E. colibrator design 1 has the OR gate embedded within the switch via a double instance of I3400 Hk022cI switch input device. Design 1 also has no explicit activity during the switch OFF state, as illustrated by the terminator immediately following I3411 Lambda cI switch output device. This causes the OFF state to rely completely on cellular diffusion to reset the system.
The layout of E. colibrator (I3000) is designed to insulate the most sensitive devices, namely those in the switch that store state. The hk022cI switch output (ON) is insulated by appearing first. This output is then attached to the AspA attractant sender and the CFP reporter (I3410.I3200.E0422). The quorum receiver and its control of the lambda cI switch input (OFF) occur next (I3510.I3401) because leaky TIPS through this module will encourage the OFF state dicated by the downstream lambda cI switch output (I3411.B0015). Note that the OFF switch output simply ends at termination of the output TIPS (B0015) in this design. The rest of the switch inputs occur downstream because they do not store state and therefore do not need to be as insulated from leaky TIPS. Lac trigger controls one hk022cI input (I3100.I3400), and Tar-EnvZ receptor (I3300 upstream ompC version) controls the other (I3300.I3400). The dual control forms the built-in OR gate in one of the switch inputs. Finally, the quorum sender device (I3500) is last because it is meant to be constitutively on at some basal level, so insulation is not required. Note: Depending on the efficacy of the OmpR promoter, this design can be implemented with any of I3300, I3301, I3302 (variations of Tar-EnvZ devices with different OmpR promoters). The default implementation uses I3300.
Stephen Lee, Roshan Kumar, Joe Levine, Ziyan Chu (Polkadorks, IAP 2004)
constitutive promoter which outputs .4 TIPs point mutants of wild type rrnB promoter P1
RBS (Elowitz 1999) -- defines RBS efficiency
Varies from -6 to +1 region from original sequence to accomodate BioBricks suffix. No secondary structures are formed in the given RBS region. Users should check for secondary structures induced in the RBS by upstream and downstream elements in the +50 to -50 region, as such structures will greatly affect the strength of the RBS. Contact info for this part: Brian Chow
Vinay S Mahajan, Voichita D. Marinescu, Brian Chow, Alexander D Wissner-Gross and Peter Carr IAP, 2003.
Derived from the TE terminator of T7 bacteriophage between Genes 1.3 and 1.4 <genbank>V01146</genbank>.
Transcription terminator for the E.coli RNA polymerase.
Suggested by Sri Kosuri and Drew Endy as a high efficiency terminator. The 5' end cutoff was placed immediately after the TAA stop codon and the 3' end cutoff was placed just prior to the RBS of Gene 1.4 (before AAGGAG). Use anywhere transcription should be stopped when the gene of interest is upstream of this terminator.
The Plac insert was PCR'd from the MG1655 strain of E.coli K12.
Inverting regulatory region controlled by LacI (<bb_part>BBa_C0010</bb_part>, <bb_part>BBa_C0011</bb_part>, etc.) The pLac regulatory region is a 243 base-pair sequence with standard BioBrick prefix and suffix sections on its ends. It contains two protein binding sites: CAP, which is generally present in E.coli and is assocciated with cell health and availability of glucose., and LacI, the Lac inhibitor <bb_part>BBa_C0010</bb_part> which binds in an dimerized cooperative manner to inhibit the transcription of the protein that follows. In the presence of lactose or IPTG, an analog of lactose, LacI is unable to correctly bind and inhibit transcription. This allows <bb_part>BBa_R0010</bb_part> to be used as a inverter or as a detector of lactose or IPTG.
LacI binds to this regulator. This part is incompatible with species containing active LacI coding regions. Lactose and IPTG disable the operation of LacI and this regulator. This part is incompatible with environments containing lactose or lactose analogs.
Transcriptional terminator consisting of a 64 bp stem-loop.
cI repressor from E. coli phage lambda (+LVA)
Elowitz, M. B. Transport, Assembly, and Dynamics in Systems of Interacting Proteins. Thesis, Princeton Univ., Princeton (1999).
Coding region for the cI repressor based on cI repressor from bacteriophage lambda modified with an LVA tail for rapid degradation of the protein. cI repressor binds to the cI regulator (BBa_R0051).
