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Module 1: Phyto-Route

Chemotaxis is the movement of bacteria based on attraction or repulsion of chemicals. Roots secrete a variety of compounds that E. coli are not attracted to naturally. Accordingly, we engineered a chemoreceptor into our chassis that can sense malate, a common root exudate, so that it can swim towards the root. Additionally, E. coli are actively taken up by plant roots, which will allow targeted IAA delivery into roots by our system.

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Assembly

The receptor genes were synthesised in two fragments. In order to assemble the construct, we -use CPEC to combine the two fragments

-Cells have been transformed with backbone plasmid pSB1C3 carrying biobrick BBa_K398500, with constitutive promoter J23100,
protocol for transformation can be found here.

-transformation of PA2652 fragments into E coli competent cells. Fragment numbers 22 & 23.
-miniprep of the 22 & 23 cells to obtain DNA.
-gibson assembly of 22&23 fragments. -Due to this we have transformed 5a strain with a high copy plasmid containing ampicillin and kanamycin resistance (AK3 backbone)and sfGFP. These cells have been numbered 17.

26th of August

Colony PCR results of CPEC assembled PA2652 construct look promising! Will know for sure when sequencing results arrive next week

Gel 12: Colony PCR of 19 colonies picked from cells transformed with CPEC assembled PA2652 construct, about half have the correct size insert, these will be inoculated and miniprepped. Gel 13: Two more colony PCRs which were unsuccesfull, followed by five colony PCRs from negative control colonies (assembly of backbone vector without insert)showing backbone vector (6a) in one. The next well is a positive control colony PCR with plasmid 6a. The final two wells are analytical PCRs of the CPEC assembly and negative control with sequencing primers showing the correct size band for the assembled insert.