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Welcome to your project page!
For each part listed, you should:
- Design oligos to make your part
- Write up proper construction files and put it on the Construction Files page
- Put your oligos on the Oligo Log page
- Put your parts into Clotho
You should design your construction strategy to put your part into plasmid vectorName-Bca1144 (Where vectorName is indicated for each part) using EcoRI and BamHI or just BamHI or BglII for EIPCR. The maps for all plasmids involved in our project can be downloaded here.
Several references have been provided to give you some background on the biology of your part.
Also, use the link above left to upload a picture of yourself, your name, and anything else you'd like.
Finally, you should create a notebook on the main page of the wiki
Overview
Your two parts are very similar and they require gene synthesis. In designing your oligos, you should codon optimize the gene sequence for E. coli and try to maximize re-use of your oligos in making this. You might need to write a small program to help you generate this, and JCA can provide you some starter files to help you out.
sbb17: Zinc Finger Domain (zf+)
Source: Synthetic
Target Sequence: MAPKKKRKVGIHGVPAAMAERPFQCRICMRNFSRSDTLSEHIRTHTGEKPFACDICGRKFAARSTRTTHTKIHTGSQKPFQCRICMRNFSRSDSLSKHIRTHTGEKPFACDICGRKFAQRSNLKVHTKIHLR
Vector: pBjk2741
Short desciprion: {<zf+>}
Flavor: {<part>}
Family: Zinc Finger
This part encodes a DNA binding domain
DNA binding domains are proteins that bind to a specific DNA sequences. In the context of this project, they will be fused to other coding domains to generate chimeric enzymes that hopefully perform useful behavior that is somehow the sum of the two activities from which it is composed. Different DNA binding domain parts are needed in different flavors, so take special note of what type this one should be.
This part is associated with Zinc Finger Nuclease devices
A zinc finger nuclease is an engineered protein derived from two zinc finger DNA binding proteins and cutting domains usually from a type IIS restriciton enzyme. The special thing about them is that 1) they bind long sequences of DNA, long enough that it might be unique in a eukaryotic genome, and 2) zinc finger proteins that bind to most sequences can be generated somewhat easily. So, you can use a zinc finger nuclease to introduce a ds break at a specific user-defined site in a eukaryotic genome if the protein is delivered to the nucleus of the cell. Eukaryotic ds breaks stimulate homologous recombination. So, if you deliver both the ZFN and a DNA homologous to the target site, you get insertion of your DNA into that site of the genome.
You should read the following papers
References: PMID 18545224, PMID 17603475, PMID 11821858
This part is associated with Zinc Finger Transposase devices
A zinc finger transposase is an engineered protein derived from a zinc finger DNA binding protein and a transposase. A transposase is an enzyme that reacts with DNA at specific sites and then clips that DNA region out of the source DNA forming a "transposome". This DNA/protein complex is highly reactive towards other DNAs. It reacts by inserting the DNA sequence mostly randomly into the target DNA.
Zinc Finger proteins (ZF) are DNA binding proteins. The special thing about them is that 1) the ZF's bind long sequences of DNA, long enough that it might be unique in a eukaryotic genome, and 2) zinc finger proteins that bind to most sequences can be generated somewhat easily. By fusing ZF's to transposase, you can recruit the transposome to a specific site in the genome and thereby bias the insertion site of a transposome into a cell's genome.
You should read the following papers
References: PMID 11821858, PMID 17344320, PMID 19965773
sbb18: Zinc Finger Domain (zf-)
Source: Synthetic
Target Sequence: MAPKKKRKVGIHGVPAAMAERPFQCRICMRNFSRSDNLSVHIRTHTGEKPFACDICGRKFARNAHRINHTKIHTGSQKPFQCRICMRNFSRSDTLSEHIRTHTGEKPFACDICGRKFAARSTRTNHTKIHLR
Vector: pBjk2741
Short desciprion: {<zf+>}
Flavor: {<part>}
Family: Zinc Finger
This part encodes a DNA binding domain
DNA binding domains are proteins that bind to a specific DNA sequences. In the context of this project, they will be fused to other coding domains to generate chimeric enzymes that hopefully perform useful behavior that is somehow the sum of the two activities from which it is composed. Different DNA binding domain parts are needed in different flavors, so take special note of what type this one should be.
This part is associated with Zinc Finger Nuclease devices
A zinc finger nuclease is an engineered protein derived from two zinc finger DNA binding proteins and cutting domains usually from a type IIS restriciton enzyme. The special thing about them is that 1) they bind long sequences of DNA, long enough that it might be unique in a eukaryotic genome, and 2) zinc finger proteins that bind to most sequences can be generated somewhat easily. So, you can use a zinc finger nuclease to introduce a ds break at a specific user-defined site in a eukaryotic genome if the protein is delivered to the nucleus of the cell. Eukaryotic ds breaks stimulate homologous recombination. So, if you deliver both the ZFN and a DNA homologous to the target site, you get insertion of your DNA into that site of the genome.
You should read the following papers
References: PMID 18545224, PMID 17603475, PMID 11821858
This part is associated with Zinc Finger Transposase devices
A zinc finger transposase is an engineered protein derived from a zinc finger DNA binding protein and a transposase. A transposase is an enzyme that reacts with DNA at specific sites and then clips that DNA region out of the source DNA forming a "transposome". This DNA/protein complex is highly reactive towards other DNAs. It reacts by inserting the DNA sequence mostly randomly into the target DNA.
Zinc Finger proteins (ZF) are DNA binding proteins. The special thing about them is that 1) the ZF's bind long sequences of DNA, long enough that it might be unique in a eukaryotic genome, and 2) zinc finger proteins that bind to most sequences can be generated somewhat easily. By fusing ZF's to transposase, you can recruit the transposome to a specific site in the genome and thereby bias the insertion site of a transposome into a cell's genome.
You should read the following papers
References: PMID 11821858, PMID 17344320, PMID 19965773
