Our take on redefining possibilities.
As first time participants in the iGEM competition, experimenting with synthetic biology was a tough challenge. We managed to contribute to the registry, by adding these four new parts:
| Name | Part type | Short Description | Designer | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BBa_K4740000 | basic part | alkB1 | Andreea Panti | 1215 bp |
| BBa_K4740001 | basic part | alkS | Andreea Panti | 2649 bp |
| BBa_K4740002 | basic part | PalkB | Andreea Panti | 152 bp |
| BBa_K4740003 | composite part |
promoter J23119+alkS+promoter PalkB+alkB1 |
Andreea Panti | 4113 bp |
We also added a more in-depth description to an already existing part, BBa_M50004, uploaded by the team Stanford BIOE44 - S11 in 2016. We hope this contribution will help future iGEM teams and help further scientific research. You can read our contribution here.
In addition, while working on our own project, we noticed the striking similarities between A. borkumensis and P. putida. For our composite part, we even used the gene alkS from P. putida even though the main gene, alkB1, is from A. borkumensis. While we were researching to see if this combination between genes from different organisms was possible, it was impossible not to notice how similar the two organisms’ gene construction was. We thought it would be helpful if we added a somewhat comparison between the alkS genes in both organisms, as this would have helped us a great deal while we were researching ourselves. We uploaded it to a composite part previously uploaded by Stanford BIOE44 - S11 in 2011, BBa_M36252. You can read our contribution here.