Abstract
Various genetic switches have been developed to let engineered cells perform designed functions. However, a sustained input is often needed to maintain the on/off state, which is energy-consuming and sensitive to perturbation. Therefore, we developed a set of transcriptional switches for cell states control that were constructed by the inversion effect of site-specific recombinases on terminators. Such a switch could respond to a pulse signal and maintain the new state by itself until the next input. With a bottom-up design principle, we first characterized the terminators and recombinases. Then the mutual interference was studied to select compatible pairs, which were used to achieve one-time and two-time state transitions. Finally, we constructed a biological seven-segment display as a demonstration to prove such switch's immense potential for application.
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