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Revision as of 13:12, 15 September 2015


Short introduction

“The sea is everything. […] The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak”, Nemo said while the “Nautilus” was cruising with a school of hammerhead sharks deep beneath the waves.

And the captain was right. Deep in the ocean billions of years ago the miracle of nature took place as a pool of small molecules evolved to self-replicating lifeforms. The flagship role in this development was probably taken by the most versatile class of molecules in the history of life: RNA.

Seemingly random nucleotides happened to be in the right order to form the first biocatalysts that made life on the blue planet possible. Today we know those miracles of nature as ribozymes. Inspired by this, humanity took evolution into their own hands to create aptamers – nucleic acids capable of encaging molecules. This allows for the detection of virtually anything. Still this process has been tedious and time consuming much like fishing with a rod in an ocean. We want to revolutionize this former evolutionary process and want to make it swift like a shark tracking down its prey.

Yet to really bring out the strengths of these simple yet powerful molecules just comprised of A, U, C and G we want to combine aptamers and ribozymes to create a toolset for the synthetic biologist to create allosteric ribozymes able to sense a variety of molecules. Therefore, we hope to introduce the true origins of life and the capabilities of functional RNA to iGEM.

Join us as we sail forth into new waters of synthetic biology.

Further content

Test
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Notebook

Supporting iGEM Team Paris Bettencourt

iGEM Paris Bettencourt has set up a visual databse that should help various iGEM teams collaborate and find common ground. In that database all teams can enter techniques, keywords, organism and many more thev are knowdledgeable in or have been working on. As common dots are connected automatically, it's easy so see, whom to ask for a collaboration.
Though we came a little late to the party, we really loved the idea and hoped, that the database has helped various teams!

"Rhizi is an open-sourced web of knowledge where nodes are sources of information (e.g. scientific articles, questions, blog posts) and edges are the links between them. The goal of Rhizi is to create information rich links between knowledge, open questions and ideas, through encouraging users to vote, comment, and create new relationships."

Collecting impressions from the community

It’s done. We’ve finally decided upon a logo. It’s beautiful, it’s blue, it’s fishy *wink*. The next step was to choose a color scheme and a general style for the wiki. As we feared that our own ideas might be too similar we thought of asking a broader public how they would design a website based on our logo. In order to do so, we headed to the ’Neckarwiese’. During summer, a big part of Heidelbergs population decideds to go there and enjoy the sun, have a BBQ or just relax – so we caught them off guard.

We have had prepared a little presentatio with which we introduced them to iGEM and Synthetic Biology. Afterwards we explained them what we planned on doing, showed them our logo and asked, how they would design a website, based on what they’ve just heard. The general consens was to go for a blue theme, maybe add a little algae green and generally stick to maritime iconography. Unexpectedly we actually met someone who knew his stuff: Natalie, a student of the history of arts from Berlin. She gave us useful advice on how play with the different colors, what to avoid and even added a little touch of history to it. Lucky catch!

With fresh ideas we headed back to the lab and continued our experiments, being envious of all the people that could continue to sleep in the sun.

We’ve been lucky and actually met someone knowledgable in arts. Her name is Nati and she studies the history of art in Berlin.


week number 38

▼2015-09-14 Test bitte löschen

10 x <i>in vitro</i> transcription buffer

50 mM Tris ph 7.5, 100 mM NaCl, 20 mM MgCl<sub>2</sub>, 0,01 % SDS
 

week number 37

▼2015-09-10 DNAzyme Activity: DNAzyme with ATP aptamer and calculated Kanamycin aptamer

Samples:

  • 10-23 DNAzyme: xxfs032xx
  • 7-18 DNAzyme: xxfs033xx
  • 10-23 DNAzyme with ATP aptamer with linker: xxfs019xx
  • 7-18 DNAzyme with ATP aptamer with linker: xxfs027xx
  • 10-23 DNAzyme with ATP aptamer A: xxfs017xx, B: xxfs018xx
  • 7-18 DNAzyme with ATP aptamer A: xxfs025, B: xxfs026xx
  • 10-23 DNAzyme with calculated Kan aptamer: xxfs034xx
  • 7-18 DNAzyme with calculated Kan aptamer candidate I: xxfs035xx
  • 7-18 DNAzyme with calculated Kan aptamer candidate II: xxfs036xx
  • 7-18 DNAzyme with calculated Kan aptamer candidate III: xxfs037xx

Stock solutions and conditions:

 

cStock

cFinal

Tris HCl ph 7.5

1 M

50 mM

DNAzyme (A)

10 µM

500 nM

DNAzyme B

10 µM

500 nM

Substrate

1 µM

200 nM

NaCl

1 M

100 mM

MgCl2

1 M

20 mM

SDS

20 %

0,01 %

Adenosine in H2O:DMSO 1:2

33 mM

5 mM

H2O

 

ad 25 µL

 

Pipetting scheme:

#

 

 

