Team:LMU-Munich/Bacillus BioBricks

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*'''P<sub>''liaG''</sub>'''    [http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K823000 BioBrick:BBa_K823000]
*'''P<sub>''liaG''</sub>'''    [http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K823000 BioBrick:BBa_K823000]
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<p align="justify">P<sub>''liaG''</sub> is a weak, constitutive promoter from B. subtilis. It is responsible for the transcription of the last four genes of the liaIHGFSR locus and therefore for the production of the components of the LiaRS system, which is important for the detection of cell wall antibiotics [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Journal%20of%20Bacteriology%2C%20188%20%2814%29%3A%205153%E2%80%935166: Jordan ''et al.'', 2006]. P<sub>''liaG''</sub> was evaluated with the reporter vectors pSB<sub>Bs</sub>3C-<i>luxABCDE</i> and pSB<sub>Bs</sub>1C-''lacZ'' as well as the reporter BioBrick ''lacZ''. This promoter showed a much higher activity than the Anderson promoters which was still weak in comparison to the other evaluated ''Bacillus'' promoters (see [https://2012.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Data Data]). </p>
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<p align="justify">P<sub>''liaG''</sub> is a weak, constitutive promoter from B. subtilis. It is responsible for the transcription of the last four genes of the liaIHGFSR locus and therefore for the production of the components of the LiaRS system, which is important for the detection of cell wall antibiotics [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Journal%20of%20Bacteriology%2C%20188%20%2814%29%3A%205153%E2%80%935166: (Jordan ''et al.'', 2006)]. P<sub>''liaG''</sub> was evaluated with the reporter vectors pSB<sub>Bs</sub>3C-<i>luxABCDE</i> and pSB<sub>Bs</sub>1C-''lacZ'' as well as the reporter BioBrick ''lacZ''. This promoter showed a much higher activity than the Anderson promoters which was still weak in comparison to the other evaluated ''Bacillus'' promoters (see [https://2012.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Data Data]). </p>
*'''P<sub>''veg''</sub>'''    [http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K823003 BioBrick:BBa_K823003]   
*'''P<sub>''veg''</sub>'''    [http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K823003 BioBrick:BBa_K823003]   
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<p align="justify">P<sub>''veg''</sub> is known to show a strong constitutive activity during the vegetative growth phase and sporulation phase. This promoter is important for the transcription of the veg gene, which plays an important role during sporulation [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=J.%20Biochem.%2C%20133%20%284%29%3A%20475%E2%80%93483: Fukushima ''et al.'', 2003]. P<sub>''veg''</sub> was measured by using the reporter vector pSB<sub>Bs</sub>1C-''lacZ'' as well as the reporter BioBrick ''lacZ''. This promoter was the strongest of our evaluated promoters (see [https://2012.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Data Data]). (</p>
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<p align="justify">P<sub>''veg''</sub> is known to show a strong constitutive activity during the vegetative growth phase and sporulation phase. This promoter is important for the transcription of the veg gene, which plays an important role during sporulation [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=J.%20Biochem.%2C%20133%20%284%29%3A%20475%E2%80%93483: (Fukushima ''et al.'', 2003)]. P<sub>''veg''</sub> was measured by using the reporter vector pSB<sub>Bs</sub>1C-''lacZ'' as well as the reporter BioBrick ''lacZ''. This promoter was the strongest of our evaluated promoters (see [https://2012.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Data Data]). (</p>
   
   
*'''P<sub>''lepA''</sub>'''    [http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K823002 BioBrick:BBa_K823002]
*'''P<sub>''lepA''</sub>'''    [http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K823002 BioBrick:BBa_K823002]
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<p align="justify"> P<sub>''lepA''</sub> is constitutive promoter which is important for the transcription of a bicistronic operon. One of the expressed proteins is the protein PlepA [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Microbiology%2C%20142%3A%201641%E2%80%931649: Homuth ''et al.'', 1996]. This protein plays an important role during the translation as it can move the mRNA-tRNA complex one step back in the ribosome which is expected to improve the fidelity of translation [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Cell%2C%20127%20%284%29%3A%20721%E2%80%93733: Qin ''et al.'', 2006]. This promoter was evaluated with the reporter vector pSB<sub>Bs</sub>3C-<i>luxABCDE</i> as well as the reporter BioBricks ''luc'' and ''mKate2''. The activity of this promoter is between the activity of the strongest promoter P<sub>''veg''</sub> and the weak ''Bacillus'' promoter P<sub>''liaG''</sub> (see [https://2012.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Data Data]). </p>
