Coding

Part:BBa_K3924001

Designed by: Jianfan Yang   Group: iGEM21_Tsinghua   (2021-09-30)


TFF2


Sequence and Features


Assembly Compatibility:
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    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]
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  • 1000
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]

Profile

Name: TFF2
Base Pairs: 321bp
Origin: Homo sapiens
Properties: One of human cytokine from The trefoil factor (TFF) family secreted by mucus-producing cells.

Usage and Biology

In order to heal the intestinal tract damage, one of notable symptoms of IBD, we adopted a special therapy expressing the therapeutic proteins controllably by E.coli Nissle 1917 (EcN) in situ. The design is based on a ternary system: sensor - secretion peptide - therapeutic proteins.

Fig.1 General design of the treatment ternary system

TFF2 is one of the candidate therapeutic proteins we screened out to treat IBD, which is the effector element in the ternary system. TFFs facilitate a significant role not only in mucosal repair but also in protecting mucous epithelia from a variety of insults in the gastrointestinal tract. The potential mechanisms to treat IBD involves anti-apoptotic properties, migration and invasion, angiogenesis, and interaction with mucins.

Design and Construction

According to literature research we chose 10 candidate proteins for IBD treatment.
Table 1. List of candidate therapeutic proteins

Part Name Element Name Reference
BBa_K3924000
BBa_K3924001
BBa_K3924002		 TFF1/2/3 [1][2]
BBa_K3924003 Chromofungin(CHR) [3]
BBa_K3924004 IL10 [4]
BBa_K3924005 Defensin-5(HD5) [5]
BBa_K3924006 GLP2 [6]
BBa_K3924007 Fgl2 [7]
BBa_K3924008 SOCS1-KIR [3]
BBa_K3924009 tkip [3]
BBa_K3924037 G-CSF [8][9]
BBa_K3924038 GM-CSF [8][10]
BBa_K3924039 Beta-defensin 4A(hBD2) [11]

The sequence of TFF2 is acquired from Gene database (Gene ID: 7032). The sequences were synthesized on pMV plasmids by biological companies and cloned into pEGFP & RGP-TMAR plasmids by ourselves for the following experiments. PCR technique and HiFi assembly method were frequently utilized. Eventually, we have successfully constructed the plasmids RGP-csgA-TFF2 as the best carrier of our treatment protein. The plasmids were amplified inside E. coli DH5α and imported into E. coli Nissle through electrotransformation.

Functional Verification

Fig 2. The scheme of the proof-of-concept for therapeutic proteins.

All of these proteins are worth studying, but we only chose a few proteins as a proof of concept in our actual wet lab experiments because of the time limit and the high expense of gene synthesis.
For all candidate therapeutic proteins we did codon analysis with our own software tool.(Fig 3)

Fig 3. Codon preference confident analysis of all candidate therapeutic proteins(Compared with GenSmart).

As for TFF2, the result of codon preference is shown in Fig 4.

Fig 4. Codon preference confident analysis of TFF2.

The protein expression of the TFF2 was tested using SDS-PAGE and western blot. Because the TFF2 is under the tac promoter, we managed to induce the expression of EcN RGP-csgA-TFF2 using IPTG, acquired the centrifugation sediment for SDS-PAGE and performed western blot (GADPH as internal references).(Fig 5)

Fig 5. Western blot for csgA-TFF2 (GADPH as internal references).

Reference

[1] Aamann, L., Vestergaard, E. M., & Grønbæk, H. (2014). Trefoil factors in inflammatory bowel disease. World journal of gastroenterology, 20(12), 3223–3230.
[2] Praveschotinunt, P., Duraj-Thatte, A.M., Gelfat, I. et al. Engineered E. coli Nissle 1917 for the delivery of matrix-tethered therapeutic domains to the gut. Nat Commun 10, 5580 (2019).
[3] La Manna, S., Di Natale, C., Florio, D., & Marasco, D. (2018). Peptides as Therapeutic Agents for Inflammatory-Related Diseases. International journal of molecular sciences, 19(9), 2714.
[4] Li, M. C., & He, S. H. (2004). IL-10 and its related cytokines for treatment of inflammatory bowel disease. World journal of gastroenterology, 10(5), 620–625.
[5] Shukla, P.K., Meena, A.S., Rao, V. et al. Human Defensin-5 Blocks Ethanol and Colitis-Induced Dysbiosis, Tight Junction Disruption and Inflammation in Mouse Intestine. Sci Rep 8, 16241 (2018).
[6] Duan, L., Rao, X., Braunstein, Z., Toomey, A. C., & Zhong, J. (2017). Role of Incretin Axis in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Frontiers in immunology, 8, 1734.
[7] Zhu, Y. , Jie, Z. , Yi, F. , Chen, L. , Zhang, L. , & Fei, Y. , et al. (2018). Control of intestinal inflammation, colitis-associated tumorigenesis, and macrophage polarization by fibrinogen-like protein 2. Frontiers in Immunology, 9, 87-.
[8] Guidi, L., Mocci, G., Marzo, M., & Rutella, S. (2008). Treatment of Crohn's disease with colony-stimulating factors: An overview. Therapeutics and clinical risk management, 4(5), 927–934.
[9] Vanz, A. L. , Renard, G. , Palma, M. S. , Chies, J. M. , Dalmora, S. L. , & Basso, L. A. , et al. (2008). Human granulocyte colony stimulating factor (hg-csf): cloning, overexpression, purification and characterization. Microbial Cell Factories, 7(1), 1-12.
[10] Malekian, R., Jahanian-Najafabadi, A., Moazen, F., Ghavimi, R., Mohammadi, E., & Akbari, V. (2019). High-yield Production of Granulocyte-macrophage Colony-stimulating Factor in E. coli BL21 (DE3) By an Auto-induction Strategy. Iranian journal of pharmaceutical research : IJPR, 18(1), 469–478.
[11] Koeninger, L. , Armbruster, N. S. , Brinch, K. S. , Kjaerulf, S. , & Wehkamp, J. . (2020). Human β-defensin 2 mediated immune modulation as treatment for experimental colitis. Frontiers in Immunology, 11, 93.


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