iGEM parts registry: Parts BBa_J04450 and BBa_K733018
This is a dual inducible expression system composed of an RFP color variant under the control of the Lac promotor (pLac) and a GFP color variant under the control of the Xyl promotor (pXyl). The addition of IPTG selectively promotes expression of RFP while the addition of xylose promotes the expression of GFP. The Xyl repressor (XylR), which binds pXyl and represses expression expression of genes under the control of that promoter, is also included in the part in order to repress GFP expression in the absence of xylose.
Because repression of pLac requires the presence of the lac repressor (LacI), bacterial strains that do not express a functional LacI (such as dh5alpha) exhibit high levels of RFP expression even in the absence of IPTG. Therefore, to achieve inducible expression of the RFP, the part must be expressed in E. coli strains that express a functional form of LacI (e.g., JM109 or BL21).
Contains an IPTG inducible promoter an RBS, RFP, and terminator.
xylR+PxylA+RBS+GFP+Double Terminator
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.
**highly** engineered mutant of red fluorescent protein from Discosoma striata (coral)
Campbell et al., PNAS v99 p7877 URL
monomeric RFP: Red Fluorescent Protein. Excitation peak: 584 nm Emission peak: 607 nm
TAATAA double stop codon added (DE). Four silent mutations made to remove three EcoRI sites and one PstI site: A28G, A76G, A349G, G337A.
xylR+PxylA: A xylose inducible promoter with its transcriptional regulator.
RBS.3 (medium) -- derivative of BBa_0030
Weak1 RBS based on Ron Weiss thesis. Strength is considered relative to <bb_part>BBa_B0030</bb_part>, <bb_part>BBa_B0031</bb_part>, <bb_part>BBa_B0033</bb_part>.
Varies from -6 to +1 region from original sequence to accomodate BioBricks suffix ("RBS-2" in figure 4-14 of thesis). Contact info for this part: Brian Chow
green fluorescent protein derived from jellyfish Aequeora victoria wild-type GFP (SwissProt: P42212
GFP (mut3b) [note that this part does not have a barcode]
Conversion of the iGEM parts registry to SBOL2.1