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Cpx Circuits
The circuit that will be constructed to detect protein misfolding will have the cpxP promoter. Two other similar circuits will be constructed to compare the activation of cpxP promoter compared to degP and cpxR promoter. All three promoters have the same function: activation of degP which degenerates misfolded proteins in the cell. As it can be seen in the graph below, the cpxP promoter is the most sensitive to the stress. The purpose of this circuit is to detect protein misfolding. For example, cpxP promoter becomes activated under several specific streses: elevation of pH and overexpression envelope proteins such as NlpE. Hence, if periplasmic misfolding occurs in the cell of an E.coli bacteria, the reporter gene, in this case the Red Fluroscent Protein (RFP), will be activated. Hence, the activation of the RFP will be the indication of a periplasmic protein misfolding.