References (unparsed) here: A synthetic oscillatory network of transcriptional regulators , Elowitz M.B. , Leibler S., Nature(403),335-38: 2000 Octamerization of CI repressor is needed for effective repression of PRM and efficient switching from lysogeny. Ian B. Dodd,1 Alison J. Perkins, Daniel Tsemitsidis, and J. Barry Egan , Genes and Development (Vol 15, No. 22) 3013-3022: 2001 References (unparsed) here: A synthetic oscillatory network of transcriptional regulators , Elowitz M.B. , Leibler S., Nature(403),335-38: 2000 Octamerization of CI repressor is needed for effective repression of PRM and efficient switching from lysogeny. Ian B. Dodd,1 Alison J. Perkins, Daniel Tsemitsidis, and J. Barry Egan , Genes and Development (Vol 15, No. 22) 3013-3022: 2001 BBa_C0051 cI repressor is based on the cI repressor from the Elowitz's repressilator. It has been modified to include a rapid degradation LAA tail, and includes the BioBrick standard assembly head and tail restriction sites. The RBS has been removed. The stop codon has been changed from TAA to a double stop codon TAATAA.
Vinay S Mahajan, Brian Chow, Peter Carr, Voichita Marinescu and Alexander D. Wissner-Gross
A synthetic oscillatory network of transcriptional regulators , Elowitz M.B. , Leibler S., Nature(403),335-38: 2000
The cI regulated promoter is based on the pR promtoer from bacteriohage lambda. The promoter has two two DNA binding sites for lambda cI repressor <bb_part>BBa_C0051</bb_part>. cI binding results in repression of transcription. The specific sequence used here is based on the cI repressible promoter used in the Elowitz repressilator (and references therein).
In order to address concerns about the promoter transcribing in the reverse direction, we have removed the -35 and -10 signals responsible for the promoter activity in the reverse direction. (More details needed here! DE, 2/24/03) Incompatible with host expressing cI repressor.
V. fischeri <genbank>AF170104</genbank>
In complex with HSL, LuxR binds to the Lux promoter, activating transcription from Pr <bb_part>BBa_R0062</bb_part>, and repressing transcription from Pl <bb_part>BBa_R0063</bb_part>. The lux cassette of V. fischeri contains a left and a right promoter. The right promoter gives weak constitutive expression of downstream genes.This expression is up-regulated by the action of the Lux activator, LuxR complexed to HSL. Two molecules of LuxR protein form a complex with two molecules the signalling compound homoserine lactone (HSL). This complex binds to a palindromic site on the promoter, increasing the rate of transcription.
2 silent point mutants were introduced in the coding sequence to remove internal XbaI and PstI sites. Mutation sites were chosen to replace codons commonly used in E. coli with codons used at a similar frequency.
Vinay S Mahajan, Voichita D. Marinescu, Brian Chow, Alexander D Wissner-Gross and Peter Carr
Promoter (luxR & HSL regulated -- lux pR)
Promoter activated by LuxR in concert with HSL The lux cassette of V. fischeri contains a left and a right promoter. The right promoter gives weak constitutive expression of downstream genes.This expression is up-regulated by the action of the LuxR activator protein complexed with the autoinducer, 3-oxo-hexanoyl-HSL. Two molecules of LuxR protein form a complex with two molecules of the signalling compound homoserine lactone (HSL). This complex binds to a palindromic site on the promoter, increasing the rate of transcription.
This promoter is based on the Vibrio fischeri quorum sensing gene promoters. Two genes LuxI and LuxR and transcribed in opposite directions as shown below. The original sequence from which the parts <bb_part>BBa_R0062</bb_part> and <bb_part>BBa_R0063</bb_part> were derived is shown in the picture below. <img src="<bb_file>Image1.gif</bb_file>" width="614" height="362">
represillator of Elowitz and Leibler (2000)
Coding region for the LacI protein with an LVA degradation tail and without an RBS. LacI binds to the pLac regulator <bb_part>BBa_R0010</bb_part> and PLlac01 hybrid regulator <bb_part>BBa_R0011</bb_part> and inhibits transcription. IPTG (Isopropylthiogalactoside) binds to LacI and inhibits its operation, therefore promoting transcription. A rapid degredation tail (LVA) has been added to improve the High to Low performance of this part.
