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    <h2>Support</h2>
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      <h2>Improvement</h2>
<p>Our project could finish only with helps from others. We really appreciate their kindness. Without specific explanation, all the people referred are from School of Life Sciences, Jilin University.</p>
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      <p>This year, we choose Golden Gate assembly especially for construction. (Learn about our <b>Construction</b>? See our <a href="/Team:Jilin_China/Construction">Construction Page</a>) BsaI and BbsI are used as Type IIs restriction endonucleases in our construction device. At the same time, we decided to use sfGFP as our reporter protein due to its faster folded feature and higher fluorescence intensity. However, sfGFP in iGEM part registry (<a href="http://parts.igem.org/Part:BBa_I746916">BBa_I746916</a>) has a BbsI recognition site, which could be affected during Golden Gate assembly. Hence, first coming into our mind was to do a site mutagenesis, BbsI recognition site GAAGAC was altered into GAGGAT while amino acids sequence kept the same. Then we got our sfGFP(BbsI free) part(<a href="http://parts.igem.org/Part:BBa_K2541401">BBa_K2541401</a>), a BbsI-free sfGFP and especially for Golden Gate assembly(<b>figure 1.</b>). </p>
<h3>General Support</h3>
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<p>We really appreciate Jilin University and College of Life Sciences for their support in the iGEM competition. </p>
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      <img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/parts/7/72/SfGFP_BbsI_free-1.svg" width="50%" /></center>
<p>Thanks our instructors, <b>Ali Hou</b> and <b>Yang Zhan</b>, and advisor <b>Jin Liu</b> for giving us the constructive suggestions and meticulous guidance to our project. </p>
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      <p class="figure">Figure 1. Site mutagenesis for sfGFP BbsI free.</p>
<h3>Technique Support</h3>
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      <p>Because we cannot guarantee the mutated sfGFP has the same fluorescence expression as the previous one, after further study, we found a codon optimized sfGFP<sup>[1,2]</sup> (<b>sfGFP_optimism</b>, <a href="HTTP://parts.igem.org/Part:BBa_K2541400">BBa_K2541400</a>), which removed the BbsI site and had a functional improvement upon an existing superfolder GFP(BBa_I746916).</p>
<p><b>Dr. Tiejun Gu</b> taught us how to use apparatus we need in experiment.</p>
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<p>Ph.D candidate <b>Hongyan Xia</b> taught us the use of the plate reader.</p>
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<h3>Material and Apparatus Support</h3>
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<p>Dr. <b>Xinghong Zhao</b> ordered reagents for us.</p>
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<p>Dr. <b>Yubin Ge</b> provided us a plate reader.</p>
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<p>Dr. <b>Haifeng Tang</b> from National Biological Experiment Teaching Demonstration Center, Jilin University, provided us a PCR instrument.</p>
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<p>Ph.D candidate <b>Hongyan Xia</b> provided us Taq enzyme, dNTP mixture and 10x buffer. </p>
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<p>Ph.D candidates <b>Liyan Song</b> and <b>Hongge Wang</b> provided us micropipettor and shaker.</p>
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<h3>Wiki Support</h3>
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<p>Our team were playing efforts to <em>de novo</em> synthesis of biobricks, we also believe a de novo coding is easier to construct a standardized, concise and attractive wiki. Therefore, we forced ourselves to use as less so called template materials as possible. But do to the limit time and energy, we write all codes of each elements except 2 plugins-ECharts and DataTables. Thanks to ECharts for providing vivid graphic demostrations, and DataTables for us to placed all biobricks and their attributes to our page. In addition,we'd like to thank our headquarters who helped us solved countless questions about wiki issue through e-mail!</p>
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<h3>Human Practice Support</h3>
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<p>Mr Baofeng Qu, manager of STEM Center in United Experimental School of  AHSJU and Livon, gave us the chance to finish the EPE activities at their school.</p>
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<p>Ms Jingjing Yang, biology teacher in United Experimental School of  AHSJU and Livon, provided us advice for the teaching in junior high school.</p>
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<p>Ms Ma and Ms Wang in United Experimental School of  AHSJU and Livon provided us the chance to communicate with the primary school students in Changchun.</p>
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<p>Mr Wang and Ms Ji in United Experimental School of  AHSJU and Livon provides us the chance to give courses to the junior high school students.</p>
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<p>We really appreciate all the teachers, students and parents who participated in our activities!!! We can’t finish our EPE subject without them!</p>
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<p>Shimao Ding, Student Union President in College of Life Sciences,provided the chance to hold the SynEvent especially for the freshmen students.</p>
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<p>HUMAN Practices, means that many humans would participate in the activities. Thanks a lot!!!</p>
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      <h3>Nucleic Acid Electrophoresis</h3>
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      <p>Free of the BbsI cleavage site was confirmed by nucleic acid electrophoresis(<b>figure 2.</b>). </p>
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    <h2>Team Accomplishment</h2>
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<p>Thanks for every team member's ideas in brainstorm. We designed the project together. <b>Dr. Ali Hou</b>, <b>Dr. Yang Zhan</b> and <b>Ph.D candidate Jin Liu</b> provide constructive suggestions to our project. Our team was responsible for all aspects of running the team. Here are some details of attribution: </p>
