Improve

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.

Looking back at previous iGEM teams, Berkeley in 2008 uploaded several sequences that were hypothesized to contain promotors that were activated when an Escherichia coli cell was exposed to sound. As a characterization of previous parts, the FSU 2018 iGEM team is furthering Berkeley’s investigation to test these sequences and to figure out whether these sequences, naturally found in E. coli, hold a promotor and whether there is a response to sound waves. After constructing the plasmids with each putative promotor and red fluorescent gene, the cells containing BBa_K112402 were expressing red before being exposed to sound. The Berkeley team believed that somewhere in this sequence was a possible promotor for the fabA gene, and after our initial results, it does seem as though there is a promotor within this sequence. Our characterized test device with this promotor has been uploaded to the Part’s Registry as BBa_K2832011. Further investigations in our experiment will then determine if this promotor is enhanced with exposure to sound.

Gold Medal Criterion #2

Standard Tracks: 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. The existing part must NOT be from your 2018 part number range and must be different from the part documented in bronze #4.

Special Tracks: Improve the function of an existing iGEM project (that your current team did not originally create) and display your achievement on your wiki.