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In 2000 Gardner and Collins reported the construction of a fundamental genetic regulatory device, the bistable toggle switch in E. coli. We report here a natural extension of this classic device, a tristable genetic toggle switch capable of switching among three stable states. Like the bistable switch, the tristable switch consists of repressible promoters that produce inhibitory proteins and requires only a transient pulse of chemical inducer to switch among stable states. Our initial construct controls the expression of three different fluorescent reporters using the pBad/AraC, pLacI/LacI, and pTetR/TetR systems; though it can theoretically be created from any three repressible promoters and can control the expression of any three genes. Due to the anticipated addition of noise resulting from the presence of the additional promoter/repressor, we have modeled the system extensively, creating both a continuous model based on Elowitz 2000 and a stochastic deterministic model based on Isaacs 2003. In addition to modeling our system, we have also explored the possibility of creating switches capable of even more stable states. The tristable toggle switch, constructed and characterized as an iGEM 2006 project at Brown University, is composed entirely of Biobricks from the Registry of Standard Biological Parts. In addition to providing support for the igem hypothesis, the tristable toggle switch has implications for biotechnology and gene therapy. | In 2000 Gardner and Collins reported the construction of a fundamental genetic regulatory device, the bistable toggle switch in E. coli. We report here a natural extension of this classic device, a tristable genetic toggle switch capable of switching among three stable states. Like the bistable switch, the tristable switch consists of repressible promoters that produce inhibitory proteins and requires only a transient pulse of chemical inducer to switch among stable states. Our initial construct controls the expression of three different fluorescent reporters using the pBad/AraC, pLacI/LacI, and pTetR/TetR systems; though it can theoretically be created from any three repressible promoters and can control the expression of any three genes. Due to the anticipated addition of noise resulting from the presence of the additional promoter/repressor, we have modeled the system extensively, creating both a continuous model based on Elowitz 2000 and a stochastic deterministic model based on Isaacs 2003. In addition to modeling our system, we have also explored the possibility of creating switches capable of even more stable states. The tristable toggle switch, constructed and characterized as an iGEM 2006 project at Brown University, is composed entirely of Biobricks from the Registry of Standard Biological Parts. In addition to providing support for the igem hypothesis, the tristable toggle switch has implications for biotechnology and gene therapy. | ||
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Progress toward the construction of a tri-stable genetic toggle switch in E. coli
Author(s): Brown iGEM
Affiliations: Brown University
Contact:email: Jason_Lohmueller@Brown.edu
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Abstract
In 2000 Gardner and Collins reported the construction of a fundamental genetic regulatory device, the bistable toggle switch in E. coli. We report here a natural extension of this classic device, a tristable genetic toggle switch capable of switching among three stable states. Like the bistable switch, the tristable switch consists of repressible promoters that produce inhibitory proteins and requires only a transient pulse of chemical inducer to switch among stable states. Our initial construct controls the expression of three different fluorescent reporters using the pBad/AraC, pLacI/LacI, and pTetR/TetR systems; though it can theoretically be created from any three repressible promoters and can control the expression of any three genes. Due to the anticipated addition of noise resulting from the presence of the additional promoter/repressor, we have modeled the system extensively, creating both a continuous model based on Elowitz 2000 and a stochastic deterministic model based on Isaacs 2003. In addition to modeling our system, we have also explored the possibility of creating switches capable of even more stable states. The tristable toggle switch, constructed and characterized as an iGEM 2006 project at Brown University, is composed entirely of Biobricks from the Registry of Standard Biological Parts. In addition to providing support for the igem hypothesis, the tristable toggle switch has implications for biotechnology and gene therapy.
References
Gardner TS, Cantor CR, Collins JJ. Construction of a genetic toggle switch in Escherichia coli. Nature. 2000 Jan 20;403(6767):339-42.
Elowitz MB, Leibler S. A synthetic oscillatory network of transcriptional regulators. Nature. 2000 Jan 20;403(6767):335-8.
Isaacs FJ, Hasty J, Cantor CR, Collins JJ. Prediction and measurement of an autoregulatory genetic module. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 Jun 24;100(13):7714-9. Epub 2003 Jun 13.
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