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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
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.
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)