Part:BBa_K2967012
The fixed-gain bio-amplifier
The tunable biological amplifier (Fig. 1) comprises three modular terminals--the input, the output and a gain-tuning input. The device can continuously process the input transcriptional signal with an externally tunable gain (the amplification ratio of the changes in output to input) control.[1]
Figure 1. The composition of tunable biological amplifier. Transcription input can be amplified through the amplifier.
At first, we construct the fixed-gain amplifier (Fig. 2) for the prework. In order to reduce the impact of exotic microorganisms' colonizations in the intestine and to accelerate the secretion of IL-10 and myrosinase, we found a gain-tunable transcription amplifier in Pseudomonas syringae to tune amplifier the input signal.
To verify the fixed-gain amplification(Fig. 2) capability, we integrated the T7 promoter as the input of the fixed-gain amplifier with GFP as the output. When the transduced transcriptional input from the T7 promoter was connected to our amplifier, the resulting output signal amplitude and dynamic range increased significantly as well as the response sensitivity to the inducer (Fig 3.).
Figure 2. Diagram for fixed-gain amplifier in pCDFDuet-1 plasmid. T7 promoter, the gene downstream of this promoter will be transcribed when there is T7 RNA polymerase. lacO, the sequence represses the nearby promoter when there is NO inducer (e.g. IPTG). RBS, ribosome binding site. hrpR, hrpS, the activator proteins. PhrpL, a promoter which can be induced by the ultrasensitive high-order co-complex hrpRS. GFP, green fluorescent protein.
Figure 3. Responses of the GFP without fixed-gain amplification (V-GFP) and with fixed-gain amplification (V-AM). The cells are induced by 5 varying concentrations of IPTG (0, 10-6 M, 10-5 M, 10-4 M, 10-3 M) after 4 and 6 hours (A, 4h; B, 6h).
Amplifier and GFP are cloned on pcdfDuet-1 vectors which are called V-AM and V-GFP. Then empty plasmid (VE), VE-GFP and VE-AM are transformed into E. coli BL-21, and single colonies are added to 5 ml LB medium for overnight incubation at 37 degrees Celsius. Use 1 ml PBS to wash the bacteria and measure the value of OD600 to obtain cell concentration of each culture medium. The bacterial culture medium was diluted to OD600=0.025 with LBS (LB with streptomycin) and then added to black 96-well plate. Isopropyl-beta-D-thiogalactopyranoside (IPTG) with concentration of 0, 10-6 M, 10-5 M, 10-4 M and 10-3 M was added to induce those bacteria. After incubation for 4 hours and 6 hours, the data were detected by enzyme labeling instrument. The excitation wavelength is 485 nm and the absorption wavelength is 525 nm.
In conclusion, the amplifier achieves the desired effect, and the amplification gain is about 2 times. Comparing other amplifiers, this value is still low. In addition, we find that the gene expression process is accelerated with the amplifier, the reporter GFP usually reaching its saturation value after about 4 hours' induction.
Reference
[1]Jovanovic,M., James,E.H., Burrows,P.C., Rego,F.G.M., Buck,M. and Schumacher,J. (2011) Regulation of the co-evolved HrpR and HrpS AAA+ proteins required for Pseudomonas syringae pathogenicity. Nat. Commun., 2:177.
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