Journal: Advanced Science
Article Title: START: A Versatile Platform for Bacterial Ligand Sensing with Programmable Performances
doi: 10.1002/advs.202402029
Figure Lengend Snippet: Design and characterization of STARTs for tetracycline and MS2 coat protein. a) Detailed schematics of the tetracycline Apta‐trigger, Tetra_B3. The lower stem region of tetracycline aptamer subject to engineering is marked by a gray box. b) GFP fluorescence of toehold switch B and trigger RNA pairs in the absence (gray bars) and presence (green bars) of 12 µм tetracycline. Positive control (PC) used the toehold switch trigger B without the aptamer sequence, while negative control (NC) used the decoy RNA without any predicted interactions. c) GFP fluorescence output for switch B and Tetra_B3 pair for different concentrations of tetracycline inputs. d) Detailed schematics of the MS2 coat protein Apta‐trigger, MS2_C1. The lower stem region of MS2 aptamer subject to engineering is marked by a gray box. e) GFP fluorescence of toehold switch C and trigger RNA pairs without (gray bars) and with (green bars) MS2 induction, by 10 ng mL −1 anhydrotetracycline (aTc) treatment. PC used the toehold switch trigger C, and NC used the decoy RNA. f) GFP fluorescence output for switch C and MS2_C1 pair for different induction levels for MS2 expression. P‐values were determined by an unpaired t ‐test, with P > 0.05 designated by “ns”, P ≤ 0.05 designated by “*”, and P ≤ 0.0001 designated by “****”. Error bars are the SD from three biological replicates.
Article Snippet: The MS2 protein coding sequence was PCR amplified using the bacteriophage MS2 coat protein expression plasmid from Addgene (pHMM, #67717) as a template and inserted into a pACYCDuet plasmid with an aTc inducible promoter sequence via Gibson assembly.
Techniques: Fluorescence, Positive Control, Sequencing, Negative Control, Expressing