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Part:BBa_K323088:Experience

Designed by: Tina Lebar   Group: iGEM10_Slovenia   (2010-10-20)
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The 2010 iGEM team Slovenia used this part in combination with Part:BBa_K323089 containing a corresponding DNA binding protein. Both parts were inserted into the low copy vector pSB4C5 (Part:pSB4C5) by tripoint ligation to form a universal testing device for DNA binding proteins.

We have constructed 14 parts for testing of DNA binding proteins HivC (Part:BBa_K323090 and Part:BBa_K323093), Gli1 (Part:BBa_K323092 and Part:BBa_K323091), Zif268 (Part:BBa_K323094, Part:BBa_K323097 and Part:BBa_K323103), Jazz (Part:BBa_K323096 and Part:BBa_K323095), Blues (Part:BBa_K323098 and Part:BBa_K323101), PBSII (Part:BBa_K323100 and Part:BBa_K323099) and TAL (Part:BBa_K323102).

Binding of the tested proteins was determined with the beta-galactosidase assay (for a detailed description of the method see the 2010 iGEM team Slovenia wiki). The representative results gathered below have been taken from different experiments and averaged to an arithmetic mean. The β-galactosidase activity of the culture without added arabinose, which should have indicated maximal activity due to minimal expression of the DNA binding protein, was normalized to 100 percent, and the β-galactosidase activity of the culture with added arabinose was compared to the latter.

Figure: HivC, Gli1, Zif268, Jazz, Blues, PBSII and TAL bind to their corresponding DNA binding sites. In all constructs tested, the β-galactosidase activity decreased with addition of arabinose, which induces the transcription of the DNA binding protein. These results show that all of the tested DNA binding proteins bind to their specific operator sequences.


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