DNA
Part:BBa_K315012:Design
Designed by: Brianna Pearson Group: iGEM10_Davidson-MissouriW (2010-06-24)
LoxBri (F) Variant forward lox site with 3 base changes in the spacer region
Assembly Compatibility:
- 10COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]
- 12COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]
- 21COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]
- 23COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[23]
- 25COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]
- 1000COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]
Design Notes
In constructing variant lox sites, we looked for the least promiscuous sites - those that had the lowest rates of recombination with other variants.
Source
We learned about the use of variant lox sites to produce random fluorescent protein expression from the "Brainbow" paper (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v450/n7166/full/nature06293.html). We discovered this specific sequence in "Role of nucleotide sequences of loxP spacer region in Cre-mediated recombination" (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9714735). [edit]