Difference between revisions of "Team:BOKU-Vienna/Experiments"

Line 35: Line 35:
 
   filter: invert(1) brightness(150%);
 
   filter: invert(1) brightness(150%);
 
   align: center !important;  
 
   align: center !important;  
 +
width: 50% !important;
 
   }
 
   }
 
.invert2 {
 
.invert2 {

Revision as of 20:23, 30 October 2017

Experiments

V

Overview

test

"lucky shot" D.I.v.e.r.t.

test

FRT Terminaton strength

test

self-splicing ribozyme

Design

Selection of a self-splicing ribozyme:
For the proof of concept for D.I.V.E.R.T. an antibiotic resistance with an intron on the lagging strand is required. While in yeast there are plenty of well-described introns to choose from, in E. coli information is more rare. However, scientists already discovered group I and group II introns working in prokaryotes as well. For example, the Tetrahymena group I intron, or self-splicing ribozyme, is proven to exhibit splicing activity in vivo in E. coli without the expression of additional supporting proteins1. In contrast to other self-splicing ribozymes the Tetrahymena group I intron can easily be engineered to cut itself scarlessly. For the exact recognition of the splicing sites intron-exon pairing sequences are present in the wild type mRNA. The most important of these regions are called P1 and P10 (paired region 1 and 10)2. P1 determines the 5’ end of the self-splicing ribozyme and contains P1ex, which has a considerable influence on the splicing activity. P10 pairs with an exon sequence close to the 3’ end and is therefore signalling the 3’ end of the intron. Although P1 and P10 mark opposite ends of the intron, they are both located in the same region and it is worth noticing that P1 and P10 can overlap.


Figure 1: Design of the precursor mRNA. Exon bases are written in lowercase, the Tetrahymena group I intron bases in capital letters. A part of the P1 region is complementary to the 5’ exon sequence determining the 5’ end of the intron, whereas the P10 region is determining the 3’ end.




[1]: Waring RB, Ray JA, Edwards SW, Scazzocchio C, Davies RW. The Tetrahymena rRNA intron self-splices in E. coli: in vivo evidence for the importance of key base-paired regions of RNA for RNA enzyme function. Cell. 1985 Feb;40(2):371-80.

[2]: JM Burke, TR Cech, RW Davies, RJ Schweyen, DA Shub, JW Szostak, HF Tabak. Structural conventions for group I introns. Nucleic Acids Res. 1987 Sep 25; 15(18): 7217–7221.

CRISPR assisted integration

test