Light Trapped Bacteria : Chiba 2006

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Concept

Light Trapped Bacteria -- the E.coli freeze when they are caught by red light.
concept
red light on -> stop
red light off -> move
Control the E.coli's movement with light!

(We are still searching for a better name)

How it works

Members

Chiba 2006 team あ

  • Youhei Tashiro
  • Tomoki Morijiri
  • Toru Karasawa
  • Maiko Furubayashi


Experiments

  • 8/23 we made the tsr gene parts by PCR & discussed about the locked Tsr mutants.


Referenses

Locked Tsr Mutants

  • A.Bren and M.Eisenbach (2000) -- How Signals Are Heard during Bacterial Chemotaxis: Protein-Protein Interactions in Sensory Signal Propagation (J.Bacteriol.)
  • P.Ames and J.S.Parkinson (1988) -- Transmembrane Signaling by Bacterial Chemoreceptors: E.coli Transducers with Locked Signal Output (Cell)
  • P.Ames and J.S.Parkinson (1994) -- Constitutively Signaling Fragments of Tsr, the Escherichia coli Serine Chemoreceptor (J.Bacteriol.)


Experiments

  • M.K.Slocum and J.S.Parkinson (1985) -- Genetics of Methyl-Accepting Chemotaxis Proteins in Escherichia coli: Null Phenotypes of the tar and tap Genes (J.Bacteriol.)
  • J.S.Parkinson (1976) --- cheA, cheB, and cheC of Escherichia coli and Their Role in Chemotaxis (J.Bacteriol.)


Last Update

  • 8/23 refrences
  • 8/7 concept&members --maiko
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