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Welcome!

Welcome to the Team Minnesota Wiki for iGEM 2010!

We are a team of undergraduate students along with many faculty and post-doc advisors. This is the third year that Minnesota has sent a team to iGEM.

The Mission

This year our team is pursuing two projects, one experimental and one computational. We are very excited about the potential of each of these projects. Check out our notebook and other pages for more details!

Metabolic Engineering: In vivo Nanobioreactors

Modern microbial engineering methods allow the introduction of useful exogenous metabolic pathways into cells. Metabolism of certain organic compounds is sometimes limited by the production of toxic intermediates. Several bacteria have evolved protein based microcompartments capable of sequestering such reactions, thus protecting cytosolic machinery and processes from interference by these intermediates. For our project, we will identify and transform the genes encoding proteins responsible for the production and assembly of bacterial microcompartment. Additionally, we will confirm the signal sequences that target enzymes to the protein compartments by fusing this sequence to reporter genes. To demonstrate the microcompartment’s potential to serve as nanobioreactors, we will target genes encoding a short catabolic pathway into recombinant microcompartments assembled in E. coli.

Highlights for the Judges

Judges! Please navigate to our [1] page for a comprehensive list of UMN's fulfilled medal requirements and links throughout the wiki.

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