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                                                <b>Amplification of E3 ubiquitin ligase</b>
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                                        <p>COI1 is the E3 ubiquitin ligase for the JAZ degron pathway. This is analogous to the TIR1 enzyme in the auxin pathway, but instead it binds coronatine. Normally, COI1 binds JA-Ile (jasmonic acid-isoleucine) but this compound is difficult and expensive to synthesize and cannot be purchased. Coronatine is structurally similar and is manufactured, which is why we used it instead. COI1 was amplified and verified through gel electrophoresis. </p>
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                                                <b>Integration of Engineered Vectors into Yeast Cells</b>
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                                        <p>After the above construct grew successful colonies, we isolated and purified the newly engineered vector and transformed into W303 yeast cells. It was screened via yeast colony PCR.</p>
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                                                 <b>Confirmation of COI1 expression in yeast</b>
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                                        <p>After the introduction of coronatine, the degradation of GFP was monitored using a spectrophotometer as well as Western Blot densitometry. Because coronatine is to induce the destruction of GFP, we would expect to not see GFP on the Western blot and to only see a band on our positive, bacterial control.  </p>
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Revision as of 21:14, 17 October 2014

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The BAITswitch

The Bioorthoginal Auxin Induceable Trigger Switch
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Amplification of E3 ubiquitin ligase

COI1 is the E3 ubiquitin ligase for the JAZ degron pathway. This is analogous to the TIR1 enzyme in the auxin pathway, but instead it binds coronatine. Normally, COI1 binds JA-Ile (jasmonic acid-isoleucine) but this compound is difficult and expensive to synthesize and cannot be purchased. Coronatine is structurally similar and is manufactured, which is why we used it instead. COI1 was amplified and verified through gel electrophoresis.

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Gibson Assembly and E. coli transformation

Just like we tagged TIR1 with Myc, here we tagged COI1 with an HA tag for screening. Amplified and tagged COI1 was then joined to pTEF-GFP, inserted into a bacterial vector and transformed with NEB 10 beta competent cells with LB-ampicillin selection. You may have noticed that we use GFP in both of our systems, though we said our goal was a bioorthogonal system to degrade two proteins simultaneously. At the beginning, our use of RFP was not very successful, so for the interest of making sure we can build a construct that works, we used what we had which was GFP and will later swap it out for mCherry when we juxtapose the systems into yeast.

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Integration of Engineered Vectors into Yeast Cells

After the above construct grew successful colonies, we isolated and purified the newly engineered vector and transformed into W303 yeast cells. It was screened via yeast colony PCR.

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Confirmation of COI1 expression in yeast

Protein was extracted from yeast via alkali treatment and analyzed on a Western blot and Coomassie blue assay.

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Confirmation of COI1 expression in yeast

Protein was extracted from yeast via alkali treatment and analyzed on a Western blot and Coomassie blue assay.

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Gibson Assembly and 2μ transformation

pTEF-GFP and the JAZ degrons were cloned and transformed into a 2μ plasmid. Like our auxin pathway, this would then be introduced to the COI1 plasmid and we would continue with our experiments of adding varying concentrations of coronatine.

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Confirmation of coronatine-induced degron system via Western Blot densitometry and fluorescence analysis

After the introduction of coronatine, the degradation of GFP was monitored using a spectrophotometer as well as Western Blot densitometry. Because coronatine is to induce the destruction of GFP, we would expect to not see GFP on the Western blot and to only see a band on our positive, bacterial control.

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