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| - | <p>Our project focuses on tissue self-construction to achieve specific patterns of cell differentiation (initially with fluorescence, ultimately with cell fate regulators) with genetic circuits. To accomplish this, we focused on three components: cell-cell communication pathways, intracellular information processing circuits, and cell-cell adhesion. Through engineered control of these mechanisms, we are investigating how programmed local rules of interactions between cells can lead to the emergence of desired global patternings.</p>
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| - | <p>Specifically, for cell-cell signaling, we developed a modular juxtacrine platform, using Notch and Delta proteins. For intracellular information processing circuits, as a proof of concept, we build a 2-input AND gate. For cell-cell adhesion, the final output of our system, we used cadherin.
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| - | Below is an animation depicting our project components. The cell-cell signaling of Notch-Delta interaction leads to the cleavage of the Notch intracellular domain, which enters the nucleus and after logic processing, expresses cadherins, which cause cells to adhere to similarly expressing cells.
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| - | We developed software tools to model the behavior of our system. Below is a sample of a simulation of cells with genetic circuits and how they differentiate.
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| - | <li><a href="http://www.bbn.com/"><img src='https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2011/0/03/Mit-bbn.jpg' /></a></li>
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