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<p>BRIDGE stands for BioBrick Recombineering In Direct Genomic Editing. It is an alternative method for inserting BioBricks into the genome by using homologous recombination instead of restriction digestion, with the added bonus of not leaving a marker behind in the product.</p><br>
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<p>The first step of BRIDGE requires the deletion of existing DNA (probably a non-coding piece or a non-essential gene) to introduce a construct of two genes; one an antibiotic resistance gene, the other sacB, which prevents the host from growing on sucrose. After the first step we can select for cells which have taken up the construct by growing them on the relevant antibiotic.</p>
 
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<p>Our BRIDGE construct will contain chloramphenicol resistance (<i>cat</i>) and <i>sacB</i>. Both it and the desired gene will be inserted by homologous recombination using the lambda red system. For this we will need up and down-stream sequences of genes which we wish to replace.</p>
<p>Our BRIDGE construct will contain chloramphenicol resistance (<i>cat</i>) and <i>sacB</i>. Both it and the desired gene will be inserted by homologous recombination using the lambda red system. For this we will need up and down-stream sequences of genes which we wish to replace.</p>
<p>To prove the principle of BRIDGE we will remove a non-essential, constitutively expressed gene from the <i>E. coli</i> genome and replace it with a well known marker, such as GFP. We also have several genes from a past project idea which we could delete to increase fatty acid synthesis, and further genes we could introduce which will result in the production of long chain alkenes from the excess fatty acids. This is not useful for our current project but it is a nice way to demonstrate the effectiveness of BRIDGE.</p>
<p>To prove the principle of BRIDGE we will remove a non-essential, constitutively expressed gene from the <i>E. coli</i> genome and replace it with a well known marker, such as GFP. We also have several genes from a past project idea which we could delete to increase fatty acid synthesis, and further genes we could introduce which will result in the production of long chain alkenes from the excess fatty acids. This is not useful for our current project but it is a nice way to demonstrate the effectiveness of BRIDGE.</p>
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Genomic BRIDGEs


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Our Project


Our BRIDGE construct will contain chloramphenicol resistance (cat) and sacB. Both it and the desired gene will be inserted by homologous recombination using the lambda red system. For this we will need up and down-stream sequences of genes which we wish to replace.

To prove the principle of BRIDGE we will remove a non-essential, constitutively expressed gene from the E. coli genome and replace it with a well known marker, such as GFP. We also have several genes from a past project idea which we could delete to increase fatty acid synthesis, and further genes we could introduce which will result in the production of long chain alkenes from the excess fatty acids. This is not useful for our current project but it is a nice way to demonstrate the effectiveness of BRIDGE.

Eventually, we hope that BRIDGE will be used to introduce whole light producer-sensor constructs, to demonstrate its ability for utilisation in further work using BioBricks.

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