Regulatory

Part:BBa_K3905005:Design

Designed by: Peter Heywood, Harry Weiniger   Group: iGEM21_City_of_London_UK   (2021-09-09)


gen2 210-3p Toehold Switch


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

At first, we designed our switches base by base, checking the minimum free energy (MFE) structure, using NUPACK, to ensure that our switch had a strong hairpin structure in the ‘off’ state and was properly unfolded in its ‘on’ state. As well as preventing the occurrences of secondary binding in the trigger site or in the linker. We were successful in designing multiple switches that had MFE structures fulfilling this criteria, but multiple bases had low probabilities of being in their respective positions. Therefore, we used the NUPACK API to generate a Python program to test a randomly generated list of one-hundred-thousand linker regions (which did not contain any stop or start codons) and simulate 1000 Boltzmann samples for each, showing which switch had the highest probability of fulfilling our requirements.

Source

Synthetic. NUPACK

References