PLac Tet Pancake Plan

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We've observed that pLac promotes strong expression of RBS-RFP, even in the absence of an inducer (IPTG). pLac may be better suited for our pancake stack device.
We've observed that pLac promotes strong expression of RBS-RFP, even in the absence of an inducer (IPTG). pLac may be better suited for our pancake stack device.
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<b>Restriction Mapping</b>: PvuII sites occur once in the stationary RFP reporter and once in pLac. A PvuII digest can be used to check the orientation of pLac anywhere in the stack. Since PvuII and NheI share optimal buffers (Promega), a simple double digest could be used to check the orientation of the Tet pancake.
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| <b>Restriction Mapping</b>: PvuII sites occur once in the stationary RFP reporter and once in pLac. A PvuII digest can be used to check the orientation of pLac anywhere in the stack. Since PvuII and NheI share optimal buffers (Promega), a simple double digest could be used to check the orientation of the Tet pancake.<br><br><b>Construction, Step 1</b>: First, I will build a hix-flanked pLac promoter (pLac single pancake) with a reverse RBS-RFP to the left and RBS-TetF to the right. If pLac can read through hix, the cells will be tetracycline resistant.<br><br>
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<b>Construction, Step 1</b>: First, I will build a hix-flanked pLac promoter (pLac single pancake) with a reverse RBS-RFP to the left and RBS-TetF to the right. If pLac can read through hix, the cells will be tetracycline resistant.
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<b>Construction, Step 2</b>: Next, I will cotransform the pLac single pancake construct with the Hin-LVA expression cassette and induce Hin expression with IPTG. Flipping should yeild constructs with reverse pLac promoters resulting in RFP expression. Successful flipping will indicate that Hin can invert a strong promoter.
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| <b>Construction, Step 2</b>: Next, I will cotransform the pLac single pancake construct with the Hin-LVA expression cassette and induce Hin expression with IPTG. Flipping should yeild constructs with reverse pLac promoters resulting in RFP expression. Successful flipping will...
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*indicate that Hin can invert a strong promoter (pLac).
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*produce a reverse pLac (after flipping, plasmids will be purified and transformed into cells to produce clonal plasmids containing reverse pLac)
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*determine wheteher reverse pLac can promote reverse RBS-RFP expression
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Revision as of 20:41, 19 February 2007

pBad Is a Weak Promoter

In our previous design, we aniticpated that a reverse RBS-RFP reporter would distinguish the biologically equivalent (1, 2) and (-2, -1) configurations of a pBad, TetR two-pancake stack. To test this, I placed the reverse RBS-RFP reporter to the left of (-2, -1). I also placed it to the left of (-1, -2) to see if the distance between the pBad promoter and the RFP would affect expression.

Only RFPrev-RBSrev-(-1, -2) confers weak expression of RFP (faint pink cell pellet), even after 0.2 - 2.0% arabinose induction in the absence of an extragenic copy of AraC (repressor of pBad). This result suggests that JM109 cells have endogenous AraC that represses pBad and that pBad is a weak promoter that requires close proximity to its coding region. Since one of our goals is to build long multi-coding sequence pancake stacks, pBad is a poor choice for this device (but may be useful in controlling Hin expression).

pLac Tet Pancake Assembly Plan

We've observed that pLac promotes strong expression of RBS-RFP, even in the absence of an inducer (IPTG). pLac may be better suited for our pancake stack device.

PLac pancake1.gif Restriction Mapping: PvuII sites occur once in the stationary RFP reporter and once in pLac. A PvuII digest can be used to check the orientation of pLac anywhere in the stack. Since PvuII and NheI share optimal buffers (Promega), a simple double digest could be used to check the orientation of the Tet pancake.

Construction, Step 1: First, I will build a hix-flanked pLac promoter (pLac single pancake) with a reverse RBS-RFP to the left and RBS-TetF to the right. If pLac can read through hix, the cells will be tetracycline resistant.

PLac pancake2.gif Construction, Step 2: Next, I will cotransform the pLac single pancake construct with the Hin-LVA expression cassette and induce Hin expression with IPTG. Flipping should yeild constructs with reverse pLac promoters resulting in RFP expression. Successful flipping will...
  • indicate that Hin can invert a strong promoter (pLac).
  • produce a reverse pLac (after flipping, plasmids will be purified and transformed into cells to produce clonal plasmids containing reverse pLac)
  • determine wheteher reverse pLac can promote reverse RBS-RFP expression
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