C4.</p>
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| - | <td colspan="2"><p class="info-18">In order to avoid the death of Company and Customer, We chose Plux on company cell regulating the expression of CmR and LasI. Detail of the choice of improvement is shown in the page : (still not decided name but will be on other page under modeling.)</p></td>
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| - | <td colspan="2"><p class="info-18">Since there was no time to modify two or more components in the system, we should be able to achieve the goal with just one modification of the components. In the following we will examine which one to change one by one.</p></td>
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| - | <td colspan="2" class="info-18"><p class="info-18"><strong>2.2.1. The growth of cells (corresponds to k in equation (1) and (2))</strong></p>
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| - | <td colspan="2"><p class="info-18">As shown above, if the value is over 10^-1, then the final populations of Company and Customer get higher. This implies Company and Customer can grow well if the signaling molecule production rate was improved.</p></td>
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| - | <td colspan="2"><p class="info-18"><strong>2.2.3.Degradation rate of C4HSL and C12HSL</strong></p>
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| - | <td colspan="2" class="info-18"><p class="info-18">The result implies the population of both Company and Customer won’t be affected even if the degradation rates of signaling molecules are changed.</p></td>
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| - | <td colspan="2"><p class="info-18"><strong>2.2.4 maximum expression rate of proteins following Plux (corresponds to alpha in equation (5) and (6))</strong></p>
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| - | <td colspan="2"><p class="info-18">The parameter alpha was originally set to 10^2. From the graph, if the parameter value increase, the populations of Company and Customer also increase. This means improving promoter can result in increasing populations.</p></td>
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| - | <td colspan="2"><p class="info-18"><strong>2.2.5. Degradation rates of RhlI,LasI, Cloramphenicol resistane(corresponds to d in equation (5),(6),(7),(8))</strong></p>
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| - | <td colspan="2"><p class="info-18">The graph tells populations of Company and Customer cannot be higher in any value of degradation rate.</p>
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| - | <td colspan="2"><p class="info-18">From the examination of each parameters, parameters possibly change the growth of Company and Customer is only C4HSL,3OC12HSL production rate by RhlI, LasI and maximum expression rate of proteins following Plux.</p>
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| - | <td colspan="2"><p class="info-18">On our story, Bank has to change its state from collection state to distribution state, and vice versa depending on the concentration of C4HSL.</p>
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