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Team:Paris Bettencourt/Project/Overview
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To defeat tuberculosis, we need new biotechnology. Our work will add 4 new tools to the anti-TB medical armamentarium. Detect - A CRISPR-based biosensor delivered by phage and sequence-specific for antibiotic resistance. Target - An E. coli model hosting an essential mycobacterial metabolic pathway that could simplify drug screening. Infiltrate - A E. coli strain capable of entering infected macrophages and lysing mycobacteria. Sabotage - A non-lytic phage that spreads horizontally in a bacterial population and expresses an siRNA to knock down antibiotic resistance.
Infiltrate
A more efficient treatment of TB should contain a drug which rapidly kills mycobacteria and a delivery system for such drug, which could enable the killing of mycobacteria inside the infected macrophages. In our system the rapid drug is Trehalose Dimycolate Hydrolase (TDMH), while the delivery system is LLO carrying strain of E. coli.
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