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Gel photo after PCR cloning of the individual gyrase binding sites

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The three bands below the 400 bp mark on the gel photo indicate successful PCR of our gyrase binding sites

Chloroquine gel

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Using chloroquine agarose gel to assay supercoiling, we demonstrated Mu GBS and GBS from pSC101 significantly increase supercoiling of the host plasmid by 42% and 25% respectively. The presence of the pBR322 GBS has significantly altered the level of migration.

As we intended at the design stage, introduction of a mu phage GBS (to make BBa_K676013) has significantly increased supercoiling of the 2009 Device, thus increasing its manufacturability as a commercial pDNA product. The presence of the GBS increased migration (supercoiling) by 10%.


The effect of the presence of a Mu GBS in a plasmid on the stress response

The graph indicates a clear distinction in the level of GFP expression between cell with Spy device and a Mu GBS/Spy device ligation. So this clearly proves that the presence of the Mu bacteriophage gyrase binding site creates a difference in the level of expression of GFP from the plasmid which is conclusive towards an increased stress response.

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Effect of GBS on the level and quality of supercoiling in a plasmid molecule

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