References

-About synthetic biology

Jan Roelof van der Meer (2010)Bacterial Sensors: Synthetic Design and Application Principles. Morgan and Claypool publishers.

-About Incoherent Feed-forward loop

Alon, Uri (2007) An introduction to systems biology: design principles of biological circuits. Chapman and Hall CRC. P. 57-64

Basu et al. (2004) Spatiotemporal control of gene expression with pulse-generating networks. PNAS, vol. 101, no. 17, 6355–6360.

-About Bacterial strains used in characterization

Kay H. McClean, et al. (1997) "Quorum sensing and Chromobacterium violaceum: exploitation of violacein production and inhibition for the detection of N-acylhomoserine lactones" Microbiology, 143, 3703–3711

Blosser-Middleton RS, Gray KM. (2001) "Multiple N-acyl homoserine lactone signals of Rhizobium leguminosarum are synthesized in a distinct temporal pattern" J Bacteriol;183(23):6771-7.

-About arsenic pollution

Litter, Marta I. La problemática del arsénico en la Argentina: el HACER. Universidad de San Martín. Available [http://www.unsam.edu.ar/secretarias/academica/newsletter/La%20problematica%20del%20As%20en%20Argentina-marta%20litter.pdf here]

Fatima Hashmi and Joshua M. Pearce, Viability of Small-Scale Arsenic-Contaminated Water Purification Technologies for Sustainable Development in Pakistan, Sustainable Development, 2011, 19(4), pp. 223-234

-About arsenic detection

Stocker, J. et al. (2003) Development of a Set of Simple Bacterial Biosensors for Quantitative and Rapid Measurements of Arsenite and Arsenate in Potable Water. Environ. Sci. Technol., 37, 4743-4750

Emil Aaltonen (2008), Procaryotic arsenic resistance- Studies in Bacillus Subtilis Media-Tryck, Lund, Sweden

Wackwitz, A. et al. (2008) Internal arsenite bioassay calibration using multiple bioreporter cell lines. Microbial Biotechnology 1(2), 149–157.

Siegfried, K et al. (2012) Field Testing of Arsenic in Groundwater Samples of Bangladesh Using a Test Kit Based on Lyophilized Bioreporter Bacteria. Environ. Sci. Technol., 46, 3281−3287

-Wikis of groups who had worked in arsenic detection:

Team Edinburgh 2006. Arsenic Biosensor. Available here.

Team Groningen 2009. Heavy metal scavengers with a vertical gas drive. Available here.

Team Bristol 2010. agrEcoli. Available

here.

Team Cornell 2012. Arsenic Reporter. Available

here.