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<p align="justify"> P<sub>''lepA''</sub> is constitutive promoter which is important for the transcription of a bicistronic operon. One of the expressed proteins is the protein PlepA [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Microbiology%2C%20142%3A%201641%E2%80%931649: (Homuth ''et al.'', 1996)]. This protein plays an important role during the translation as it can move the mRNA-tRNA complex one step back in the ribosome which is expected to improve the fidelity of translation [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Cell%2C%20127%20%284%29%3A%20721%E2%80%93733: (Qin ''et al.'', 2006)]. This promoter was evaluated with the reporter vector pSB<sub>Bs</sub>3C-<i>luxABCDE</i> as well as the reporter BioBricks ''luc'' and ''mKate2''. The activity of this promoter is between the activity of the strongest promoter P<sub>''veg''</sub> and the weak ''Bacillus'' promoter P<sub>''liaG''</sub> (see [https://2012.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Data Data]). </p>
====Inducible promoters from ''B. subtilis''====
====Inducible promoters from ''B. subtilis''====
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<p align="justify">The last group of promoters consists two inducible promoters of ''B. subtilis'' , P''<sub>liaI</sub>'' and P''<sub>xyl</sub>''-''XylR''. They are useful to decide when to turn on gene expression because these promoters need an inducer to start transcription. P''<sub>liaI</sub>'' can be induced by antibiotics which interact with the lipidII cycle, e.g. bacitracin. In this project this promoter is evaluated like the constitutive promoters with the reporter vector pSB<sub>Bs</sub>3C-<i>luxABCDE</i> which contains the ''lux'' operon as a reporter and with the vector pSB<sub>Bs</sub>1C-''lacZ'' which contains the ''lacZ'' reporter gene. Therefore the promoters will be amplified from the genome of ''B. subtilis'' with primers that contain the restriction sites of the BioBrick standard. Then these inducible promoters will be cloned into the empty vector pSB1C3 to send them to the registry as well as the two reporter vectors to evaluate their strength in ''B. subtilis''. To turn the promoter on we have to add an inducer.</p>
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<p align="justify">The last group of promoters consists of two inducible promoters of ''B. subtilis'' , P''<sub>liaI</sub>'' and P''<sub>xyl</sub>''-''XylR''. They are useful to decide when to turn on gene expression because these promoters need an inducer to start transcription. They are evaluated with the reporter vectors pSB<sub>Bs</sub>3C-<i>luxABCDE</i> and pSB<sub>Bs</sub>1C-''lacZ'' and the BioBrick reporters ''lacZ'', ''luc'' and ''mKate2''.
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*'''P<sub>''liaI''</sub>'''    [http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K823001 BioBrick:BBa_K823001]
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P''<sub>liaI</sub>'' is an inducible promoter from ''B. subtilis'' which is induced by antibiotics that interact with the lipidII cycle, e.g. bacitracin. If the cell senses stress there is a phosphorylation of the two proteins LiaS and LiaR. LiaR binds to the operator of the promoter and induces the transcription. When the promoter is turned on the two proteins LiaI and LiaH are expressed which play an important role in the stress response [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Journal%20of%20Bacteriology%2C%20188%20%2814%29%3A%205153%E2%80%935166: (Jordan ''et al.'', 2006)]. This promoter is evaluated with the reporter vectors pSB<sub>Bs</sub>3C-<i>luxABCDE</i> and pSB<sub>Bs</sub>1C-''lacZ'' as well as the reporter genes ''lacZ'', ''luc'' and ''mKate2''. The induction was measured with different concentrations of bacitracin (see [https://2012.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Data Data]).
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*'''P<sub>''Xyl-XylR''</sub>'''    [http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K823002 BioBrick:BBa_K823002]
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