References (unparsed) here: Elowitz, M.B., Leibler, S. A synthetic oscillatory network of transcriptional regulators. Nature 403, 335-338 (2000). [ELOW00] References (unparsed) here: Elowitz, M.B., Leibler, S. A synthetic oscillatory network of transcriptional regulators. Nature 403, 335-338 (2000). [ELOW00] Sequence taken from the repressilator of Elowitz and Leibler (2000). The obtained sequence was compared to the wild-type sequence for LacI obtained through a database search. The sequence had been modified from the wild-type in that wild-type GTG start was changed to an ATG start (note, actual ORF in E.coli has several GTG starts it would seem). The LVA tag has been added for quicker degradation. Incompatible with systems containing LacI, lactose, or IPTG.
Grace Kenney, Daniel Shen, Neelaksh Varshney, Samantha Sutton
Promoter (luxR & HSL regulated -- lux pL)
The lux cassette of V. fischeri contains a left and a right promoter. The left promoter gives weak constitutive expression of downstream genes.This expression is down-regulated by the action of the Lux repressor, LuxR. Two molecules of LuxR protein form a complex with two molecules the signalling compound homoserine lactone (HSL). This complex binds to a palindromic site on the promoter, increasing the rate of transcription from Pr, repressing transcription from Pl
This promoter is based on the Vibrio fischeri quorum sensing gene promoters. Two genes LuxI and LuxR and transcribed in opposite directions as shown below. The original sequence from which the parts <bb_part>BBa_R0062</bb_part> and <bb_part>BBa_R0063</bb_part> were derived is shown in the picture below.Includes most of Lux reulatory region, including the LuxR binding site which activates the right promoter. A putative LuxR autorepression binding site is also identified adjacent to the -10 site of the right promoter. This 2nd site has 55% identity with the first site. Putative inverted repeats (of size 18-27 bp) also exist between these two sites (not marked above), which may represent binding sites for other regulatory proteins. <img src="<bb_file>Image01.gif</bb_file>" width="614" height="362"> Unspecified.
enhanced cyan fluorescent protein derived from A. victoria GFP
Modified from <bb_part>BBa_E0021</bb_part>.
Cyan fluorescent protein (ECFP) reporter coding sequence without the Ribosome Binding Site. Modified with an LVA tail for rapid degradation of the protein and faster fall time for the emission.
BBa_E0022 cyan fluorescent protein is based on BioBrick part BBa_E0021. It has been modified to include a rapid degradation LVA tail, and includes the BioBrick standard assembly head and tail restriction sites. The RBS has been removed. The stop codon has been changed from TAA to a double stop codon TAATAA.
June Rhee, Connie Tao, Ty Thomson, Louis Waldman
Coding region for the HK022 bacteriophage cI protein. cI binds to the HK022 pR regulator (BBa_R0050). It represses transcription of the protein encoded by the sequence 3' to the pR region. This coding sequence does not contain a RBS.
