CBST RESEARCH PROJECT SUMMER 2011 PRESENTED BY MONICA BOWER WITH SUPPORT FROM DR. SUSAN C. SPILLER, AND MEMBERS OF THE SPILLER LAB Bioengineering fluorescent protein tags from cyanobacteriochromes from T.elongatus: Protein Expression
1.Bioengineering fluorescent protein tags from
cyanobacteriochromes from T.elongatus: Protein Expression
CBST RESEARCH PROJECT
SUMMER 2011
PRESENTED BY Monica bower
WITH SUPPORT FROM
DR. SUSAN C. SPILLER,
And members of the spiller lab
2. T. elongatus BP-1
Origin: Japan in Beppu Hot Springs (BP-1)
3. Cyanobacterium 4. Group of photosynthetic bacteria 5.
Prokaryotic 6. Chlorophyll a + phycobilin pigments 7. T.
elongatusin particular 8. Genes make cyanobacteriochromes 9.
Thermophilic 10. Photoreversibility 11. Cyanobacteriochromes
blue/green 12. Engineered cyanobacteriochromes red fluorescent