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      <p class="figure">Figure 2. L1: 1kb DNA marker; L2: BBa_I746916; L3: BBa_I746916+BbsI; L4: BBa_K2541401; L5: BBa_K2541401+BbsI; L6: BBa_K2541400; L7: BBa_K2541400+BbsI; L8: 1kb DNA marker.</p>
<h3>Sequence Design</h3>
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<p><b>Xianbo Chen</b> and <b>Zhijie Gu</b> designed the sequence of the CspA mRNA thermosensors, <b>Jiangjiao Mao</b> designed the sequence of the thermosensors based on the RNA thermometers and RNase E and <b>Fangqi Liu</b> designed the sequence of the thermosensors based one the RNase III. </p>
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      <h3>Emission and Excitation Spectra</h3>
<h3>Goldengate Assembly</h3>
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      <p>Next, we got three types of sfGFP emission and excitation spectra. We have set the excitation and emission wavelength range from 400nm to 600nm. For these three types of sfGFP, the excitation wavelength is around 495nm and the emission wavelength is around 510nm. (<b>figure 3.</b>)</p>
<p>Done by <b>Jiangjiao Mao</b>, <b>Shuting Zheng</b>, <b>Haimeng Yu</b> and <b>Cenrong Wang</b>. </p>
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<h3>Fluorescence Measurement</h3>
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<p>Done by <b>Zihao Wang</b>, <b>Fangqi Liu</b>, <b>Xutong Liu</b>, <b>Zhijie Gu</b>, <b>Xianbo Chen</b> and <b>Yu Ma</b>. They finished the experiments day and night. </p>
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<h3>Improvement</h3>
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<p>Done by <b>Hetian Yuan</b>, <b>Ruochen Chai</b> and <b>Rongzhen Yu</b>.</p>
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      <p class="figure">Figure 3. Three types of sfGFP emission and excitation spectra</p>
<h3>InterLab Study</h3>
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       <h3>Fluorescence Intensity</h3>
<p><b>Jiangjiao Mao</b> performed the calibration measurement. <b>Zihao Wang</b>, <b>Ruochen Chai</b> and <b>Hetian Yuan</b> performed the cell measurement. <b>Fangqi Liu</b> and <b>Xutong Liu</b> performed the CFU counts. </p>
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       <p>For further characterization, we detected the expression intensity of these three types of sfGFP. According to the results(<b>figure 4.</b>), we found out that the expression intensity of sfGFP_optimism is nearly 2.6 as much as the other two types. As a result, we finally choose sfGFP_optimism as our reporter protein.</p>
<h3>Biobrick Construction</h3>
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<p><b>Hetian Yuan</b>, <b>Ruochen Chai</b> and <b>Rongzhen Yu</b> construct the standard BioBricks. </p>
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<h3>Human Practice</h3>
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       <p class="figure">Figure 4. Three Types of sfGFP  expression in <i>E.coli</i>.</p>
<p><b>Hetian Yuan</b>, <b>Ruochen Chai</b> and <b>Rongzhen Yu</b> designed our human practice work and coordinated and planned various HP activities. Besides, all of the team member participated the activities and gained a lot. </p>
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<h3>Wiki</h3>
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<p>Done by <b>Rongzhen Yu</b>.</p>
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<h3>Art Design</h3>
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<p>Done by <b>Rongzhen Yu</b>.</p>
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  <h2>Human Practice</h2>
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       <h3>Acadamic Winter School</h3>
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       <p>Thanks <b>Dr.Yan Chen</b>, <b>Dr.Ali Hou</b> and <b>Dr.Yang Zhan</b> for supporting us conduct the iGEM winter school.</p>
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  <p><b>Zihao Wang</b>, <b>Zihan Lu</b>, <b>Ming Han</b>, <b>Zhongqiao Gan</b>, <b>Huadong Xing</b>, <b>Shuai Wang</b>, <b>Jin Liu</b> and <b>Letian Bao</b> taught cell biology, molecular biology, microbiology, genetic engineering, document retrieval, mathematical modeling and web authoring.</p>
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      <h2>Sponsor</h2>
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      <p>We really appreciate <b>JIAXING TAIMEI TECHNOLOGY</b> for sponsoring us.</p>
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  <p>Introduction of TAIMEI:</p>
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  <p>As a leading technology solution provider in the field of life sciences, Taimei Technology is dedicated to propel biopharmaceutical industry development through state-of-the-art information technology, with focus in the field of clinical research and pharmacovigilance. </p>
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  <p>Taimei Technology provides the cloud platform for seamless clinical research collaboration between sponsors, sites, CROs, patients, regulatory agencies and third-party providers. On the foundation of our platform are 6 technology-enabled solutions encompassing data management, project management, electronic regulatory submission, central medical imaging, pharmacovigilance, and drug logistics. With biopharma industry drug development pain points in mind, Taimei Technology is dedicated to improving R&D quality and efficiency for accelerating innovation time-to-market while reducing costs. </p>
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       <h2>Reference</h2>
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      <p>Gene sequencing was done by Comate Bioscience Co. Ltd.</p>
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      <li>[1]Segall-Shapiro, Thomas H., Eduardo D. Sontag, and Christopher A. Voigt. "Engineered promoters enable constant gene expression at any copy number in bacteria." Nature biotechnology 36.4 (2018): 352.</li>
      <p>Gene synthesis was done by Genscript Biotechnology Co. Ltd.</p>
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      <li>[2]Overkamp, Wout, et al. "Benchmarking various GFP variants in Bacillus subtilis, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Lactococcus lactis for live cell imaging." Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2013): AEM-02033.</li>
       <p>The reagents we used in our lab was bought from NEB, Takara, Transgen, Tiangen, etc.</p>
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Latest revision as of 22:02, 17 October 2018

