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Contents 1 Overall project 2 Project Details 2.1 Part 2 2.2 The Experiments 2.3 Part 3: Adding zombie smell (cadaverine) 3 Results

Overall project

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Project Details

Part 2

The Experiments

Part 3: Adding zombie smell (cadaverine)

Background

• [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaverine Cadaverine]
• [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_J45999:Design Odor free chassis] has a tnaA mutation that prevents degradation of Tryptophan to indole.
• cadA and ldcC genes convert lysine to cadaverine. [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21552989 Reference]

Results