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Revision as of 18:02, 22 October 2011
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Promoter Families
The activity of repressible promoters can be modulated through the expression repressor proteins, chemical induction, and other factors. We chose to expand the LacI, TetR and Lambda c1 BioBrick promoters into part families to offer synthetic biologists a broader selection of repressible promoters from which to build genetic circuits.
LacI
The lac repressor is responsible for regulating the metabolism of lactose. In the absence of lactose, LacI forms a tetramer with identical subunits which appears as two dimers. Each dimer binds in the major groove of the DNA binding region which subsequently blocks the RNA polymerase from binding. In nature, allolactose will bind the repressor leading to transcription of the lac operon. Using IPTG as an inducer has the same effect as allolactose.
To the left is a small render of the LacI tetramer bound to its operator.
Construct
Mutant Screening
The above graph shows our initial mutants. We picked 87 potential mutants from transformation plates and ran them in our plate reader to quantitatively measure fluorescence. The green bars represent variants that are at least 1.5 standard deviations from the average wildtype expression level.
DNA Sequences
The sequences above show our 7 LacI mutants. There are between 1 and 7 mutations in each sequence as indicated by the red bases. All 7 sequences have mutations between bases 100 and 200 which contain the known locations of the CAP binding site(bases 88-127) and LacI binding site (bases 166-200). Read more about our mutants on their Parts Registry pages.
TetR
E. coli have evolved a resistance to the tetracycline antibiotic which is found in the tetracycline operon. This operon is regulated by TetR, the tetracycline repressor, which is a dimeric protein that binds the tetracycline repressible promoter.
TetR monomer
Construct
