Team:Harvard BioDesign/Project

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<p>Imagine, you visit your friend's home. It's painted a beautiful red and you enter for brunch. Of course you have a great time, but when you finally leave the home the house, the red is no longer there. A home of brilliant cobalt blue stands behind you, and you wonder, if you've gone mad.</p> <p> As your walk around the house, inspecting it, you see a dim light at the end of the street. As you walk towards the light, you realize that is a house fire, that has started up at the very extreme end of the neighborhood. You tell your friends what you've discovered and quickly call for 911. The house that has transformed from red to blue is not magic, but a indicator paint that has alerted you of pending danger. </p>
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<p>For the 2014 iGEM competition, the Harvard team aims to adapt E. coli biofilms into an information encoding and storage system. E. coli cells naturally secrete a protein called curli into their extracellular matrix that self-assembles into ordered, linear, amyloid fibers important for the structural integrity of the biofilm. In our system, bacteria will be engineered to produce a variety of curli subunits in response to environmental inputs. </p>
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<p> For the 2014 iGEM competition, the Harvard team aims to adapt E. coli biofilms into an information encoding and storage system. E. coli cells naturally secrete a protein called curli into their extracellular matrix that self-assembles into ordered, linear, amyloid fibers important for the structural integrity of the biofilm. In our system, bacteria will be engineered to produce a variety of curli subunits in response to environmental inputs. </p>
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Project Description

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For the 2014 iGEM competition, the Harvard team aims to adapt E. coli biofilms into an information encoding and storage system. E. coli cells naturally secrete a protein called curli into their extracellular matrix that self-assembles into ordered, linear, amyloid fibers important for the structural integrity of the biofilm. In our system, bacteria will be engineered to produce a variety of curli subunits in response to environmental inputs.

For the 2014 iGEM competition, the Harvard team aims to adapt E. coli biofilms into an information encoding and storage system. E. coli cells naturally secrete a protein called curli into their extracellular matrix that self-assembles into ordered, linear, amyloid fibers important for the structural integrity of the biofilm. In our system, bacteria will be engineered to produce a variety of curli subunits in response to environmental inputs.


References

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  2. Project Details
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  4. The Experiments
  5. Results
  6. Data analysis
  7. Conclusions

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