Team:Cambridge/Experiments/Initial Exercise Group A

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Initial Exercise: Cat, Jonathan, Haydn and Ai

As a 'warm-up' exercise to acquaint the group with molecular biological laboratory techniques, three mini-teams were tasked with creating an interesting GFP fusion. Group A decided that visualing ftsZ in real time, in vivo would be rather cool.\

Ftsz was first identified in a mutant screen in 1980 <ref>(Lutkenhaus, Wolf-Watz and Donachie)</ref> as a gene recquired for bacterial cytokinesis (cell division).

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Primer Design

The plasmid vector we were supplied with contains a strong promoter upstream of a sfGFP coding sequence. Our fusion design relies on amplifying the ftsZ coding region from Bacillus and creating regions of overlap between this and the GFP coding sequence in the plasmid, in order to create the gene fusion.

ccaattaaaggaggaattcaaaATGTTGGAGTTCGAAACAAACAT-----AGAAACCGTAATAAACGCGGCcgtaaaggcgaagagctgttcact
ggttaatttcctccttaagtttTACAACCTCAAGCTTTGTTTGTA-----TCTTTGGCATTATTTGCGCCGgcatttccgcttctcgacaagtga


1. Template = B. subtilus genome. Aiming to amplify ftsZ


Fwd : ccaattaaaggaggaattcaaaATGTTGGAGTTCGAAACAAACAT

Rev: agtgaacagctcttcgcctttacgGCCGCGTTTATTACGGTTTC


Fwd primer for plasmid amplication: AGAAACCGTAATAAACGCGGCcgtaaaggcgaagagctgttcact

Rev: ATGTTTGTTTCGAACTCCAACATtttgaattcctcctttaattgg