Team:Carnegie Mellon/Sensor

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<p> <center>From our analysis of possible fluorescent protein reporters, we selected yellow fluorescent protein (YFP) and red fluorescent protein (RFP)</center></p>
<p> <center>From our analysis of possible fluorescent protein reporters, we selected yellow fluorescent protein (YFP) and red fluorescent protein (RFP)</center></p>
<p> <center>2. Construction: Overlap PCR</center></p>
<p> <center>2. Construction: Overlap PCR</center></p>
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<p> <center>We first ligated the T7 promoter and RFP into the pSB3K3 plasmid, to create the second plasmid part of our sensor</center></p>
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<p> <center>We first synthesized the estrogen sensor by cloning the estrogen responsive intein into the T7 RNA Polymerase. The intein was inserted between the 491 and 492 residues of the T7 RNA Polymerase using overlap PCR. We did this by first using PCR to piece the N-terminus of the T7 RNA Polymerase to the N-terminus of the ''S. cerevisiae'' VMA intein. Another PCR reaction was set up to piece together the C-terminus of the intein and the T7 RNA Polymerase. The third reaction pieced together these two parts, along with the estrogen ligand binding domain to produce the sensor. We then checked to see that we made the desired product by running this through a 1 % agarose gel and looking for the specific size bands. </center></p>
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<center> <h1>Notebook Entries </h1></center>
<center> <h1>Notebook Entries </h1></center>

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The Sensor

1. Fluorescent Protein Analysis

From our analysis of possible fluorescent protein reporters, we selected yellow fluorescent protein (YFP) and red fluorescent protein (RFP)

2. Construction: Overlap PCR

We first synthesized the estrogen sensor by cloning the estrogen responsive intein into the T7 RNA Polymerase. The intein was inserted between the 491 and 492 residues of the T7 RNA Polymerase using overlap PCR. We did this by first using PCR to piece the N-terminus of the T7 RNA Polymerase to the N-terminus of the ''S. cerevisiae'' VMA intein. Another PCR reaction was set up to piece together the C-terminus of the intein and the T7 RNA Polymerase. The third reaction pieced together these two parts, along with the estrogen ligand binding domain to produce the sensor. We then checked to see that we made the desired product by running this through a 1 % agarose gel and looking for the specific size bands.

Notebook Entries

Week One
Week Two
Week Three
Week Four
Week Five

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