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<p style="color:black;text-indent:30px;">After reading a lot of papers to select an appropriate light sensing system to use, we selected the YF1/FixJ blue light system. We were also considering the red light sensor Cph8 but ultimately decided on YF1/FixJ because of its high on/off gene expression and also because of its availability to us (we were fortunate enough to come across the YF1/FixJ system in the form of the pDawn plasmid from the Moglich lab in Germany.)</p>
 
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<p style="color:black;text-indent:30px;">Shown below, the YF1/FixJ system works through a "repress the repressor" concept. Upon 480 nm blue light illumination, YF1 (a fusion of a LOV protein domain and a histidine kinase) phosphorylates a FixJ response regulators that activates the pFixK2 promoter. The activation of pFixK2, promotes expression of the cI repressor that in turn represses the lambda promoter pR. The net result is activation of the gene in the downstream MCS. </p>
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<p style="color:black;text-indent:30px;">We tested for light dependent gene expression by cloning in an mCherry reporter protein into the multiple cloning site of the pDawn system.  First, we tested for the on-off ratio by growing cultures of BL21-pDawn-mCherry in both inducing and non-inducing conditions for 22 hours.  After spinning down the cultures in a centrifuge, we were able to visually confirm the expression of mCherry due to the bacterial pellet grown in inducing conditions to be colored red, while the other pellet had no color (Figure 1).</p>
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<p style="color:black;text-indent:30px;">We tested for light dependent gene expression by cloning in an mCherry reporter protein into the multiple cloning site of the pDawn system. First, we tested for the on-off ratio by growing cultures of BL21-pDawn-mCherry in both inducing and non-inducing conditions for 22 hours. After spinning down the cultures in a centrifuge, we were able to visually confirm the expression of mCherry due to the bacterial pellet grown in inducing conditions to be colored red, while the other pellet had no color (Figure 1)</p>
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We then characterized the induction kinetics of the pDawn system through an mCherry expression time course.  We induced cultures of BL21 pDawn-mCherry for 0 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, 3 hours, 4 hours, 6 hours, 8 hours, or 22 hours in a 37C incubator shaking at 225 rpm, and then transferred them into a dark incubator under the same condition for the remaining growth period.  After 24 hours, mCherry fluorescence was read on a Tecan Infinite m200 plate reader and normalized by OD.  The cultures were then spun down in a centrifuge.  These results can be seen in Figure 2. </p>
We then characterized the induction kinetics of the pDawn system through an mCherry expression time course.  We induced cultures of BL21 pDawn-mCherry for 0 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, 3 hours, 4 hours, 6 hours, 8 hours, or 22 hours in a 37C incubator shaking at 225 rpm, and then transferred them into a dark incubator under the same condition for the remaining growth period.  After 24 hours, mCherry fluorescence was read on a Tecan Infinite m200 plate reader and normalized by OD.  The cultures were then spun down in a centrifuge.  These results can be seen in Figure 2. </p>
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After verifying that the pDawn system was able to express mCherry in a light-dependent manner, we substituted our ClyA for the mCherry gene to prove that ClyA could be expressed in a light dependent manner. We grew cultures of BL21 pDawn-His-ClyA in both inducing and non-inducing conditions, lysed the cells, and purified the ClyA with His affinity Ni beads.   We ran the purified protein on a 4-12% Bis-Tris 1mm SDS-PAGE gel stained with Invitrogen SimplyBlue gel stain, along with various controls.  These results can be seen in Figure 3.  As shown, pDawn was able to express ClyA in a light-dependent manner.</p>
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In order to further develop our system for future in vivo therapeutic applications, we transformed Nissle 1917 with pDawn-mCherry to see if we could implement our system into a non-pathogenic strain of E. coli.  We repeated our initial experiments and achieved light-dependent gene expression in Nissle 1917 for the first time ever.  We have also been able to transform our pDawn-ClyA construct into bacteria for use in blood agar plate experiments. <a href="https://2012.igem.org/Team:Penn/Nissle">Check it out! </a>
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YF1/FixJ (pDawn) Objectives

To characterize our pDawn gene expression system, we showed the following:
  1. pDawn allows for light-dependent gene expression in bacteria
  2. pDawn allows for light-dependent lysis of mammalian cells by bacteria
Light Dependent Gene Expression in Bacteria

We tested for light dependent gene expression by cloning in an mCherry reporter protein into the multiple cloning site of the pDawn system. First, we tested for the on-off ratio by growing cultures of BL21-pDawn-mCherry in both inducing and non-inducing conditions for 22 hours. After spinning down the cultures in a centrifuge, we were able to visually confirm the expression of mCherry due to the bacterial pellet grown in inducing conditions to be colored red, while the other pellet had no color (Figure 1).


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Characterizing Time-Dependent Gene Expression

We then characterized the induction kinetics of the pDawn system through an mCherry expression time course. We induced cultures of BL21 pDawn-mCherry for 0 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, 3 hours, 4 hours, 6 hours, 8 hours, or 22 hours in a 37C incubator shaking at 225 rpm, and then transferred them into a dark incubator under the same condition for the remaining growth period. After 24 hours, mCherry fluorescence was read on a Tecan Infinite m200 plate reader and normalized by OD. The cultures were then spun down in a centrifuge. These results can be seen in Figure 2.



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pDawn and Nissle 1917

In order to further develop our system for future in vivo therapeutic applications, we transformed Nissle 1917 with pDawn-mCherry to see if we could implement our system into a non-pathogenic strain of E. coli. We repeated our initial experiments and achieved light-dependent gene expression in Nissle 1917 for the first time ever. We have also been able to transform our pDawn-ClyA construct into bacteria for use in blood agar plate experiments. Check it out!



Figure 3