The availability of technologies to rapidly synthesize and decode genetic sequences has provided new applications for recombinant DNA technology and genetic engineering developed in early *** new genetic engineering a...
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The availability of technologies to rapidly synthesize and decode genetic sequences has provided new applications for recombinant DNA technology and genetic engineering developed in early *** new genetic engineering approach,also coined as synthetic biology by many scientists,often involves engineering of microorganism through expression of heterologous gene segments in the microbial *** ability to engineer microorganisms empowered with tailor-made characteristics has provided exciting opportunities in different areas of *** instance,drug synthesis and novel drug delivery methods based on engineered bacteria strains have been extensively studied in biomedical ***,various synthetic biology approaches have been proposed to construct novel metabolic pathways in order to achieve higher yield in bioenergy & biofuel production,such as in ethanol fermentation,hydrogen production and bioelectricity generation through a microbial fuel *** this plenary presentation,we will start with an overview of this very exciting technology (*** biology),followed by a detailed discussion of two related projects in my *** the first part,we utilized yeast display technology for developing a new cell-based immunoassay *** the second one,we engineered photosynthetic bacteria to rewire its indigenous electron transfer pathway in pursuit of converting solar energy to ***,for the interests of our microfluidic community,some thoughts and opportunities of studying and utilizing engineered microorganisms in a microfluidic platform will be discussed.
Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is a widely used method to uncover the relationships between the biomolecular sequences. One essential prerequisite to apply this procedure is to have a considerable amount of similar...
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(纸本)9780889869530
Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is a widely used method to uncover the relationships between the biomolecular sequences. One essential prerequisite to apply this procedure is to have a considerable amount of similarity between the test sequences. It's usually not possible to obtain reliable results from the multiple alignments of large and diverse datasets. Here we propose a method to obtain sequence clusters of significant intragroup similarities and make sense out of the multiple alignments containing remote sequences. This is achieved by thresholding the pairwise connectivity map over 2 parameters. The first one is the inferred pairwise evolutionary distances and the second parameter is the number of gapless positions on the pairwise comparisons of the alignment. Threshold curves are generated regarding the statistical parameter values obtained from a shuffled dataset and probability distribution techniques are employed to select an optimum threshold curve that eliminate as much of the unreliable connectivities while keeping the reliable ones. We applied the method on a large and diverse dataset composed of nearly 18000 human proteins and measured the biological relevance of the recovered connectivities. Our precision measure (0.981) was nearly 20% higher than the one for the connectivities left after a classical thresholding procedure displaying a significant improvement. Finally we employed the method for the functional clustering of protein sequences in a gold standard dataset. We have also measured the performance, obtaining a higher F-measure (0.882) compared to a conventional clustering operation (0.827).
Understanding protein-mediated cell signaling and differentiation processes requires capturing response heterogeneity for single cells in large populations. We report single-cell western blots on standard microscope s...
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(纸本)9781632666246
Understanding protein-mediated cell signaling and differentiation processes requires capturing response heterogeneity for single cells in large populations. We report single-cell western blots on standard microscope slides that achieve 103-104 molecule detection limits for >6 protein targets per blot in a
Falls are a significant cause of mortality and serious injury in older adults and particularly in people with neurological disorders. The ability to maintain balance and postural control is commonly evaluated using ce...
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(纸本)9781467319676
Falls are a significant cause of mortality and serious injury in older adults and particularly in people with neurological disorders. The ability to maintain balance and postural control is commonly evaluated using center of pressure (COP) data collected with a force platform. Recent methods such as the Stabilogram Diffusion Analysis (SDA) have examined the stochastic characteristics of the COP but require numerous, long duration trials for reliable measures. To further our understanding of the underlying dynamical processes in postural control, we propose a new conceptual framework for studying human postural control using the COP velocity autocorrelation function (COP-VAF), and compare its results to SDA. Five healthy young participants were studied under quiet standing conditions with either eyes open or closed. COP trajectories were analyzed using both traditional postur-ographic measures, SDA, and the COP-VAF. It is shown that the COP-VAF leads to repeatable, physiologically meaningful measures that can distinguish postural control differences with and without vision in healthy individuals. More specifically, visual feedback was found to significantly decrease the peak COP velocity autocorrelation value and magnitude of the first minimum, while increasing the diffusion coefficient. This result is interpreted as an indication that visual input serves to rapidly eliminate any oscillatory motion in quiet stance and utilizes a smaller potential field to maintain balance. In contrast to SDA, COP-VAF measures provide a more concise and reliable measure of postural control (intraclass coefficient correlation (ICC) = 0.23-0.87 vs. 0.05-0.91 in COP-VAF vs. SDA measures, respectively). This work suggests that we can further extend our understanding of the underlying mechanisms behind postural control in quiet stance using the COP-VAF and may apply this analysis in quantifying future neurorehabilitative interventions aimed at improving balance.
We translate western blotting to a microchip workflow that cuts conventional assay times from 3-18 hours to 10-60 min with up to 5-plex analyte detection and 54-plex channel throughput. An engineered photoactive prote...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9780979806452
We translate western blotting to a microchip workflow that cuts conventional assay times from 3-18 hours to 10-60 min with up to 5-plex analyte detection and 54-plex channel throughput. An engineered photoactive protein capture matrix with tunable porosity (PACTgel) constitutes 1) a spatially addressable denaturing polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) separation matrix compatible with mask-based visible light photopatterning and 2) a UV light-toggled protein capture matrix with unprecedented capture efficiency (>75%). We report the first 10 minute western blot consisting of protein sizing and immunoaffinity detection in a single microchannel, and validate a rapid confirmatory HIV diagnostic using human serum. Our capability for rapid confirmatory HIV diagnosis at the point of care has the potential to circumvent the western blotting bottleneck in the current diagnostic pipeline.
Metabolomic analysis can indeed enhance the prime variable dataset for the monitoring of perfusion cultures by providing a higher resolution view of the metabolic state. Metabolic profiles can capture physiological st...
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