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      <p><B>What is TAL effector?</B><br>
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    <p>The team planned and implemented several events concerning the application and field of our project. We focused on fields including transgenesis and genetic therapy, where TALE has been widely used as gene editing tool.  Two of our teammates attended as guest lecturers a conference held for leaders in sci-tech education of High school and elementary level students in Beijing. Aside from publicity among high school students and educators, we held two seminars on synthetic biology and systems biology in Tsinghua University. Through heated discussions of the fields and our project itself, we managed to raise public awareness of novel advance in such interdisciplinary subjects. Multiple ethics issues were proposed during the seminars considering current topics in synthetic biology. We also conducted questionnaire survey on these issues later on. Results revealed important information and resolution on such. Ethics problems in genetic editing are researched and discussed in relevant pages.<br>
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  TAL (transcription activator-like) effectors are proteins secreted by Xanthomonas bacteria via their type III secretion system when they infect various plant species. These proteins are able to bind promoter sequences in the host plant and to activate the expression of plant genes that aid bacterial infection.[1]<br><br>
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  There appears to be a one-to-one correspondence between the identity of two critical amino acids in each repeat and each DNA base in the target sequence. [2]As a result, TAL effectors have attracted great interest as DNA targeting tools.<br><br>
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  Their targeting specificity is determined by a central domain of tandem, 33–35 amino acid repeats, followed by a single truncated repeat of 20 amino acids. The majority of naturally occurring TAL effectors examined have between 12 and 27 full repeats. A polymorphic pair of adjacent residues at positions 12 and 13 in each repeat, the ‘repeat-variable di-residue’ (RVD), specifies the target, one RVD to one nucleotide, with the four most common RVDs each preferentially associating with one of the four bases.[3][4]
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  Figure 1. Structure of a naturally occurring TAL effector[5]<br><br>
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  This simple code between amino acids in TAL effectors and DNA bases in their target sites might be useful for protein engineering applications. Numerous groups have designed artificial TAL effectors capable of recognizing new DNA sequences in a variety of experimental systems. It has been reported that TAL effectors target genes efficiently in many eukaryocytic cells like mammalian cells and yeasts. However, the former experiments with E. coli indicate that TAL effectors don’t work well in E. coli cells.<br><br><br>
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  [1] Bogdanove AJ, Schornack S, Lahaye T. TAL effectors: finding plant genes for disease and defense. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 2010; 13: 394-401.<br>
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  [2] Boch J, Bonas U. Xanthomonas AvrBs3 family-type III effectors: discovery and function. Annu. Rev. Phytopathol. 2010; 48: 419-436.<br>
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  [3] Moscou MJ, Bogdanove AJ. A simple cipher governs DNA recognition by TAL effectors. Science. 2009; 326: 1501.<br>
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  [4] Boch J, Scholze H, Schornack S, Landgraf A, Hahn S, Kay S, Lahaye T, Nickstadt A, Bonas U. Breaking the code of DNA binding specificity of TAL-type III effectors. Science 2009; 326:1509-1512.<br>
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  [5] Tomas Cermak, Adam J. Bogdanove, and Daniel F. Voytas. Efficient design and assembly of custom TALEN and other TAL effector-based constructs for DNA targeting. Nucl. Acids Res. 2011; 39: 7879-7879
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        <p>On Sep. 9th, Xu Chumeng and Liu Huarui gave a lecture on our project and current topics in synthetic biology as part of the conference for leaders in sci-tech education of High school and elementary school students in Beijing.  Teachers, high school students and researchers on Bioinformatics, Heredity, Molecular Biology and Botany gathered in Beijing No.8 Middle School aiming at enacting educational plans on science and technology research for high school and elementary level students. <br><br>
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After presenting our project, Chumeng, as an alumna of Beijing No.8 Middle School, shared her experience on high school sci-tech research experience and how it had led to synthetic biology research in Tsinghua.  We received a lot of useful insights on our projects from attending researchers.  An overview on the current topics in synthetic biology and its applications was delivered by our two teammates.  We found that interdisciplinary subjects like synthetic biology still lack awareness among students below collegiate level and their educators.  The high school students present at the conference showed keen interest in the topics, even raised a few issues worthy of consideration such as novel application of gene editing, “crazy” but creative ideas in the field of synthetic biology.<br><br>
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    <p>It has been reported that TAL effectors target genes efficiently in many eukaryocytes like mammalian cells and yeasts. However, the former experiments with E. coli indicate that TAL effectors don’t work well in E. coli cells. There are a variety of factors can possibly be attributed to its low efficiency, and homologous recombination is a highly possible one.<br><br>
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Some proteins originated from prokaryocytes, with their sequences paralleling with DNA sequences of E. coli, their expression might be hampered because of homologous recombination. By parity of reasoning, we propose a hypothesis that the inefficiency of TAL effector expression is caused by its sequence resemblance with E. coli genes.<br><br>
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<a class="more" href="https://2014.igem.org/Team:Tsinghua">Tsinghua</a>. We introduced our iGEM project to the undergraduates from school of life science and had heated discussion on synthetic biology, systems biology and bioinformatics. Our introduction of interdisciplinary subjects was attractive, and we even successfully persuaded the scholars to join iGEM in the next year.
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Our solution is based on the codon usage bias, which refers to differences in the frequency of occurrence of synonymous codons in coding DNA.[1] The translational efficiency of heterologous genes can often be improved by optimizing synonymous codon usage to better match the host organism.[2]<br>
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[1] Susanta K. Behura* and David W. Severson, Codon usage bias: causative factors, quantification methods and genome-wide patterns: with emphasis on insect genomes. Biological Review. 2012; 88: 49-61<br>
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Overview

