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Experimental approach



To test the viability of the designed system, we have designed a number of experiments. These experiments are conducted to verify whether the individual elements of our device work. An overview of the experiments is given below.

Verifying the click reaction


A vital aspect of our device is clicking the aptamers to the membrane proteins. For this click, we madeuse of the exact same click chemistry used by iGEM TU Eindhoven 2014. iGEM TU Eindhoven 2014 has used the click reaction N-terminally. To analyze whether the localization of the azide-functionalized amino acid within the loops of OmpX impedes the click reaction, we clicked a DBCO-functionalized fluorophore (TAMRA) to the outer membrane proteins. After some washing steps and spinning down, we expected the cells to remain fluorescent. To analyze the fluorescence at the single-cell level, we measured cells using the Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorter (FACS). Martijn van Rosmalen gave us a clarifying FACS introduction to get us started and Wiggert Altenburg assisted us with the first experiments.





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