These questions are about synthetic biology, answer all questions in your own words, no plagiarism, no other sources to use. References will be attached as the only source you can use for reference
Questions are listed below, and all answers must use your own words, no plagiarism, and cite the sources if necessary 1. Modeling a negative feedback system that uses tetramers for repression Description and assumptions: · Protein monomers dimerize, dimers bind to other dimers to form tetramers, and tetramers bind to DNA acting as repressors. Monomers and dimers do not bind to DNA · Only monomers degrade and dimer/tetramer degradation is negligible · Total amount of DNA, RNA polymerase, and Ribosomes is constant · There is some level of basal expression (transcription rate b) when no repressors are bound · Transcription is negligible when repressors are bound a) Draw a diagram/schematic of the feedback system b) Write down the reaction list for this system c) Write down the full mass action/ODE system of equations d) Write down the simplified 1-equation ODE system (Note: do not focus on derivations, just guess at the correct answer in non-dimensionalized form, if you prefer. It will look somewhat similar to the form presented in the next question below. If you are interested, you can mathematically simplify equations to mRNA/Protein dynamics using QEA, then simplify equations to Protein only dynamics) e) In short/plain language, what assumptions were made in (d)? 2. Positive feedback and bistability This is a continuation of the exploration in the attached reference file. For the non-dimensionalized “+” feedback system below: a) What type of feedback system(s) does this equation represent? Describe how the value of parameter “a” changes the behavior of the feedback system. b) Make a plot of the differential equation ẋ for values a = 50, g=10, 13, 16, 19, 22, 25 in Matlab c) Numerically find the fixed points (steady states) for each of these curves d) Determine which fixed points are stable/unstable and explain the reason. 3. Exploring oscillations in an activator-repressor system a) Write down the reaction list for the above positive/negative feedback system. mRNA dynamics description can be neglected if desired. Hint: You can assume that monomers degrade and dimer degradation is negligible. You can assume the total amount of DNA, RNA polymerase, and Ribosomes is constant. Assume some level of basal expression (transcription rate b) when no activator (X2) is bound to DNA. b) (short answer) Simplify the dynamics to protein only equations for x & y (monomers). 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