Part:BBa_K557001
Aptamer-CheZ: theophylline-sensitive synthetic riboswitch+phosphatase which dephosphorylates CheY-P
Sequence and Features
- 10COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]
- 12COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]
- 21COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]
- 23COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[23]
- 25COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]
- 1000COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]
Background
Chemotaxis has always been a powerful tool in organizing bacteria’s movement and it’s always an important ability to reprogram bacteria to follow entirely new chemical signals. Riboswitches, which have been a hot issue of synthetic biology recently, can be used to guide E.Coli toward and precisely localized to a completely new chemical signal. We take advantage of them in [http://2011.igem.org/Team:USTC-China/Project our system] to act as the main power to drive two parts of a bacterial colony away from each other.
Acknowledgements
Here we want really want to thank the Professor J. S. Parkinson for providing ΔcheZ strain RP1616 and the corresponding wild type RP437 and Professor J. P. Gallivan for directing our construction of riboswitches.
| ligands | Theophylline |