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+ | <div id="bodybaby" style="font-size: 12px;">toggle by parts</div><a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/c/cc/UV_Circuit1.jpg" class="thickbox" title="Bacterial UV Toggle for controlling phage polymerization"><img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/c/cc/UV_Circuit1.jpg" width=215px></a> | ||
+ | <div id="bodybaby" style="font-size: 12px;">toggle abstraction</div><a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/4/43/Abstractcircuit.png" class="thickbox" title="Abstracted bacterial toggle circuit to logic gates."><img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/4/43/Abstractcircuit.png" width=215px></a><br><br><br> | ||
+ | <div id="bodybaby" style="font-size: 12px;">toggle black-boxed</div><a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/1/18/Circuit.png" class="thickbox" title="Black-boxed bacterial toggle circuit. Also shown are the phage linker constructs."><img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/1/18/Circuit.png" width=215px></a> | ||
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- | <tr><td> <br>In the beginning, there was a UV Toggle (<a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v403/n6767/abs/403339a0.html">Collins, 2000</a>). <br> The 2010 MIT iGEM team saw that it was good, and decided to implement the Collins toggle in E.coli to create cells with bistable phenotypes. | + | <tr><td><br>In the beginning, there was a UV Toggle |
- | <div style=" | + | (<a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v403/n6767/abs/403339a0.html">Collins, 2000</a>). <br> <br> The 2010 MIT iGEM team saw that it was good, and decided to implement the Collins toggle in E.coli to create cells with bistable phenotypes. |
+ | <div class="sidep"><a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/8/80/First.png" class="thickbox" title="The first patterned image created by exposing masked cells to UV light. The cells were made by co-transforming the Collins toggle plasmid pTSMa with our composite biobrick K415006."><img height=100px src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/8/80/First.png"></a><br>The first picture of mCherry fluorescence induced by UV light.</div> | ||
+ | We planned for the toggle to create patterned fluorescence and phage polymerization in response to exposing the cells to UV light. <br> Our first construction resulted in a composite biobrick K415006 that, once co-transformed with pTSMa from the Collins toggle, induced mCherry fluorescence in cells that were exposed to UV light. After much fine-tuning of the power of the UV exposure, the concentrations of AHL and IPTG, and mask cutting, a pattern of fluorescence finally emerged -- the first image.<br> | ||
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+ | Then we decided to make the signal amplify itself. We added a gene onto our composite biobrick that would produce additional AHL if induced by UV light. It was named K415022. In order to view the propagation, we recorded a movie beginning from the moment the cells were induced with UV. In addition to viewing the progression of the fluorescence, we were able to record how long it took for a true pattern of fluorescence to emerge in our cell lawn.<br><object width="300" height="180" style="display: inline; margin: 0px 16%;"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6KHabnSzCJ8?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6KHabnSzCJ8?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="240"></embed></object> | ||
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+ | After further inspection of the movie, we realized it might not be an accurate representation of the fluorescent propagation because we noticed a circle of cell death where the UV exposure had killed some of the cells in the lawn. We then decided to make pLPTa, a low power toggle that | ||
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+ | <a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/e/eb/Igem_uv_prelim.png" class="thickbox" title="Power Modulation using the Low Power Toggle and cells that fluoresce red with UV induction."><img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/e/eb/Igem_uv_prelim.png" width=300px></a><br>Here we see cells controlled by the Low Power Toggle. The cells fluoresce red with UV induction, but at higher UV levels cell death can be seen in the green field.</div> still provided bistability, but required less UV power to induce a toggle switch. <br> | ||
+ | By site-directed mutagenesis, we changed the lambda repressor (cI) gene in the Collins pTSMa to a cI that is more sensitive to cleavage by Rec-A, the enzyme activated by UV light exposure. Thus, we modified the Collins toggle to minimize cell death in the UV-exposed regions while still maintaining its switch-like behavior. | ||
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the bacterial uv toggle |
In the beginning, there was a UV Toggle (Collins, 2000). The 2010 MIT iGEM team saw that it was good, and decided to implement the Collins toggle in E.coli to create cells with bistable phenotypes. We planned for the toggle to create patterned fluorescence and phage polymerization in response to exposing the cells to UV light. Our first construction resulted in a composite biobrick K415006 that, once co-transformed with pTSMa from the Collins toggle, induced mCherry fluorescence in cells that were exposed to UV light. After much fine-tuning of the power of the UV exposure, the concentrations of AHL and IPTG, and mask cutting, a pattern of fluorescence finally emerged -- the first image. Then we decided to make the signal amplify itself. We added a gene onto our composite biobrick that would produce additional AHL if induced by UV light. It was named K415022. In order to view the propagation, we recorded a movie beginning from the moment the cells were induced with UV. In addition to viewing the progression of the fluorescence, we were able to record how long it took for a true pattern of fluorescence to emerge in our cell lawn. After further inspection of the movie, we realized it might not be an accurate representation of the fluorescent propagation because we noticed a circle of cell death where the UV exposure had killed some of the cells in the lawn. We then decided to make pLPTa, a low power toggle that ![]() Here we see cells controlled by the Low Power Toggle. The cells fluoresce red with UV induction, but at higher UV levels cell death can be seen in the green field. By site-directed mutagenesis, we changed the lambda repressor (cI) gene in the Collins pTSMa to a cI that is more sensitive to cleavage by Rec-A, the enzyme activated by UV light exposure. Thus, we modified the Collins toggle to minimize cell death in the UV-exposed regions while still maintaining its switch-like behavior. |