Team:Utah State/Project

From 2009.igem.org

(Difference between revisions)
Line 4: Line 4:
<!--- Table--->
<!--- Table--->
 +
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<head>
Line 10: Line 11:
</head>
</head>
<style type="text/css">
<style type="text/css">
-
 
+
#ana {
-
 
+
width: 6em;
-
#nav .currentPage {
+
-
+
-
width: 14em;
+
display : block;
display : block;
-
color : #56b8df;
+
color : #999;
-
font-weight : bold;
+
font-weight : none;  
font-family:Century Gothic, Arial, sans-serif;
font-family:Century Gothic, Arial, sans-serif;
text-decoration : none;
text-decoration : none;
Line 24: Line 22:
}
}
-
#nav a {
+
#ana .currentPage {
 +
padding-left:20px;
 +
        border-top-style: none;
 +
color : #56b8df;
 +
width: 6em;
 +
display : block;
 +
font-weight : none;
 +
font-family:Century Gothic, Arial, sans-serif;
 +
text-decoration : none;
 +
 +
}
 +
 +
#ana a {
 +
font-size:x-small;
 +
text-decoration : none;
 +
padding-left:45px;
 +
color : #E0FFFF;
 +
font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
 +
             
 +
               
 +
}
 +
#ana a:hover{
-
width: 14em;
+
text-decoration:underline;
 +
 +
}
 +
 
 +
#nav a {
 +
padding-left:20px;
 +
width:8em;
display : block;
display : block;
-
color : white;
+
color : #999;
-
font-weight : bold;
+
font-weight : none;
font-family:Century Gothic, Arial, sans-serif;
font-family:Century Gothic, Arial, sans-serif;
         font size="3";
         font size="3";
Line 37: Line 62:
#nav a:hover {
#nav a:hover {
-
background-color : #474e54;
+
visibility:visible;
-
visibility:visible;}
+
              background-color : #474e54;
 +
 +
color : #56b8df;}
</style>  
</style>  
<body bgcolor="#231f20">
<body bgcolor="#231f20">
-
<table id="nav" width="100%" border="0"><font size="4">
+
<table width="100%" border="0">
   <tr>
   <tr>
-
     <td bgcolor="#231f20" align="center"><a href="https://2009.igem.org/Team:Utah_State">HOME</span></a></td>
+
     <td width="15%" valign="top"><table width="72%" border="0">
-
    <td bgcolor="#231f20" align="center"><a href="https://2009.igem.org/Team:Utah_State/Team">TEAM</a></td>
+
      <tr valign="top">
-
    <td bgcolor="#231f20" align="center"><span class="currentPage">PROJECT</a></td>
+
        <td id="nav"><a href="https://2009.igem.org/Team:Utah_State"><font size = 4>HOME</font></a></td>
-
    <td bgcolor="#231f20" align="center"><a href="https://2009.igem.org/Team:Utah_State/Parts">PARTS</a></td>
+
      </tr>
-
    <td bgcolor="#231f20" align="center"><a href="https://2009.igem.org/Team:Utah_State/Links">LINKS</a></td>
+
      <tr>
-
  </tr>
+
        <td id="nav"><a href="https://2009.igem.org/Team:Utah_State"><font size = 4>TEAM</font></a></td>
-
<font>
+
      </tr>
-
</table>
+
      <tr>
-
</body>
+
          <td width="172" id="ana"><span class="currentPage"><font size = 4>PROJECT</font></span>
-
</html>
+
        <a href="#LaLa">Introduction</a><br />
-
 
+
        <a href="www.google.com">Experiments</a><br />
-
 
+
        <a href="www.google.com">Results</a>
-
<!--- Background Formatting--->
+
        </td>
-
<html>
+
      </tr>
-
<style type="text/css">
+
      <tr>
-
body {background-color:#231f20; }
+
        <td id="nav"><a href="https://2009.igem.org/Team:Utah_State/Parts"><font size = 4>PARTS</font></a></td>
-
#content{
+
      </tr>
-
border:0px;
+
      <tr>
-
}
+
        <td id="nav"><a href="https://2009.igem.org/Team:Utah_State/Links"><font size = 4>LINKS</font></a></td>
-
 
