Reporter

Part:BBa_K1506001:Design

Designed by: Clay Swackhamer, Sam Krug, Ashlee Smith, Emily Sileo   Group: iGEM14_Penn_State   (2014-08-05)


Superfolder GFP with only common codons


Assembly Compatibility:
  • 10
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]
  • 12
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]
  • 21
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]
    Illegal XhoI site found at 58
  • 23
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[23]
  • 25
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]
  • 1000
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]


Design Notes

This GFP codes for the same green florescent protein as superfolder GFP, but it is comprised only of common codons. Previous researchers have determined through a statistical analysis of the entire genome of E. coli that some degenerate codons occur more often in protein coding sequences and some are more infrequent. These are referred to as common and rare codons. The hypothesis that common codons will lead to higher expression of proteins is based on the idea that cellular DNA has become optimized through evolution to efficiently translate proteins necessary to their survival. For each amino acid coded by this GFP, the most commonly occurring codon in the genome of E. coli that specifies that amino acid was used, thus creating a coding sequence of only common codons.


Source

This part is entirely synthetic.

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