Team:UC Davis/Adding secretion

General model for secretion system:

Advantages of having several models:

       In our secretion system, we are using two genes with different sizes as our target secretion genes, GFP being short in length and Luciferase being comparably long would test our secretion system and its ability to secrete small and large proteins.
      Testing multiple different combinations; Signal Sequence alone, Signal Sequence plus ompA/INPNC and ompA/INPNC alone, would help us find the best combination for our secretion system based on their secretion ability and rank them from strongest to weakest in strength (in this specific system).

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Secretion Models:
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Why test different genes in our secretion system?

     There is wide range of genes present in our environment. Therefore, it is important to measure our secretion system’s ability to secrete genes of various sizes.

Molecular data on some proteins

Name	Molecular Weight	Number of residues	Number of polypeptide
Cytochrome c (human	13,000	104	1
Ribonuclease A(bovine pancreas)	13,700	124	1
Serum albumin (human)	68,500	609	1

(Page 128, third edition “Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry” by David L. Nelson and Michael M. Cox)