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- | <li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#assembly"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Part assembly</span></a>
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- | NB: unless differently specified, all tests were performed in <a href='https://2011.igem.org/Team:UNIPV-Pavia/Protocols#MG1655Z1'><em>E. coli</em> MGZ1</a> in M9 supplemented medium at 37°C. For the cloning of the parts, <a href='https://2011.igem.org/Team:UNIPV-Pavia/Protocols#TOP10'><em>E. coli</em> TOP10</a> was used.
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- | All the parts have been cloned with success. The part name, plasmids and quality controls are reported in the <a href='https://2011.igem.org/Team:UNIPV-Pavia/Freezer'>Freezer section</a>.
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- | <p>Inducible and constitutive promoters were assembled upstream of different coding sequences containing an RBS from the Community collection.</p>
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- | <p>The assembled RBSs are:</p>
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- | <tr><td class="row">BBa_B0030 </td><td class="row"> 0,6</td></tr>
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- | <tr><td class="row">BBa_B0031 </td><td class="row"> 0,07</td></tr>
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- | <tr><td class="row">BBa_B0032 </td><td class="row"> 0,3</td></tr>
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- | <div align="justify"><p>For an inducible device, the RBS variation has the purpose to stretch the induction curve, thus modulating its PoPs-OUT range.</p>
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- | <p>The complex RBS-promoter acts as a whole regulatory element and determines the amount of translated protein.
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- | RBSs have been reported to have an un-modular behavior, since the translational efficiency is not independent on the coding sequences, but variates as an effect of different mRNA structure stability [Salis et al., Nat Biotec, 2009]. It is not possible to separate the effects of the sole promoter and of the sole RBS on the total amount/activity of gene product (in this case study, mRFP).</p>
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- | <p>For this reason, every combination 'Promoter+RBS' was studied as a different regulatory element. Regulatory elements were characterized using mRFP reporter protein for different RBSs in terms of Synthesis rate per Cell (<b>S<sub>cell</sub></b>) and <b>R.P.U.s</b> (Relative Promoter Units) as explained in <a href='https://2011.igem.org/Team:UNIPV-Pavia/Measurements'>measurements</a> section.</p>
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- | <p>Operative parameters of the promoter are derived from the estimated Hill equations obtained by <em>nonlinear least squares</em> fitting (<em>lsqnonlin</em> Matlab routine) of the <a href='https://2011.igem.org/Team:UNIPV-Pavia/Project/Modelling#Equations_for_gene_networks'>Hill function</a> expressed in RPUs:</p><p></p>
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- | RPU<sub>max</sub></b> is equal to the α and represents the maximum promoter activity</p>
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- | RPU<sub>min</sub></b> is equal to the α * δ represents the minimum promoter activity</p>
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- | <b>Switch point</b> is computed as the abscissa of the inflection point of the Hill curve and it is representative of the position of linear region</p>
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- | <b>Linearity boundaries</b> are determined as the intersection between the tangent line to the inflection point and the upper and lower horizontal boundaries of the Hill curve.</div></li></p>
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- | The estimated parameters for the Hill functions of pLux are summarized in the table below. For more details on parameter estimation, see the <a href='https://2011.igem.org/Team:UNIPV-Pavia/Project/Modelling#Ptet_&_Plux'>model section</a>.
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- | <td class="row"><b>δ<sub>p<sub>Lux</sub></sub> [-]</b></td>
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- | <td class="row"><b>η<sub>p<sub>Lux</sub></sub> [-]</b></td>
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- | <td class="row">438 [10]</td>
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- | <td class='row'>B0031</td><td class='row'>4.93</td><td class='row'>0.55</td><td class='row'>0.25</td><td class='row'>[0.03; 2.30]</td>
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- | <td class='row'>B0032</td><td class='row'>9.49</td><td class='row'>0.02</td><td class='row'>0.47</td><td class='row'>[0.07; 3.07]</td>
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