Team:Shenzhen SFLS/Project

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Student at SFLS want to produce an enzyme known as “acid phosphatase” (“AP”). AP is known to be inhibited by heavy metals, and it might be inhibited by different pesticides. In order to attain AP, students could simply order it or extract it from a plant. For IGEM, however, they will need to do it the hard way: they will need to force a bacteria to produce more AP than it normally does. This can be achieved by: 
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Student at SFLS want to produce an enzyme known as “polyphosphate kinase”(PPK)to governance the eutrophication of water bodies. We know that the eutrophication of water bodies is often caused by Pi. If the the concentration of phosphate in the water is too high, ther will have a lot of truble such as red tide in lake, sea and river.PPK is known to digest Pi (phosphate). We want to make two device in a gene circut to deal with this problem.
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1.Find out what gene is responsible for AP production. Figure out if it can be easily inserted into e.coli or yeast genome.
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De0vice 1: We use a limitable promoter which would be limited by high concentrations of Pi, then the GFP in this device won't light and a protein we add in the device won't breed too.
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2.Order this gene from a laboratory.
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Device 2: If the protein didn't breed, the promoter in Device 2 will be induced and the PPK gene will work, it will digest Pi. When the concentration of phosphate become low, devive 2 will stop to digest Pi and the promoter in device 1 will be induced, then the GFP in device 1 will light. That means the work has finished.
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3.Insert this gene into e.coil or yeast.
 
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4.Isolate AP after it has been expressed.
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( We will put on our picture of gene circuts in few days)
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5. Use fluorometric analysis and note the baseline wavelengthoflight shot through a agarose/jellose/AP in the presence of an acid.
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Add different heavy metals or pesticides to this mixture and do other fluorometric analyses. These analyses should yield different wavelengths because AP activity is inhibited by heavy metals, etc.
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===Notebook===
===Notebook===

Revision as of 15:25, 29 March 2013


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Team

Peilin Li: the instructor of SFLS students.

Kang Kang: the advisor of SFLS students.

Hekang Jia: the leader of SFLS students.

Biwei Zheng: the vice leader of SFLS students.

Project

Student at SFLS want to produce an enzyme known as “polyphosphate kinase”(PPK)to governance the eutrophication of water bodies. We know that the eutrophication of water bodies is often caused by Pi. If the the concentration of phosphate in the water is too high, ther will have a lot of truble such as red tide in lake, sea and river.PPK is known to digest Pi (phosphate). We want to make two device in a gene circut to deal with this problem.

De0vice 1: We use a limitable promoter which would be limited by high concentrations of Pi, then the GFP in this device won't light and a protein we add in the device won't breed too.

Device 2: If the protein didn't breed, the promoter in Device 2 will be induced and the PPK gene will work, it will digest Pi. When the concentration of phosphate become low, devive 2 will stop to digest Pi and the promoter in device 1 will be induced, then the GFP in device 1 will light. That means the work has finished.


( We will put on our picture of gene circuts in few days)

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Safety

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