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<p>For teams seeking to improve upon a previous part or project, you should document all of your work on this page. Please remember to include all part measurement and characterization data on the part page on the Registry. Please include a link to your improved part on this page.</p>
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<p><b>Standard Tracks:</b> Create a new part that has a functional improvement upon an existing BioBrick part. The sequences of the new and existing parts must be different. You must perform experiments with both parts to demonstrate this improvement.  Document the experimental characterization on the Part's Main Page on the Registry for both the existing and new parts. Both the new and existing Main Page of each Part’s Registry entry must reference each other. Submit a sample of the new part to the Registry.
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The existing part must NOT be from your 2018 part number range and must be different from the part documented in bronze #4.
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<b>Special Tracks:</b> Improve the function of an existing iGEM project (that your current team did not originally create) and display your achievement on your wiki.</p>
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pSoxS is one half of the pSoxR/pSoxS bidirectional promoter. Transcription downstream of pSoxS is activated in response to oxidation of the SoxR transcription factor, either directly by redox-cycling drugs or by oxidative stress. It is therefore inducible by various redox-cycling drugs, toxins, antibiotics, heavy metals, hydrogen peroxide and nitric oxide, providing various applications in the development of environmental and therapeutic devices. By coupling oxidation of redox-cycling species to an electrode, the 2018 Imperial College London iGEM team (PixCell) used pSoxS to build electrogenetic devices in which electrical inputs modulated gene expression.
  
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This pSoxS promoter represents an improvement on <a href="http://parts.igem.org/Part:BBa_K387001">Part:BBa_K387001</a>. Our primary contribution is enhanced modularity, allowing its incorporation into a library of promoters and corresponding transcription factors; we also have evidence of new functionality (transcriptional repression) in combination with one of the transcription factors in this library. The promoter was taken from E. coli, with a 2bp deletion introduced between the -35 and -10 site in order to convert the induction of the promoter from transcriptional activation to transcriptional repression. The promoter was also engineered to be unidirectional by knocking out activity of the pSoxR portion. It was designed with an upstream terminator to remove the need for these to be added as parts in large assemblies. It also contains a downstream ribozyme to reduce context-dependency. It forms part of the PixCell library of electrogenetic and redox-sensing parts.
  
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This part is compatible for BioBrick, BASIC and Golden Gate assembly.
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Latest revision as of 03:38, 18 October 2018





Improved Part

pSoxS Mutant 3

pSoxS is one half of the pSoxR/pSoxS bidirectional promoter. Transcription downstream of pSoxS is activated in response to oxidation of the SoxR transcription factor, either directly by redox-cycling drugs or by oxidative stress. It is therefore inducible by various redox-cycling drugs, toxins, antibiotics, heavy metals, hydrogen peroxide and nitric oxide, providing various applications in the development of environmental and therapeutic devices. By coupling oxidation of redox-cycling species to an electrode, the 2018 Imperial College London iGEM team (PixCell) used pSoxS to build electrogenetic devices in which electrical inputs modulated gene expression. This pSoxS promoter represents an improvement on Part:BBa_K387001. Our primary contribution is enhanced modularity, allowing its incorporation into a library of promoters and corresponding transcription factors; we also have evidence of new functionality (transcriptional repression) in combination with one of the transcription factors in this library. The promoter was taken from E. coli, with a 2bp deletion introduced between the -35 and -10 site in order to convert the induction of the promoter from transcriptional activation to transcriptional repression. The promoter was also engineered to be unidirectional by knocking out activity of the pSoxR portion. It was designed with an upstream terminator to remove the need for these to be added as parts in large assemblies. It also contains a downstream ribozyme to reduce context-dependency. It forms part of the PixCell library of electrogenetic and redox-sensing parts. This part is compatible for BioBrick, BASIC and Golden Gate assembly.
Click here to visit our Improved Parts page in the registry