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BioBricks. Part Types. Chassis – organism (E. coli, yeast, mammalian) Vectors – plasmids, strains Parts - Proteins, RBS Devices – Inverters, reporters. Chassis. Constructing systems in bacteria (E. coli) This chassis can interact with most other organisms
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Part Types • Chassis – organism (E. coli, yeast, mammalian) • Vectors – plasmids, strains • Parts - Proteins, RBS • Devices – Inverters, reporters
Chassis • Constructing systems in bacteria (E. coli) • This chassis can interact with most other organisms • Conjugation, bacteriophage, signalling etc.
Vectors • Plasmid – circle of extra chromosomal DNA that can be inserted into cells • These can contain biobrick pieces or be a “backbone” into which one can place biobrick pieces • Strains?
Parts • Regulatory • Terminators • RNA • DNA • Protein Coding • Ribosome Binding Sites • Conjugation
Regulatory www.ntu.edu.sg/home5/pg04325488/dfl.htm
Terminators http://www.sparknotes.com/biology/molecular/dnatranscription/section2.rhtml
RNA Nature Biotechnology 22, 841 - 847 (2004)
DNA • Spacers • Add Biobricks site • Insertion • Transpososome
Protein coding • Genes that code for useful proteins • Repressors, activators • Integrases, Excisionases • Enzymes • Reporters
Ribosome binding sites • Site where the ribosome binds (obviously) • Different sequences lead to change in translation • These sites can be used for riboregulators or other regulation
Conjugation • Genes and plasmids for the transfer of genetic material via conjugation. kentsimmons.uwinnipeg.ca/16cm05/1116/16monera.htm
Protein Generator Composite Devices Measurement Devices • Reporters • Inverters • Signalling
Reporters • Semi-rudundant to DNA as there are genes of reporters in this category • Also reporters expressed by constitutive and regulated promoters • Some more complex systems using reporters
Inverters, Logic devices • PoPs -Polymerase Per Second (or PoPS) is defined as the number of times that an RNA polymerase molecule passes a specific point on DNA per unit time
Signalling • Communication between an individual cell and its neighbors • Signal Senders • Signal Receivers • devices using signalling
Protein Generation • RBS-gene-terminator • promoter-RBS-gene-terminator • operator-promoter-RBS-gene-terminator
Composite devices • Catch all device category
Measurement • Promoter output measurements • RBS characterization • QPI refers to a Quad-Part Inverter: an RBS, repressor protein, terminator and promoter • Screening plasmids: promoter, reporter, cloning site, reporter
“Other” • PCR primers • Tags – degradation, binding and restriction sites
General info • Biobricks: http://parts.mit.edu/registry/index.php/Main_Page • Search biobricks: http://parts.mit.edu/r/parts/partsdb/search.cgi