Reproducibility of fluorescent expression from engineered biological constructs in E. coli

Jacob Beal, Traci Haddock-Angelli, Markus Gershater, Kim De Mora, Meagan Lizarazo, Jim Hollenhorst, Randy Rettberg, Philipp Demling, Rene Hanke, Michael Osthege, Anna Schechtel, Suresh Sudarsan, Arne Zimmermann, Bartosz Gabryelczyk, Martina Ikonen, Minnamari Salmela, Muradýye Acar, Muhammed Fatih Aktas, Furkan Bestepe, Furkan Sacit CeylanSadýk Cigdem, Mikail Dohan, Mustafa Elitok, Mehmet Gunduz, Esra Gunduz, Omer Faruk Hatipoglu, Turan Kaya, Orhan Sayin, Safa Tapan, Osman Faruk Tereci, Abdullah Uçar, Mustafa Yilmaz, Jeffrey Barrick, Alex Gutierrez, Dennis Mishler, Jordan Monk, Kate Mortensen, Nathan Shin, Ella Watkins, Yintong Chen, Yuji Jin, Yuanjie Shi, Haoqian Myelin Zhang, Bruno Ono, Ieda Maria Martinez Paino, Lais Ribovski, Ivan Silva, Danilo Keiji Zampronio, Nils Birkholz, Rudiger Frederik Busche, Oliver Konzock, Steffen Lippold, Carsten Ludwig, Melanie Philippi, Lukas Platz, Christian Sigismund, Susanne Weber, Maren Wehrs, Niels Werchau, Anna Wronska, Zen Zen Yen, Yash Agarwal, Evan Appleton, Douglas Densmore, Ariela Esmurria, Kathleen Lewis, Alan Pacheco, Marcel Bruchez, Danielle Peters, Cheryl Telmer, Lena Wang, Silvia Canas-Duarte, Daniel Giraldo-Perez, Camilo Gomez-Garzon, Jorge Madrid-Wolff, Nathaly Marin-Medina, Valentina Mazzanti, Laura Rodriguez-Forero, Eitan Scher, Robin Dowell, Samantha O'Hara, Cloe Simone Pogoda, Kendra Shattuck, Ali Altintas, Anne Pihl Bali, Rasmus Bech, Anne Egholm, Anne Sofie Laerke Hansen, Kristian Jensen, Kristian Barreth Karlsen, Caroline Mosbech, Sophia Belkhelfa, Noemie Berenger, Romain Bodinier, Cecile Jacry, Laura Matabishi-Bibi, Pierre Parutto, Julie Zaworski, Andries De Vries, Freek De Wijs, Rick Elbert, Lisa Hielkema, Chandhuru Jagadeesan, Bayu Jayawardhana, Oscar Kuipers, Anna Lauxen, Thomas Meijer, Sandra Mous, Renske Van Raaphorst, Aakanksha Saraf, Otto Schepers, Oscar Smits, Jan Willem Veening, Ruud Detert Oude Weme, Lianne Wieske, Catherine Ainsworth, Xenia Spencer-Milnes, Alejandro Gómez Ávila, Eddie Cano Gamez, Ana Laura Torres Huerta, Carlos Alejandro Meza Ramirez, Philipp Popp, Jara Radeck, Anna Sommer, Xiangkai Li, Qi Wu, Hongxia Zhao, Ruixue Zhao, Irem Bastuzel, Yasemin Ceyhan, Mayda Gursel, Burak Kizil, Ilkem Kumru, Yasemin Kuvvet, Helin Tercan, Seniz Yuksel, Luiza Niyazmetova, Timothy Ang, Lucas Black, Ciaran Kelly, George Wadhams, Clovis Basier, Urszula Czerwinska, Cindy Suci Ananda, Muhammad Al Azhar, Adelia Elviantari, Maya Fitriana, Arief Budi Witarto, Yulianti, Qingfeng Hou, Wan Pei, Chen Rifei, Wang Rong, Huang Wei, Zhang Yushan, He Jianguo, Dengwen Lai, Pai Li, Jianheng Liu, Chunyang Ni, Qianbin Zhang, Cinthya Cadenas, Eduardo J Zardain Canabal, Claudia Nallely Alonso Cantu, Mercedes Alejandra Vazquez Cantu, Eduardo Cepeda Canedo, Cesar Miguel Valdez Cordova, Jose Alberto De La Paz Espinosa, Carlos Enrique Alavez Garcia, Ana Laura Navarro Heredia, Adriana Hernandez, Sebastian Valdivieso Jauregui, Eduardo Ramirez Montiel, Eduardo Serna Morales, Yamile Minerva Castellanos Morales, Omar Alonso Cantu Pena, Eduardo A. 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Abstract

We present results of the first large-scale interlaboratory study carried out in synthetic biology, as part of the 2014 and 2015 International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competitions. Participants at 88 institutions around the world measured fluorescence from three engineered constitutive constructs in E. coli. Few participants were able to measure absolute fluorescence, so data was analyzed in terms of ratios. Precision was strongly related to fluorescent strength, ranging from 1.54-fold standard deviation for the ratio between strong promoters to 5.75-fold for the ratio between the strongest and weakest promoter, and while host strain did not affect expression ratios, choice of instrument did. This result shows that high quantitative precision and reproducibility of results is possible, while at the same time indicating areas needing improved laboratory practices.

Original languageEnglish
Article numbere0150182
Pages (from-to)1-22
JournalPloS one
Volume11
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Mar 2016
MoE publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

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