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Promoter Library

Introduction

In order to effectively model genetic circuits, databases of parts with known characteristics are essential. Without such databases, computationally designed circuits may not be feasible to implement in vivo. Unfortunately, parameters such as promoter strength, RBS affinity, transcription, translation and decay rates are hard to find in the literature, and those which do exist are rarely measured under standardised conditions.

Several efforts to produce parts libraries are currently underway.As part of our contribution to synthetic biology, we decided to create a promoter library for B. subtilis.

Novelty in this sub-project

A library of promoters with different strengths would be very useful for engineering biological devices. Promoters' strength can be compared with their PoPS values. However measuring the PoPS is not a trivial process. We can instead meausure their strengths relatively.

Design

Template used to create the promoter sequences: Prefix...UpSpacer...-35...PromSpacer...-10...DownSpacer..Suffix

• BBPrefix - StandardBioBrickPrefix EcoR1 and Xba1 - gaattcgcggccgcttctagag
• UpSpacer - attta - consensus sigA 5 bases 5'
• -35 - TTGACA
• PromSpacer - length 17 - consensus ttttatttaaattatga
• -10 - TATAAT
• DownSpacer (from ackA)- ggaaaag
• BBSuffix - Standard BioBrick suffix Spe1 and Pst1 - tactagtagcggccgctgcag

Variances

We designed three variances to create library of promoters with different strengths.

1. Degenerating -35 and -10 sequences.

 BBPrefix...UpSpacer...N-35... PromSpacer...N-10...DownSpacer..BBSuffix

1. BBPrefix...UpSpacerNN...-35...NNPromSpacerNN...-10...NNDownSpacer..BBSuffix
2. BBPrefix...UpSpacer...-35... 18N’s...-10...DownSpacer..BBSuffix

Variance 1

In this variance we only degenerate -35 and -10 sequences.

Variance 2

In the second variance we use N's for the promoter sequence between -35 and -10 regions

Variance 3

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