References (unparsed) here: Carlson NG, Little JW. Highly cooperative DNA binding by the coliphage HK022 repressor. J Mol Biol. 1993 Apr 20;230(4):1108-30. PMID: 8487297. Mao C, Little JW. Mutations affecting cooperative DNA binding of phage HK022 CI repressor. J Mol Biol. 1998 May 29;279(1):31-48. PMID: 9636698. References (unparsed) here: Carlson NG, Little JW. Highly cooperative DNA binding by the coliphage HK022 repressor. J Mol Biol. 1993 Apr 20;230(4):1108-30. PMID: 8487297. Mao C, Little JW. Mutations affecting cooperative DNA binding of phage HK022 CI repressor. J Mol Biol. 1998 May 29;279(1):31-48. PMID: 9636698. Derived from <genbank>STHK022N</genbank>. Response from John Little (Arizona) regarding the start of HK022 cI From: <jlittle@email.arizona.edu> Date: Tue Jan 21, 2003 4:39:21 PM US/Eastern To: "Drew Endy" <endy@MIT.EDU> Subject: RE: hk022 cI start (naive question)? Hello Drew and Michael, I seriously doubt that the extra 27 aa are part of CI. It doesn't make sense in terms of the biology, for sure. In any case, the protein we characterized starts where Carlson and Little stated; as I recall, oR3 partially overlaps the start of cI. I have a vague memory of some possibly interesting biology, having to do with multicopy plasmids. I don't recall the findings themselves. Anyway, one possible explanation was that this extra N-terminal addition was made (e.g. from the pRE promoter, or from a message that arose from transcription around the entire plasmid), making a protein with altered functions. We never followed it up. Good luck John -- Original Message -- Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 15:26:26 -0500 Subject: hk022 cI start (naive question)? Cc: elowitm@rockefeller.edu To: jlittle@u.arizona.edu From: Drew Endy <endy@MIT.EDU> Hi John, I'm sitting here with Michael Elowitz and we're working through the sequence for HK022 cI. We noticed that the annotation from NC_002166 includes an "extra" 81 base pairs upstream of what we thought of as the actual start. It looks like this extra DNA extends into the PR regulatory region. We're wondering what's going on here? I'm guessing this is well documented somewhere. Thanks for any pointers/info! Drew It is unknown whether there is cross-talk between this repressor and Lambda cI regulatory region, 434 cI regulatory region and P22 regulatory region.
The pR regulatory region is a 98 base-pair sequence with standard BioBrick prefix and suffix sections on its ends. It contains two operator sites at which HK022 cI protein can bind cooperatively. The -35 and -10 regions from pR are included along with some flanking sequences. The cutoff for the 5' end of the regulatory region was placed just after the pM -10 region which promotes transcription of a gene upstream (thus the pM -10 region is not included). The cutoff for the 3' end of the regulatory region was placed immediately prior to the RBS.
Derived from <genbank>STHK022N</genbank>. Literature claims that there is no cross-talk between HK022 cI regulatory region, Lambda cI, 434 cI and P22 cI, but this has not been verified experimentally by the synthetic biology group at MIT.
Coding sequence for AspA enzyme. AspA aminates fumarate to make aspartate. Aspartate can be used as a bacterial chemotaxis signal.
The start codon was changed from GTG to ATG to match BioBricks standards. Five silent mutations were introduced to eliminate EcoRI and PstI restriction enzyme sites. EcoRI sites were eliminated at bases 588 and 657 with C -> T mutations. PstI sites were eliminated at bases 624, 999, and 1125 with G -> A mutations. The mutations were designed to match codons with similar frequencies of usage in E. coli.
Coding sequence for Tar-EnvZ fusion protein. Tar is the bacterial chemotaxis receptor for aspartate. EnvZ is an osmosensor kinase, which, through phosphorylation of OmpR, regulates transcription of porin genes. This fusion protein combines the extracellular and transmembrane domains of Tar with the intracellular domain of EnvZ. The fusion converts chemical binding of aspartate to production of transcription factors.
A silent point mutation was made at base 423 (A -> C) to eliminate an XbaI restriction enzyme site. The mutation was designed to match codons with similar frequencies of usage in E. coli.
Positively regulated, OmpR-controlled promoter. This promoter is taken from the upstream region of ompC. Phosphorylated OmpR binds to the three operator sites and activates transcription.
The promoter includes the three OmpR binding sites: C1, C2, and C3. The promoter starts at -107 and goes up to the transcriptional start site at +1. An alternate version, BBa_R0083, cuts out the C2 and C3 sites. The efficacy of this promoter versus the truncated ompC upstream region (BBa_R0083) or the ompF upstream region (BBa_R0084) is currently unknown.
Synthesizes 3OC6HSL, which binds to LuxR. The lux cassette of V. fischeri contains a left and a right promoter. The right promoter gives weak constitutive expression of downstream genes.This expression is up-regulated by the action of the Lux repressor, LuxR. Two molecules of LuxR protein form a complex with two molecules the signalling compound HSL. This complex binds to a palindromic site on the promoter, increasing the rate of transcription.
An LVA tail (sequence: AANDENYALVA) was added to increase protein degradation. .
Conversion of the iGEM parts registry to SBOL2.1