Part:BBa_K2905003
Constitutively expressed 6-His-TEV-MttC
Trimethylamine corrinoid protein (MttC), under control of a constitutive promoter (J23101) and ribosome binding site (B0034). Contains 6 His tag and TEV protease site.
Measuring Protein Expression: Alma 2019
To analyze protein expression for this part, we grew strains containing the indicated BioBrick overnight in LB + Chloramphenicol. This culture was then diluted in fresh media to an OD600 of 0.2, grown for an additional hour, and pelleted by centrifugation. The pellet was resuspended in B-PER reagent (Thermo-Scientific) containing PMSF, lysozyme and DNase. From this, soluble (S) and in-solube (I) protein fractions were obtained and resolved on a 12% SDS PAGE gel. A representative gel is below.
The expected sizes of the products were MttB: 36.5 kDa without pyrrolysine, MttC: 22.5 kDa, MtbA: 36.5 kdA. Based on these results, we conclude that the expression of our BioBricks is low or non-existent; it is below our ability to detect using this method.
To try and recover the minute amounts of protein that may have been produce, we ran our solube protein lysates (derived either from DH5a, as above, or BL21 DE3) over a Ni-NTA column; this will capture the H6 tagged protein in this BioBrick. A small amount of resin (100uL) was loaded with the lysate. Fractions were collected for flowthrough (F), a 200uL wash (W), and two separate 200uL elutions (E1 and E2), and these were resolved on a 12% SDS PAGE gel, a representative shown below.
Unfortunately, we were unable to recover detectable amounts of H6 tagged protein using this approach. Our expression is either very low or non-existent, and/or the H6 tagged protein is ending up as in-soluble protein.
Sequence and Features
- 10COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]
- 12INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]Illegal NheI site found at 7
Illegal NheI site found at 30
Illegal NheI site found at 104 - 21COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]
- 23COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[23]
- 25COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]
- 1000COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]
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