ANIMAL BIOTECHNOLOGY AND RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY

Paper Code: 
DBTE 501A
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
45
Objective: 

             Course Outcomes

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

 

 

Upon completion of the course the learner will:

CO43A: Understand the principles of cell culture techniques Study different types of transport mechanisms.

CO44A: Identify required conditions for cell cultures, knowing of media and the equipment required for cell culture.

CO45A: understand the cell culture problems and possibilities.

CO46A: Apply the knowledge of commercial aspect of Animal Biotechnology

CO47A: Learn the application of cell hybridization.

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, presentations

Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks.

C A test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Classroom interaction

 

 

10.00
Unit I: 
Introduction to animal cell culture

Structure, organization and biology of animal cell

Cytoskeleton: Self-assembly and dynamic structure of cytoskeletal filaments, actin filament, microtubules

Cell –Cell interaction: cell adhesion, tight and gap junctions, plasmodesmata.

General concepts of animal cell culture: Proliferation, differentiation and dedifferentiation

Cell Culture laboratory: basic requirement, set up

9.00
Unit II: 
Growth requirements and kinetics

Media -Development of simple growth media, BSS

Chemical, physical and metabolic functions of different constituents of culture medium

-Role of CO2 and serum

Serum and protein free defined media and their applications

Growth kinetics of cultured cells

 

11.00
Unit III: 
Types of culture and techniques used in ACC

Primary culture and cell line formation, Cell lines: A general concept, finite and infinite cell lines

Organ, organotypic and histotypic cultures

Cell separation

Cell cloning and micromanipulation

15.00
Unit IV: 
Recombinant DNA Technology used in animal cell culture

Cloning vectors- Plasmids, Bacteriophages, Cosmids, phagemids, YAC, BAC

Enzymes used in gene manipulation- DNA polymerase, Polynucleotide kinase, ligase, terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase, Reverse transcriptase, Restriction endonucleases

Transfection techniques

Blotting Techniques- Southern, Northern and Western Blotting

Expression of proteins in animal cells: GISH, FISH, microarray

 

15.00
Unit V: 
Scale-up and application of animal cell culture

Scaling-up of animal cells

Cell culture-based vaccines

Stem cell culture, embryonic stem cells and their applications

Cell hybridization, Hybridomas and their selection, application of cell hybridization

3 D printing

 

ESSENTIAL READINGS: 

•   Culture of Animal Cells, (4th edition), R. Ian Freshney, Wiley-Liss. 2005.

•   Animal Cell Culture-Practical Approach, John R.W. Masters (editor), Oxford.2000

•   Methods in Cell Biology, Vol.57, Animal Cell Culture Methods. Jenni P Mather and David Barnes. Academic Press. 1998

•   Basic Cell Culture edited by J.M. Davis 2nd edition, Oxford,2000

•   Protein Expression: A Practical Approach, S.J. Higgins and B.D. Hames, Oxford University Press, 2004

•   Principles of Gene Manipulation, (6th edition) S.B. Primrose, R.M. Twyman and R.W. Old, Blackwell Science, 2003.

 

REFERENCES: 

Suggested Reading:

•   Animal Cell Culture by Mohamed Al-Rubeai, Springerlink 2015.

•   Animal Cell Culture: Essential Methods, Edited by Davis, Wiley 2011

e Resources:

·   https://iubmb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bmb.2004.494032050381

·   https://iopscience.iop.org/book/978-0-7503-1347-6/chapter/bk978-0-7503-1347-6ch1

·   https://www.deshbandhucollege.ac.in/pdf/resources/1589512953_Z(H)-VI-Biotech- 4.pdf

·   https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780750604215/animal-cell-technology

·   https://nptel.ac.in/courses/102108086

•   https://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/Home           

JOURNALS:

•      Animal Biotechnology, Elsevier Public Health Emergency Collection

•      Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, IUBMB JOURNALS:

•      Advances in Bioscience and Biotechnology

•      Artificial Cells, Nano medicine and Biotechnology, Taylor and Francis

 

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