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Team:NTNU Trondheim/stress-sensor
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Stress sensor characterization
To test our stress sensor, pre-cultures of the construct with, and without the rrnB P1 promoter were grown ON, pelleted and resuspended in M9 medium. The cultures were inoculated 1% in LB, LB+IPTG, M9 and M9+IPTG. M9 is a minimal medium, lacking amino-acids. M9 was used because ppGpp is mainly produced in the stringent response during amino-acid starvation.
Cultures were grown in a shaking incubator at 37C for 3,5 hours, and 3 parallells of 100 µL from each flask were sampled to a 96 well fluorometer plate. Fluorescence was measured at ex: 584 em: 620, as well as OD600. Data from the experiment is shown in figure 1, as fluorescence divided by OD600.
