Team:St Andrews

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Our multidisciplinary group of scientists will first re-engineer the existing LuxR quorum sensing system to create a bistable switch. This will allow us to infer a signalling molecule concentration required to deactivate the system much lower than the concentration required to activate it.<br>
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The second part of the project involves introducing the cholera autoinducer synthase gene CqsA to <i>Escherichia coli</i> so that CAI-1 is secreted.<br>
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Our engineered <i>Escherichia coli</i> will harmlessly colonise the gut, and in large numbers secrete the cholera autoinducer, CAI-1. This will cause an immediate high autoinducer concentration to be detected by incoming <i>Vibrio cholerae</i> cells which then become avirulent and harmlessly pass out of the body.
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