Predictive design of sigma factor-specific promoters

To engineer synthetic gene circuits, molecular building blocks are developed which can modulate gene expression without interference, mutually or with the host's cell machinery. Promoter libraries of E. coli sigma factor 70 and B. subtilis B-, F- and W-dependent promoters are exploited to construct prediction models, capable of both predicting promoter TIF and orthogonality of the specific promoters. This is achieved by the creation of high-throughput DNA sequencing data from fluorescence-activated cell sorted promoter libraries.