Team:EPF-Lausanne/Our Project/T7 promoter variants/t7prom

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We made two families of T7 promoter variants. Each family has six designed mutants and three randomer mutants. The only difference between the two families is the addition of a lac operator sequence downstream of the T7 promoter. These promoter variants were characterized using fluorescence, revealing a wide range of promoter efficiencies.
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We made two families of T7 promoter variants. Each family has six designed mutants and three randomer mutants. The only difference between the two families is the addition of a lac operator sequence downstream of the T7 promoter.  
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===Non-random T7 promoter variants===
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[[File:t7_lac_rbs_lysis_term.png|470px|center]]
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The T7 promoter variants in this section were designed based on considerations from literature. These sequences, and their corresponding predicted strengths, also come from literature. The exact source is Imburgio, D., Rong, M., Ma, K. & McAllister, W.T. Studies of promoter recognition and start site selection by T7 RNA polymerase using a comprehensive collection of promoter variants. Biochemistry 39, 10419–10430 (2000).  
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[[File:t7_rbs_lysis_term.png|400px|center]]
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These promoter variants were characterized using fluorescence, revealing a wide range of promoter efficiencies. To find out more about how these T7 promoter variants were made, please click [[Team:EPF-Lausanne/Our Project/T7 promoter variants/t7prom/making|here]].
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Here is a version of the T7 promoter consensus sequence:
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[[File:t7_logo.png|400px|center]]
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It is taken from Schneider and Stephens, ''Sequence Logos: A New Way to Display Consensus Sequences'' Nucleic Acids Research, 18 6097-6100, 1990
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===Non-random T7 promoter variants===
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The T7 promoter variants in this section were designed based on considerations from the relevant literature. These sequences, and their corresponding predicted strengths, also come from literature. The exact source is Imburgio, D., Rong, M., Ma, K. & McAllister, W.T. Studies of promoter recognition and start site selection by T7 RNA polymerase using a comprehensive collection of promoter variants. Biochemistry 39, 10419–10430 (2000).
Variants without additional lac operator (constitutive):
Variants without additional lac operator (constitutive):
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[[File:non_random_response.png|700px]]
[[File:non_random_response.png|700px]]
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The six designed T7 promoter variants are named as a function of their predicted promoter efficiency, relative to the wildtype. For example, T7 14 has a predicted efficiency of 14% compared to the consensus T7 promoter, whereas T7 111 is predicted to be 111% more efficient than the wildtype. In the chart above, each of the designed promoter variants for both the T7 with and without the lac operator are arranged in increasing predicted efficiency. Contrary to our expectation, some variants that were designed to have a lesser efficiency than the wildtype (e.g. T7 54) seem to have a much higher strength (as measured by fluorescence at saturation, normalized by the optical density). Already in the designed variants, we see a substantial difference in the behaviour of the promoters that have a lac operator as opposed to those that do not. The data for this graph was produced in triplicate, so the error bar represents the standard error across those three measurements.
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The six designed T7 promoter variants are named as a function of their predicted promoter efficiency, relative to the wildtype. For example, T7 14 has a predicted efficiency of 14% compared to the consensus T7 promoter, whereas T7 111 is predicted to be 111% more efficient than the wildtype. In the chart above, each of the designed promoter variants for both the T7 with and without the lac operator are arranged in increasing predicted efficiency. Contrary to our expectation, some variants that were designed to have a lesser efficiency than the wildtype (e.g. T7 54) seem to have a much higher strength (as measured by fluorescence at saturation, normalized by the optical density). The data for this graph was produced in triplicate, so the error bar represents the standard error across those three measurements.
=== Characterization of Randomer Variants ===
=== Characterization of Randomer Variants ===

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