Kill Gene Design Idea http://2010.igem.org/Team:HKU-Hong_Kong
Suicide Gene that utilizes T4 Holin and Lysozymes to degrade the cell wall and perforate the inner membrane of the cell, resulting in the death of the cell. A T4 antiholin is present when the cell is not to be terminated. The GFP marker is in place to ensure that kill gene is working when below 42C. The suicide gene is controlled by a tetracycline repressor.
Must consider lag time when transitioning from above 42C to below. It will take time for the repressor proteins to degrade once the coding for them stops when below 42C.
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
green fluorescent protein derived from jellyfish Aequeora victoria wild-type GFP (SwissProt: P42212
GFP (mut3b) [note that this part does not have a barcode]
Double terminator consisting of BBa_B0010 and BBa_B0012
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.
Enterobacteria phage T4 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/viewer.fcgi?val=29366675&from=59202&to=59495&view=gbwithparts
Antiholin binds holin and prevents holin multimers from forming pores on the inner membrane of bacteria.
Higher constitutive expression of antiholin compared to the expression of holin is required for the stable lysis device.
Transcriptional terminator consisting of a 64 bp stem-loop.
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.
Conversion of the iGEM parts registry to SBOL2.1