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Light- Based . Cell-Cell Signaling. VERSATILITY PENETRABILITY ORTHOGONALITY CONTROL. Our System. Coelenterazine. Ca 2+. 470nm Photons. 470nm Photons. eYFP. Renilla Luciferase. CMV Promoter BBa_I712004. Renila. CMV Promoter BBa_I712004. CatCh-eYFP. Humanized Aeq BBa_K548000.
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Light-Based Cell-Cell Signaling
VERSATILITY PENETRABILITY ORTHOGONALITY CONTROL
Our System Coelenterazine Ca2+ 470nm Photons 470nm Photons eYFP RenillaLuciferase CMV Promoter BBa_I712004 Renila CMV Promoter BBa_I712004 CatCh-eYFP Humanized Aeq BBa_K548000 HEK 293T Cell HEK 293T Cell
The Sender Cell Coelenterazine Ca2+ 470nm Photons 470nm Photons eYFP RenillaLuciferase CMV Promoter BBa_I712004 Renila CMV Promoter BBa_I712004 CatCh-eYFP Humanized Aeq BBa_K548000 HEK 293T Cell HEK 293T Cell
Gaussia and Renilla Luciferase Coelenteramide + CO2 + 470 nm photons Gaussia or Renilla Coelenterazine + O2 http://www.cmarz.org/CMarZ_RHBrown_April06/images_press/index.html http://profmother.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/seapansy3_jpg.jpg
Ivis Lumina II 5.53 E6 5.53 E6 pRL-CMV-Renilla pRRL-CMV-Gaussia 2.79 E5 2.79 E5
Renilla + CZ Luminescence Time Course
The Receiver Cell Coelenterazine Ca2+ 470nm Photons 470nm Photons eYFP RenillaLuciferase CMV Promoter BBa_I712004 Renila CMV Promoter BBa_I712004 CatCh-eYFP Humanized Aeq BBa_K548000 HEK 293T Cell HEK 293T Cell CatCh Aequorin
pRRL–CMV–Aeq Aeq pENTR5-CMV pRRL + + = pENTR-d/TOPO-Aeq pRRL-CMV-Aeq
Fura 2-AM Ca2+ Imaging • Ratio-metric Calcium Dye • Emission – 510 nm • Calcium Free Excitation – 380nm • Calcium Bound Excitation – 340 nm • Measure change in emission at 340/380 380nm 340nm 340/380
Fura 2-AM Ca2+ Imaging Ionomycin – Positive Control
Fura 2-AM Ca2+ Imaging pRRL-CMV-CatCh-eYFP
Fura 2-AM Ca2+ Imaging pRRL-CMV-CatCh-eYFP co-cultured with pRL-CMV-Renilla
Human Practices http://www.preciouslife.com/saimages/346.png http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1279988/Artificial-life-created-Craig-Venter--wipe-humanity.html
How Big is Media Influence? • Conducted a survey of over 200 people • Asked a wide variety of questions http://www.aseonline.biz/Portals/0/survey-man.jpg
How Big is Media Influence? Biology-Related Field Non-Biology Related Field Non-Classroom Biology Experience
How Big is Media Influence? Heard of Synthetic Bio Heard of Genetic Eng. Not Heard of Either
How Big is Media Influence? Other Sources 14% 38% News Media (non-scientific) 19% Scientific Literature 28% Science-focused media
How Big is Media Influence? Other Sources 19% 44% News Media (non-scientific) 12% Scientific Literature 25% Science-focused media
What Can We Do? • “The media shapes perception” • “We need to recognize, respect, and understand the fear surrounding Synthetic Biology” • Synthetic Biologists need to join the conversation! • We are not heard in the most widely disseminated forms of media. Valerie Bonham http://bioethics.gov/cms/valerie-bonham http://bioethics.gov/
Discussion • Optimization of interactions between sender & receiver cells Ca2+ Coelenterazine 470nm Photons 470nm Photons eYFP RenillaLuciferase CMV Promoter BBa_I712004 Renila CMV Promoter BBa_I712004 CatCh-eYFP Humanized Aeq BBa_K548000 HEK 293T Cell HEK 293T Cell • Our sender cell can produce a detectable signal • Our receiver cell can respond to bright light
Thanks Everyone! Dr. CasimSarkar Dr. Jordan Miller Dr. Dan Cohen Dr. Anthony Choo Daphne Ng Najaf Shah