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| + | This allows us to treat transcription and translation as first order chemical reactions (assuming an excess of ribosomes, tRNA’s, and dNTP’s. The activation of the RNA switch by thrombin can be treated as a second order chemical reaction because it requires a bimolecular collision. Dissociation of thrombin and the RNA switch is omitted from this model for simplicity (K<sub>d</sub> of aptamers produced by SELEX is typically in the nanomolar to picomolar range). This yields the following system of differential equations where [Thrombin] indicates the concentration of thrombin in micromolar, [DNA] indicates the concentration of DNA in micromolar, etc.: | ||
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Revision as of 00:18, 19 September 2015
Modeling
The action of thrombin switch 2.0 can be modeled as the system of chemical reactions below:
image1
This allows us to treat transcription and translation as first order chemical reactions (assuming an excess of ribosomes, tRNA’s, and dNTP’s. The activation of the RNA switch by thrombin can be treated as a second order chemical reaction because it requires a bimolecular collision. Dissociation of thrombin and the RNA switch is omitted from this model for simplicity (Kd of aptamers produced by SELEX is typically in the nanomolar to picomolar range). This yields the following system of differential equations where [Thrombin] indicates the concentration of thrombin in micromolar, [DNA] indicates the concentration of DNA in micromolar, etc.:
Note
In order to be considered for the Best Model award, you must fill out this page.
Mathematical models and computer simulations provide a great way to describe the function and operation of BioBrick Parts and Devices. Synthetic Biology is an engineering discipline, and part of engineering is simulation and modeling to determine the behavior of your design before you build it. Designing and simulating can be iterated many times in a computer before moving to the lab. This award is for teams who build a model of their system and use it to inform system design or simulate expected behavior in conjunction with experiments in the wetlab.
Here are a few examples from previous teams: