Part:BBa_K3332038
pTrc-2
A promoter derived from pTrc-2 promoter can be strongly repressed by LacI protein. Ptrc-2 promoter has one lac operator, which means that it has less LacI binding sites so that LacI has a weak inhibitory effect on it.
Usage and Biology
pTrc-2 promoter is used to express mf-lon and MazF in the absence of aTc so as to inhibit the growth of E.coli. It is part of the circut designed to prevent engineered bacteria in the detection instrument from escaping. In this circuit, LacI can repress ptrc-2 promoter and ptrc-2 derived promoter while the LacI can repress the pLtetO-1 promoter. When the aTc exits, it can combine tetR, so that the pLtetO-1 promoter can’t be repressed. Then the LacI which is controlled by the pLtetO-1 can repress the ptrc-2 promoter and ptrc-2 derived promoter. As a result, mf-lon and mazF can’t be expressed. As a kind of bacterial toxin, mazF can cause the bacteria death. So there comes the conclusion that as long as the engineered E.coli are cultured in the environment with aTc, it won’t be killed by the mazF, but when the bacteria escape from our testing instrument, the effect can be reversed, that is to say, the bacteria will be killed by the mazF. In the same way, we can conclude that in the presence of IPTG, MazF can be expressed to cause bacterial death.
Characterization
The agarose gel electrophoresis images are below:
Protocol
1. Preparation of stock solution Dissolve IPTG in absolute alcohol to make 1000× stock solution 2.Culture glycerol bacteria containing the corresponding plasmid in test tube for 12h. 3.Add 4ml of the above bacterial solution into 100 mL LB medium and maintain the culture condition at 37 ℃ and 180 rpm. 4.Add 100μL IPTG stock solution into the induction group when OD increased to 0.6. 5.Induce for 6 hours and the condition is the same as before. 6.Then, sampling 0.5ml culture in each tube. All samples are centrifuged at 12000rpm, 1 minute. Remove supernatant and add 500µl sterile PBS to resuspend. 7.Measure the fluorescence intensity(ECFP)and corresponding OD600 by 96-well plate reader, then calculate the fluorescence / OD value of each group. Here is the result:
The strength of pTrc2-derivative and pTrc2 are contrasted. In the figure below, pTrc2-derivative are used as the negative control group, the pTrc2-derivative are used as the positive control group while the pLtetO-1-LacI-pTrc2-E0420 (tetR) and pLtetO-1-LacI-pTrc2-derivative-E0420(tetR) are both experience group. We can see, after adding IPTG to induce the two promoters, the fluorescence intensity are both improved and the pLtetO-1-LacI-pTrc2-E0420 (tetR) group the difference of fluorescence intensity is smaller than the pLtetO-1-LacI-pTrc2-derivative-E0420(tetR) group so we can confirm that the LacI has a weak inhibitory effect on pTrc-2 promoter. That’s why after adding IPTG, the fluorescence intensity of pLtetO-1-LacI-pTrc2-E0420 (tetR) group increases faster.
From this figure, the induction effect can be seen more intuitively.
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]
Reference
[1] Chan CT, Lee JW, Cameron DE, Bashor CJ, Collins JJ. 'Deadman' and 'Passcode' microbial kill switches for bacterial containment. Nat Chem Biol. 2016;12(2):82-86. doi:10.1038/nchembio.1979
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