IMPROVE

Improvement

  • Improvement

    This year, we choose Golden Gate assembly especially for construction. (Learn about our Construction? See our Construction Page) BsaI and BbsI are used as Type IIs restriction endonucleases in our construction device. At the same time, we decided to use sfGFP as our reporter protein due to its faster folded feature and higher fluorescence intensity. However, sfGFP in iGEM part registry (BBa_I746916) has a BbsI recognition site, which could be affected during Golden Gate assembly. Hence, first coming into our mind was to do a site mutagenesis, BbsI recognition site GAAGAC was altered into GAGGAT while amino acids sequence kept the same. Then we got our sfGFP(BbsI free) part(BBa_K2541401), a BbsI-free sfGFP and especially for Golden Gate assembly(figure 1.).

    Figure 1. Site mutagenesis for sfGFP BbsI free.

    Because we cannot guarantee the mutated sfGFP has the same fluorescence expression as the previous one, after further study, we found a codon optimized sfGFP[1,2] (sfGFP_optimism, BBa_K2541400), which removed the BbsI site and had a functional improvement upon an existing superfolder GFP(BBa_I746916).

    Nucleic Acid Electrophoresis

    Free of the BbsI cleavage site was confirmed by nucleic acid electrophoresis(figure 2.).

    Figure 2. L1: 1kb DNA marker; L2: BBa_I746916; L3: BBa_I746916+BbsI; L4: BBa_K2541401; L5: BBa_K2541401+BbsI; L6: BBa_K2541400; L7: BBa_K2541400+BbsI; L8: 1kb DNA marker.

    Emission and Excitation Spectra

    Next, we got three types of sfGFP emission and excitation spectra. We have set the excitation and emission wavelength range from 400nm to 600nm. For these three types of sfGFP, the excitation wavelength is around 495nm and the emission wavelength is around 510nm. (figure 3.)

    Figure 3. Three types of sfGFP emission and excitation spectra

    Fluorescence Intensity

    For further characterization, we detected the expression intensity of these three types of sfGFP. According to the results(figure 4.), we found out that the expression intensity of sfGFP_optimism is nearly 2.6 as much as the other two types. As a result, we finally choose sfGFP_optimism as our reporter protein.

    Figure 4. Three Types of sfGFP expression in E.coli.

  • Reference

    • [1]Segall-Shapiro, Thomas H., Eduardo D. Sontag, and Christopher A. Voigt. "Engineered promoters enable constant gene expression at any copy number in bacteria." Nature biotechnology 36.4 (2018): 352.
    • [2]Overkamp, Wout, et al. "Benchmarking various GFP variants in Bacillus subtilis, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Lactococcus lactis for live cell imaging." Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2013): AEM-02033.