Fluorescent Protein Travel Awards - FLiPs and Fluorescent Protein Biosensors
Type
Blog Post
Published
July 27, 2017, 1:11 p.m.
... biosensors for Human Milk Oligosaccharides (HMOs).
HMOs are thought to play an important role in nuturing...to engineer bacteria for the efficient product of HMOs that could be used to supplement newborn diets and... cost-effective way to measure the production of HMOs. Current HPLC-MS and fluorophore-based technologies...biosensors that could quickly and reliably detect HMOs.
Fatima’s first design is a whole cell biosensor...specifically proposes using this sensor to detect HMOs found on cellular surfaces. After incubating the...the sensor with bacteria engineered to produce HMOs, sensor binding results in an increase in fluorescence...fluorescence of cells that actively produce the HMOs.
Fatima has demonstrated the successful production of both...