Team:Bielefeld-Germany/Results/Characterization/K389016
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Characterization of <partinfo>K389016</partinfo>
On this page the experiments and results that lead to the <partinfo>K389016</partinfo> characterization data presented on our characterization page are shown in detail.
Growth functions and mRFP expression for <partinfo>K389016</partinfo>
To characterize this part we performed several cultivations with different concentrations of acetosyringone as inducer and measured the fluorescence emitted by mRFP (Protocol). We used Escherichia Coli DB3.1 carrying the pSB1C3::K389016 plasmid. Even without inducer the bacteria, carrying the plasmid showed decelerated growth. In addition acetosyringone affected the growthrates (we used a stocksolution of 20 mM acetosyringone solved in 10 % (v/v) DMSO). Growth curves, averaged specific growth rates and doubling times are shown below. It can be observed, that E.coli carrying the pSB1C3::K389016 plasmid growths nearly linear.
The specific growth rates µ and doubling times td are calculated with the OD600 and following formulas:
Table 1: Averaged specific growth rates and doubling times for cultivations of E. coli DB3.1 without plasmid and carrying <partinfo>K389016</partinfo> with different acetosyringone concentrations in LB medium with 10 mg ml-1 chloramphenicol.
E. coli DB3.1 | µ / h-1 | td / h |
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without plasmid | 0.35 | 1.98 |
carrying K389016 | 0.27 | 2.57 |
carrying K389016 with 150 µM acetosyringone | 0.25 | 2.77 |
carrying K389016 with 1000 µM acetosyringone | 0.23 | 3.01 |
Exemplary induction curves with the fluorescence normalized to OD600 are shown in Fig.2. We observed a basal Transcription, but the Induction with acetosyringone is undoubtedly. The detailed data analysis and transfer function is described below.
Transfer function of <partinfo>K389016</partinfo>
The data for the transfer function was measured and analyzed as described below. The data was fitted with a dose response function of the form
with the Hill coefficient p, the bottom asymptote A1, the top asymptote A2 and the switch point log(x0). Figure 1 shows the measured normalized specific production rates qP,n (eq. 8) plotted against the logarithm of the concentration of the inductor acetosyringone in µM. The fit has an R2 = 0.99.
The important data from the transfer function is summarized in table 1:
Table 1: Data from the transfer function for the part <partinfo>K389016</partinfo>.
Parameter | Value |
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Hill coefficient | 1.673 |
Switch point | 26.5 µM |
Top asymptote | 2.62 |
So the fully induced VirA/G signaling system has a 2.6 fold increased expression compared to the uninduced system. The Hill coefficient is > 1, so a positive cooperation can be observed (D Chu et al., 2009). The switch point of the system is at about 25 µM, so this is the concentration at which the device output is 50% of the maximum output.
Data analysis for <partinfo>K389016</partinfo>
The data analysis is made in three steps. First step is the processing of the fluorescence raw data gained by the fluorescence plate reader for every sample:
In the second step the RFUcorrected of every sample is plotted against the cultivation time it was drawn. The data is fitted by an exponential fit of the following style:
The accumulation of mRFP in the cells is always exponential. A typical fitted product accumulation curve is shown below:
The product accumulation in a cultivation can be described as:
with the amount of product P, the cell count X and the specific production rate qP.
RFU is commensurate to the concentration of mRFP (P) and the OD600 is commensurate to the cell count (X) ( Canton and Labno, 2004):
With these assumptions it is possible to calculate the specific production rate of mRFP qP in the third step: the specific production rate for every sample of a cultivation is calculated by the derivation of the exponential fit line which describes the accumulation of product in the culture (dRFU/dt) and the measured OD600 data:
The specific production rates qP of all samples of all cultivations made with a specific inductor concentration c are averaged and normalized against the specific production rate of the uninduced system qP,0:
This normalized specific production rate we calculated is commensurate to relative promotor units (RPU) which is commensurate to PoPS (polymerase per seconds) (Canton and Labno, 2004; Pasotti et al., 2009):
Control of BioBrick quality by capillar gel electrophoresis (GCE)
The representative tested BioBrick shows ccc-type of over 91 %, meaning pDNA quality is optimal.