ASAI
AIA,
, TH
THE PIN INK FORC RCE
AGA
GAIN INST MAL ALARIA ARIA
AIA , , TH THE PIN INK FORC RCE A GA INST M AL ARIA GAIN ALARIA - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
A SAI AIA , , TH THE PIN INK FORC RCE A GA INST M AL ARIA GAIN ALARIA Watch our animated movie which explains our project : http://2010.igem.org/Team:EPF_Lausanne/Humanpractices_Movie p2 p25 5 / p / p28 p2 p25 5 / p / p28 p2 p25 5 / p
ASAI
AIA,
, TH
THE PIN INK FORC RCE
AGA
GAIN INST MAL ALARIA ARIA
Watch our animated movie which explains our project : http://2010.igem.org/Team:EPF_Lausanne/Humanpractices_Movie
p2 p25 5 / p / p28
p2 p25 5 / p / p28
p2 p25 5 / p / p28
Im Immun unotox
in p2 p25 / p / p28
Yoshida et al, Molecular and Biochemical Prasitology, 2000
pelB FLAG Tag linker Light chain HIS Tag Heavy chain Shiva
Antibody fragment
Pore-forming Toxin
Find a way to deliver these proteins to the mosquito’s gut!
ASAIA
ADDRESS : mos
ito's intestin estinal al tra ract
SPECIAL CHARACTERISTIC : pink!
k!
ADDITIONAL INFO : speci
ecific fic or
gin
RECENTLY FRIEND WITH : E.
E.col
Male terminal portion of mitgut Female terminal portion of mitgut Favia et al., PNAS 2007
Asaia is a commensal bacterium of mosquitoes
Horizontally Vertically
Find a way to deliver these proteins to the mosquito’s gut!
Establish Asaia as a new chassis for iGEM
pH5
Best conditions : 30°C, pH5
Asaia growth characterization
Asaia GFP in Drosophila
Observation of fluorescent Asaia in the Drosophila's gut 3 hours after infection
Crotti et al., AEM Acetic acid bacteria, new emerging symbionts of insects, 2010
Extracted from pHM2-GFP Plasmid Compatible with E. coli
Asaia
Asaia
Asaia
Characterized Asaia growth Characterized Asaia’s antibiotic resistance spectrum Tested Asaia infection in Drosophila Generated tech sheets for working with Asaia: growth, competent cells, transformation, and cloning
Establish Asaia as a new chassis
Construct and characterize BioBricks
Lysate Supernatant
Construct and characterize BioBricks
Express p25, p28, and the Immunotoxin in Asaia Test in vivo (Institute Pasteur) Introduce the engineered Asaia strain in the wild