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                     developed from cyanobacteria has made obvious achievements, thus more and more teams are willing to
 
                     developed from cyanobacteria has made obvious achievements, thus more and more teams are willing to
 
                     use this system in their own projects. In the past two years, we have spent a great deal of time
 
                     use this system in their own projects. In the past two years, we have spent a great deal of time
                     using it in our projects and accumulated a lot of experience(see more information in our previous
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                     using it in our projects and accumulated a lot of experience (see more information in our previous
                     wikis ). This year, we collaborated with WHU-China and SDU-CHINA who use this system in project on
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                     wikis). This year, we collaborated with WHU-China and SDU-CHINA who use this system in project on
 
                     sharing the experience how we regulate the expression of CcaS and CcaR protein to control this
 
                     sharing the experience how we regulate the expression of CcaS and CcaR protein to control this
                     optogenetic tools and what we achieved
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                     optogenetic tools and what we achieved.
 
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                     visited our laboratory and we shared them our experience of iGEM competition in the past years with
 
                     visited our laboratory and we shared them our experience of iGEM competition in the past years with
 
                     relaxed discussion, including preparations before competition, some experimental techniques, notes
 
                     relaxed discussion, including preparations before competition, some experimental techniques, notes
                     of standardization and guiding them to do multiple cell lines
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                     of standardization and guiding them to do multiple cell lines.
 
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Revision as of 14:23, 17 October 2018

Collaboration with WHU-China and SDU-CHINA

Optogenetic tools have broad prospects on synthetic biology, and the CcaS-CcaR system, which is developed from cyanobacteria has made obvious achievements, thus more and more teams are willing to use this system in their own projects. In the past two years, we have spent a great deal of time using it in our projects and accumulated a lot of experience (see more information in our previous wikis). This year, we collaborated with WHU-China and SDU-CHINA who use this system in project on sharing the experience how we regulate the expression of CcaS and CcaR protein to control this optogenetic tools and what we achieved.

Experience sharing with Worldshaper

As a dynamic high school team, Worldshaper demonstrates great enthusiasm in this competition. They visited our laboratory and we shared them our experience of iGEM competition in the past years with relaxed discussion, including preparations before competition, some experimental techniques, notes of standardization and guiding them to do multiple cell lines.

Help from NAU-CHINA

After the information we got from meetings and public investigation, we thought it’s necessary to enhance the targeting of engineered salmonella we used, we designed OmpA-RGD protein to achieve this goal. RGD is a well-studied tumor homing tripeptide that specifically binds to alpha v beta 3 (αvβ3) integrin, which is widely overexpressed on cancer cells. So there’s a cell line called MDA-MB-231 surface displaying αvβ3 needed for our further targeting and safety experiments, with the great help of NAU-CHINA , we had channels to get this cell line from Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology.