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Data

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Bacillus Intro	Bacillus BioBrickBOX	SporeCoat FusionProteins	Germination STOP

Bacillus BioBrick Box - Promoters

Fig. 1: Luminescence measurement of Anderson promoters in the reporter vector pSB_Bs3C-luxABCDE. OD₆₀₀ (right), LUMI (center) and OD₆₀₀ per LUMI (left) depending on the time (h) are shown for two different clones (green/blue). Data derive from three independent experiments. Curves were fitted over each other (t=0, OD₆₀₀=0,3) and smoothed by taking average of three neighboring values.

Eleven (J23100,J23101, J23102, J23103, J23106, J23107, J23113, J23114, J23115, J23117, J23118) of the nineteen promoters of the [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_J23100 Anderson collection] were evaluated in the reporter vector pSB_Bs3C-luxABCDE from the BioBrickBox containing the lux operon as a reporter for promoter activity. The gene expression which correlates to the promoter activity leads to the expression of the lux operon with the luciferase. The luminescence which is produced by the luciferase can be measured with the plate reader (BioTek). Data derive from three undependant measurements. Curves were fitted over each other (t=0, OD₆₀₀=0,3) and smoothed by taking average of three neighboring values. OD values shown are plate reader units and about one third of the usual OD values. All clones show a usual growth curves. The activity of the promoters raises during the pass from the transition to the stationary phase. This maximum (t=1h) reaches from 200Lumi/OD600 (promoter J23115) to a maximum of 1500 Lumi/OD600 for the strongest promoter (J23101). Afterwards the activity goes down to the beginning level (t=2h). The oscillation of luminescence in the beginning of the curves are due to the small OD and do not mean a high promoter activity. The luminescence of one clone of the promoters J23107 and J23114 do not show activity where in future a second clone with promoter activity should be measured. In comparison to all the other evaluated Bacillus promoters these Anderson promoters showed a very low acitivity in B. subtilis.

To measure the activity not only with the lux reporter operon, four promoters of the Anderson collection were cloned into the reporter vector pSB_Bs1C-lacZ to do beta-galactosidase assays and then to compare the results of the strength of these promoters in B. subtilis.

Fig. 2: Luminescence measurement of the constitutive Bacillus promoters P_liaG and P_lepA in the reporter vector pSB_Bs3C-luxABCDE. OD₆₀₀ (right), LUMI (center) and LUMI per OD₆₀₀ (left) depending on the time (h) are shown for two different clones (green/blue). Data come from three independent experiments. Curves were fitted over each other (t=0, OD₆₀₀=0,3) and smoothed by taking average of three neighboring values.

The constitutive promoters P_liaG and P_lepA were evaluated in the reporter vector pSB_Bs3C-luxABCDE which contains the lux operon. Data derive from three undependant measurements. Curves were fitted over each other (t=0, OD₆₀₀=0,3) and smoothed by taking average of three neighboring values. OD values shown are plate reader units and about one third of the usual OD values. All clones show a usual growth curves. The activity of the promoters raises during the pass from the transition to the stationary phase. The second clone of the promoters PlepA and PliaG did not show any luminescence activity. In the beginning of the growth curve the activity of both promoters raise to their maximum. They show a similar behaviour in pertaining to the groth curve.PliaG has an activity maximum of about 100.000 Lumi/OD600 during the pass from logarithmic to the stationary phase. PlepA shows an maximum of about 400.000 Lumi/OD600. Comparing these two consitutive promotersthe activity of PlepA is about four times higher thanthe activity of PliaG.In the late stationary phase the activity completely disappears.

Fig. 3: β-galactosidase assay and growth curve P_liaG (black) and P_veg (grey) in the reporter vector pSB_Bs1C-lacZ. β-galactosidase activity (Miller Units)and growth curve are the average of two independant clones. Experiment shows representative data which was obtained in the same way from three independent experiments.

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Germination Stop

We induced our germination-mutant strains to sporulate in Difco sporulation media. Then we measured the germination rate of mutant spores in a germination assay.

Fig. 5: Comparison of colony growth on LB-agar (plus antibiotics) plates. Upper plates are plated with DSM cell/spore cultures that have been heated at 80°C for 1 hour to kill living cells (but does not affect spores). This prevents cells from forming colonies. Therefore, all colonies observed are from germinated spores. Lower plates contain cultures which have not been heated. Growth on these plates is from either cells or spores, and demonstrates that strains are able to grow. WT168 has no germination knockouts; strains B40-B43 have triple knockouts; strains B46 and B47 have quadruple knockouts; Spo0A has a knockout of the sporulation gene Spo0A (replaced with a tet cassette). WT168 is a positive control; Spo0A is a negative control.
Strains:
B40 -- cwlD::kan, sleB::mls, cwlJ::spec
B41 -- cwlD::kan, sleB::mls, gerD::cat
B42 -- cwlD::kan, cwlJ::spec, gerD::cat
B43 -- gerD::cat, sleB::mls, cwlJ::spec
B46 -- cwlD::kan, cwlJ::spec, gerD::cat, sleB::mls
B47 -- gerD::cat, sleb::mls, cwlJ::spec, cwlD::kan

The plate growth demonstrates the inability of our mutant spores to germinate. We can say that fewer than 1 out of 3x10^7 spores of strains B40, B41, B43, B46, and B47 germinated.