IGEM:MIT/2005/Beginning of week meeting: Mon. Jully 11

Division of Labor
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 * Annie - FecA d/b
 * Jessica - Actuator d/b
 * Will - ToxR d/b
 * Ray - Signal Processing ToxR, FecA
 * Jenn - Manager of Everything
 * Maxine - ligand design/build
 * Jenny - Schematic, scFv bulding (fusion with ToxR)

Things to do

 * Harvard strain depository --look into it.
 * Order ToxR today -- Jen
 * Protein engineering biobricks -- Will
 * Protein design scFv FecA -- Annie
 * Get vector from TK. We need a clean miniprep to do this.
 * Schematic for FecA, ToxR -- Jenny


 * Synthesis
 * To Do: design primers today for initial run of tests, Order.
 * our spec'd parts

State of our Experiments
Experiment 1: ToxR & CI
 * 1) anti fluorescin scFvs: specified on registry, have plasmid -> make primers, order from BH?
 * 2) ToxR/cI fusion: haven't been able to get cells from Mekalanos lab. ToxR and cI both specified, cI not by us.
 * 3) *figure out if we can use biobricked cI
 * 4) *can we get ToxR somewhere else?
 * 5) MalE/PhoA: can get from e. coli genome: if we're sure we want it, design primers.
 * 6) fluorescin oligos: someone needs to work with TK to obtain primers with fluor. molecules and do PCR to get linked oligos.
 * 7) strains AH5.5 & AH5.9: got em!

Experiment 2: ToxR & ctx
 * 1) see above for scFvs, MalE/PhoA, f-oligos, ToxR
 * ctx: specified, to be ordered from BH. Can we get it somewhere to biobrick ourselves?
 * 1) decide what strain to do this in.

Experiment 3: FecA
 * 1) need to figure out precise experiments.
 * 2) FecA sequence not specified yet, because of some discrepancies that require resolution.
 * 3) question to be answered asap:
 * 4) *where to fuse, based on geometry of protein. Probably will do in numerous places.
 * 5) *what are the sequences?
 * 6) Help from advisors? how do B/T cells respond?
 * 7) get Fec- cells?

Experiment 4: Transmembrane fusion of IMP and OMP:
 * 1) Looking into a few more proteins (TolC, AcrA).

Experiment Future:
 * 1) need to biobrick anti-rabbit scFv