Part:BBa_K4140003

ParoF promoter

Part Description

ParoF promoter is a constitutive promoter present in E. Coli which is sensitive to tyrosine and regulated by tyrR protein, it intitiates the synthesis of DAHP (3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate synthase) and it is what makes it sensitive to phenylalanine as TyrR & Phenylalanine complex causes inhibition of the transcription of aroF

Usage

Due to its sensitivity to TyrR we use this promoter to regulate the expression of L7Ae under the effect of tyrR and phenylalanine the activity of paroF is optimum for L7Ae expression but in the presence of TyrR and tyrosine the expression of L7Ae is markedly reduced as shown in figure 1.

Figure 1. (shows the usage of Parof in our circuit design)

Characterization by mathematical modeling

We are using mathematical modeling to detect the increased level of phenylalanine (phe) in phenylketonuria patients in our diagnostic platform. It depends on a whole cell-based biosensor through a cascade of reactions to finally end by formation of β-galactosidase that turns the color into blue once bound to its substrate (X-gal) as mentioned in figure (1) and graph (1).

Figure (1) represents the cascade of reactions in whole cell-based biosensor model.


Graph(1) illustrates a direct relation between biomarker and beta-galactosidase ,so as the biomarker increases, the released amount of beta-galactosidase increases till it reaches constant value after about 30 time units. Therefore, the maximum amount of the biomarker releases the maximum amount of beta-galactosidase.

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Sequence and Features

Assembly Compatibility:

• 10
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]
• 12
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]
• 21
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]
• 23
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[23]
• 25
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]
• 1000
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]