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Collaboration with DTU-2
This year the danish DTU-2 iGEM Team has made a new standardized assembly method, called USER assembly. Since some of our Cytochrome p450's had several illegal restriction sites according to the iGEM rules, we saw the opportunity to apply the DTU-2 assembly method to our project. This also gave the DTU team the possibility to test the USER assembly method on our parts. This initiated a strong collaboration between us two teams.

Denmarks Technical University (where the DTU-2 team is situated) is geografically close to The University of Copenhagen, and we therefore have had ample opportunity to visit each other, ledding to sharing of laboratory experiences, challenges and success stories.

During the course of our project, we experienced a huge problem, which was that we did not recieve the sequence information on the human Cytochrome p450 DNA, that was kindly sent to us from Dr. Guengerich from Vanderbilt University in Nashville. This sadly put our project to a halt.

Half-way through our project we decided to get the DNA sequenced on our own. At this point we were very pressed for time though. As the USER assembly method is very fast compared to the standard iGEM assembly method, collaborating with DTU-2 allowed us to work with and move on with this part of the project. Alas their help came too late as we did not have the time to obtain the results we would have liked.

We also decided that it would be helpful to have the DTU-2 team try out their method on our Cyp79's. So we gave them some of coding DNA and the sequences for the cyp79 B1 and A2 and had them assemble the parts for us. This turned out to be a good idea as the Cyp79B1 was expressed only when we used the USER assembly method in contrast to reapeated failures when using the iGEM standard assembly method.

During collaboration we have realized that the USER assembly method has many advantages compared to the standard assembly method of molecular biology.

It is:
-Mutationless
-Simple
-Fast
-Reliable

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 This year the danish DTU-2 iGEM Team has made a new standardized assembly method, called USER assembly.
 Since some of our Cytochrome p450's had several illegal restriction sites according to the iGEM rules, we saw the
-opportunity to apply their method to our assembly process, which also gave them the possibility to test the
+opportunity to apply the DTU-2 assembly method to our project. This also gave the DTU team the possibility to test the USER assembly method on our parts. This initiated a strong collaboration between us two teams.
-method on our parts. This is the background for the collaboration that we initiated.
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-Since DTU is situated close to The University of Copenhagen we have had ample opportunity to visit each other.
+Denmarks Technical University (where the DTU-2 team is situated) is geografically close to The University of Copenhagen, and we therefore have had ample opportunity to visit each other, ledding to sharing of laboratory experiences, challenges and success stories.
-This has led to sharing of laboratory experiences, challenges and success stories.
 <br><br>
-Our huge problem was that we did not receive our sequence information on the human Cytochrome p450 DNA
+During the course of our project, we experienced a huge problem, which was that we did not recieve the sequence information on the human Cytochrome p450 DNA, that was kindly sent to us from Dr. Guengerich from Vanderbilt University in Nashville. This sadly put our project to a halt.
-that was kindly sent to us from Dr. Guengerich from Vanderbilt University in Nashville. This sadly put our project
-to a halt.
 Half-way through our project we decided to get the DNA sequenced on our own. At this point we were very
 pressed for time though. As the USER assembly method is very fast compared to the standard iGEM assembly method,