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:The main goal of the Hawaii team is to make a "toolkit" for cyanobacteria, which are photosynthetic bacteria that can convert carbon dioxide to sugars using the same machinery  as plants.  Cyanobacteria thus hold promise as producers of biofuels and other bioproducts.   
:The main goal of the Hawaii team is to make a "toolkit" for cyanobacteria, which are photosynthetic bacteria that can convert carbon dioxide to sugars using the same machinery  as plants.  Cyanobacteria thus hold promise as producers of biofuels and other bioproducts.   
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:::2) a second BioBrick that mediates protein export from the cell into the surrounding medium and  
:::2) a second BioBrick that mediates protein export from the cell into the surrounding medium and  
:::3) a naturally occurring shuttle vector to BioBrick format to allow easy transfer of existing and new BioBricks into cyanobacteria.
:::3) a naturally occurring shuttle vector to BioBrick format to allow easy transfer of existing and new BioBricks into cyanobacteria.
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The Project

The main goal of the Hawaii team is to make a "toolkit" for cyanobacteria, which are photosynthetic bacteria that can convert carbon dioxide to sugars using the same machinery as plants. Cyanobacteria thus hold promise as producers of biofuels and other bioproducts.
We are constructed a number of tools to more easily and effectively engineer cyanobacteria, including
1) a BioBrick switch that turns on a downstream gene when nitrate is added,
2) a second BioBrick that mediates protein export from the cell into the surrounding medium and
3) a naturally occurring shuttle vector to BioBrick format to allow easy transfer of existing and new BioBricks into cyanobacteria.





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