Native N-3-Oxo-Hexanoyl-l-Homoserine Lactone tests using the Tecan Infinite M200 PRO^TM plate reader

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In order to select mutated pLuxR promoters we need to know about the sensivity of the Wild-Type type. The test range was inspired form the paper about Evaluation of a focused libraryu of N-Acryl L-Homoserine lactone reveals a new set of potent quorum sensing modulators.The paper shows sensivities of the pLuxR promoter to different sets of OHHL molecules in Vibrio fisheri. We need to readjuste the ranges for our E.coli DH5alpha strain in a second run and finally get our sensivity curve over the linear range of [0 nM],[0.25 nM],[0.5 nM],[1 nM],[2 nM],[3 nM],[4 nM],[5 nM],[10nM],[20 nM],[30 nM],[40 nM]and[50 nM],.

The experimental set-up included a 96-well plate filled with 180 uL LB media , 10uL of receiver cells and 10 uL of different OHHL concentrations, everything in triplicates. (+ blank and negative control). The experiment runs for 16 hours in order to monitor the evolution of fluorescence and later choose the steady state to create the sensivity curve.The datas are analyzed with GraphPad Prism 6.0.

PluxR random mutagenesis PCR

PluxR promoter with different sensitivity analyzed using the Fortessa FACS analyzer

Figure 2. Wild type sensitivy curve using the Fortessa FACS Analyzer

Figure 3. PluxR1 (G1) mutated promoter sensitivy curve using the Fortessa FACS Analyzer

Figure 4. Comparison of the Wild Type and PluxR1 mutant sensitivy curve using the Fortessa FACS Analyzer

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