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− | <center><h4>In order to maximise the yield of our insulin, while also reducing the post-expression purification methods currently undertaken by manufactuers, we will be trialling both of these constructs in three different expression systems. Two of these expression systems will be in BL21 <i>E. coli</i>, and the other will be in <i>Bacillus subtilis</i></h4></center> | + | <center><h4>In order to maximise the yield of our insulin, while also reducing the post-expression purification methods currently undertaken by manufactuers, we will be trialling both of these constructs in three different expression systems. Two of these expression systems will be in BL21 <i>E. coli</i>, and the other will be in <i>Bacillus subtilis.</i></h4></center> |
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+ | <center><h4><i>E. coli</i> Cytoplasmic Expression</h4></center> | ||
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+ | <center><h4><i>E. coli</i> Periplasmic Expression</h4></center> | ||
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+ | <center><h4>Insulin accumulates in the cytoplasm under normal conditions within inclusion bodies, however will require downstream refolding in several chemical processes. | ||
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+ | <center><h4>For this expression system, our gblocks will require an Ecotin fusion tag to redirect the protein to the bacterial periplasm for correct disulphide bond formation and folding. This, we hope, will reduce the number of chemical refolding steps that will be required for the Cytoplasmic Expression of insulin. </h4></center> | ||
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+ | <center><h4><i>B. subtilis</i> Excretory Expression</h4></center> | ||
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+ | <center><h4>This expression system contains a YNCM fusion molecule that directs the protein to the extracellular space. We hope that this system will remove all of the cell lysis steps required with the <i>E coli</i> systems, and could potentially be optimised into a feb-batch system by Biofoundry and/or Open Insulin. | ||
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Revision as of 04:20, 9 October 2017
Our Key Goals
The aim of the USYD iGEM 2017 team was to address the problem of insulin inaccessibility. The design of our insulin, and its means of expression, needed to look at five key characteristics: