Biobricks

How our system works:

Our Favorite New Parts:

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Name:	TBY		ID:	[http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K897720 BBa_K897720]
Type:	RNA		Length:	382bp
Description:	This part encodes a fragment of antisense FtsZ RNA protected by paired termini structure under T7 promoter. Inhibiting the expression of FtsZ, it can strongly repress the cell division in E.coli.

*TBY means "Te Bie Yuan", or "very round" in English...

Other Parts We like:

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Name:	FtsZ_B0015		ID:	[http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K897624 BBa_K897624]
Type:	RNA		Length:	283bp
Description:	This part encodes a fragment of antisense FtsZ RNA combined with a terminator. It can repress the cell division in E.coli when used with a promoter.

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Name:	Paired Termini		ID:	[http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K897318 BBa_K897318]
Type:	Other		Length:	146bp
Description:	This part encodes a paired termini with a MCS in the middle of it. By insert target antisense RNA into the MCS, it can protect the antisense RNA from degradation and enhance the efficiency or antisense RNA silencing.

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Name:	S03419_B0015		ID:	[http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_S05053 BBa_BBa_S05053]
Type:	Intermediate		Length:	2418bp
Description:	This part is the combination of S03419 and B0015, a part of light sensor system. Once equipped with a promoter, BBa_S05053 can produce the Cph8,the key menbrane-bound protein of red light sensor.

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Name:	K081024_I13507		ID:	[http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_S05054 BBa_BBa_S05054]
Type:	Intermediate		Length:	1828bp
Description:	BBa_S05054 is an intermediate constructed by the conjunction of K081024 and I13507. As a part of light sensor, it contains the PcyA coding sequence(I15009), the OmpR- controlled promoter(ROO82) and the mRFP reporter（I13507. With a combination of J13002 and I15008,this part can produce the enzymes, whicn can catalyzed the two procedures required by conversion of haem into PCB,and offer the OmpC promoter.

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Name:	R0010_P0451		ID:	[http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_S05055 BBa_BBa_S05055]
Type:	Intermediate		Length:	1138bp
Description:	This part is the pre-half of the collins toggle switch, which include a lac promoter (ROO1O) and cI coding part(P0451). It can be used as a toggle switch when combined with R0051_I732820.

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Data For Pre-existing Parts:

[http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_M30109:Experience BBa_M30109 Experience:]

• BBa_M30109 seems not as available as mentioned on the website. We tried PCR and extraction

of plasmids successively but both of them failed. It might be the size that resulted in the

instability of those test procedures since BBa_M30109 has an astonishing size of 4333bp:

with such a giant fragment it may lead to multiple mistakes in replication.

[http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_R0051:Experience BBa_R0051 Experience:]

• BBa_R0051 does not work well due to its rather small size. We transformed it for three

times, and none of them succeed. We designed primers to PCR it out from K091230

successfully, but failed to perform the digestion since it is too small to extract from

gel. It may work better if adding some nonsense sequence before the promoter.

[http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_J5526:Experience BBa_J5526 Experience:]

• We tried to transform BBa_J5526 several times. It grows well, but never turns red.

Division Inhibition

The antisense FtsZ, protected by hair-pin structure and termed TBY or BBa_897720, is

regulated by T7 promoter and regarded as the core part of our project. The antisense FtsZ

sequence mainly aims at silenting the FtsZ gene and control the self-renewal and

differentiation of E.coli. Since the antisense FtsZ gene in BBa_897720 is regulated by the

T7 promoter that is specifically combined with T7 RNA polymerase, a endogenous protein in

BL21(DE3) strain under the control of the lac UV5 promoter inducible by IPTG, the number of

colonies is expected to decrease with the an increase in IPTG. The confirmatory experiment

below verifys the validity of TBY and our hypothesis.

After integrating the plasmid with an insert of BBa_897720 into BL21(DE3) strain, we

cultivated those bacteria on the surface of solid LB medium in 4 dfferent IPTG levels. The

conditions was strictly controlled at the temperature of 37 ℃ and it last for 10 hours.

The controls aims to rule out the possibility of damaged to the bacteria from IPTG. Details

are illustrated below:

	IPTG(0.0mM)	IPTG(0.5mM)	IPTG(1.0mM)	IPTG(2.0mM)
TBY *0.01
TBY *0.1
TBY- *0.1
TBY- *0.01

• TBY represents the BL21(DE3) bacteria carring plasmids with an insert of BBa_K897720. TBY-

means that the BL21(DE3) bacteria carried the plasmids as same as the plasmids of TBY but

without the insert of BBa_K8977720.

• TBY(-) are diluted tenfold and hundredfold separately, marked as “*0.1” and “*0.01”.
• The number in the parenthesis following the “IPTG” means the concentration of IPTG.
• For original full-size picture, [https://2012.igem.org/Team:SEU_O_China/Result/Pics see

here].

In order to analyse the repressible effect of FtsZ, we calculate the colony coverage of

every sample. Details are illustrated in the Model Part, and the results of analysis are

shown below.

	IPTG(0.0mM)	IPTG(0.5mM)	IPTG(1.0mM)	IPTG(2.0mM)
TBY *0.01
TBY *0.1
TBY- *0.1
TBY- *0.01

• Colony coverage Map

	IPTG(0.0mM)	IPTG(0.5mM)	IPTG(1.0mM)	IPTG(2.0mM)
TBY*0.01	93.23	9.21	0.65	0.29
TBY*0.1	76.30	44.38	27.74	19.37
TBY-*0.1	94.03	95.85	92.39	93.55
TBY-*0.01	80.01	82.51	86.74	88.97

• Percentage of colony coverage

• FtsZ repressible effect

Both of the red line and the blue line in the illustration show that the colony coverage

decreases while the level of IPTG increases, which suggests that the growth of colony is

somehow repressed. Moreover, the yellow line reveals that the IPTG has little side effect

on colony. As a result, FtsZ truly represses the growth of bacteria and also provide experimental

evidence for our project scheme.

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