The team planned and implemented several events concerning the application and field of our project. We focused on fields including transgenesis and genetic therapy, where TALE has been widely used as gene editing tool. Two of our teammates attended as guest lecturers a conference held for leaders in sci-tech education of High school and elementary level students in Beijing. Aside from publicity among high school students and educators, we held two seminars on synthetic biology and systems biology in Tsinghua University. Through heated discussions of the fields and our project itself, we managed to raise public awareness of novel advance in such interdisciplinary subjects. Multiple ethics issues were proposed during the seminars considering current topics in synthetic biology. We also conducted questionnaire survey on these issues later on. Results revealed important information and resolution on such. Ethics problems in genetic editing are researched and discussed in relevant pages.


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Lecture

On Sep. 9th, Xu Chumeng and Liu Huarui gave a lecture on our project and current topics in synthetic biology as part of the conference for leaders in sci-tech education of High school and elementary school students in Beijing. Teachers, high school students and researchers on Bioinformatics, Heredity, Molecular Biology and Botany gathered in Beijing No.8 Middle School aiming at enacting educational plans on science and technology research for high school and elementary level students.

After presenting our project, Chumeng, as an alumna of Beijing No.8 Middle School, shared her experience on high school sci-tech research experience and how it had led to synthetic biology research in Tsinghua. We received a lot of useful insights on our projects from attending researchers. An overview on the current topics in synthetic biology and its applications was delivered by our two teammates. We found that interdisciplinary subjects like synthetic biology still lack awareness among students below collegiate level and their educators. The high school students present at the conference showed keen interest in the topics, even raised a few issues worthy of consideration such as novel application of gene editing, “crazy” but creative ideas in the field of synthetic biology.



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Seminars

On Oct. 11th. Our team held a seminar in collaboration with team Tsinghua. We introduced our iGEM project to the undergraduates from school of life science and had heated discussion on synthetic biology, systems biology and bioinformatics. Our introduction of interdisciplinary subjects was attractive, and we even successfully persuaded the scholars to join iGEM in the next year. Title

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We also held a seminar in our own department on Oct. 12th.
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Ethics

Genetic editing and genetic therapy (especially those involving transgenesis), key applications of TALE, raise several noticeable ethics problems (listed below).
1. In regard of current lacking of legal treaty on such issues, uncontrolled access to such technologies may cause unpredictable chaos.

2. Experiments conducted on genetic therapy may pose threat to human life.

3. Transgenesis and genetic modifying may have long-term effects on the environment

4. It might be hard to set the boundaries between species with gene editing taken into consideration.

5. Transgenesis may have negative influence on animal welfare.




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