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KMID : 0545120160260010139
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Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
2016 Volume.26 No. 1 p.139 ~ p.144
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Construction of an Oscillator Gene Circuit by Negative and Positive Feedbacks
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Shen Shi Hui
Ma Yu Shu
Ren Yu Hong
Wei Dong Zhi
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Abstract
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Synthetic oscillators are gene circuits in which the protein expression will change over time. The delay of transcription, translation, and protein folding is used to form this kind of behavior. Here, we tried to design a synthetic oscillator by a negative feedback combined with a positive feedback. With the mutant promoter PLacC repressed by LacIq and PLux activated by AHL-bound LuxR, two gene circuits, Os-LAA and Os-ASV, were constructed and introduced into LacI-deleted E. coli DH5α cells. When glucose was used as the carbon source, a low level of fluorescence was detected in the culture, and the bacteria with Os-ASV showed no oscillation, whereas a small portion of those carrying Os-LAA demonstrated oscillation behavior with a period of about 68.3 ± 20 min. When glycerol was used as the carbon source, bacteria with Os-ASV demonstrated high fluorescence value and oscillation behavior with the period of about 121 ± 21 min.
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KEYWORD
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oscillator, regulation, lactose operon, quorum-sensing system
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