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Contents 1 Overall project 2 Project Details 2.1 volatile cell signalling 2.2 non-volatile cell signalling 2.3 chitin synthase 2.4 chitinase knockout (may not be necessary) 2.5 holin 3 Results

Overall project

Signalling (volatile or quorum) -> chitin synthase (fast) && holin (slow)

in chitinase-KO strain e coli

Project Details

volatile cell signalling

phcB -> 3-OH PAME -> phcS -> phcR -(negative control)-> phcA

article: http://jb.asm.org/cgi/reprint/179/11/3639?view=long&pmid=9171411

non-volatile cell signalling

registry: http://partsregistry.org/Cell-cell_signalling

quorum sensing: LuxR, LuxS, LuxpR

chitin synthase

chitin synthase gene (chs3): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/852311

UDP-GlcNAc -> UDP + Chitin

chitinase knockout (may not be necessary)

summary of e coli knockouts: http://openwetware.org/wiki/Escherichia_coli/Knockouts

chitinase gene (chiA): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/947837

chiA-knockout strain e coli: http://ecoli.naist.jp/GB6/info.jsp?id=JW3300

holin

registry: http://partsregistry.org/Cell_death

Results