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Design and optimization of a cell-free atrazine biosensor - PMC
Source: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Article summary:
1. This article presents a platform for the cell-free detection of atrazine, a water contaminant, by combining a previously characterized cyanuric acid biosensor with a reconstituted atrazine-to-cyanuric acid metabolic pathway.
2. The cell-free sensor is able to detect atrazine within an hour of incubation and has an activation ratio superior to previously reported whole-cell atrazine sensors.
3. The response characteristics of the atrazine sensor can be tuned by manipulating the ratios of enriched extracts in the cell-free reaction mixture.
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