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Our hybrid promoter hopes to add to the systems already in the registry by creating a hybrid promoter that combines the bacterial promoter PyeaR and the mammalian CArG element , in the orientation mammalian to bacterial, both of which respond to exogenous nitrogenous species. Combining the two would allow a more modular NO sensor that can be used in mammalian and bacterial cells interchangeably. The hybrid promoter has been attached to the reporter: enhanced Cyan Fluorescence Protein (eCFP). The hybrid promoter has been characterised by observing expression of flourescent protein, and found to have increased transcription in response to increasing concentrations of potassium nitrate.  
 
Our hybrid promoter hopes to add to the systems already in the registry by creating a hybrid promoter that combines the bacterial promoter PyeaR and the mammalian CArG element , in the orientation mammalian to bacterial, both of which respond to exogenous nitrogenous species. Combining the two would allow a more modular NO sensor that can be used in mammalian and bacterial cells interchangeably. The hybrid promoter has been attached to the reporter: enhanced Cyan Fluorescence Protein (eCFP). The hybrid promoter has been characterised by observing expression of flourescent protein, and found to have increased transcription in response to increasing concentrations of potassium nitrate.  
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The graph above shows the flourescence measured from the expression of eCFP due to the response of the mammalian-bacterial promoter to  different concentrations of potassium nitrate.  The wavelength reading which corresponds to eCFP is between 440-500nm.  The graph clearly demonstrates that between 0mN and 15mM there is a proportional relationship between fluorescence intensity and potassium nitrate concentration. It can be noted that at a 20mM concentration the intensity of fluorescence sharply decreases back down to the level of 5mM potassium nitate concentration. This may be due to the cell overexpressing eCFP up to the point at which the excess protein begins to form inclusion bodies which can no longer fluoresce; alternatively, this could be due the potassium nitrate concentration reaching the critical concentration at which it becomes toxic to the cell. This data differs to the readings taken from the bacterial-mammalian promoter ligated to eCFP, as well as the hybrid promoters to RFP, which may suggest there is a difference in the molecular mechanisms that these promoters function by; however at this point the change in intensity at 20mM is inconclusive and is an area which we would like to look into further.
  
 
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Revision as of 12:34, 23 September 2012

Mammalian-Bacterial promoter with eCFP reporter: CArG promoter sequence + BBaK216005 + BBa_E0420

Our hybrid promoter hopes to add to the systems already in the registry by creating a hybrid promoter that combines the bacterial promoter PyeaR and the mammalian CArG element , in the orientation mammalian to bacterial, both of which respond to exogenous nitrogenous species. Combining the two would allow a more modular NO sensor that can be used in mammalian and bacterial cells interchangeably. The hybrid promoter has been attached to the reporter: enhanced Cyan Fluorescence Protein (eCFP). The hybrid promoter has been characterised by observing expression of flourescent protein, and found to have increased transcription in response to increasing concentrations of potassium nitrate.

MB-CFP Graph.png

The graph above shows the flourescence measured from the expression of eCFP due to the response of the mammalian-bacterial promoter to different concentrations of potassium nitrate. The wavelength reading which corresponds to eCFP is between 440-500nm. The graph clearly demonstrates that between 0mN and 15mM there is a proportional relationship between fluorescence intensity and potassium nitrate concentration. It can be noted that at a 20mM concentration the intensity of fluorescence sharply decreases back down to the level of 5mM potassium nitate concentration. This may be due to the cell overexpressing eCFP up to the point at which the excess protein begins to form inclusion bodies which can no longer fluoresce; alternatively, this could be due the potassium nitrate concentration reaching the critical concentration at which it becomes toxic to the cell. This data differs to the readings taken from the bacterial-mammalian promoter ligated to eCFP, as well as the hybrid promoters to RFP, which may suggest there is a difference in the molecular mechanisms that these promoters function by; however at this point the change in intensity at 20mM is inconclusive and is an area which we would like to look into further.



Assembly Compatibility:
  • 10
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]
  • 12
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]
  • 21
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]
    Illegal BamHI site found at 91
  • 23
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[23]
  • 25
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]
  • 1000
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]