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Revision as of 10:15, 14 August 2015

"What I cannot create I do not understand."
- Richard Feynmann

AHL Module

Introduction

Chemical species

Name Description
AHL Signaling protein, Acyl homoserine lactone (30C6-HSL)
LuxR Regulator protein, that can bind to AHL to form a complex
LuxRAHL Complex of LuxR and AHL, activates transcription of LuxI
LuxI Autoinducer synthase
Aiia AHL-lactonase, N-Acyl Homoserine Lactone Lactonase

Reactions

\usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{mhchem} \begin{align*} \varnothing&\mathop{\xrightarrow{\hspace{4em}}}^{a_{\mathrm{LuxR}}} \text{LuxR}\\ \text{AHL} + \text{LuxR} &\xrightleftharpoons[k_{\mathrm{-LuxRAHL}}]{k_{\mathrm{LuxRAHL}}} \text{LuxRAHL}\\ &\mathop{\xrightarrow{\hspace{4em}}}^{\displaystyle\mathop{\downarrow}^{\text{LuxRAHL}}} \text{LuxI}\\ \text{LuxI}&\mathop{\xrightarrow{\hspace{4em}}}^{a_{\mathrm{AHL}}}\text{AHL}+\text{LuxI}\\ \text{LuxR}&\mathop{\xrightarrow{\hspace{4em}}}^{d_{\mathrm{LuxR}}}\varnothing\\ \text{AHL}&\mathop{\xrightarrow{\hspace{4em}}}^{d_{\mathrm{AHL}}}\varnothing\\ \text{LuxRAHL}&\mathop{\xrightarrow{\hspace{4em}}}^{d_{\mathrm{LuxRAHL}}}\varnothing\\ \text{LuxI}&\mathop{\xrightarrow{\hspace{4em}}}^{d_{\mathrm{LuxI}}}\varnothing\\ \text{Aiia}+\text{AHL}&\mathop{\xrightarrow{\hspace{4em}}}^{K_{\mathrm{M}},v_{\mathrm{Aiia}}}\text{Aiia}\\ \end{align*}

Equations

The equations are based on mass action kinetics and basic rate laws such as Hill equation.

Assumptions

Simplified equations