Monday, 17 July 2006

gene expression - Do the phage repressors CI and Mnt exhibit crosstalk?

There are no reports for it yet. I don't think just because they show overall homology, they would exhibit crosstalk. Just see the alignment of the DNA binding domains of these proteins first ~70 residues from N-terminal. Moreover their DBDs belong to different PFAM families.



Similarly with the promoter sequences.
As reported in iGEM website:



They are quite different.
Moreover, if iGEM has a reported standard part such as a bistable system component: Mnt/cI promoter (BBa_K228003) then it would have been pretty much standardized. iGEM parts are usually reliable.

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