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Characterization using invertase

The 2020 iGEM CSMU-Taiwan characterized the toehold switch with invertase (BBa_K3431000) reporter protein. The plasmid would be transcribed and translated with the protein synthesis kit at 37℃ for 2 hours. We would then add 5μl of 0.5M sucrose and measured the glucose concentration with RightestTM GS550 glucose meter after 30 minutes. In our experiments, the ON state refers to the conditions with miRNA triggers; while the OFF state means that there was no miRNA in the environment. We calculated the ON/OFF ratio of the toehold switch, which is defined as “the glucose concentration of the ON state/ the glucose concentration of the OFF state”.

Figure. 3. The glucose productions of the pp21_B toehold switch-regulated invertase in different states. The blue bar refers to the OFF state (not added with miRNA). The green bar refers to the ON state (added with miR-21 trigger). The yellow bar refers to the state with non-related RNAs (added with miR-191). The pink bar refers to the state with non-related RNAs (added with miR-223).

Results
The ON/OFF ratio with miR-21 is 0.96, which suggested the leakage problem. The regulatory function of the pp21_B toehold switch was not good enough. Thus, pp21_B toehold switch-regulated invertase cannot be well controlled by the miR-21.

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Information contributed by City of London UK (2021)

This toehold switch was characterized in silico using the ToeholdTools project that our team developed. See https://github.com/lkn849/thtools for more information.

Metadata:

• Group: City of London UK 2021
• Author: Lucas Ng
• Summary: Used our software ToeholdTools to investigate the target miRNA specificity and activation of this part.

Raw data:

• Media:BBa_K3431001_thtest.txt
• Media:BBa_K3431001_crt.txt

This contribution was autogenerated by the script contrib.py, available at https://github.com/lkn849/thtools/tree/master/registry.

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This switch was designed to detect the miRNA hsa-miR-21-5p at a temperature of 37°C. We tested it against every mature Homo sapiens miRNA in miRBase and our analysis shows that at this temperature it is best used to detect hsa-miR-7156-5p.

With hsa-miR-7156-5p at 37°C, the switch has a specificity of 14 ± Infinity % and an activation of 0.2 ± 0.9 %. These values represent 95% confidence limits (z=1.96).

The temperature–activation–specificity relationship is shown here. CRT is an acronym for CelsiusRangeTest, the class in our Python library responsible for the following graph:

Error bars represent the standard deviation. The line of best fit was calculated using a univariate cubic spline weighted inverse to each point's standard error.

Caveats:

• As per the above, we cannot confirm that this switch accurately detects the desired miRNA sequence.
• The miRNA most targeted by this switch heavily fluctuates based on temperature.Therefore, we cannot confirm the reliability of this switch.

We do not recommend this part for future usage. Sequence and Features