Regulatory

Part:BBa_K2500011:Design

Designed by: Lida Vadakumchery   Group: iGEM17_ETH_Zurich   (2017-10-24)


AND Gate B: Synthetic Promoter Responsive to LldR and LuxR


Assembly Compatibility:
  • 10
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]
  • 12
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]
  • 21
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]
  • 23
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[23]
  • 25
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]
  • 1000
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]


Design Notes

We reasoned that flanking the pLux promoter with O1 and O2 should result in an AND-gate behavior and relied on the previously characterized parts BBa_K1847007 (O1-pconst-O2), BBa_R0062 (plux) and BBa_C0062 (LuxR).

In design B of the AND gate, we adapted the architecture of BBa_K1847007. The Anderson promoter was exchanged with the pLux promoter such that a) the -35 and -10 regions of the new promoter were at the same position as that of the original one and that b) the total distance between O1 and O2 was kept the same as in the original part. Further, we duplicated the lldR binding sites O1 and O2 in order to achieve a molecular zipper mechanism which would lead to a tighter DNA-loop as more LldR repressors are bound. This design in turn requires even higher, tumor-specific concentrations of L-lactate to completely unzip the loop.

AND gate B was ordered as a gBlock with flanking restriction sites, allowing it to be combined with our downstream elements via restriction-ligation cloning.

Source

This part was synthetically designed and ordered as a g-block. This part was designed based on the previously characterized parts BBa_K1847007 (LldP/LldR, Plldr) and BBa_R0062 (Plux)/ BBa_C0062 (LuxR).

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