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{{Optimization of Extracellular Electron Transfer in Microbial Fuel Cells Using Geobacter sulfurreducens}} WORK IN PROGRESS | {{Optimization of Extracellular Electron Transfer in Microbial Fuel Cells Using Geobacter sulfurreducens}} WORK IN PROGRESS | ||
==Background== | ==Background== | ||
==Goals== | ==Goals== | ||
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However, we feel the original biological isolate is not necessarily where we should begin to understand how system-behavior is produced. Specifically, in designing T7.2, the following five goals will drive our design; the first three goals revisit or extend goals motivating the design of [[T7.1]]. | However, we feel the original biological isolate is not necessarily where we should begin to understand how system-behavior is produced. Specifically, in designing T7.2, the following five goals will drive our design; the first three goals revisit or extend goals motivating the design of [[T7.1]]. |
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Template:Optimization of Extracellular Electron Transfer in Microbial Fuel Cells Using Geobacter sulfurreducens WORK IN PROGRESS
Background
Goals
which include:
- X--
- Y --
- Z --
- W --
However, we feel the original biological isolate is not necessarily where we should begin to understand how system-behavior is produced. Specifically, in designing T7.2, the following five goals will drive our design; the first three goals revisit or extend goals motivating the design of T7.1.
- Our design of T7.2 will enable the unique and selection-independent manipulation of each genetic element via restriction enzymes.
- We will specify a genome that does not include any functions that might be encoded via the physical coupling of multiple genetic elements.
- We will specify a genome that only includes elements that we believe contribute to phage gene expression. Moving beyond our design of T7.1, we will actively erase or delete elements of unknown function. In addition, efforts will be made to made to remove unknown genetic elements.
- reduced gene sets?
- codon shuffling?
- To attempt to make our modeling of gene expression easier, we will use standard synthetic elements in place of the natural elements that regulate transcription and translation.
- We will make a genome that is more anemenable to measurements that are important to us, such as adding reporters of transcription and translation.
Taken together, our design of T7.2 should specify a genome that is simpler to model and manipulate, in which we have a putative function for each base pair of DNA involved in phage gene expression. We hypothesize that as a result of the more parsimonious genome design, T7.2 will also encode a dynamic system that is easier to model and interact with, relative to the natural biological isolate.
Meta Considerations
Standardization
We want to standardize certain functional genetic elements to make them easier to model. For example, instead of further characterizing every different ribosome binding site and promoter, we can standardize on a set of that would take considerably less effort to characterize.
Measurement
We want to increase the ability to measure different aspects of phage biology. This may including mRNA and protein reporters, and/or optimizing DpnI restriction sites to ease entry assays.
Manipulability
We need to increase our ability to make selection-independent changes to the genome easily. We will take the some of the lessons we learned in T7.1 about the types and distribution of restriction sites needed.
Encoding
We want to reduce, to as large of an extent as possible, the number of genetic elements that are included in T7.2 that do not encode functions that we do not know about.
Designs
See the Designs Page for further information.