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Who’s your PABA: intelligent sun protection
E.colipse is an intelligent and adaptive sun radiation protection system which responds to UV exposure with the production of the protective agent PABA. To detect hazardous levels of sun radiation our system is based on UVR8, a UV sensing protein from plants. In its dark state, this protein forms a homodimer that dissociates upon UV radiation.
We fused UVR8 with the DNA binding domain from TetR, which is unable to dimerize and to bind DNA in monomeric form. UV-exposure might force the UVR8-TetR fusion dimer to split, release the DNA and enable transcription. Thus, UVR8-TetR might act as a light-activated on-switch in bacteria.
We plan to use this novel switch to start the production of para-aminobenzoic acid (PABA), a common ingredient of sunscreen, and - dependent on the intensity and duration of exposure as determined by our detailed in silico model - a colored pigment as a visible warning signal.
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