Our circuit was designed to utilize specific parts so that when the Ecoli cells containing this gene circuit are exposed to arsenic, the Green Florescent Protein (GFP) is produced making the ticket glow under a blue light.
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Testing the circuit
• Before running the actual circuit, we ran control experiments
to determine whether or not the GFP would indeed function as a reporter,
meaning it can be regulated by a riboswitch .
• The first control experiment was constitutive: meaning
that the GFP would always be produced. This was essentially only used to ensure
that the GFP works in the paper ticket.
• The second control experiment was regulated via riboswitch
SWH meaning that the GFP would be triggered. This tested if the GFP could be
controlled/ regulated. • The results from both of these experiments are shown in
the pictures below
The original ticket before running
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Ticket after first control experiment
This experiment was the Constitutive GFP. The GFP was placed in the far left column, and only water was placed in the column next to it so that a control was present. BY comparing the far left column to the collum next to it, one can see the quantifiable difference between the wells with and without GFP
Ticket after running second experiment
This experiments used the same controls in order to compare the GFP column to the control (water) column.