Biotechnology Fundamentals Lecture III-IV (BIT-110)

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Biotechnology Fundamentals Lecture III-IV (BIT-110)

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Biotechnology Fundamentals

Lecture III-IV(BIT-110)

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• Biotechnology?

• Fundamental Techniques?

• Applications?

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Biotechnology

Animal cloning

Gene cloning for pharmaceutical production

The promise and perhaps perils of embryonic stem cells

DNA fingerprinting

Genetically modified foods and the American-European opinion divide.

Fermentation

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1. Fermentation

• A technique that requires bioreactors to allow a biological process under controlled (optimum) conditions producing a useful substance in large amount

– Alcoholic drinks– Production of wine and beer– Recently mammalian cells

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• Can grow trillions of new bacteria

A fermentor used to grow recombinant bacteria.

One cell with the recombinant plasmid

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2. Biotransformation

• chemical modifications made by an organism on a chemical compound.

– Microbial Biotransformation– Biodegradation– Bioremediation– Mineralization– Biosurfactant

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Microbial biotransformation

• Biotransformation of various pollutants to clean up contaminated environments – The methods harness the naturally occurring, microbial catabolic

diversity to degrade, transform or accumulate a huge range of compounds including hydrocarbons (e.g.

• oil, • PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyl), • PAHs (polyaromatic hydrocarbons), • pharmaceutical substances, and • metals.

• Biological processes play a major role in the removal of contaminants and pollutants from the environment .

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Biodegradation

• Process by which organic substances are broken down

by the enzymes produced by living organisms.

• The term is often used in relation to ecology, waste

management and environmental remediation,

bioremediation

• Organic material can be degraded aerobically, or

anaerobically.

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Bioremediation

• Any process that uses microorganisms, fungi, green plants or their enzymes to return the natural environment altered by contaminants to its original condition.

• Bioremediation may be employed to attack specific soil contaminants, such as degradation of chlorinated hydrocarbons by bacteria e.g.

– cleanup of oil spills by the addition of nitrate and/or sulfate fertilizers to facilitate the decomposition of crude oil by indigenous or exogenous bacteria.

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Mineralization

• The process where a substance is converted from an organic substance to an inorganic substance.

– modification ends in mineral compounds like (NH+3 or H2O),

• This may also be a normal biological process which takes place during the life of an organism such as the formation of bone tissue or egg shells, largely with calcium

• This term may also be used to indicate the digestion process in which bacteria utilize the organic part of the matter, leaving behind the minerals

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Biosurfactants

• Surface-active substances synthesized by living cells.

• They have the properties of reducing surface tension, stabilizing emulsions, promoting foaming and are generally non-toxic and biodegradable.

• Biosurfactant producing microorganisms may play an important role in the accelerated bioremediation of hydrocarbon contaminated sites.

• These compounds can also be used in enhanced oil recovery and may be considered for other potential applications in environmental protection

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3. Cell fusion

• Involves combining two cells to make a single cell that contains all the genetic material of the original cells.

– Used to create new plants by fusing cells from species that do not hybridize naturally

• Crossbreeding and then generation of new plant from the fused cell e.g. POMATO (fusion of tomato and potato)

– Used to generate monoclonal antibodies

• (Protective proteins produced by a clone of a single cells)

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How cells can fuse?

• Using Viruses

• Using chemicals (polymers)

– Weaken the cell wall of the cells and cause them to bind together

• Using Enzymes

– Plant cells can be fused only after removing the cell walls completely by enzymatic reactions

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4. Liposomes• Microscopic spherical particles that are formed when

lipids form a suspension in water.

• Lipid molecules are arranged in a manner so as to enclose a tiny space in the centre to carry a drug or any other material

• Used as vehicles for delivering certain drugs to the target tissues of the body

• Drugs are encapsulated in liposomes

– protect against digestive enzymes in the stomach

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The spontaneous closure of a phospholipid bilayer to form a sealed compartment. Closed structure is stable because it avoids the exposure of the hydrophobic hydrocarbon tails to water (energetically unfavorable.

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PHOSPHOLIPID BILAYERS

A bilayer of phospholipids forms a sphere in which water is trapped inside. The hydrophilic phosphate regions interact with the water inside and outside of the sphere. The fatty acids of the phospholipids interact and form a hydrophobic center of the bilayer.

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Liposomes (A) An electron micrograph of unfixed, unstained phospholipid vesicles. (B) Schematic representation of lipososmes

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5. Cell and tissue culture

• Growth of living cells or organism outside the body in a suitable culture medium which provides nutrients to the growing cells.

• Individual cells grow and divide in s sterile medium.

• Extensively used in Labs e.g.

– Cancer Research

– Plant breeding

– Karyotyping (chromosomal analysis)

• Organized profile of a person’s chromosomes

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6. Genetic Engineering

• The transfer of genes (segment of DNA) from one species to another.

• Requires recombinant DNA technology

• Gene transfer techniques

– Used to improve breeds of economically important plants, cow, gorses, dogs, etc.

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Biogenetic TechniquesGene Splicing

• Isolation of DNA molecules, • Cutting of DNA• Restriction Analysis• Rejoining of DNA molecules from different sources• Formation of recombinants• Transformation

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Transformation?

