期刊
MOLECULAR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY
卷 12, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.15252/msb.20156540
关键词
antisense transcription; design automation; genetic circuits; synthetic biology; systems biology
资金
- Office of Naval Research (ONR) Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) [4500000552]
- US National Science Foundation (NSF) Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center [SynBERC EEC0540879]
- NSF
A surprise that has emerged from transcriptomics is the prevalence of genomic antisense transcription, which occurs counter to gene orientation. While frequent, the roles of antisense transcription in regulation are poorly understood. We built a synthetic system in Escherichia coli to study how antisense transcription can change the expression of a gene and tune the response characteristics of a regulatory circuit. We developed a new genetic part that consists of a unidirectional terminator followed by a constitutive antisense promoter and demonstrate that this part represses gene expression proportionally to the antisense promoter strength. Chip-based oligo synthesis was applied to build a large library of 5,668 terminator-promoter combinations that was used to control the expression of three repressors (PhlF, SrpR, and TarA) in a simple genetic circuit (NOT gate). Using the library, we demonstrate that antisense promoters can be used to tune the threshold of a regulatory circuit without impacting other properties of its response function. Finally, we determined the relative contributions of antisense RNA and transcriptional interference to repressing gene expression and introduce a biophysical model to capture the impact of RNA polymerase collisions on gene repression. This work quantifies the role of antisense transcription in regulatory networks and introduces a new mode to control gene expression that has been previously overlooked in genetic engineering.
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