Test: Quorum threshold level and chemotaxis response, receiver cells (I3601.I3520.I3500)
Tests cellular density of asparate-secreting cells needed to induce quorum threshold response. Sender cells are nonmotile and have a trigger controlling the AspA attractant sender and CFP reporter indicating transcription of aspA. Receiver cells have a constitutive promoter controlling YFP reporter. Chemotaxis can be observed by the movement of the YFP-marked receiver cells. Quorum threshold is detected when the LacZ reporter is observed.
Sender cells are the nonchemotactic E. coli strain RP5232. Receiver cells are wildtype E. coli. This test combines the chemotaxis response test with the quorum threshold test.
Stephen Lee, Roshan Kumar, Joe Levine, Ziyan Chu (Polkadorks, IAP 2004)
Quorum sender has luxI device under control of the lux pR promoter to create HSL.
Test: Quorum threshold level (I3510.E0033.B0015)
Tests threshold level of HSL concentration needed to induce the switch quorum response.
This testbed is designed to respond to a manual input of Lux HSL. The output is through the LacZ reporter.
Test: Chemotaxis response to secreted aspartate, receiver cells (R1075.E0432)
Tests the chemotaxis cell-cell signalling machinery based on aspartate secretions. Sender cells are nonmotile and have a trigger controlling the AspA attractant sender and CFP reporter indicating transcription of aspA. Receiver cells have a constitutive promoter controlling YFP reporter. Chemotaxis can be observed by the movement of the YFP-marked receiver cells.
Sender cells are the nonchemotactic E. coli strain RP5232. Receiver cells are wildtype E. coli.
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.
V. fischeri <genbank>AF170104</genbank>
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. .
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">
Quorum receiver device (R0063.I0462.R0062)
Quorum receiver has luxR device under the control of lux pL promoter to produce luxR, which binds HSL and activates lux pR promoter.
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.
Transcriptional terminator consisting of a 64 bp stem-loop.
Double terminator consisting of BBa_B0010 and BBa_B0012
LacZ alpha fragment; complements matching N-terminal deletion mutant (lacZ-omega)
to greatly reduce the number of bases, this is only a portion of the LacZ gene
Restriction sites (modified) 76-79 (gcc to gca) 79-81 (gct to gca) 85-87 (gaa to gag) 106-108 (tgc to tgt) 109-111(agg to aga)
constitutive promoter which outputs .4 TIPs point mutants of wild type rrnB promoter P1
enhanced yellow fluorescent protein derived from A. victoria GFP
Modified from <bb_part>BBa_E0031</bb_part>
Yellow fluorescent protein (EYFP) 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. Annotated mutation cause a Q81L mutation that appears to not be near the active site.
BBa_E0032 yellow fluorescent protein is based on BioBrick part BBa_E0031. 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
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.
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.
Conversion of the iGEM parts registry to SBOL2.1