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<h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffffff;">PROJECT DESCRIPTION</span></h1>
 
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<p><b><i>Key. coli</i> provides a new, more secure, form of key for accessing content.</b> It uses random ligations and large repertoires of possible components to generate unique combinations of expression profiles; this next generation biological key could be the next BIG thing in security; watch this space!
  
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<p><b>First biological password that changes over time! We are looking into transforming bacteria with a unique array of existing iGEM systems to produce a unique signal of secondary metabolites, initially using fluorescence as a proof of concept. Eventually, we will use the system to produce a unique and random configuration of products, as our "key".
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<p>In order to produce this randomness, alteration of the activity/presence of promoters associated with these metabolites will be applied using one of a few methods currently being considered by the team (detailed below)</p>
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<p><b>This key will be used to open safes, secure doors and various other locks. Measurement of certain engineered metabolites such as volatiles will give a distinct mass spectrum. A combination of a detection technique such as gas&nbsp;chromatography.</p>
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<p>Mass spectrometry with a data comparison software will compare the secondary metabolites of the "key" bacteria to the "reference/lock" from which it was taken. If the spectra of both colonies exceed a threshold of similarity then the system is unlocked.</p>
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<p><b>After an amount of time, our Key will have to be renewed from the Lock colony, and when this occurs the configuration of the key is shuffled once again to ensure the key and lock are changing.</p>
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<p><b>Major hacking incidents are increasingly common,</b> with accounts being hacked and sensitive information stolen. Many companies are moving away from conventional passwords, which are proving to be unreliable in the hands of the public. Banks are now using physical biometric authentication procedures to correctly identify account owners. This new direction opens a market for biological “passwords”. An ideal system would be as separate from online software programs as possible while maintaining the complexity and uniqueness of a biometric system. Cells are effectively living computers, so we can programme cells to act as a changeable biometric password. </p>
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<p><b>A key must be unique, measurable and unpredictable.</b> In <i>Key. coli</i>, all these requirements are achieved by the random generation of modular vectors that are expressed in Escherichia coli to produce a unique and detectable fluorescent pattern. This pattern is obtained when different fluorescent proteins (GFP, RFP, CFP) and various promoters, subjected to transcription interference by dCas9, are randomly combined during ligation and transformed into the cells to generate the key. </p>
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<h5><b> Figure 1:</b> Two-plasmid modular process used to generate random<i>Key. coli</i> construct(s)<p>
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<p>A key transport device, based on freeze-dried <i>Key. coli</i>, allows the bacteria to survive and be transported anywhere with ease. Once entry to a lock is desired, the <i>Key. coli</i> device can be activated, and the output read in a suitable detection device. </p>
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PROJECT DESCRIPTION

 




What?

Key. coli provides a new, more secure, form of key for accessing content. It uses random ligations and large repertoires of possible components to generate unique combinations of expression profiles; this next generation biological key could be the next BIG thing in security; watch this space!

Why?

Major hacking incidents are increasingly common, with accounts being hacked and sensitive information stolen. Many companies are moving away from conventional passwords, which are proving to be unreliable in the hands of the public. Banks are now using physical biometric authentication procedures to correctly identify account owners. This new direction opens a market for biological “passwords”. An ideal system would be as separate from online software programs as possible while maintaining the complexity and uniqueness of a biometric system. Cells are effectively living computers, so we can programme cells to act as a changeable biometric password.

How?

A key must be unique, measurable and unpredictable. In Key. coli, all these requirements are achieved by the random generation of modular vectors that are expressed in Escherichia coli to produce a unique and detectable fluorescent pattern. This pattern is obtained when different fluorescent proteins (GFP, RFP, CFP) and various promoters, subjected to transcription interference by dCas9, are randomly combined during ligation and transformed into the cells to generate the key.

 

 

Figure 1: Two-plasmid modular process used to generate randomKey. coli construct(s)

 

 

 

 

Figure 2: Random ligation process and colony picking allows large numbers of plasmid variants to be created for use in keys.

 

 


A key transport device, based on freeze-dried Key. coli, allows the bacteria to survive and be transported anywhere with ease. Once entry to a lock is desired, the Key. coli device can be activated, and the output read in a suitable detection device.

Key. coli Summary