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[7]    Aurell E, Brown S, Johanson J, Sneppen K. ''Stability puzzles in phage λ.'' Physical Review E 2002;'''65'''(5):051914.
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[8]    Li M, McClure W, ''Susskind M. Changing the mechanism of transcriptional activation by phage lambda repressor.'' Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1997;'''94'''(8):3691–3696. [PubMed: 9108039]
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<h3>Plasmid-protein complex affect plasmid replication</h3>
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If a replication is already initiated but when the replication forks meet a lamda protein on the way, this replication will be aborted. So only when replication forks pass the protein binding point without lamda protein there, the replication processes are effective. This is a simplified model on how plasmid-protein complex affect plasmid replication, we will try to find out some more detailed mechanisms in the future.
If a replication is already initiated but when the replication forks meet a lamda protein on the way, this replication will be aborted. So only when replication forks pass the protein binding point without lamda protein there, the replication processes are effective. This is a simplified model on how plasmid-protein complex affect plasmid replication, we will try to find out some more detailed mechanisms in the future.

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Introduction

Phage production in E.coli

Naked Plasmid Vector Production

One of our team's sub project is the use nakes plasmid binded with a specified protein as the vector of gene therapy DNA. The normal replication process of plasmid will be changed due to the binding of specified protein(in our model,lambda repressor). Considering production of the plasmid protein complex, we want to maxize the amounts of plasmid protein complex, so a balance between the amounts of plasmid and protein is needed. In this model, we want to find out the optimized parameters for this plasmid vector production process.

Reaction kinetics

Dimmer formation and dissociation between λ cI repressor protein

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parameters:

kdon =0.05/(M*sec) [1,6]
kdoff =0.5/sec

Notes:

DNA protein complex’s binding and dissociation is a dynamical process

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parameters:

kon =0.021/sec binding rate of dimers to DNA
                      
koff1 =0.04/sec  unbinding rate of cI dimer from Or1
koff1 =1.026/sec unbinding rate of cI dimer from Or2
koff1 =5.197/sec unbinding rate of cI dimer from Or3

Notes:we get these values from [2]. Cao.etc estimate these values from experimentally measured protein diffusion coefficient in e.coli and Gibbs free energy. We give all the three unbinding rate of cI dimer from three kinds of binding sites to find out the best site we want to use in the experiment.

The replication and degration of plasmid

The plasmid is considered to replicate in a constant rate (r) without the interference of binding protein. Here the parameter reff means the actual replicating rate of plasmid taken the binding protein into consideration.

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The transcription of λ cI repressor, notice that λ cI repressor is coded in the plasmid, so the copy number of plasmid will affect the amount of λ cI repressor.

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parameters:

 υm  = 0.033/s 
 kdm = 0.006/s  

Notes: The rate limiting step in ranscription including transcription initiation and elongation. The rate of transcript initiation reaction is 9.46*10^5 for cI(REF).Average elongaration rate is 30 nt/sec. λ repressor is about 720bp, so υm = 24/720=0.033/s . The half lifetime of mRNA in e.coli is 2 min(Aurell E, Sneppen K), kdm=ln2/2*60=0.006/s

The translation of λ repressor

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parameters:

υp  = 0.0288/sec
kd_cI_w = 0.0002/s   (widetype) 
kd_cI_tag = 0.003/s (with degradation tag) 

Notes: An average ten copies of proteins are assumed to be produced per transcript. Given the half lifetime of mRNA of cI to be 4 min, υp = 10/(4*60/ln2)=0.0288/sec The half-life of widetype λ cI repressor is 60 mins (REF), however, with degradation tag, it could be as short as 4 min.

REFERRENCE

[1] Burz, D.S., et al., Self-assembly of bacteriophage lambda cI repressor: effects of single-site mutations on the monomer-dimer equilibrium. Biochemistry, 1994. 33(28): p. 8399-405.

[2] Cao, Y., H.M. Lu, and J. Liang, Stochastic probability landscape model for switching efficiency, robustness, and differential threshold for induction of genetic circuit in phage lambda. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc, 2008. 2008: p. 611-4.

[3] Elowitz, M.B. and S. Leibler, A synthetic oscillatory network of transcriptional regulators. Nature, 2000. 403(6767): p. 335-8.

[4] Koblan, K.S. and G.K. Ackers, Cooperative protein-DNA interactions: effects of KCl on lambda cI binding to OR. Biochemistry, 1991. 30(31): p. 7822-7.

[5] Merabet, E. and G.K. Ackers, Calorimetric analysis of lambda cI repressor binding to DNA operator sites. Biochemistry, 1995. 34(27): p. 8554-63.

[6] Shea, M.A. and G.K. Ackers, The OR control system of bacteriophage lambda. A physical-chemical model for gene regulation. J Mol Biol, 1985. 181(2): p. 211-30.

[7] Aurell E, Brown S, Johanson J, Sneppen K. Stability puzzles in phage λ. Physical Review E 2002;65(5):051914.

[8] Li M, McClure W, Susskind M. Changing the mechanism of transcriptional activation by phage lambda repressor. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1997;94(8):3691–3696. [PubMed: 9108039]

[9] Hawley D, McClure W. In vitro comparison of initiation properties of bacteriophage lambda wildtype pr and x3 mutant promoters. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1980;77(11):6381–6385. [PubMed: 6450417]

Plasmid-protein complex affect plasmid replication

If a replication is already initiated but when the replication forks meet a lamda protein on the way, this replication will be aborted. So only when replication forks pass the protein binding point without lamda protein there, the replication processes are effective. This is a simplified model on how plasmid-protein complex affect plasmid replication, we will try to find out some more detailed mechanisms in the future. The probability of a plasmid to become a protein-DNA complex is:

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Because of the DNA-protein complex, the effective replication rate of plasmid is

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Bacterial DNA is replicated at a rate of about one million base pairs per minute,and the plasmid DNA we use is 5368bp, so the average replication rate for plasmid is about 3.1/(M.sec).The degradation rate for DNA is

The amount of plasmid protein complex for a set of parameters

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