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This construct is the NEON positive feedback device, containing constantly expressed luxR, lux pR-HS (K2258001) controlled luxI, and lux pR-HS (K2258001) controlled GFP. Without AHL stimulation, the lux pR-HS promotor is repressed by the dCas9-gRNA expressed by Safety Catch system. Therefore, the luxI and GFP cannot be expressed. Upon the stimulation of AHL, the CRISPRi system in Safety Catch is inhibited, thus the lux pR-HS promotor is exposed, and then luxR-AHL complex can now bind to and activate lux pR-HS promotor. Therefore, luxI and GFP can now be expressed. Besides, this system will keep producing more luxI-AHL, which will form a positive feedback and increase the expression of GFP. 

===Usage and Biology===
Assisted with the experiences we gained form the experiments above, we built and tuned the NEON system. We designed this experiment to characterize how Neon the positive feedback plasmid (BBa_K2558214), and Safety Catch the CRISPRi plasmid (BBa_K2558215, BBa_K2558216) work together.

===Results===
We are still calibrating the NEON system. The results are preliminary, however from Figure.1 we can conclude that the system works to some extent. The positive feedback plasmid Neon (BBa_K2558214) had the highest expression due to uncontrollable leakage. Original lux pR (BBa_R0062) and the new lux pR-HS (BBa_K2558001) we designed had lower basal expression. The addition of Safety Catch (BBa_K2558215) and Safety Catch-HS (BBa_K2558216)  almost eliminated the leakage of both positive feedback and the non-positive feedback systems. It is foreseeable that with appropriate parameters NEON system can be activated to almost 10^4 fold.

<br/><li style="display: inline-block;"> [[File:T--Tsinghua-BasalExpressionOf LuxQuorumSensingSystems.png|thumb|center|600px|'''Figure.1. T--Tsinghua-BasalExpressionOf LuxQuorumSensingSystems.''' The fluorescence intensity was measured by flow cytometer at 488 nm. Neon, Safety Catch, Safety Catch-HS and lux pR, lux pR-HS test plasmids were transferred into ''E.coli'' DH5α. High fluorescence intensity suggests high level of basal expression in the system. ]] 
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===Protocol===
# Transform the plasmids into ''E. coli'' DH5α.
# Pick a single colony by a sterile tip from each of the LB plates for all the experimental and control groups. Add the colony into 5ml LB medium with ampicillin at 100 ng/µl and chloramphenicol at 34 ng/µl. Incubate for 6-8 h at 37℃ in a shaker. 
# Measure OD600 of the culture medium with photometer. Dilute the culture medium until OD600 reaches 0.6.
# Add 100 µl bacteria culture medium into a sterile 96-well plate. Add IPTG to final concentrations of 0 or 10 mM and AHL to final concentrations of 0, 10-9, 10-8 M. Fresh LB medium serves as blank control. Fix sample with 1.5 mg/ml kanamycin at one hour intervals. Then use flow cytometry to measure the fluorescent intensity at 488 nm of each sample.
# Each group should be repeated for at least 3 times.


===Reference===
[1]Afroz, T., & Beisel, C. L. (2013). Understanding and exploiting feedback in synthetic biology. Chemical Engineering Science, 103(11), 79-90.
<br/>[2]Qi, L., Larson, M., Gilbert, L., Doudna, J., Weissman, J., & Arkin, A., et al. (2013). Repurposing crispr as an rna-guided platform for sequence-specific control of gene expression. Cell, 152(5), 1173.


===Sequence and Features===
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===Functional Parameters===
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