AND Gates of Shan Shen
This AND Gate family is made of luxP-supD & pLac-T7ptag.
The typical pattern of this AND gate is like this: (picture from K228119)
This family is the AND gate family constructed the fastest by us, and it had made us much more confident about other AND gates which were under construction at that time.
This AND gates family contents nine AND gates with the difference on the RBS of the T7ptag: K228119, K228120, K228121, K228122, K228123, K228124, K228125, K228126, and K228127. And these gates are on the plasmid pSB4K5.
In order to test the function of these AND gates, Shan Shen use a reporter GFP under the control of a T7 promoter: K228099. And the reporter is on the plasmid J61002.
Using the E.coli with the reporter plasmid, she transformed the AND gate plasmids into it, and tested them using various combinations of different concentration of IPTG and HSL (homoserine lactone). The result is tested by a microplate reader (Fig 1, 2, 3 and 4. For more detail, refer to our protocol)
 Fig1. GFP expression of AND gate, K228125: lux-SupD-lac-T7ptag (rbs: J44001). The data are showed for (left to right): 1×10^-9, 1×10^-8, 1×10^-7, 1×10^-6, 1×10^-5 1×10^-4 and 1×10^-3M IPTG, and (bottom to top) 1×10^-9, 1×10^-8, 1×10^-7, 1×10^-6, 1×10^-5 and 1×10^-4M HSL.  Fig2. GFP expression of AND gate, K228124: lux-SupD-lac-T7ptag (rbs: J61127). The data are showed for (left to right): 1×10^-9, 1×10^-8, 1×10^-7, 1×10^-6, 1×10^-5 1×10^-4 and 1×10^-3M IPTG, and (bottom to top) 1×10^-9, 1×10^-8, 1×10^-7, 1×10^-6, 1×10^-5 and 1×10^-4M HSL.  Fig3. GFP expression of AND gate, K228120: lux-SupD-lac-T7ptag (rbs: B0032). The data are showed for (left to right): 1×10^-9, 1×10^-8, 1×10^-7, 1×10^-6, 1×10^-5 1×10^-4 and 1×10^-3M IPTG, and (bottom to top) 1×10^-8, 1×10^-7, 1×10^-6, 1×10^-5 and 1×10^-4M HSL.  Fig4. GFP expression of AND gate, K228126 : lux-SupD-lac-T7ptag (rbs: B0033). The data are showed for (left to right): 1×10^-9, 1×10^-8, 1×10^-7, 1×10^-6, 1×10^-5 1×10^-4 and 1×10^-3M IPTG, and (bottom to top) 1×10^-9, 1×10^-8, 1×10^-7, 1×10^-6, 1×10^-5 and 1×10^-4M HSL.
Discussion:
From the result of some of these AND gates, we found that many of these AND gates are inducible by IPTG, but independent of the concentration of HSL. It is obvious that the leakage of lux system is significant, and the basal expression of SupD is so high, that without HSL there is sufficient SupD to work on T7ptag. This result is consistent with the sensor result of lux system: there are quite amount of expression without inducing of HSL (for more detail, refer to Sensor Result).
To improve this AND gates family:
Because the leakage is on the SupD side, we can not modulate the RBS (there is no RBS on SupD side) to get a good AND gate. If the leakage is on the T7ptag side, we may get some good result after modulate its RBS (change RBS or mutate it). The best solution is to use other inducible promoters to construct AND gates instead of lux system, and we actually got some good results by doing this: refer to AND gates of Shuke Wu, AND gates of Guosheng Zhang and other AND gates.
The result of other five AND gates are not shown here.
AND Gates of Shuke Wu
This AND Gate family is made of pLac-supD & pBad-T7ptag.
The typical pattern of this AND gate is similar to Shan Shen's AND gates.
This family is the AND gate family constructed also the quickliest: at the same time with Shan Shen's AND gates.
This AND gates family contents nine AND gates with the difference on the RBS of the T7ptag: K228823, K228824, K228825, K228826, K228827, K228828, K228829, K228830, and K228831. And these gates are on the plasmid pSB4K5.
In order to test the function of these AND gates, Shuke use a reporter GFP under the control of a T7 promoter: K228099. And the reporter is on the plasmid J61002.
Using the E.coli with the reporter plasmid, he transformed the AND gate plasmids into it, and tested them using various combinations of different concentration of IPTG and arabinose. The result is tested by a microplate reader (Fig 1, 2, 3 and 4. For more detail, refer to our protocol)
 Fig1. GFP expression of AND gate, K228829: lac-SupD-pBad-T7ptag(rbs: B0033). The data are showed for (left to right): 1×10^-9, 1×10^-7, 1×10^-6, 1×10^-5 1×10^-4 and 1×10^-3M IPTG, and (bottom to top) 1×10^-9, 1×10^-7, 1×10^-6, 1×10^-5, 1×10^-4 and 1×10^-3M arabinose.  Fig2. GFP expression of AND gate, K228827: lac-SupD-pBad-T7ptag(rbs: B0030). The data are showed for (left to right): 1×10^-9, 1×10^-7, 1×10^-6, 1×10^-5 1×10^-4 and 1×10^-3M IPTG, and (bottom to top) 1×10^-9, 1×10^-7, 1×10^-6, 1×10^-5, 1×10^-4 and 1×10^-3M arabinose.  Fig3. GFP expression of AND gate, K228823: lac-SupD-pBad-T7ptag(rbs: J44001). The data are showed for (left to right): 1×10^-9, 1×10^-8, 1×10^-7, 1×10^-6, 1×10^-5 1×10^-4, 1×10^-3 and 1×10^-2M IPTG, and (bottom to top) 1×10^-9, 1×10^-8, 1×10^-7, 1×10^-6, 1×10^-5, 1×10^-4, 1×10^-3 and 1×10^-2M arabinose.  Fig4. GFP expression of AND gate, K228823: simplified version of Fig3. The data are showed for 1×10^-9 and 1×10^-2M IPTG, and 1×10^-9 and 1×10^-2M arabinose. The concentration of 1×10^-9 equals input=0, and 1×10^-2 equals input=1. So the four columns show the response of (0,0), (0,1), (1,0) and (1,1). Discussion: AND gate K228829 (Fig 1) and K228823 (Fig 3) are the two best AND gates in this family, while others did not display AND gate behavior (Fig 2). It is a common sense that the activity range of promoters affects the function of the AND gate circuit (Anderson JC, Voigt CA, Arkin AP (2007) Environmental signal integration by a modular AND gate. Mol Syst Biol 3: 133). Thus we used nine different RBSs as a method to modulate the expression level of T7ptag and got some quite good AND gates (Fig 1&3). However, this strategy can not change the transcription of SupD, which may lead to leakage of AND gates. Because Shuke used lac system, which suffers from some problems (refer to our sensor result), to drive the SupD, this AND gate family can not have some perfect AND gates.
To improve, we should choose a good promoter, with little leakage, to drive SupD.
The result of other six AND gates are not shown here.
AND Gate of Guosheng Zhang (The Best)
Other AND Gates
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