+
      </tr>
-
</style>
+
    </table></td>
-
<table width=100% style="background:#CCCCCC; padding:7px; border-style:none">
+
    <td><table width=100% style="background:#CCCCCC; padding:7px; border-style:none">
   <tr>
   <tr>
     <td>
     <td>
Line 71: Line 98:
               <b><i>BioBricks without Borders:</b></i></font>
               <b><i>BioBricks without Borders:</b></i></font>
               <p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, San Serif" color =green>Investigating a multi-host BioBrick vector and secretion of cellular products</font></p><HR>
               <p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, San Serif" color =green>Investigating a multi-host BioBrick vector and secretion of cellular products</font></p><HR>
-
<p> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, San Serif" color =#000000>The aim of the Utah State University iGEM project is to develop improved upstream and downstream processing strategies for manufacturing cellular products using the standardized BioBrick system. First, we altered the broad-host range vector pRL1383a to comply with BioBrick standards and enable use of BioBrick constructs in organisms like Pseudomonas putida, Rhodobacter sphaeroides, and Synechocystis PCC6803. This vector will facilitate exploitation of advantageous characteristics of these organisms, such as photosynthetic carbon assimilation.  Following expression, product recovery poses a difficult and expensive challenge. Downstream processing of cellular compounds, like polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs), commonly represents more than half of the total production expense.  To counter this problem, secretion-promoting BioBrick devices were constructed through genetic fusion of signal peptides with protein-coding regions.  To demonstrate this, the secretion of PHA granule-associated proteins and their affinity to PHA was investigated. Project success will facilitate expression and recovery of BioBrick-coded products in multiple organisms.</p>
+
<p> <font size="2.5" face=" Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial" color =#000000>The aim of the Utah State University iGEM project is to develop improved upstream and downstream processing strategies for manufacturing cellular products using the standardized BioBrick system. First, we altered the broad-host range vector pRL1383a to comply with BioBrick standards and enable use of BioBrick constructs in organisms like <i>Pseudomonas putida</i>, <i>Rhodobacter sphaeroides</i>, and <i>Synechocystis</i> PCC6803. This vector will facilitate exploitation of advantageous characteristics of these organisms, such as photosynthetic carbon assimilation.  Following expression, product recovery poses a difficult and expensive challenge. Downstream processing of cellular compounds, like polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs), commonly represents more than half of the total production expense.  To counter this problem, secretion-promoting BioBrick devices were constructed through genetic fusion of signal peptides with protein-coding regions.  To demonstrate this, the secretion of PHA granule-associated proteins and their affinity to PHA was investigated. Project success will facilitate expression and recovery of BioBrick-coded products in multiple organisms.</p>
 +
          </font>
 +
            <p>  <font size="4" face="Helvetica, Arial, San Serif" color =green>OUR SITE IS STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND OUR INFORMATION IS BEING ADDED.  PLEASE COME BACK IN A FEW WEEKS TO SEE OUR PROJECT!</font></p>
     </td>
     </td>
     </tr>
     </tr>
Line 77: Line 106:
</table>
</table>
</html>
</html>
-
 
<html>
<html>
Line 139: Line 167:
</html>
</html>
-
 
-
</html>
 
<!--- Ty's Flash Section--->
<!--- Ty's Flash Section--->

Revision as of 03:57, 10 October 2009

USU iGem Untitled Document

PROJECT Introduction
Experiments
Results
BioBricks without Borders:

Investigating a multi-host BioBrick vector and secretion of cellular products


The aim of the Utah State University iGEM project is to develop improved upstream and downstream processing strategies for manufacturing cellular products using the standardized BioBrick system. First, we altered the broad-host range vector pRL1383a to comply with BioBrick standards and enable use of BioBrick constructs in organisms like Pseudomonas putida, Rhodobacter sphaeroides, and Synechocystis PCC6803. This vector will facilitate exploitation of advantageous characteristics of these organisms, such as photosynthetic carbon assimilation. Following expression, product recovery poses a difficult and expensive challenge. Downstream processing of cellular compounds, like polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs), commonly represents more than half of the total production expense. To counter this problem, secretion-promoting BioBrick devices were constructed through genetic fusion of signal peptides with protein-coding regions. To demonstrate this, the secretion of PHA granule-associated proteins and their affinity to PHA was investigated. Project success will facilitate expression and recovery of BioBrick-coded products in multiple organisms.

OUR SITE IS STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND OUR INFORMATION IS BEING ADDED. PLEASE COME BACK IN A FEW WEEKS TO SEE OUR PROJECT!

This is where more text can go