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Revision as of 05:36, 27 September 2011
RecA Project Sensor Project Reporter Project
RecA Co-Protease
The normal laboratory strain of E. coli, DH10B, contains an inactivated form of RecA known as RecA1. Therefore, a series of mutations must occur in order to restore its proteatic function and reduce recombination.
Activation of RecA
- Point Mutation at b.p 720: A ⇒ G
Removal of Recombinase Activity
- Arginine 243 ⇒ Glutamine
- Lysine 286 ⇒ Asparagine
In order to use the standard bio-bricking techniques, we also had to remove these naturally occurring enzymatic restriction sites
- PST1 Site [CTGCAG]
- CAG ⇒ CTG (Codon usage bias decreases: .69 to .31)
- EcoR1 Site [GAATTC]
- TTC ⇒ TTT (Codon usage bias increases: .49 to .51)
Activated RecA then cleaves the cI repressor, causing transcription of RFP. However, if RecA exhibits recombinant activity, then the homologous double terminator regions will recombine. This causes the deletion of the repressible promoter and RFP.
