Team:OUC-China/project
From 2013.igem.org
A Brief Introduction of our project
In previous studies , membranous organelles are the unique structure of eukaryotic cells, and in rare bacteria and paleontology . So Magnetospirillum magneticumis considered to be important biological model systems of studying prokaryotic organelles because the structure of magnetosome in Magnetospirillum magneticum has similar traits toeukaryotic organelles with membranes . And our task is to reconstruct themagnetosome membrane in Escherichia coli , in the meantime we offer intracellular membranous structure part that can be used by prokaryotes for synthetic biology .
And also , as the mamK gene is critical for the cavity construction , we artificialy improve the mamK gene's expression by stabilize its mRNA with a new method , hoping it can be used to promoting the cavity construction .
Our goals. :
Firstly : We are eager to use the cavity as a intracellular microreactor . And we also hope use it in enzymes enrichment .
Secondly : we want to complete the production of bio-synthetic nanoscale iron .