Team:Valencia/WetLab/CellTeam

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-== '''Cell Team''' ==
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-An important part of our project is to work with '''yeasts''' in order to create each and everyone of the cell-pixels of our bioscreen. We will use some aequorin-transformed yeast strains.
-'''Aequorin''' is a luminiscent protein isolated from luminescent jellyfish and many other marine organisms that uses '''coelenterazine''' as its cofactor to produce light whenever Ca<SUP>2+</SUP> is bound to it. Using a '''chemical input''' (KOH, alkali shock) we will open '''Ca<SUP>2+</SUP> channels''' in the yeasts' membrane (Viladevall L, et al. J Biol Chem. (2004) 279 43614–43624), Ca<SUP>2+</SUP> will enter into the cells and we will get '''light''' as an '''output'''.
-Later we will try to reproduce the same response with an '''electrical stimulus''', using some hardware built by ourselves.
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