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Team:KULeuven/14 July 2009
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Progress
To do:
- Strain selection
- Odor-free E.coli available on partsregistry () [ordered]
- Order iobricks for Vanillin detection [Done]
- Primer selection for the promotor [Done]
- Send mail to Institut for Biologie-Mikrobiologie ([http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19240136 The BLUF-EAL protein YcgF acts as a direct anti-repressor in a blue-light response of Escherichia coli]) [Done]
- Biobricks for vanillin synthesis
- Send mail to University of Tuscia [Done]
- Order:
- (sam8 (tyrosine-ammonia lyase) coding sequence) [on hold]
- (sam5 (coumarate hydroxylase) coding sequence) [on hold]
- (COMT gene with ribosome binding site) [Available in kit]
Extra info on Vanillin synthesis
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16232583 1 B C Okeke and V Venturi ,Construction of recombinants Pseudomonas putida BO14 and Escherichia coli QEFCA8 for ferulic acid biotransformation to vanillin, J Biosci Bioeng. 1999; 88(1): 103–106.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14602615 2 Jörg Overhage, Alexander Steinbüchel, and Horst Priefert,Highly Efficient Biotransformation of Eugenol to Ferulic Acid and Further Conversion to Vanillin in Recombinant Strains of Escherichia coli, Appl Environ Microbiol. 2003 November; 69(11): 6569–6576. doi: 10.1128/AEM.69.11.6569-6576.2003.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10616715 3 J Overhage, H Priefert, J Rabenhorst, and A Steinbüchel,Biotransformation of eugenol to vanillin by a mutant of Pseudomonas sp. strain HR199 constructed by disruption of the vanillin dehydrogenase (vdh) gene, Appl Microbiol Biotechnol. 1999 November; 52(6): 820–828.
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