Engineering a Cure for Diabetes

Project Info.

Abstract

Background

Objective

Hypothesis

Procedures

Results

Construction of Plasmids

Genetic Transformation

Verification of Transgenics

Transcription of IL-13 and CTB-IL13

Translation/ Glycosylation of IL-13 and CTB-IL-13

In Vitro Bioassay

Future Work

Conclusions

Acknowledgements

References

Results: Construction of Plasmids

The CTB gene and the IL-13 gene were cloned into pCaMterX vector so that the IL-13 gene was fused in frame downstream to CTB. The CTB-IL-13 chimeric gene was placed before the nos terminator and under the control of the double 35S promoter. The T-DNA regions of pDW6 and pDW7 are shown in Fig. 2.