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Complimenting A Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii Mutation Using Cell Penetrating Peptides, Matthew Mckenzie
Complimenting A Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii Mutation Using Cell Penetrating Peptides, Matthew Mckenzie
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Complimenting a Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Mutation Using Cell Penetrating Peptides
Matthew McKenzie and Jennifer L. Cooper
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is a photosynthetic model organism most notable for its easily manipulatable genetics. C. reinhardtii uses flagella to swim and optimize its growth conditions in the light. We plan to use cell penetrating peptides (CPPs) to compliment C. reinhardtii that is affected with the IFT46 mutation. Cell penetrating peptides are short peptides that can move across a cell membrane. The novel CPP that we are using is called TaT-CaM. It consists of the trans-activator of transcription (TaT) and the calmodulin domain (CaM) that binds …