Team:KULeuven/15 July 2008

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== Remarks ==
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== Meeting ==
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Project was checked by the presentation audience
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Present: All students, IT, KM, JW, JR, BDM, AC
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Some remarks we have got on our project:
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* They showed us where we could find the right E.coli strains
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* There could be a problem with photobleaching of eCFP
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* The production of eCFP could also be lowered by the low efficiency of the RBS
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* Will there be enough ribokey? (Hanne says: ENHANCER!)
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* Enough lactonase?
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* Maybe we should put tetR under control of his own promotor and lift out of the cell death construct
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* We can inhibit our system exogenous by adding lactonase to our medium
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* We should use different ori's for our different plasmids, perhaps we 'll have to link some devices
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* The engineers should make a simple scheme that indicates which parameters are important for the sensitivity of our system

Revision as of 15:41, 15 July 2008

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Contents

Lab Work

Wetlab

Today was our first day in the lab. We prepared LB-medium, Ampicilline,... Everything is now ready for the serious labwork: from tips to cleaning our benches. We did a first attempt to punch out a part of the registry. Then we transformed competent cells (DH5alpha) with the part. We started with the input device: M30109. Stefanie was very excited to pour plates!

Dry lab

Discovered that the LVA tagging T7 RNA polymerase is a no go as the C-terminus is part of the active site of the enzyme. We'll have to do N-terminal tagging, this could work, see the crystal structure of T7. See the link under literature on this wiki. Lon-mediated degradation of lambda excisionase (Xis) and E.coli UmuD gene product. 30-40 amino temrinal AA of UmuD should do the trick.

Modeling

Parameters, parameters, parameters, ...

Meeting

Present: All students, IT, KM, JW, JR, BDM, AC

Some remarks we have got on our project:

  • They showed us where we could find the right E.coli strains
  • There could be a problem with photobleaching of eCFP
  • The production of eCFP could also be lowered by the low efficiency of the RBS
  • Will there be enough ribokey? (Hanne says: ENHANCER!)
  • Enough lactonase?
  • Maybe we should put tetR under control of his own promotor and lift out of the cell death construct
  • We can inhibit our system exogenous by adding lactonase to our medium
  • We should use different ori's for our different plasmids, perhaps we 'll have to link some devices
  • The engineers should make a simple scheme that indicates which parameters are important for the sensitivity of our system