Coding
Part:BBa_K380001:Design
Designed by: Johan Nordholm, Andreas Constantinou, Nina Schiller Group: iGEM10_Stockholm (2010-10-23)
N-part TAT cell-penetrating peptide
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
This part was back translated from the corresponding amino acid sequence and optimized for expression in Escherichia coli. Codon usage has been varied for repetitive amino acids to enable DNA synthesis.
Source
TAT is an 11-amino acid derivative from the Human Immunodeficiency Virus 1 (HIV-1) trans-activating transcriptional activator (Tat) ([http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2849509 Green and Loewenstein, 1988]; [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9846587 Nagahara et al. 1998]).