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Contents

Overall project

1. Sensitivity of a biosensor

2. Logic gates

Biosensor

Using a random mutagenesis method directed at the promoter binding sites, we intend to construct a library of varying strength pBAD promoters coupled to a GFP reporter gene. Sequencing of select mutated promoters will result in a collection of pBAD variants that cover a wide range promoter sensitivity.

The Experiments

  1. Random mutagenesis of pBAD promoter sequence.
  2. Quantification of mutant promoter-driven GFP fluorescence.
  3. Sequencing of select mutants.
  4. BioBrick design and submission.

Results

Logic Gates

Miscellaneous Data

Biobricks.zip - Fasta file containing every biobrick from Here [1] - Biobrick digestion engine - enter the name of a plasmid and an insert, and this will show you the product of an EcoRI and PstI digestion/ligation as a FASTA file (suitable for viewing in your favorite program).

Links

http://rna.tbi.univie.ac.at/ - a package of prediction tools for RNA structures; we used RNAfold to annotate the key and lock structures

http://mobyle.pasteur.fr/cgi-bin/portal.py - a set of web-accessible bioinformatics tools including Mfold, which determines 2D RNA structure and draws it

http://frodo.wi.mit.edu/ - Primer3, a primer design program