IGEM:Caltech/2007/Notes

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Background Initial assignment Week 1 Notes Notes Week 2 Reading Elowitz MB and Leibler S. A synthetic oscillatory network of transcriptional regulators. Nature. 2000 Jan 20;403(6767):335-8. DOI:10.1038/35002125 | Gardner TS, Cantor CR, and Collins JJ. Construction of a genetic toggle switch in Escherichia coli. Nature. 2000 Jan 20;403(6767):339-42. DOI:10.1038/35002131 | Adventures in Synthetic Biology Notes Audio Notes Week 3 Reading Fung E, Wong WW, Suen JK, Bulter T, Lee SG, and Liao JC. A synthetic gene-metabolic oscillator. Nature. 2005 May 5;435(7038):118-22. DOI:10.1038/nature03508 | Ro DK, Paradise EM, Ouellet M, Fisher KJ, Newman KL, Ndungu JM, Ho KA, Eachus RA, Ham TS, Kirby J, Chang MC, Withers ST, Shiba Y, Sarpong R, and Keasling JD. Production of the antimalarial drug precursor artemisinic acid in engineered yeast. Nature. 2006 Apr 13;440(7086):940-3. DOI:10.1038/nature04640 | Anderson JC, Clarke EJ, Arkin AP, and Voigt CA. Environmentally controlled invasion of cancer cells by engineered bacteria. J Mol Biol. 2006 Jan 27;355(4):619-27. DOI:10.1016/j.jmb.2005.10.076 | You L, Cox RS 3rd, Weiss R, and Arnold FH. Programmed population control by cell-cell communication and regulated killing. Nature. 2004 Apr 22;428(6985):868-71. DOI:10.1038/nature02491 | Notes coming shortly Week 4 Past Projects Berkeley: Bacterial Conjugation (Haile) Video Presentation Wiki Davidson: Invertase Video Presentation Wiki Edinburgh: Arsenic Detector (Tania) Video Presentation Wiki Penn State: Freeze Tag Video Presentation Wiki UCSF: Rewiring Chemotaxis Video Presentation Wiki UT Austin: Edge Detection (Deborah) Presentation Wiki Week 5 FimE [8] (Haile) Crescentin [9] (Kat) T7 [10] (Deborah) SSM [11](Tania) Riboregulator [12] (Pradeep) Papers Ham TS, Lee SK, Keasling JD, and Arkin AP. A tightly regulated inducible expression system utilizing the fim inversion recombination switch. Biotechnol Bioeng. 2006 May 5;94(1):1-4. DOI:10.1002/bit.20916 | Margolin W. Bacterial shape: concave coiled coils curve caulobacter. Curr Biol. 2004 Mar 23;14(6):R242-4. DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2004.02.057 | Chan LY, Kosuri S, and Endy D. Refactoring bacteriophage T7. Mol Syst Biol. 2005;1:2005.0018. DOI:10.1038/msb4100025 | Torres-Cruz J and van der Woude MW. Slipped-strand mispairing can function as a phase variation mechanism in Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol. 2003 Dec;185(23):6990-4. DOI:10.1128/JB.185.23.6990-6994.2003 | Isaacs FJ, Dwyer DJ, Ding C, Pervouchine DD, Cantor CR, and Collins JJ. Engineered riboregulators enable post-transcriptional control of gene expression. Nat Biotechnol. 2004 Jul;22(7):841-7. DOI:10.1038/nbt986 | Week 6 Isaacs FJ, Dwyer DJ, Ding C, Pervouchine DD, Cantor CR, and Collins JJ. Engineered riboregulators enable post-transcriptional control of gene expression. Nat Biotechnol. 2004 Jul;22(7):841-7. DOI:10.1038/nbt986 | Court DL, Oppenheim AB, and Adhya SL. A new look at bacteriophage lambda genetic networks. J Bacteriol. 2007 Jan;189(2):298-304. DOI:10.1128/JB.01215-06 |