Team:Freiburg Bioware
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Gene delivery using viral vectors holds great promise for the treatment of acquired and inherited diseases. The human Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV) is a small, non-pathogenic, single-stranded DNA virus gaining increasing attention being both versatile and effective. Taking current knowledge into account, we generated a recombinant, modularized, BioBrick-compatible AAV ‘Virus Construction Kit’. We provide parts for modified capsid proteins, targeting modules, tumor-specific promoters, and prodrug-activating enzymes as well as readily assembled vectors for gene delivery and production of non-replicative virus particles. The viral tropism is altered by N-terminal fusion or by loop replacement of the capsid proteins. Functionality of viruses constructed from our kit was demonstrated by fluorescent protein expression in infected cells and by prodrug-induced killing of tumor cells upon viral delivery of a thymidine kinase. Incorporating multiple layers of safety, we provide a general tool to the growing field of personalized medicine and demonstrate its use in tumor therapy.
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Project Results
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Virus Construction Kit - The Manual
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Statistics
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What happened in the last eight month during iGEM[more]- Longest Wikipage: “Team:Freiburg Bioware/NoteBook/Labjournal/October” with 222,795 bytes
- Number of Biobricks: 116
- Number of Ordered Oligos: 193
- Mini-Preps total: 1085
- Midi-Preps total: 106
- Highest Midi-Prep Concentration: 5045,6 ng/µL
- Number of Glycerolstocks: 763
- Number of Team members: 16
- Days in the lab: 170
- Longest Labday: 18h
- Coffee Consumed During iGEM : 2238 Cups
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BioBricks
Modularisation and Modification of the viral tropismn and the effector function resulted in many different BioBricks.
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Biosafety
The aspect of biological safety was considered well and a risk assessment and security profile for the Adeno-associated Virus were created. To hear about this click here.
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Notebook
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Sponsors
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