All parts used for this device is present in parts registry.
By using this composite part, it is possible to keep living of bacteria under control of IPTG. This part contains a Kill Switch lysis machine designed by iGEM08 UC Berkeley team, with a cI regulated promoter. Also, there is a cI coding region with a LacI regulated promoter. By this way, in a medium containing IPTG, LacI will be inhibited by IPTG. Therefore, LacI regulated promoter will be active and cI protein will be produced. As a result, cI protein will inhibit cI regulated promoter activity. So, kill switch part (T4 Lysis Device) will not work. In contrast, in the absence of IPTG, LacI inhibits its promoter, and so cI will not be produced. Therefore, cI regulated promoter will be active and T4 Lysis Device take bacteria to the lysis. As a result, this composite part has a big potential to be used as a safety device.
Since our project has a potential to be used as a biofilter, safety is a big issue. To create a very safe part, we thought that bacteria should be alive only in our system. If any escape from system occurs, bacteria should kill themselves. Thus, we thought to make their lives depending on an easy-found medium compound, IPTG.
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.
Transcriptional terminator consisting of a 64 bp stem-loop.
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.
Vinay S Mahajan, Brian Chow, Peter Carr, Voichita Marinescu and Alexander D. Wissner-Gross
Enterobacteria phage T4 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/viewer.fcgi?val=29366675&from=160221&to=160877&view=gbwithparts
Holins from T4 bacteriophage assemble together to form pores on inner membrane of bacteria allowing lysozyme to reach periplasm and degrade peptidoglycan layer.
Making composite part of rbs.holin is problematic unless antiholin is expressed in bacteria together. Antiholin binds holin and inhibits the formation of holin.
Enterobacteria phage T4 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/viewer.fcgi?val=29366675&from=66503&to=66997&view=gbwithparts
The lysozyme from enterobacteria phage T4 degrades peptidoglycan layer.
High expression of lysozyme only is toxic to bacteria.
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.
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.
Conversion of the iGEM parts registry to SBOL2.1