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| + | <p class="scu_title">Rhythmic Production of Melatonin in <i>E.coli</p> | ||
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| + | <p class="scu_vice_title">Nowadays, insomnia and circadian rhythm disorders are increasingly plaguing individuals' daily life. | ||
| + | According to NIH reports, around 50-70 million U.S. adults are suffering from sleep insufficiency and poor-quality sleep. | ||
| + | The circadian rhythm in human is predominantly under the regulation of melatonin, a hormone produced by pineal gland | ||
| + | periodically. This year we want to use engineered E.coli to mimic this process in human. We propose to <strong>construct a melatonin | ||
| + | biosynthesis pathway in <i>E.coli</i> to produce melatonin</strong>, while simultaneously<strong> couple this process with periodically-optimized | ||
| + | repressilator</strong>, a synthetic genetic oscillator with higher precision, with the intention to <strong>render melatonin production | ||
| + | resemble mammalian periodicity in<i> E.coli</i>.</strong> </p> | ||
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Revision as of 18:42, 26 October 2017
Rhythmic Production of Melatonin in E.coli
Nowadays, insomnia and circadian rhythm disorders are increasingly plaguing individuals' daily life. According to NIH reports, around 50-70 million U.S. adults are suffering from sleep insufficiency and poor-quality sleep. The circadian rhythm in human is predominantly under the regulation of melatonin, a hormone produced by pineal gland periodically. This year we want to use engineered E.coli to mimic this process in human. We propose to construct a melatonin biosynthesis pathway in E.coli to produce melatonin, while simultaneously couple this process with periodically-optimized repressilator, a synthetic genetic oscillator with higher precision, with the intention to render melatonin production resemble mammalian periodicity in E.coli.
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