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As of October 2011, we have a functioning mutant library generation and screening process, and a selection of well-characterized promoter mutants, including seven LacI promoter mutants and seven λ cI promoter mutants. We also have nine TetR promoter mutants and eight GFP mutants (two of which have been lovingly named "Orange-Mutated Green Fluorescent Protein," or "OMGfp" 1 and 2) which await further characterization.
As of October 2011, we have a functioning mutant library generation and screening process, and a selection of well-characterized promoter mutants, including seven LacI promoter mutants and seven λ cI promoter mutants. We also have nine TetR promoter mutants and eight GFP mutants (two of which have been lovingly named "Orange-Mutated Green Fluorescent Protein," or "OMGfp" 1 and 2) which await further characterization.
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Want to make your own mutant library? Curious as to how we assayed our promoter mutants, or how we selected variants that had well-spaced activity levels? Read about our library generation process <a href=""https://2011.igem.org/Team:UC_Davis/Process">here</a>. <br><br>
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Want to make your own mutant library? Curious as to how we assayed our promoter mutants, or how we selected variants that had well-spaced activity levels? Read about our library generation process <a href="https://2011.igem.org/Team:UC_Davis/Process">here</a>. <br><br>
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The <a href="https://2011.igem.org/Team:UC_Davis/Notebook">notebook</a> page contains daily updates about our progress in lab, and also has a <a href="https://2011.igem.org/Team:UC_Davis/Gallery">gallery</a> where you can view pictures that we've taken in our lab.<br><br><br>
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We chose repressible promoters because they are useful in designing complex circuits and are relatively easy to screen for changes in activity level. You can view detailed information on our <a href="https://2011.igem.org/Team:UC_Davis/LacI">LacI</a>, <a href="https://2011.igem.org/Team:UC_Davis/TetR">TetR</a> and <a href="https://2011.igem.org/Team:UC_Davis/cilambda">λ cI</a> mutants on their respective pages.<br><br><br>
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Revision as of 04:35, 28 September 2011

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Criteria

View our judging criteria for iGEM 2011 here.

Overview

We set out to develop a rugged process for the rapid production of mutant libraries of any BioBrick part using standard primers and a simple mutagenic PCR protocol. We chose to prototype this process by creating mutant libraries of the LacI, TetR and λ cI repressible promoters and to mutate GFP to visually assess our ability to create functional protein mutants.

As of October 2011, we have a functioning mutant library generation and screening process, and a selection of well-characterized promoter mutants, including seven LacI promoter mutants and seven λ cI promoter mutants. We also have nine TetR promoter mutants and eight GFP mutants (two of which have been lovingly named "Orange-Mutated Green Fluorescent Protein," or "OMGfp" 1 and 2) which await further characterization.

Project Selection

Why would we want to make mutants? What's so special about repressible promoters? Read about how we came to decide on this project idea here.


Process

Want to make your own mutant library? Curious as to how we assayed our promoter mutants, or how we selected variants that had well-spaced activity levels? Read about our library generation process here.

Promoter Mutants

We chose repressible promoters because they are useful in designing complex circuits and are relatively easy to screen for changes in activity level. You can view detailed information on our LacI, TetR and λ cI mutants on their respective pages.




Attributions

Credit for the various facets of our project, from wetlab work to graphic design can be found on our attributions page, along with a list of the awesome, free, open-source software that we used to make this project happen.