Reporter
mTQ

Part:BBa_K2722003:Design

Designed by: Enikö Baligács   Group: iGEM18_Munich   (2018-10-09)


mTurquoise - monomeric turquoise fluorescent protein


Assembly Compatibility:
  • 10
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]
  • 12
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]
  • 21
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]
  • 23
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[23]
  • 25
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]
    Illegal AgeI site found at 151
  • 1000
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]


Design Notes

This is a short and simply to clone sequence. When we added His-Tags on this protein, this was added on the C-terminus. Also the mRNA was tagged on the 3' part on a fluorescent aptamer, which did not affect protein expression.

During the cloning of this part we accidently inserted a mutation on DNA position 27. A cytosin was mutated to an alanin. This changes the amino acid sequence on position 9 from a phenylalanin (F) to a leucin (L). This Mutation does not affect protein functionality, solvability nor brightness, nor did we realise any other change of characteristics.

Source

The protein sequence was obtained from Goedhart, J. et al., (2012), codon optimized for E.Coli and ordered as a g-Block by IDT. Sequence can be found on PDB:3ZTF; POI: 10.2210/pdb3ZTF/pdb. However, without the K206A mutation.

References

Markwardt, M. L., Kremers, G. J., Kraft, C. A., Ray, K., Cranfill, P. J., Wilson, K. A., ... & Rizzo, M. A. (2011). An improved cerulean fluorescent protein with enhanced brightness and reduced reversible photoswitching. PloS one, 6(3), e17896.

Goedhart, J., Van Weeren, L., Hink, M. A., Vischer, N. O., Jalink, K., & Gadella Jr, T. W. (2010). Bright cyan fluorescent protein variants identified by fluorescence lifetime screening. Nature methods, 7(2), 137.

mTurquoise, FPbase, under https://www.fpbase.org/protein/mturquoise/. (retrieved on 10.10.2019)

Goedhart, J., Von Stetten, D., Noirclerc-Savoye, M., Lelimousin, M., Joosen, L., Hink, M. A., ... & Royant, A. (2012). Structure-guided evolution of cyan fluorescent proteins towards a quantum yield of 93%. Nature communications, 3, 751.

Müller, S. M., Galliardt, H., Schneider, J., Barisas, B. G., & Seidel, T. (2013). Quantification of Förster resonance energy transfer by monitoring sensitized emission in living plant cells. Frontiers in plant science, 4, 413.