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     <p>For our daily activities and experiments, please visit our <a href="2016.igem.org/Team:Pittsburgh/Notebook" target="_blank">Notebook</a>. For a list of our protocols, please visit our <a href="2016.igem.org/Team:Pittsburgh/Protocols" target="_blank">Protocols</a> page. </p>
 
     <p>For our daily activities and experiments, please visit our <a href="2016.igem.org/Team:Pittsburgh/Notebook" target="_blank">Notebook</a>. For a list of our protocols, please visit our <a href="2016.igem.org/Team:Pittsburgh/Protocols" target="_blank">Protocols</a> page. </p>
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     <p>amilCP is a chromoprotein added to the iGEM Registry by Uppsala Sweden, 2012. We were unable to produce amilCP in bacteria or in our cell-free system.</p>
 
     <p>amilCP is a chromoprotein added to the iGEM Registry by Uppsala Sweden, 2012. We were unable to produce amilCP in bacteria or in our cell-free system.</p>
 
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     <p>We have good data from adding plasmids to our cell-free system. However, because the <a href="http://www.cell.com/abstract/S0092-8674(14)01291-4" target="_blank">Collins paper</a> specified the use of linear DNA in their cell-free systems, we compared the signal from GFP from linear and plasmid DNA. There is no siginificant difference between the two constructs.</p>
 
     <p>We have good data from adding plasmids to our cell-free system. However, because the <a href="http://www.cell.com/abstract/S0092-8674(14)01291-4" target="_blank">Collins paper</a> specified the use of linear DNA in their cell-free systems, we compared the signal from GFP from linear and plasmid DNA. There is no siginificant difference between the two constructs.</p>
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     <p>Our experiments were performed with the D and G LacZ switches from the paper from the Collins group, <a href="http://www.cell.com/abstract/S0092-8674(14)01291-4" target="_blank">"Paper-Based Synthetic Gene Networks"</a>.</p>
 
     <p>Our experiments were performed with the D and G LacZ switches from the paper from the Collins group, <a href="http://www.cell.com/abstract/S0092-8674(14)01291-4" target="_blank">"Paper-Based Synthetic Gene Networks"</a>.</p>
 
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     <p>In <a href="https://2016.igem.org/Team:Pittsburgh/Notebook#Week7" target="_blank">Week 7</a>, we showed that single-stranded DNA triggers do not activate toehold switches if they are part of a hybridized complex.</p>
 
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IDT NEB Experiment

Contents

For our daily activities and experiments, please visit our Notebook. For a list of our protocols, please visit our Protocols page.

Reporter

amilCP

amilCP is a chromoprotein added to the iGEM Registry by Uppsala Sweden, 2012. We were unable to produce amilCP in bacteria or in our cell-free system.

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Cell-Free System

Linear versus Plasmid DNA

We have good data from adding plasmids to our cell-free system. However, because the Collins paper specified the use of linear DNA in their cell-free systems, we compared the signal from GFP from linear and plasmid DNA. There is no siginificant difference between the two constructs.

dilution

volume optimization

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DNAzyme

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Toehold Switch

Our experiments were performed with the D and G LacZ switches from the paper from the Collins group, "Paper-Based Synthetic Gene Networks".

RNA Trigger

In Week 5, we showed that LacZ is expressed when the plasmids for the switch and trigger constructs are combined in a cell-free system.

DNA Trigger

In Week 6, we showed that toehold switches are activated by single-stranded DNA triggers, but activation levels are lower than with RNA triggers.

Sequestered DNA Trigger

In Week 7, we showed that single-stranded DNA triggers do not activate toehold switches if they are part of a hybridized complex.

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Signal Amplification System

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Differential Amplifier

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