All components used came from the iGEM 2011 DNA distribution.
Red light output system that produces mCherry. PompC is regulated by Cph8/EnvZ red light-sensing system. Due to the nature of how Cph8 works, the light sensor is shut off by red light and activated in darkness. In order to construct a light sensing system that gives positive output by illumination and no output when in dark, using an inverter becomes necessary.
The reason tetR inverter was picked over lambda C1 is because lambda C1 is already used in BBa_K592020. Therefore, if these two systems are to work in the same vector, one has to use an alternative inverter.
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.
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.
Stephen Lee, Roshan Kumar, Joe Levine, Ziyan Chu (Polkadorks, IAP 2004)
mCherry from Roger Y. Tsien's lab, altered to be BioBrick compatible and with an LVA tag added.
mRFP (DsRed) derived, altered to be a biobrick by removing a PstI site and adding in the ends.
Made a point mutation to eliminate a PstI site in the middle and then added BioBrick ends with the LVA tag using PCR. Sequenced using primers that bind to the pSB1A2 plasmid on either side of the brick.
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.
Lutz, R., Bujard, H., Nucleic Acids Research (1997) 25, 1203-1210.
Sequence for pTet inverting regulator driven by the TetR protein.
BBa_R0040 TetR-Regulated Promoter is based on a cI promoter. It has been modified to include two TetR binding sites and the BioBrick standard assembly head and tail restriction sites.
June Rhee, Connie Tao, Ty Thomson, Louis Waldman
tetracycline repressor from transposon Tn10 (+LVA)
Elowitz, M. B. Transport, Assembly, and Dynamics in Systems of Interacting Proteins. Thesis, Princeton Univ., Princeton (1999)
Coding region for the TetR protein without the Ribosome Binding Site. Modified with an LVA tail for rapid degradation of the protein and faster fall time for the emission. TetR binds to the pTet regulator (BBa_R0040). aTc (anhydrotetracycline) binds to TetR and inhibits its operation.
References (unparsed) here: Elowitz, M. B. Transport, Assembly, and Dynamics in Systems of Interacting Proteins. Thesis, Princeton Univ., Princeton (1999). Lutz R, Bujard H., Independent and tight regulation of transcriptional units in Escherichia coli via the LacR/O, the TetR/O and AraC/I1-I2 regulatory elements. Nucleic Acids Res. 1997 Mar 15;25(6):1203-10. PMID: 9092630 References (unparsed) here: Elowitz, M. B. Transport, Assembly, and Dynamics in Systems of Interacting Proteins. Thesis, Princeton Univ., Princeton (1999). Lutz R, Bujard H., Independent and tight regulation of transcriptional units in Escherichia coli via the LacR/O, the TetR/O and AraC/I1-I2 regulatory elements. Nucleic Acids Res. 1997 Mar 15;25(6):1203-10. PMID: 9092630 BBa_C0040 TetR Protein is based on the TetR sequence from Elowitz's repressilator. 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.
Conversion of the iGEM parts registry to SBOL2.1