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