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The project aims to design a new device to control the synthesis of a protein in Escherichia coli by acting on translation regardless of the protein to be controlled. This "general-purpose" standard device could allow a faster silencing of protein expression with respect to standard regulated promoters. Our device was named <b>T-Rex</b> (<b>T</b>rans <b>R</b>epressor of <b>Ex</b>pression). It consists of two new BioBricks, i.e. the Trans-repressor and the Cis-repressing.
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The project aims to design a new device to control the synthesis of a protein in Escherichia coli regardless of the protein to be controlled. This "general-purpose" standard device, by acting on translation, could allow a faster silencing of protein expression with respect to standard regulated promoters. Our device was named <b>T-Rex</b> (<b>T</b>rans <b>R</b>epressor of <b>Ex</b>pression). It consists of two new BioBricks, i.e. the Trans-repressor and the Cis-repressing.
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Project Summary


Which is our idea?

The project aims to design a new device to control the synthesis of a protein in Escherichia coli regardless of the protein to be controlled. This "general-purpose" standard device, by acting on translation, could allow a faster silencing of protein expression with respect to standard regulated promoters. Our device was named T-Rex (Trans Repressor of Expression). It consists of two new BioBricks, i.e. the Trans-repressor and the Cis-repressing.


How can we achieve our goal?

T-Rex device consists of two new BioBricks:

  • CIS-repressing, to be assembled upstream of the target protein coding sequence; it contains a ribosomal binding site (RBS);

  • TRANS-repressor, to be placed under the control of a different promoter; it is complementary to the CIS-repressing, and contains a RBS cover in two versions of different length (4 and 7 nucleotides).

CIS-repressing and TRANS-repressor were designed using our [[Team:Bologna/Software#1|BASER]] tool.

Transcription of the target gene produces a mRNA strand, starting with the Cis element, which is translated into proteins by ribosome. Trans’ promoter induction produces a transcript that binds with the Cis part. The RNA duplex prevents ribosome from binding to RBS, repressing protein synthesis. Thus, the TRANS-repressor amount regulates the gene mRNA translation rate.



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How can we test the device?


In order to test and characterize our T-REX device, we developed the following genetic circuit:

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The T-REX device is proposed as a universal and fast switch in synthetic gene circuits.


More details about our work in the Project section.


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