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Biotechnology Unit: Genetic Engineering Techniques 1
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What is Biotechnology? Biotechnology is the manipulation of natural biological processes in order to serve societal needs. 2
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Types of Biotechnology 3
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Where is your line? As we go through the following slides, you will be presented with different techniques and examples of how biotechnology is being used in our global society. It is your job to decide…how far is too far? Where is your ethical line and what factors dictate when your line is crossed? Remember, if your line is different from somebody else’s that is perfectly fine. Are you ready? 4
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Transgenic Biotechnology Where is your line? 5
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HGH Deficiencies The pituitary gland produces a crucial hormone called the human growth hormone. This peptide hormone (protein) provides for normal growth and development. If the pituitary gland is defective then growth is severely stunted. For many years HGH had to be extracted from the pituitary glands of deceased humans which meant that there was a shortage of available HGH. 6
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Starting in the mid-1980’s… Now, we have all we need! How? The HGH gene was cut out of the human genome and inserted into a plasmid, which is now now called recombinant DNA because it contains DNA from multiple sources. The plasmid is then taken up via transformation by a bacterium. The bacterium reproduces many times and when the the bacterium undergoes transcription and translation (protein synthesis), it makes all of the HGH that we could possibly need! 7
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Wait, what is a plasmid? A plasmid is a small, circular piece of DNA that not only is separate from the chromosome, but can also replicate independently. 8
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How do they cut out a gene? 9 How do they cut the gene of interest out of the genome? Restriction Enzymes!!
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How does a fragment then get spliced in? 10
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Insulin The pancreas, among other functions, produces a crucial hormone called insulin. This peptide hormone (protein) ensures that glucose is taken up by the cells for cellular respiration. If the pancreas is defective then the blood sugar levels get dangerously high causing many physiological effects (Diabetes mellitus). Using very similar technique as HGH production previously mentioned, scientists were able to use E. coli to bioengineer synthetic insulin in 1977. Other transgenic organisms used to produce insulin today are yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) and a plant called safflower (Carthamus tinctorius). 11
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Golden Rice The World Heath Organization estimates that between 1 and 2 million children die each year from vitamin A deficiency. Golden rice is a genetically modified food that is fortified with beta carotene, which the human body converts into vitamin A. This transgenic organism is the result of mixing genes from a bacterium and from daffodils into the rice genome. It is not currently used due to regulatory issues. Do you think we should be able to use it? 12
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Reproductive Cloning Where is your line? 13
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Reproductive Cloning What is a clone? It is an exact genetic replica of another cell or organism. What have we cloned so far? DNA (Polymerase Chain Reaction) Cells (creating tissue cultures or stem cell lines) Whole organisms 14
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Organismal Cloning What has been cloned thus far? Plants have been cloned for thousands of years! Bananas, potatoes, grape vines (grafting), etc. Many trees, shrubs, and vines are just clonal colonies. Animals Parthenogenesis – asexual reproduction that occurs naturally where offspring is born with sexual reproduction (sharks, anteaters, some insects, etc.) Some animals have undergone somatic cell nuclear transfer such as: sheep, rats, cats, goats, dogs, camels, and many others. 15
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Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT) 16
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So, what if we… What if we manipulate animal embryos and use recombinant technology to give these animals some beneficial characteristics…to us? That is what some scientists have been able to do. Some animals, like this goat, have been bred to produce certain peptide hormones needed by humans when they express milk. These proteins can easily be separated from the milk for human use! 17
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Reprogramming cells Where is your line? 18
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What can stem cell research do for us? Stem cells could help us in many medical applications such as: Organ and tissue regeneration Fighting the following diseases: Cardiovascular disease Brain diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer's Blood diseases like leukemia and sickle-cell anemia So…what’s all the fuss about? The stems cells that work the best come from embryos. 19
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Plant cells are totipotent! 20
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Stem Cells What are they? Stem cells are undifferentiated, meaning that they haven’t become a “type” of cell yet. When a sperm meets an egg, the resulting zygote is totipotent. The inner cell mass, the source of “embryonic stem” cells, are pluripotent. Totipotent cells have the ability to create a whole organism, or at least all different types of tissues. Pluripotent cells can only give rise to most types of tissues, and definitely NOT a whole organism. 21
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iPS cells In 2007, the induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells were developed. Reprogramming genes are spliced into normal human somatic cells. This tricks the cell into changing from a differentiated cell into a pluripotent cell. The cell can then develop into a desired, differentiated cell of another type! THIS COULD ELIMINATE THE NEED FOR EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS! 22
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John Gurdon Shinya Yamanaka They received the 2012 Nobel Prize (Physiology and Medicine) for their work with the development of iPS cells. 23 The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine
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Forensic Biotechnology Where is your line? 24
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Forensic Biotechnology Forensic Biotechnology is used to determine the identity of certain individuals: Criminals Disaster victims Biological parents 25
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Electrophoresis 26
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Electrophoresis 27
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28 PCR: Polymerase Chain Reaction Usually there is only a small amount of DNA to work with at a crime scene. Investigators and forensic scientists use the polymerase chain reaction to make thousands of copies of key regions of the original DNA strand.
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Electrophoresis The PCR products (DNA strands) are analyzed via electrophoresis for STR’s (short tandem repeats). Every person has their own individual pattern of these STRs. For a single set of primers, a person will have 2 PCR products if they inherited different numbers of STRs from each parent. This results in 2 bands on their gel. 29
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Short Tandem Repeats 30
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DNA Analysis We have the ability to “sequence DNA.” This means that if we know the gene we are looking for we can analyze someone’s DNA for a specific sequence, i.e. allele. Therefore, we could tell you definitively if you have a disorder like Huntington’s, an autosomal dominant disorder, or not. Huntington’s Disorder is a degenerative brain disorder that “usually” starts causing telltale symptoms around age 35. There is no cure for Huntington’s and it is eventually fatal. Would you want to know? 31
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Where is your line? Other than the ones already mentioned, here are some other “real-life” examples of biotechnology. Do any of these cross your line? Injecting human brain cells into monkey brains for brain disease research Xenotransplantation using animal “parts” for our parts (for instance using a pig valve to replace a defective heart valve in a human) Adding human stem cells to sheep fetuses to produce sheep with livers made of mostly human tissue Bt crops these crops contain genes from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis which produces proteins toxic to pest insects Roundup Ready crops contain genes that protect them from Roundup (herbicide) 32