Part:BBa_K1820017

CP8_RBS_mCherry(Lr)_Terminator

Usage and Biology

• This has only been tested in E. coli thus far.

This is a composite part designed as a report protein sequence for use in Lactococcus lactis. The promoter is a mid-range promoter, part BBa_K1033220 from the 2013 Uppsala team, from Peter Ruhdal Jensen and Karin Hammer's library of synthetic promoters for Lactococcus lactis followed by a popular ribosome binding site (Elowitz 1999), an mCherry fluorescent protein, part BBa_K1033250 from the 2013 Uppsala team, codon optimized for Lactobacillus reuteri and biobricked according to standard 25, and a popular double-stop terminator. We further characterized this promoter with the addition of a fluorescent protein. Although it was designed for L. lactis, it has displayed function in Escherichia coli as well. There are indications that the promoter is functional in a large number of prokaryotic organisms. As such, it is likely that this construct will be functional in a variety of prokaryotic organisms.

We created and tested this construct in Escherichia coli in the pSB1C3 plasmid. It was tested for fluorescence relative to non-transformed E. coli cells (see Figure 1).

This part improves upon CP8 (https://parts.igem.org/Part:BBa_K1033220) by the addition of a RBS, fluorescent protein, and a terminator, as well as further characterization of the promoter.

Figure 1. Fluorescence levels from BBa_K1820017 excited at 530/25 with emissions read at 590/35

Sequence and Features

Assembly Compatibility:

• 10
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]
• 12
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]
• 21
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]
• 23
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[23]
• 25
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]
• 1000
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]

References

Jensen, P. R., Hammer, K. (1998). The Sequence of Spacers between the Consensus Sequences Modulates the Strength of Prokaryotic Promoters. Appl Environ Microbiol. 1998 Jan; 64(1): 82–87. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC124675/

mCherry Fluorescent Protein. Clonetek, Takara Bio. http://www.clontech.com/US/Products/Fluorescent_Proteins_and_Reporters/Fluorescent_Proteins_by_Name/mCherry_Fluorescent_Protein. Accessed 17 Sept 2015.