USTC/Demonstration

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An actual demonstration is determined to show the extensibility of our method.


This demo system

  • accepts aTc and AHL signals as inputs;
  • produces RFP and GFP signals as outputs;
  • can be "reset" by IPTG signal (i.e. both of the outputs are lightened when IPTG added in);
  • is expected to put out the results that accord with the truth value shown in Figure 2.


Logic Abstract of the Demo

Figure 1 The logic diagram of the demo system.


Figure 2 The truth table of the demo system.


We can see from this truth table that IPTG might result in both outputs lightened no matter aTc or AHL exists or not. (It is just like the response "8888..." on the screen when you reset one of your digital equipment, for example, a calculator.)

Actual System

Figure 3 The signal pathway of the demo system.


The three parts on the left are loaded on http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_I732923 pSB1A3-I732923, and the rest two parts are loaded on http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_I732999 pSB1A3-I732999. We've built up this system in one kind of TOP10 E.coli, but it seems that it cannot grow stably when concentrated aTc exists. (We have to use aTc at a high concentration for counteracting the high expression of LuxR, but concentrated aTc shows some bacteriostatic activity like Tc(TetraCycline).) We may not be able to send out the very final results here exactly by Oct. 26, but we have continually been trying our best to screen out such a monoclonal strain that do not care about concentrated aTc. You will get the results in the coming presentation...