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'''INTRODUCING A FUNCTIONAL LIGHT SWITCH INTO E.COLI'''
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<P align="justify"> The objective in this project is to build and characterise a biological light switch in E.coli. This will involve construction of bacteriophytochrome biobrick parts and heme-oxygenase biobrick parts. In 2010 the Macquarie Team cloned bacteriophytochrome from two sources. They showed that when one was expressed that it was functionally assembled when incubated with biliverdin. The part created is not directly usable as a biobrick as it contains an internal PstI site and the XbaI biobrick site is missing. The heme-oxygenase clone also contains an internal restriction site which is not compatible with biobrick assembly.
 
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The aims of the team this year are to complete the light switch construction:
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<p style="font: 11pt Trebuchet MS">Hello from the 2011 Macquarie University iGEM group! <br><br> This year's research team will be expanding upon the research conducted by last year's iGEM team. This project involves the production of a phytochrome light switch that jumps between two different light states, acting as a reporter for ambient light conditions. We've nicknamed our work 'the switch-a-roo' as our phytochromes hop back and forth between green and blue states.</p>
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1. Remove the restriction sites from the bacteriophytochrome and heme-oxygenase genes which are incompatible with biobrick assembly.
 
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2. Assemble a fully functional bacteriophytochrome biobrick which is functionally expressed in E.coli.
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3. Assemble an operon consisting of the heme-oxygenase and bacteriophytochrome genes.
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4. Optimise the gene expression from the operon such that the bacteriophytochrome light switch assembles without requiring the addition of biliverdin.
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<li>The requirements for each medal grade can be seen at the bottom of this page</a></li>
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<p style="font: 11pt Trebuchet MS"> Phytochromes are ubiquitous proteins that allow an organism to sense light. These proteins have evolved in unique environments to sense light intensity in different colour ranges. This experiment focuses on constructing a biological switch that uses phytochromes from Deinococcus radiodurans and Agrobacterium tumefaciens. The coupling of heme oxygenase supplies our phytochrome proteins with biliverdin, allowing for the self-assembly of the switch within host systems. The switch is the first stage of a two component light sensor and when expressed at high level, there is a noticeable colour change of the cell when it is activated by light.</p>
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Phytochromes were first discovered in plant and were found to be associated with the plants photoperception. The phytochrome proteins act as light sensors by absorbing red/far red light, with some their range can be between the UV-A to far-red regions. Their main function was found to mediate various time-dependant events such as seed germination, seedling de-etiolation and the generation of flowers.
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Bacteriophytochromes also act as photoreceptors absorbing in the red to far-red light, they mediate sensory responses to their light environmen, the alignment of their circadian system's and can function as a quorum-sensing network. They act as protein kinases sensitive to the light which are able to modify or regulate various components in the cell, such as protein activity and the synthesis of the light harvesting complex via promoting transcription factors. They control genes associated with various rhythm-dependant proteins at the transcription level by regulation of transcription factors to the promoter regions via their binding affinity. By doing so, they create what is called, a “light switch”. Techniques can be used to temporarily inactivate specific proteins by using a photolabile protecting group; this is referred to as “caging”. The light switch bacteriophytochrome that is utilised by Agrobacterium and Deinococcus has a domain structure as follows, PAS-GAF-PHY-HisKinase and is able to cause a shift in conformation of the chromophore complex according to the wavelength absorbed.
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For a light switch to be self-sufficient and fully functional, two main components are required, a hemeoxygenase and a bacteriophytochrome coupled with ribosome binding sites also known as the Shine-Dalgarno sequence. The hemeoxygenase is required for the degradation of the porphyrin heme to form the linear tetrapyrrole biliverdin which is then able to autocatalytically bind to the bacteriophytochrome on the GAF domain of the bacteriophytochrome.
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This forms the chromophore complex producing a colour according to the ratio of red to far-red light absorbed. Various processes are influenced by phytochromes through photoconversion between two isomers, a phytochrome red biologically inactive form (Pr) that absorbs red light and a phytochrome far red active form which absorbs far-red light. Pr expresses a blue colour that is able to isomerise to a green colour when absorption of far-red light is greater.
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The bacteriophytochrome vector will be transformed into E.coli competent BL21 (DE3) cells. However E.coli does not contain a hemeoxygenase gene which is why it must be incorporated into the genetically engineered operon along with a T7 promoter/terminator and the bacteriophytochrome genes from Deinococcus and Agrobacterium.
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<td><center><a href="https://igem.org/Team.cgi?id=646"><img src="https://online.slimmingworld.com/images/registration/packages/tick-bronze.jpg">Registration of Team</a></td>
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<td class="middle"><center><a href="https://2011.igem.org/Team:Macquarie_Australia/Characterisation#Characterisation_of_our_Biobrick"><img src="https://online.slimmingworld.com/images/registration/packages/tick-silver.jpg">Characterisation of our working Biobrick</a></td>
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Hello from the 2011 Macquarie University iGEM group!

This year's research team will be expanding upon the research conducted by last year's iGEM team. This project involves the production of a phytochrome light switch that jumps between two different light states, acting as a reporter for ambient light conditions. We've nicknamed our work 'the switch-a-roo' as our phytochromes hop back and forth between green and blue states.


Here are some quick links to help you get started:

  • An overview of our Project

  • Head on over to our Data Page for a summary of our registered parts

  • Or meet the Team!

  • The requirements for each medal grade can be seen at the bottom of this page


Abstract


Phytochromes are ubiquitous proteins that allow an organism to sense light. These proteins have evolved in unique environments to sense light intensity in different colour ranges. This experiment focuses on constructing a biological switch that uses phytochromes from Deinococcus radiodurans and Agrobacterium tumefaciens. The coupling of heme oxygenase supplies our phytochrome proteins with biliverdin, allowing for the self-assembly of the switch within host systems. The switch is the first stage of a two component light sensor and when expressed at high level, there is a noticeable colour change of the cell when it is activated by light.



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