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Copy number of Receiver Plasmid

Design

Fig. 1 Player Balancing


In this section, we intended to create time-delay by altering the amount of luxR protein per cell.(*1) Since the amount of LuxR that receives AHL differs, we hypothesized that the time required to reach the threshold AHL concentration will differ.

To do this, we used different copy number plasmids of the Receivers. (*1)

By altering the copy number of plasmids in the receiver cells, the time required for the response is altered.
If the copy number is altered, the amount of LuxR produced by the receivers will also change.
The amount of LuxR that receives AHL will change, so the time required for AHL to reach a threshold level will be altered.



Experiment

oriがpMB1のハイコピーベクターにのったBBa_T9002と、oriがP15AのローコピーベクターにのせかえたBBa_T9002を使用した。

これらを比較することでコピーナンバーを変えることでの影響を調べた。

以下の遺伝子回路を使って、実験を行った。

  • Sender
  • Receivers
**BBa_S03623 (AHL autoinucer)

LuxI-sender Chiba.gif

High-Copy-Receiver Chiba.gif

  • Low Copy Receiver

Low-Copy-Receiver Chiba.gif



これらのほかにBBa_T9002にはChloramphenicol耐性マーカーを持つ空ベクター、Low copyバリエーションにはAmpicillin耐性マーカーの空ベクターをダブルトランスフォーメーションさせた。

Method

  1. Transformed sender(Ptet-LuxI), high copy receiver(Ptet-LuxR-Plux-GFP-pMB1) and Medium copy receiver(Ptet-LuxR-Plux-GFP-p15A) respectively into E coli strains(JW1908).
  2. Inoculated them independently in liquid media. Incubated at 37°C 12h.
  3. Inoculated again in Fresh liquid media upto about OD600=2 at 37°C
  4. Washed sender and receivers.
  5. Mixed them. (Sender:Receiver=1000μL:1000μL)
  6. Incubated at 30°C.
  7. Measured intensity of green fluorescence at regular time intervals.(Fluoroskan AscentR FL＆Fluoroskan AscentR　Thermo ELECTRON CORPORATION)

Result & Discussion

Fig.3.2 Time Delay Test: Highcopy Receiver & Reporter vs.Lowcopy Receiver & Reporter


(Ptet-LuxR-plux-GFP-pMB1)の発現量に比べて(Ptet-LuxR-pLux-GFP-p15A)の発現量は大きく減少してしまった。(Fig.3.2)

この理由は

  1. GFPがローコピーのベクターに乗っていたので発現量が落ちた。
  2. LuxRの合成量が少なすぎる。

が考えられるが、(Ptet-luxR-p15A + plux-GFP-pMB1)と(Ptet-LuxR-pLux-GFP-pMB1)ではまったく同じTrasnfor Carveの軌跡を描いた。(Fig.3.3) このことより、p15Aのベクターに乗ったLuxRの発現量は、ハイコピーのベクターに乗ったpLuxを活性化するのに十分な量であると考えられる。 したがって理由1が有力である。

Fig.3.3 Time Delay Test: Lowcopy Receiver & Highcopy Reporter vs.Highcopy Receiver-Reporter




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