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=='''B<sup>4</sup>''' - 22 core parts for ''Bacillus subtilis''==
 
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<p align="justify">A major goal of our iGEM project is to [https://2012.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Bacillus_Introduction introduce ''B. subtilis''] as a new chassis for BioBrick-based Synthetic Biology. For that purpose, we created a toolbox of <i>Bacillus</i> BioBricks to contribute to the registry to make it accessible to many more future iGEM-Teams! This ''<b>Bacillus'' B</b>io<b>B</b>rick <b>B</b>ox ('''B<sup>4</sup>''') contains the following ''Bacillus'' specific parts:</p>
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=='''B<sup>4</sup>''' - 22 core parts for ''Bacillus subtilis''==
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<p align="justify">A major goal of our iGEM project is to [https://2012.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Bacillus_Introduction introduce ''B. subtilis''] as a new chassis for BioBrick-based synthetic biology. For that purpose, we created a toolbox of <i>Bacillus</i> BioBricks to contribute to the registry to make it accessible to many more future iGEM-teams and the entire public microbiology domain! This ''<b>Bacillus'' B</b>io<b>B</b>rick <b>B</b>ox ('''B<sup>4</sup>''') contains the following ''Bacillus'' specific parts:</p>
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| style="width:20%"|'''[[Team:LMU-Munich/Bacillus_BioBricks#Bacillus_Vectors|Vectors]]'''
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| style="width:20%"|'''[[Team:LMU-Munich/Bacillus_BioBricks/Vectors|Vectors]]'''
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| style="width:20%"|'''[[Team:LMU-Munich/Bacillus_BioBricks#Bacillus_Promoters|Promoters]]'''
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| style="width:20%"|'''[[Team:LMU-Munich/Bacillus_BioBricks/Promoters|Promoters]]'''
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| style="width:20%"|'''[[Team:LMU-Munich/Bacillus_BioBricks#Bacillus_Reporters|Reporters]]'''
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| style="width:20%"|'''[[Team:LMU-Munich/Bacillus_BioBricks/Reporters|Reporters]]'''
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| style="width:20%"|'''[[Team:LMU-Munich/Bacillus_BioBricks#Affinity_Tags|Affinity tags]]
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| style="width:20%"|'''[[Team:LMU-Munich/Bacillus_BioBricks/Tags|Affinity tags]]
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<p align="justify">Since ''Bacillus subtilis'' is not an organism commonly used in iGEM, please check out our [https://2012.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Bacillus_Introduction Introduction].</p>
 
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==''Bacillus'' Vectors  [[File:LMU Backbone.png|100px|link=Team:LMU-Munich/Bacillus_BioBricks#Bacillus_Vectors|Vectors]]==
 
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[[File:NEXT.png|right|80px|link=Team:LMU-Munich/Germination_Stop]]  [[File:BACK.png|left|80px|link=Team:LMU-Munich/Data/differentiation_tour]]
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<p align="justify">We have generated a suit of BioBrick-compatible vectors: three empty insertional backbones with different antibiotic resistances and integration loci, two reporter and two expression vectors. Here is a list of all the vectors we cloned and used.</p>
 
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!pSB<sub>''Bs''</sub>1C [http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K823023 <font color="#EBFCE4" size="2">(BBa_K823023)</font>]
 
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!pSB<sub>''Bs''</sub>1C-<i>lac</i>Z [http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K823021 <font color="#EBFCE4" size="2">(BBa_K823021) </font>]
 
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<p align="justify">For the use of our vectors please see our [[Team:LMU-Munich/Lab_Notebook/Protocols|Protocols]] page. A general introduction to [[Team:LMU-Munich/Bacillus Introduction |''Bacillus subtilis'']] and its integrative vectors can be found [[Team:LMU-Munich/Bacillus_BioBricks/integration|here]]. All vectors have ampicillin as <i>Escherichia coli</i> resistance and RFP in the multiple cloning site as selection marker.</p>
 
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==''Bacillus'' Vectors  [[File:LMU Backbone.png|100px|link=Team:LMU-Munich/Bacillus_BioBricks#Bacillus_Vectors|Vectors]]==
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|[[File:LMU-Munich-PSBBs1C.png|200px|right|link=Team:LMU-Munich/Bacillus BioBricks/Vectors]]
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<font color="#000000"; size="2"><p align="justify"> '''Overview of promoter activity evaluated with luminescence measurements in pSB<sub>''Bs''</sub>3C-''luxABCDE''.''' These values derive from the experiments you can find in our Data section. Lumi per OD<sub>600</sub> are taken at a OD<sub>600</sub> of 0.1. Values are the average and the standard deviation of three different experiments for clone 1. Shown is the activity of the Anderson promoters J23100 (#100), J23101 (#101), J23102 (#102), J23103 (#103), J23106 (#106), J23107 (#107), J23113 (#113), J23114 (#114), J23115 (#115), J23117 (#117), J23118 (#118) as well as the activity of the constitutive promoters P<sub>''liaG''</sub>, and P<sub>''lepA''</sub>. The activity of the inducible promoter P<sub>''liaI''</sub> is shown with (+bac) and without (-bac) induction with bacitracin (10 μg/ml). The promoter activity of P<sub>''veg''</sub> is projected from the results from the β-galactosidase assay and was not measured with luminescence measurements. For the assays shown, an intermediate version of the reporter vector pSB<sub>''Bs''</sub>3C-''luxABCDE'' was used, which still contained one forbidden PstI site.</p></font>
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<p align="justify">The second group of promoters are a set of constitutive promoters from ''B. subtilis'' that we have added to the Registry. We evaluated the promoters [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K823000 P<sub>''liaG''</sub>], [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K823003 P<sub>''veg''</sub>] and [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K823002 P<sub>''lepA''</sub>] using the ''lux'' operon as well as the ''lacZ'' gene as reporters.</p>
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<p align="justify"> P<sub>''lepA''</sub> is a constitutive promoter that is important for the transcription of the bicistronic operon. One of the expressed proteins is the protein P<sub>''lepA''</sub> [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Microbiology%2C%20142%3A%201641%E2%80%931649: (Homuth ''et al.'', 1996)]. P<sub>''lepA''</sub> plays an important role during 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 protein was evaluated with the ''lux'' operon as a reporter (see [https://2012.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Data/Constitutive#Luminescence_measurements Data constitutive promoters] [[File:Lux operon.png|100px|link=https://2012.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Data/Constitutive#Luminescence_measurements]]). The activity of this promoter is between the activity of the strongest ''Bacillus'' promoter P<sub>''veg''</sub> and the weak P<sub>''liaG''</sub>. </p>
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