• Introduction of foreign DNA into the cells (Prokaryotic cells, bacteria) using non-viral methods

• Conversion of normal cell into cancerous cell

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Transfection?

• Transfection is the process of introducing nucleic acids into cells (eukaryotic cells such as fungi, algae and plants) by non-viral methods.

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Transduction?

• Naturally, process by which DNA is transferred from one bacterium to another by a virus.

• In biotechnology, it refers to the process whereby foreign DNA is introduced into another cell via a viral vector.

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Gene Therapy

• Insertion of normal gene from one organism into the patient’s cells (where gene is defective)

• Post-transcriptional gene silencing using small pieces of RNA (RNAi)

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DNA Fingerprinting (DNA typing, DNA testing etc.)

• To identify various components of DNA, unique for an individual

• A portion of the DNA of an organism uniquely distinguishes that organism from another

• Technique is based on mini-satellites, repeated several times in the genome

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DNA Footprinting• Detects DNA-protein interaction using the fact that a

protein bound to DNA will protect that DNA from enzymatic cleavage.

• Using this technique, it is possible to locate a protein binding site on a particular DNA molecule.

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Gene Mapping

• Mapping of genes to specific location on chromosome

• Assigning DNA fragments to chromosomes

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• In vitro; within the glass, outside the living system

• Performing a given procedure in a controlled environment outside of a living organism

• In vivo; within the living

• Experimentation using a whole, living organism as opposed to a partial or dead organism

• In situ; in the place (usually means something intermediate between in vivo and in vitro).

• Examining a cell within a whole organ intact

• Ex vivo; out of the living • experimentation or measurements done in or on living tissue in an

artificial environment outside the organism with the minimum alteration of the natural conditions

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Cloning• A technique used for production of organism from a single

individual, which are identical in genetic constitution.

• A clone is an organism that is derived from a single parent through non-sexual methods.

– Plants

– Microorganisms

– Not in mammals

• Cloning of mammals (Nuclear Transfer)

– as practiced in Dolly at Roslin Institute of Edinburgh

• Dolly was unable to breed and produce healthy offsprings

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Embryo Transfer

• To improve dairy cattle– Artificial insemination

• Surgical removal of a fertilized egg • Transfer into a recipient female

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Cloning Technologies

1. Recombinant DNA technology– DNA cloning– Molecular cloning– Gene cloning

2. Reproductive cloning

3. Therapeutic cloning– Embryo cloning

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Animal Cloning

Dolly and her surrogate mother.

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The Biotechnology of Reproductive Cloning

Even under the best of circumstances, the current technology of cloning is very inefficient.

Cloning provides the most direct demonstration that all cells of an individual share a common genetic blueprint.

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Why Clone Animals?

To answer questions of basic biology

Five genetically identical cloned pigs.

For herd improvement. To satisfy our desires (e.g. pet cloning).

For pharmaceutical production.

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Is Animal Cloning Ethical?

The first cloned horse and her surrogate mother/genetic twin.

As with many important questions, the answer is beyond the scope of science.

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Saved by Cloning?

Some are firm believers while many view these approaches to be more of a stunt.

Note the use of a closely related species, a domestic goat, as egg donor and surrogate mother.

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(Science (2002) 295:1443)

Carbon Copy– the First Cloned Pet

Significantly, Carbon Copy is not a phenotypic carbon copy of the animal she was cloned from.

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DNA Cloning

• Transfer of a DNA fragment of interest from one organism to a self-replicating genetic element such as a bacterial plasmid

• Plasmids• Self-replicating extra-chromosomal circular

DNA molecules, distinct from normal bacterial genome

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DNA Cloning - Uses

• Gene therapy• Genetic engineering of organisms• Genome sequencing

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Reproductive Cloning

• A technology used to generate an animal that has same nuclear DNA as another currently or previously existing animal

• Dolly• How Is Reproductive Cloning Done?

• Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT)

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Therapeutic Cloning

• Production of human embryos for use in research

• Goal • To harvest stem cells that can be used to

study human development and to treat disease

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Genetically Modified Cloned Offspring

• Biotechnological applications • Production of pharmaceuticals• Xenotransplantation• Study and eradication of human disease• Improvement of livestock

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Production of Pharmaceuticals

• Insulin for diabetes• Interferon for viral infections• Tissue plasminogen activator (which

dissolves blood clots)

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Xenotransplantation

• To develop animals whose organs will not cause an immunological response and destroy transplanted tissue when transferred to humans• Pig organs

• Hearts, lungs, kidneys, liver • Neural tissue for Parkinson's • Islets cells for diabetes patients

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Study Human Disease

• Sheep model to investigate human cystic fibrosis

• Cloned sheep used for drug testing and to evaluate new therapies

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Improvement Of Livestock

• Cloning animal with excellent traits• Production of a large number of clones from

high quality animals • Allow overall genetic improvement of herd

• Repopulate endangered animals

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Animal Cloning

• Sheep, cattle, goats, pigs, and mice• Cloning efforts in rabbits, rats, cats, dogs, and

horses are ongoing

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Risks Of Cloning

• Reproductive cloning expensive and highly inefficient

• > 90% of cloning attempts fail to produce viable offspring

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The Next Step?

Highly unlikely

Attempts at human cloning are viewed very unfavorably in the scientific community

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