期刊
ACS SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY
卷 1, 期 1, 页码 29-41出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/sb200016s
关键词
in vitro transcription-translation; cell-free gene circuits; design principles; phospholipid vesicles
资金
- UMN startup funds
- National Science Foundation [PHY-0750133]
- fellowship from the Graduate School Block Grant funds (UMN)
Cell-free protein synthesis is becoming a powerful technique to construct and to study complex informational processes in vitro. Engineering synthetic gene circuits in a test tube, however, is seriously limited by the transcription repertoire of modern cell-free systems, composed of only a few bacteriophage regulatory elements. Here, we report the construction and the phenomenological characterization of synthetic gene circuits engineered with a cell-free expression toolbox that works with the seven E. coli sigma factors. The E. coli endogenous holoenzyme E-70 is used as the primary transcription machinery. Elementary circuit motifs, such as multiple stage cascades, AND gate and negative feedback loops are constructed with the six other sigma factors, two bacteriophage RNA polyrnerases, and a set of repressors. The circuit dynamics reveal the importance of the global mRNA turnover rate and of passive competition-induced transcriptional regulation. Cell-free reactions can be carried out over long periods of time with a small-scale dialysis reactor or in phospholipid vesicles, an artificial cell system. This toolbox is a unique platform to study complex transcription/translation-based biochemical systems in vitro.
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