Double terminator consisting of BBa_B0010 and BBa_B0012
This device senses the 3OC6HSL concentration in the media and produces output PoPS according to the transfer function given below. LuxR production is controlled by the tet repressible R0040. Initial characterization work has been done on this device using I13273 as a test device.
Example Data Sheets for F2620
Barry Canton [bcanton@mit.edu] and Anna Labno [labnoa@mit.edu]
Test part for the assembly system mechanism
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.
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
V. fischeri <genbank>AF170104</genbank>
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.
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">
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.
Randomly generated and optimized for several parameters (see Design notes).
Generic spacer for ensuring a 70 bp distance between the end of the suffix of the BioBrick part containing the double terminator and the prefix of the BioBrick part containing the promoter of the new gene. Please, use the AlignX function of Vector NT to check for homology with the components in your plasmid before using this spacer.
The size of the spacer was choosed to meet the minimum length of a sequence that can be queried using the BLAST search engine. However, subsequences of it can be used to design shorter spacers. The sequence was selected from many more sequences randomly generated using the Random DNA Generator engine; the GC% parameter used as input was 50%. The sequences were selected based on the following constraints listed in their order of importance: the absence of any putative promoter regions, a low degree of homology with the Elowitz plasmid (whose components are widely used in our designs), no homology with other E.coli sequences as shown by BLASTN search results and the presence of a number of TAA stop codons. The second constraint was the most stringent leading to the elimination of most sequences. DE made the following changes to the original sequence in order to add stop codons in the -3 frame and more in the +2 frame (note, not all of these stop codons are UAA. Thus, if used in an organism that inserts an amino acid @ UGA or UAG the obvious will occur): T->A @ 85 T->A @ 42 C->T @ 79 A->T @ 64 A->T @ 31 T->A @ 34 C->A @ 37 Also, note that the above changes further reduce (the already very weak) homology to current NCBI-stored sequences. In the process of selecting the best sequence it appeared that a good alternative sequence for a spacer would be: AGGTTCTGATATGTAACTGTGCCCAATGTCGTTAGTGACGCATACCTCTTAAGAGGCCACTGTCCTAACA. The sequence contains no putative promoters and shows moderate homology with the 5' end of the Ampicillin resistance gene. However a strong promoter sequence starts 12 bp downstream of this sequence, and therefore the sequence presented above was preferred. The sequence is compatible (does not show significant homology) with the components in the Elowitz repressilator plasmid.
Vinay S. Mahajan, Brian Chow, Peter Carr
Conversion of the iGEM parts registry to SBOL2.1