Composite

Part:BBa_K1618029

Designed by: Leda Coelewij   Group: iGEM15_NRP-UEA-Norwich   (2015-09-09)

Acyltransferase Candidate 1 -Fused to GFP -Expression Construct

K1618029 P-35s(K1467101)_TP(K1618037):MAO(K1618001):GFP(K1467204)_T-35s(BBa_K1618037). expresses a putative acyltrasnferase fused to a C-terminal fluorescent reporter in plant cells and targets the gene product to the chloroplast.


The parts were assembled using Golden Gate Assembly and the assembly was tested in a binary plasmid vector backbone prior that can replicated in the shuttle chassis t Agrobacterium tumefaciens that transfers the part to plant cells on a T-DNA. For submission to the registry the part was converted to a standard BioBrick for by using the Mo-Flipper BBa_K1467400 (complete transcriptional unit flipper) made by the NRP-UEA 2014 team.


Functional characterisation in the model plant Nicotiana benthamiana (Figure 1) indicates that the chloroplast transit peptide is functional and is able to direct the enzyme to the chloroplast where starch is produced.


UEA K1618029 confocal.jpg

Figure 1: Constructs BBa_K1618029 contains a fluorescent reporter, as well as a chloroplast transit peptide. This is a confocal microscopy image of the construct infiltrated into Nicotiana benthamiana, in which the red structures are the chlorophyll within the chloroplast, and the yellow is the fluorescent fusion protein expressed from the construct.

The results above indicate that our expression construct is functional in confirming the localisation of our part into the chloroplast.


Sequence and Features


Assembly Compatibility:
  • 10
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]
  • 12
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]
  • 21
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]
    Illegal BglII site found at 392
    Illegal BglII site found at 1138
    Illegal XhoI site found at 1342
    Illegal XhoI site found at 2951
  • 23
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[23]
  • 25
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]
    Illegal AgeI site found at 2005
  • 1000
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]


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Categories
//chassis/eukaryote/nbenthamiana
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