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Of course, ribosome binding strength is also a significant part of protein expression, so a paper on the relative strengths of RBS was also used.  
 
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From this paper it says that  
 
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MazE-MazF Hypoxia induced kill switch

MazF is under control of the promoter BBa_K1720002, upregulating in anoxic conditions. MazE is under control of the constitutive promoter BBa_K747096, downregulating in anoxic conditions. In anoxic conditions, there should be excess MazF, leading to apoptotic cell death.

Our Improvements

This kill switch is a significant improvement on other kill switches that employ the same toxin-antitoxin system. By controlling the expression of each of the proteins with different promoters we have avoided the issues that occurred with previous when emplying this toxin-antitoxin in a kill switch. Previously the activation and effectiveness of the kill switch is reliant on the differing cellular breakdown rates of the compounds. As has been established through lab work previously, this means that no cells, no matter the conditions they are in, can survive for significant periods of time. While this doesn’t pose an issue for containment it does pose an issue for the sustainability of the kill switch as well as the sustainability of any long term bioengineering based solution that hopes to use their system. Our design avoids this issue and means that the kill switch can be employed in any and all situations.

design

When approaching our design understood that we had to be able to compare in a quantifiable way the amount we would be expressing each protein. There are two parts of a circuit that effect expression: the promoter and the RBS.

Promoters: We knew that we wanted to have our kill switch triggered by hypoxia so we used the part:BBa_K1720002 promoter and the CMV promoter part:BBa_K747096. These two promoters have been characterised against each other.

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compiling these tables gives:

Calculations for promoter strengths








Ribosomes: Of course, ribosome binding strength is also a significant part of protein expression, so a paper on the relative strengths of RBS was also used.

[[File:T--OFFICIAL CLS CLSG RBS strrengths.png|400px|center|thumb|Relative strengths of RBS on the registry[1]
  1. ↑ https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1873&context=etd</reg>]] From this paper it says that Sequence and Features

    Assembly Compatibility:
    • 10
      INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]
      Illegal SpeI site found at 1043
    • 12
      INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]
      Illegal SpeI site found at 1043
    • 21
      INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]
      Illegal BglII site found at 576
      Illegal BamHI site found at 655
    • 23
      INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[23]
      Illegal SpeI site found at 1043
    • 25
      INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]
      Illegal SpeI site found at 1043
    • 1000
      COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]