Team:USTC/Model/5
Introduction
A wide range of bacteria species are known to communicate through the so called quorum sensing (QS) mechanism by means of which the produce a small molecule that can freely diffuse in environment and in the cells.[1] Acyl-Homoserine lactone (AHL) and a family of N-acylhomoserine lactones (AHLs) is an important class of “quormones,” or autoinducers.[5] We used external AHL to stimulate the expression of CysDes protein, and choose arabinose to stimulate the expression of CmCR protein.
For the first part, we built an ODE model by using MATLAB code to simulate protein expression process, by solving ODEs, we can predict the express rate(d[P]/dt) and concentration of target protein([P]) during the several hours after inducer was added to the medium. To identify the stability and reliability of our QS system, we also add some noise to our ODEs, which correspond to the disturbance in biology system. The result proved that our QS system can run stably in a quite big disturbance environment.
For the second part, we introduced a Universal Protein Expression Platform(UPEP) to modeling the process of gene transcription and translation switch on or off quantitively and output the suitable inducer concentration and induced time, which helps us obtain a best induced result and guide our experiment.
By using this platform, you need to input the type of QS system or inducer type used in your system, and some other information about your plasmid, include target gene sequence length and self-degradation rate of the target protein. By solving ODE based on biochemical reaction process, the platform returns a figure shows the time cost in induce process with different inducer concentration. You can choose a maximum time cost that accepted in your wet-lab experiment, then decide the concentration of inducer adds to the medium. What's more, once you decide your inducer concentration, our platform will output two figures show the product concentration([P]) and product generate rate(d[P]/dt) at a different time.
ODE simulation
Universal Platform
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