Regulatory

Part:BBa_K2116025

Designed by: Asli Azizoglu   Group: iGEM16_ETH_Zurich   (2016-10-14)
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EsaR repressible promoter

An esabox is an 18bp sequence to which the transcriptional regulator EsaR can bind. We placed one esabox right after the normally constitutive Anderson promoter Part:BBa_J23118 to create an EsaR repressible promoter. Transcription can be initiated by the specific AHL EsaR responds to [N-(3-oxo-hexanoyl)-L-homoserine lactone].

When characterising this part, we used the D91G variant of EsaR, which has been documented to be more responsive to lower AHL concentrations compared to the wild type EsaR [1]. This EsaR variant was obtained through addgene, and can be found on the registry Part:BBa_K2116001.

Two copies of EsaR were placed under the control of individual constitutive promoters [Bba_J23118] and expressed on a medium-low copy plasmid (replication origin pBR322/rop). Based on the 2013 paper by Shong&Collins we decided to test AHL concentrations in the range of 0 to 10 000nM, since in all combinations of esabox placements tested in this paper showed saturation at 10 000nM as seen below:

Dose response curves of EsaR, tested on promoters with various esabox placements. (Shong&Collins 2013 [1]).

We observed EsaR response to the same AHL, but did not see the same saturation behaviour.

Dose response curve of EsaR.




References:

[1] Shong, Jasmine and Cynthia H. Collins. "Engineering The Esar Promoter For Tunable Quorum Sensing-Dependent Gene Expression". ACS Synth. Biol. 2.10 (2013): 568-575.

Sequence and Features


Assembly Compatibility:
  • 10
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]
  • 12
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]
    Illegal NheI site found at 7
    Illegal NheI site found at 30
  • 21
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]
  • 23
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[23]
  • 25
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]
  • 1000
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]


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