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MOLECULAR BIOSYSTEMS
Volume 7, Issue 8, Pages 2389-2396Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c1mb05094j
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- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
- EU
- Autonomous Community of Madrid
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Whether biological or electronic, man-engineered computation is based on logic circuits assembled with binary gates that are interconnected to perform Boolean operations. We report here the rewiring of the SOS system of Escherichia in a fashion that makes the output of both the recA and lexA promoters to faithfully follow the pattern of a binary composite OR-NOT gate (ORN) in which the inputs are DNA damage (e. g. nalidixic acid addition) and IPTG as an exogenous signal. Unlike other non-natural gates whose implementation requires changes in genes and promoters of the genome of the host cells, this ORN was brought about by the sole addition of wild-type bacteria with a plasmid encoding a module for LacI(q)-dependent expression of lexA. Specifically, we demonstrate that the interplay between native, chromosomally-encoded components of the SOS system and the extra parts engineered in such a plasmid made the desired performance to happen without any modification of the core DNA-damage response network. It is thus possible to artificially interface autonomous cell networks with a predetermined logic by means of Boolean gates built with regulatory elements already functioning in the recipient organism.
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