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From 2012.igem.org

Team:

This is an 8-college consortium, whose members are participated in internship (Innovation Classes on Genomics) with BGI Research Institute in Shenzhen, China. Students from eight different universities have contributed to this project, including:

Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Sichuan University

Wuhan University

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

South China University of Technology

Southeast University

South China Normal University

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Project: Yeast Artifical Organell

Synthetic biologists have been engineering genes and pathways in the cell to let it perform functions they desire. However, these man-made pathways incorporated in cytoplasm may suffer inferences from the original genes and pathways within the cell. Eukaryotic cells have organells that separate important pathways from that in the cytoplasm. Thus we want to make our own organells that perform the designed function. There has been some works on man-made organells, however this year the team of Shenzhen plan to create our man-made organell and apply it to organic synthesis by engineering yeast mitochondria, which we call Yeast Artificial Organell, and YAO for short.