Project: Blue Ivy iGEM Universitas Indonesia ? Tuberculosis? - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Project: Blue Ivy iGEM Universitas Indonesia ? Tuberculosis? - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Project: Blue Ivy iGEM Universitas Indonesia ? Tuberculosis? Worldwide Infection, 2011 9 4 million million Source: http://www.cdc.gov/tb/statistics/ http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs211/en/ Worldwide Infection, 2011 Is it
?
Tuberculosis?
Worldwide Infection, 2011
4 million
9 million
Source: http://www.cdc.gov/tb/statistics/ http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs211/en/
Worldwide Infection, 2011
Is it that hard to erradicate Tuberculosis?
Present Detection Method
Our System
Our Target: Antigen 85
Ag 85 Ag 85 Ag 85 Ag 85 Ag 85 Ag 85 Ag 85 Ag 85
Sputum Blood serum Urine
Our Device
Specific Detector Single Chain Variable Fragment of Antibody Flexible Linker Split Reporter Beta-galactosidase
Antigen 85
Why β-Galactosidase?
Well characterized Visible activity Cheaper substrate Longer signal
Parts Characterization
Enzimatic Activity Assay
Incubation time (hours)
Parts Characterization
Stability Assay of Beta-Galactosidase
The enzyme stored in 4oC
Storage time (days)
Source : Ferrara, F., et al. (2012)
Antibody Library 111 scFvs 48 scFvs 14 scFvs 11 scFvs 8 scFvs
C11 and A2
Biotinylated Ag 85 + scFv Specificity test: Flow cytometry
scFv selection method
ELISA Randomly chosen
Negative control test
Top 8 clones
scFv Selection method
Source : Ferrara, F., et al. (2012)
Advantages of our biosensor
Safer System
Easily distributed
Production Cost
Lab Capacity
Source: http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publicatio ns/2011/9789241501330_eng.pdf
Weak / limited Sufficient
22.73%
77.27 %
How big is the impact a better diagnostic tool will give?
Future Direction 9 million
Source: http://www.stoptb.org/assets/documents/ne ws/Reducing%20TB%20deaths%20among%20 HIV-positives%2023nov11.pdf
6 million
Human Practice
- Synthetic bio club
- Sharing with Paris Bettencourt team:
TB is a more complicated problem for woman Developing countries is not ready yet to apply synthetic biology Creation of safer system to apply synthetic biology in developing countries is needed
Parts Submitted
- BBa_K1182425 Split β-Galactosidase α Fragment [improvement of
BBa_K823016]
- BBa_K1182000 Split β-Galactosidase ω Fragment [improvement of
BBa_K891003]
- BBa_K1182007 Antigen85-Biosensor α Fragment
- BBa_K1182008 Antigen85-Biosensor ω Fragment
- BBa_K1182010 (G4S)4 Linker
- BBa_K1182011 Loxp511 Linker
- BBa_K1182401 Forward Primer β-Galactosidase ω Fragment
- BBa_K1182501 Reverse Primer β-Galactosidase ω Fragment