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| - | <div class="title"><h1>Kill Switch</h1></div> | + | <div class="title"><h1>Kill Switch</h1> |
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| | + | <p>To ensure that our bacteria do no harm to both people and environment, we need to put a set of kill-switch system into the bacteria, so that we can control the growth of them by changing the contents of culture medium.</p> |
| | + | <p>In our project, we trigger the kill switch of <i>E.coli</i> by adding <i>IPTG</i> into the culture. <i>IPTG</i> can induce the expression of gene coding <i>Limulus anti-LPS factor</i> (<i>LALF</i>) downstream the lactose operator, so that the growth of <i>E.coli</i> will be inhibited.<p/> |
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| | + | <p>Limulus <i>anti-LPS</i> factor (<i>LALF</i>) binds <i>LPS</i> on anti-gram negative bacterial surface tightly, forming a biofilm. This can prevent nutrient from entering the cell, causing the growth inhibition. Also, the biofilm can prevent plasmid spreading to the environment and gene pollution.</p> |
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| - | <p>To ensure that our bacterial won’t do harm to both people and our environment, we need to put a set of kill switch system into the bacteria, so that we can control the growth of it by changing the content of culture medium.</p> | + | <p>Besides, to make <i>LALF</i> cross the cell membrane and bind to <i>LPS</i>, we still need an efficient protein export signal sequence of <i>E. coli</i> to lead <i>LALF</i> into extracelluar environment.</p> |
| - | < p> In our project, we trigger the kill switch of E.coil. by adding IPTG into the culture. IPTG can induce the expression of gene coding Limulus anti-LPS factor (LALF) downstream the lactose operator, so that the growth of E.coil. will be inhibited.<p /> | + | |
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| - | <p> Limulus anti-LPS factor (LALF) binds LPS on anti-gram negative bacterial surface tightly, forming a biofilm. This can prevent nutrient from entering the cell, causing the growth inhibition. Also, the biofilm can prevent Plasmid spreading to the environment and gene pollution.</p> | + | <p> <div align="center"><img src="https://static. igem. org/mediawiki/2014/d/da/LAFLG_MEch. jpg" class="th"/></div></p> |
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| - | <p>Besides, to make LALF across the cell membrane and bind to LPS, we still need an efficient protein export signal sequence of E. coli. leading LALF into extracelluar environment.</p>
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| - | <p>We constructed the plasmid with lactose operator and signal peptide, and transform this plasmid into E.coil. to test if this kill switch do work. We used gradient plate method in our experiment. As we can see in the picture, the concentration of IPTG in the left of the medium is 0.1% while the concentration on the right is zero. We can see colony only on the right of the medium, the kill switch is effective which illustrates that IPTG can induce the expression of signal peptide so as to inhibit the growth of the E.coil. Also, a decrease of OD is observed after we added IPTG to the liquid culture medium. </p>
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| - | <p>However ,we haven’t connect the LALF gene with signal peptide yet due to the time limit. We will construct the whole plasmid and transform it into E.coil. to see the sterilization effect of LALF in the future work.<p/>
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