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Introduction | Project Design ( 1.Affinity Tag | 2.Communication Module | 3.Size Control ) | Making Marimos | Our Goal |
Project Overview
Why We Make a Marimo : Spherical Multicellular Organism!?
In fact, an oil droplet is a sphere in water. Red blood cell in a hypotonic solution shows its shape change to a spherical balloon. However multicellular organisms have their shape different from a sphere except Marimo. Of course, other algae do not show spherical shape, they live on a surface of stone. It is quite intriguing how Marimo remains its spherical shape in a lake!
Our team focuses understanding how such spherical structure can be sustained even when it Is multicellular organisms.
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How To Make Our Marimo
What we require to our system is as follows:- Affinity Tag.
- Communication Module.
- Size Control.
Two cells are used in our system: AHL senders and receivers. Senders generates the affinity tags constitutively, while receivers generates them only when they are induced by AHL. The marimo-forming goes like this:
- Make the sender core by sticking with the affinity tag.
- Insert the sender core into the receiver culture.
- The sender core produces AHL, which make the near receivers to generate the affinity tags and GFPs.
- The affinity tagged receiver sticks with the central sender core. This will continue until the AHL cannnot reach the marimo boundary,
- When the AHL reached the marimo boundary, the adsorping stops, which makes a finite-sized marimo bacteria.
Experiments Overview
Making Affinity Tags
- Make the affinity tag by inserting the his-tag into the flagellar fillament.
Making Communication Module
- Making Receivers
- Making Senders
Controlling Size
- Improve Sender
- Improve Receiver
- Localize AHL
Making Marimo
Our Goal
Below we describe the goal to make a marimo bacteria.
- A test of adsorption between flagella
- A test to confirm a limit of size
- A test to form Marimo
- A test of size control
Advanced Goal in Our Future
See below link: our brainstorming of the marimo future!