Tris HCl ph 7.5

DNAzyme A

DNAzyme B

Substrate

NaCl

MgCl2

SDS

Adenosine

H2O

Final

1

FS032

10-23D

1,25

1,25

0,00

5,00

2,50

0,50

1,25

3,75

9,50

25,00

2

FS033

7-18D

1,25

1,25

0,00

5,00

2,50

0,50

1,25

3,75

9,50

25,00

3

FS019

10-23DmLink

1,25

1,25

0,00

5,00

2,50

0,50

1,25

3,75

9,50

25,00

4

FS027

7-18DmLink

1,25

1,25

0,00

5,00

2,50

0,50

1,25

3,75

9,50

25,00

5

FS017+18

10-23D_A+B

1,25

1,25

6,25

5,00

2,50

0,50

1,25

3,75

3,25

25,00

6

FS025+26

7-18D_A+B

1,25

1,25

6,25

5,00

2,50

0,50

1,25

3,75

3,25

25,00

7

FS032

10-23D

1,25

1,25

0,00

5,00

2,50

0,50

1,25

0,00

13,25

25,00

8

FS033

7-18D

1,25

1,25

0,00

5,00

2,50

0,50

1,25

0,00

13,25

25,00

9

FS019

10-23DmLink

1,25

1,25

0,00

5,00

2,50

0,50

1,25

0,00

13,25

25,00

10

FS027

7-18DmLink

1,25

1,25

0,00

5,00

2,50

0,50

1,25

0,00

13,25

25,00

11

FS017+18

10-23D_A+B

1,25

1,25

6,25

5,00

2,50

0,50

1,25

0,00

7,00

25,00

12

FS025+26

7-18D_A+B

1,25

1,25

6,25

5,00

2,50

0,50

1,25

0,00

7,00

25,00

13

FS032

-10-23D

1,25

1,25

0

0

2,5

0,5

1,25

0

18,25

25,00

14

FS033

-7-18D

1,25

1,25

0

0

2,5

0,5

1,25

0

18,25

25,00

15

FS019

-10-23DmLink

1,25

1,25

0

0

2,5

0,5

1,25

0

18,25

25,00

16

FS027

-7-18DmLink

1,25

1,25

0

0

2,5

0,5

1,25

0

18,25

25,00

17

FS017+18

-10-23D_A+B

1,25

1,25

6,25

0

2,5

0,5

1,25

0

12

25,00

18

FS025+26

-7-18D_A+B

1,25

1,25

6,25

0

2,5

0,5

1,25

0

12

25,00

19

Adenosine

Substrate only

1,25

0

0

5

2,5

0,5

1,25

3,75

10,75

25,00

 

 

#

   

Tris HCl ph 7.5

DNAzyme A

DNAzyme B

Substrate

NaCl

MgCl2

SDS

Kan

H2O

Final

20

FS032

10-23D

1,25

1,25

0

5

2,5

0,5

1,25

1,25

12

25

21

FS033

7-18D

1,25

1,25

0

5

2,5

0,5

1,25

1,25

12

25

22

FS034

Kan

1,25

1,25

0

5

2,5

0,5

1,25

1,25

12

25

23

FS035

Kan I

1,25

1,25

0

5

2,5

0,5

1,25

1,25

12

25

24

FS036

Kan II

1,25

1,25

0

5

2,5

0,5

1,25

1,25

12

25

25

FS037

Kan III

1,25

1,25

0

5

2,5

0,5

1,25

1,25

12

25

26

FS032

10-23D

1,25

1,25

0

5

2,5

0,5

1,25

0

13,25

25

27

FS033

7-18D

1,25

1,25

0

5

2,5

0,5

1,25

0

13,25

25

28

FS034

Kan

1,25

1,25

0

5

2,5

0,5

1,25

0

13,25

25

29

FS035

Kan I

1,25

1,25

0

5

2,5

0,5

1,25

0

13,25

25

30

FS036

Kan II

1,25

1,25

0

5

2,5

0,5

1,25

0

13,25

25

31

FS037

Kan III

1,25

1,25

0

5

2,5

0,5

1,25

0

13,25

25

32

Kan

Substrate only

1,25

0

0

5

2,5

0,5

1,25

1,25

13,25

25,00

33

 

Substrate only

1,25

0

0

5

2,5

0,5

1,25

0

14,5

25,00

 

Results and Outlook:

Positive controls worked, Adenosine dependency could be detected for one candidate.

▼2015-09-10 Click reaction of Label-, Label AU RNA [1, 2, 3]

For 51.5µL

Cstock

Cfinal

V[µL]

Phosphate Buffer - pH 7, 0.1M

100mM

50mM

25

Alexa 488 azide

10µM

400nM

2

RNA

1µM

200nM

10

CuSO4

20mM

1mM

2.5

THPTA

50mM

5mM

5

NaAsc

100mM

1mM

0.5

H2O

 

 

6.5

 

  • Alexa 488 azide was solved in DMSO
  • Incubation at 37 °C for 12-14 hours (overnight)