RNA

Part:BBa_K152009:Design

Designed by: David Johnston Monje   Group: iGEM08_Guelph   (2008-10-30)

Zea mays Actin1 Intron RNAi Production Tool


Assembly Compatibility:
  • 10
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]
    Illegal EcoRI site found at 14
    Illegal XbaI site found at 23
    Illegal SpeI site found at 154
    Illegal PstI site found at 218
  • 12
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]
    Illegal EcoRI site found at 14
    Illegal SpeI site found at 154
    Illegal PstI site found at 218
    Illegal NotI site found at 162
  • 21
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]
    Illegal EcoRI site found at 14
  • 23
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[23]
    Illegal EcoRI site found at 14
    Illegal XbaI site found at 23
    Illegal SpeI site found at 154
    Illegal PstI site found at 218
  • 25
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]
    Illegal EcoRI site found at 14
    Illegal XbaI site found at 23
    Illegal SpeI site found at 154
    Illegal PstI site found at 218
  • 1000
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]
    Illegal BsaI site found at 112


Design Notes

In order to utilize existing biobricks to make RNAi constructs, it was necessary to re-organize restriction site placement. The part is housed in the Biobrick plasmid pSB1A2 which was cut with EcoRI and PstI, and ligated to the MfeI and PstI cut RNAi tool. The PstI site was conserved, but MfeI and EcoRI are non-conservative compatible ends and so the plasmid's EcoRI site was killed allowing the construct's intrenal EcoRI site to be unique. The construct was originally planned to have this structure:

NdeI - EcoRI - XbaI - Intron - NotI - SpeI - Terminator - PstI

In fact, due to a last minute primer design error, what we got is:

NdeI - EcoRI - XbaI - Intron - SpeI - NotI -Terminator - PstI

This rather profoundly changes the cloning strategy one must use (resulting in no SpeI sites and two XbaI rather than one of each) but should not affect its practicality or function very much.

Source

Template free PCR using two complimentary primers donated by IDT: one 60 bp long, and the other 200 bp long.

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