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We are exploring ways to increase the sensitivity of bacteria based biosensors (for arsenic, pathogenic bacteria, and choliform bacteria) while making the "read-out" simultaneously high tech (bioluminescence) but in a low tech device that can be used by nontechnically-oriented people in places like the developing world.
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''"The Arsenator": A ''Tuneable'' Biosensor for Arsenic in Groundwater!!!"''
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<h1> Optimization of a Bacteria-based Biosensor for Arsenic in Drinking Water
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Millions of people worldwide are exposed to toxic levels of arsenic in drinking water. Bacteria have an efflux operon regulated by an arsenic sensitive inducible promoter. It is possible through recombinant DNA technology to isolate this promoter and combine it to a reporter system and transform bacteria to create a biosensor for arsenic. Induction of the arsenic-sensitive promoter occurs by the binding of arsenite to an inhibitory protein, de-repressing transcription. We have observed the arsenic responsive promoter from E. coli to have a consistent, low level of background induction. We have tested the hypothesis that by increasing the quantity of the inhibitory protein in the cell, we can quantifiably raise the threshold of the response. Our intention is to create a tunable biosensor to form the basis of a low-tech device that can reliably detect dangerous levels of arsenic in water for use in the developing world.
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Revision as of 15:58, 3 October 2012

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Welcome to the Homepage of the
DNA Architects of
SouthBend & Mishawaka, Indiana, USA

Home
Project
Notebook
Safety
Model
Parts
Sponsors

''"The Arsenator": A ''Tuneable'' Biosensor for Arsenic in Groundwater!!!"''


Optimization of a Bacteria-based Biosensor for Arsenic in Drinking Water

Millions of people worldwide are exposed to toxic levels of arsenic in drinking water. Bacteria have an efflux operon regulated by an arsenic sensitive inducible promoter. It is possible through recombinant DNA technology to isolate this promoter and combine it to a reporter system and transform bacteria to create a biosensor for arsenic. Induction of the arsenic-sensitive promoter occurs by the binding of arsenite to an inhibitory protein, de-repressing transcription. We have observed the arsenic responsive promoter from E. coli to have a consistent, low level of background induction. We have tested the hypothesis that by increasing the quantity of the inhibitory protein in the cell, we can quantifiably raise the threshold of the response. Our intention is to create a tunable biosensor to form the basis of a low-tech device that can reliably detect dangerous levels of arsenic in water for use in the developing world.


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