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For our ambitious project we decided to implement a synthetic construct in <span style="font-style:italic;">A. nidulans</span>. The decision was made to synthesize this construct at a foreign company, in the hope of saving ourselves time. The constructs were made in silico and after certain small corrections the sequences were submitted to the company. The constructs were submitted on time, but soon enough the DNA synthesis company let us know they were struggling with putting the final construct together. We received our first part in time and succesfully transformed <span style="font-style:italic;">A. nidulans</span> and confirmed that our first construct worked. | For our ambitious project we decided to implement a synthetic construct in <span style="font-style:italic;">A. nidulans</span>. The decision was made to synthesize this construct at a foreign company, in the hope of saving ourselves time. The constructs were made in silico and after certain small corrections the sequences were submitted to the company. The constructs were submitted on time, but soon enough the DNA synthesis company let us know they were struggling with putting the final construct together. We received our first part in time and succesfully transformed <span style="font-style:italic;">A. nidulans</span> and confirmed that our first construct worked. | ||
- | However, our synthesis company had problems with putting the rest of our constructs together. Apparently one of the synthetic sequences was toxic for the <span style="font-style:italic;">E. coli</span> host | + | However, our synthesis company had problems with putting the rest of our constructs together. Apparently one of the synthetic sequences was toxic for the <span style="font-style:italic;">E. coli</span> host. When verifying the sequence no faultless sequence could be verified. Huge deletions were found in the sequence, indicating that there was something fundamentally wrong with our sequence. Upon closer inspection we found four small separate repeats in our sequence, however we strongly doubt this is the root of our problems. |
- | Due to all these problems the delivery of our synthetic construct was massively delayed. At the moment of writing several parts arrived by mail, incomplete and useless. After we noticed this incredible delay the decision was made to wrap up the fungal track 'n trace project. Suzette continued to work on several microscopal aspects of fungal | + | Due to all these problems the delivery of our synthetic construct was massively delayed. At the moment of writing several parts arrived by mail, incomplete and useless. After we noticed this incredible delay the decision was made to wrap up the fungal track 'n trace project. Suzette continued to work on several microscopal aspects of fungal hyphae, but basically all of our man and womanpower shifted to the Synchroscillator project where we managed to get beautiful results. |
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