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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. | ||
| - | :We | + | :We 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, | :::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 | :::2) a second BioBrick that mediates protein export from the cell into the surrounding medium and | ||
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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 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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[http://manoa.hawaii.edu/ 
][http://manoa.hawaii.edu/ovcrge/ 
][http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu 
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