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Overview

• Introduction
• A. Tol/pal
• B. Our strategy
• C. Construction

C. Construction

C.1. Creation of OMVs

To create the vesicules, we started with a first simple construction only containing the unfunctional TolR II biobrick placed donwstream a pTetR promoter. With the presence of arabinose in the medium, pBad is activated and TetR, a repressor of the pTetR pomoter in created and represses the Pter promoter (Figure a). The addition of tetracycline or its analog, aTc, in the medium inhibits the repression thus allowing the creation of vesicules (Figure b).

Construction for OMVs production Figure a

Construction for OMVs production Figure b

For further precisions on the biobricks used as well as the plasmid backbones, please visit our parts design page here.

C.2. The delay

To avoid a premature production of vesicles, we have introduced a delay system inside the plasmids. This kind of device was studied by Hooshangi & Weiss using a transcriptional cacasde made of two repressor namely TetR and LacI :

Nevertheless, as the pLacI promotor is leaking, we tried to exchange the order of the two repressors to avoid a low but constant expression of TolR. When there is arabinose in the medium, the creation of LacI represses the Plac promoter and prevent the creation of TetR ; this way, the Ptet promoter is no longer repressed and GFP is expressed in the medium.

This way, even if there is a little expression of the genes downstream the pLac promoter (when it is repressed), it leads to the creation of TetR and a stronger repression of the pTet promoter.

We also decided to place the pTet+TolRII device upstream the pLac+TetR cassette ; as a consequence, even if our first terminator is not a 100% efficient, the RNA-polymerase will transcript the downstream part made of the TetR repressor. This repressor created by accident will then repress the expression of TolRII.

If we had switched these two parts, a bad eficiency of the terminator would have led to the expression of more TolRII which could be dangerous for the cell.

Italic textTo get more information on the terminators we use, you can see the description in the registry here : [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_B0014 BBa_B0014] and [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_B0015 BBa_B0015.]

And to read more on terminators, you can also have a look at the registry [http://partsregistry.org/Help:Terminators here.]

• As shown on the figure below, once there is arabinose in the medium, the pBad promoter is on thus allowing the creation of LacI ; LacI represses the pLac promoter and the TetR protein is no longer expressed. The pTet promoter in ON and RFP is created :

• On the other hand when tehre is glucose in the medium (and no Arabinose), LacI is no longer produced and the TetR protein is created : there is no more RFP synthetized :

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