Attributions; what the Aberdeen iGEM team members did

Alpha Team – Ag43 Protein

Team Members: Ana Maria Cujba and Martyna Sroka carried out the following work. Alpha team took an Ag43 part produced by the 2012 Hokkaido University iGEM team, the goal at first appeared simple – insert a FLAG-tag-multiple-cloning-site (FLAG+MCS) into Ag43. However, two further problems had to be overcome first: 1. The part had six additional Pst1 sites (non-compliant with RFC-10) which did not appear in the registry sequence. These sites had to be removed. 2. Ag43 has beta hairpins, these are somewhat like Velcro and stick the cells together so that can form biofilms, for our assay these would lead to false-positives and two of them had to be removed. Only after solving those two problems, alpha team proceeded to insert FLAG+MCS; they also experimentally characterized all Ag43-related parts.

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