Team:HUST-China/Basic part

Team:HUST-China:Results



This year, we, iGEM15_HUST-China, constructed a light control system basing on yeast two hybrid, which was used to drive the expression of downstream viscous protein.
We totally constructed, sequenced and submitted 26 parts.

Following are all of our parts.

Basic Parts


1.Light Control


Part Number Description Abbreviation
BBa_K1592005 GalBD-CRY2 Fusion for Yeast-Two-Hybrid BD-CRY2
BBa_K1592006 GalAD-CIB1 Fusion for Yeast-Two-Hybrid AD-CIB1
BBa_K1592015 photoreceptor cryptochrome 2 CRY2
BBa_K1592016 a basic helix-loop-helix protein CIB1

Our light-control system is based on the Yeast-Two-Hybrid system. Cryptochrome 2 (CRY2) is a blue light stimulated photoreceptor, when exposed to blue light, it would interact with CIB1. A Gal4 DNA sequence was fused to their C terminus, thus the interaction between two proteins would activate the downstream expression.
We measured β-galactosidase activity as the validation test of our Light-control system.

2.Viscous Protein


Mcfp

Part Number Description Abbreviation
BBa_K1592001 Mytilus californianus foot protein 3(Mcfp3) variant 3 Mcfp3
BBa_K1592003 Mcfp3 with LIP2 prepro LIP-Mcfp
BBa_K1592017 Mcfp3 with XPR2 pre XPR2-Mcfp

Mcfp-3 is foot protein secreted from Mytilus californianus. The protein is of significance to the formation of byssus to help mussels permanently or temporarily tether to the surface of solid surface of reef or ship-body.
LIP2 and XPR2 are signal peptides. Signal peptide is added to the behind of Mcfp3 sequence, thus Mcfp can be secreted out of cell.

Si-tag Collection

Part Number Description Abbreviation
BBa_K1592007 LIP prepro + E. coli ribosomal protein L2 (1-60) + YLcwp3 Fusion Si-tag1-his
BBa_K1592008 LIP prepro + E. coli ribosomal protein L2 (61-202) + YLcwp3 Fusion Si-tag2-his
BBa_K1592009 LIP prepro + E. coli ribosomal protein L2 (203-273) + YLcwp3 Fusion Si-tag3-his
BBa_K1592010 LIP2 prepro + E. coli ribosomal protein L2 (1-202)+ YLcwp3 Fusion ST12
BBa_K1592011 LIP prepro + E. coli ribosomal protein L2 (61-273) + YLcwp3 Fusion ST23
BBa_K1592012 LIP prepro + E. coli ribosomal protein L2 (1-60,203-273) + YLcwp3 Fusion ST13
BBa_K1592013 LIP prepro + E. coli ribosomal protein L2 (1-60,GS linker,202-273) + YLcwp3 ST1L3-his
BBa_K1592014 LIP prepro + E. coli ribosomal protein L2 (1-273) + YLcwp3 ST123

This collection consists of several Si-tag proteins. Si-tag is 50S ribosomal protein L2 in the genome of E.coli, which was found to bind tightly to silicon particles. The Si-tag consists of three domains showing different binding strength. We combined the single domain, and tested their final binding strength.

Besides, we added LIP prepro and YLcwp3(see below) to the terminals of Si-tag, thus Si-tag can be secreted then surface displayed on the cell wall.

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3.Secrete and Surface display


Part Number Description Abbreviation
BBa_K1592000 LIP2 prepro(signal peptide) LIP2 prepro
BBa_K1592002 Yarrowia lipolytica cell wall protein 3 YLcwp3

LIP2 prepro is a signal peptide. When fused to the N-terminal of interest protein, the expression products will be secreted out of cell.

YLcwp3, also as an anchor domain, is a cell wall protein. When fused to the C-terminal of interest protein, the expression products will be displayed on the cell wall.

4.Others


Part Number Description Abbreviation
BBa_K1592004 promoter hp4d Php4d

Promoter hp4d is a recombinant promotor which can strongly promote gene expression in any culture medium. The gene promoted by Php4d usually expresses at the early stage of stabilization

Improved part

Part Number Description Abbreviation
BBa_K1592020 Ptrp mutant1 Ptrp1
BBa_K1592021 Ptrp mutant2 Ptrp2
BBa_K1592022 Ptrp mutant3 Ptrp3

Ptrp is a promoter of trp operon. It will be repressed by trpR and LovTAP.
We improved BBa_K191007, removed the illegal sites without affecting its function by site-directed mutagenesis for meeting the requirements of RFC10. Finally we successfully constructed three ptrp mutant, called Ptrp mutant1, Ptrp mutant2, and Ptrp mutant3.

(These promoters didn’t really applied to our project, for they were our reserve choices)


Composite Part

Part Number Description
BBa_K1592018 Pgal1+rox1+cyc1_terminator
BBa_K1592019 Panb1+XPR2 pre-Mcfp3
BBa_K1592023 Ptrp mutant1+RBS+GFP
BBa_K1592024 Ptrp mutant2+RBS+GFP
BBa_K1592025 Ptrp mutant3+RBS+GFP

BBa_K1592018

BBa_K1592018

BBa_K1592018