Coding

Part:BBa_K4849025:Design

Designed by: Devansh Kumar and Catarina Almeida   Group: iGEM23_Edinburgh   (2023-10-11)


MtrC - Outer membrane protein, a decaheme c-type cytochrome


Assembly Compatibility:
  • 10
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]
    Illegal PstI site found at 1793
  • 12
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]
    Illegal PstI site found at 1793
  • 21
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]
  • 23
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[23]
    Illegal PstI site found at 1793
  • 25
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]
    Illegal PstI site found at 1793
  • 1000
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]
    Illegal BsaI site found at 235


Design Notes

We extracted the Gene from Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 (NCBI:txid211586) genomci DNA using Primers that introduced cynogate assmbly system overhangs (refer IGEM Edinburgh 2023 wiki)

MtrC Forward Primer:  CAGTgaagacATaATGATGAACGCACAAAAATC

MtrC Reverse Primer: CAGTgaagacATaagcTTACATTTTCACTTTAGTGTGATC

 

 

The overhangs were designed to be cut by BbsI - this would allow introduction into the Cynogate Lv0 acceptor vector

 

 

 MtrC required domestication: It is important to note that MtrC gene had an extra BsaI site which was the restriction sites used in Lv0 -> Lv1 cyanogate assembly. Likewise, the 242bp faint bands visible for MtrC, demonstrating the presence of an extra BsaI site and thus the requirement for domestication.

Domestication involves using primers to make precise modifications to a DNA sequence, in this case, changing a single base pair so the DNA sequence does not have a recognition site for a restriction enzyme. Domestication was done by PCR followed by restriction digestion and ligation. Primers were designed allowing elimination of the restriction site by changing a single base pair. The domestication PCR also introduced new cut sites on the linear DNA allowing digestion and then re-ligation into a plasmid.

 

 

Gel Showing MtrC extracted by PCR:

 

Figure X. Diagnostic digestion on MtrC, showing 242bp band suggesting requirement for domestication.

 

 

 

MtrC Domestication Forward primer: CAGTgaagacATtggacTCGCAAATTTAGAAAT

MtrC Domestication Reverse primer: CAGTgaagaCAGTCCAATCACTGGCATGTC



Source

Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 (NCBI:txid211586)

References