Registry of Standard Biological Models/Basic Component Models/Repressed Promoter RBS Coupled

Repressed Promoter RBS Coupled Architecture

Description: Promoter coupled to RBS to provide a synthesis rate of protein depending on the amount of repressor Hypothesis: Constant and continuous transcription and translation rate Maximum synthesis rate depends on number of gene copies quasi steady state approx on mRNA unlimited resources for transcription and translation (excess in polymerase ...) Binding of the repressor on the promoter (Hill-function-type equation) Inputs: repressor nb-gene-copies Outputs: Synthesis rate Characteristic parameters: maxK (max-transcription-rate-per-gene) Kd (dissociation-constant) n (Hill-coefficient)

Repressed Promoter/RBS Brick Architecture

CellML structure (CellML 1.1 spec)

• Component: RepressedPromoterRBSCoupled
• Units:
  • Imported from Environment component
• Variables:
  • nb-gene-copies (public interface = in / init value = 1.0)
  • maxSynthesisRate (public interface = none / init value = XXX)
  • Kd (dissociation constant) (public interface = none / init value = XXX)
  • n (Hill Coefficient) (public interface = none / init value = XXX)
  • synthesisRate (public interface = out / init value = XXX)
  • repressor (public interface = in )
• MathML
  • <amsmath>synthesisRate = \frac{nbGeneCopies*maxSynthesisRate}{K_d^{n}+[repressor]^{n}} </amsmath>

Comments

• This component is simply a container providing the synthesis rate specific to a constitutive promoter coupled to a RBS and a given level of the repressor
• To characterize this part you need to get {maxSynthesisRate} and {sensitivity}. It can be achieved experimentally using a quantitative GFP assay. Measurement of GFP levels should be done at steady state with different levels of the repressor.