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Part:BBa_K3924041

Designed by: Yuhan Yang   Group: iGEM21_Tsinghua   (2021-10-21)


Pths-RiboJ

Pths-RiboJ

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Profile

Name: Pths-riboJ
Base Pairs:687bp
Properties: A sensor to thiosulfate with a common used insulator.

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

The therapeutic protein secreted by the engineered bacteria needs to be strictly and delicately controlled to avoid any possible safety problems since the final working environment is the GI tract, and some therapeutic proteins are carcinogenic and may cause safety problems. To prevent this, we want to create several gut sensor parts as an intelligent switch to conditionally regulate the expression of therapeutic proteins.
thsS/R is one of candidate sensors we screened out, with which we can create spatiotemporal expression of therapeutic protein based on demand.
Thiosulfate is an important product in gut sulfur metabolism, which is reported to link to gut inflammation[1][2]and thsS/R can bind and initiate downstream gene expression.
RiboJ, a self-splicing ribozyme, is a common used insulator. With a hairpin structure, it can reduce unexpected interactions between neighboring sequences in a genetic circuit.[3]Some reports also say insulation with RiboJ can increase downstream gene transcript abundance.[4]
Insertion of RiboJ behind the sensor part is likely to improve the performance of the sensors.
thsS/R(BBa_K2507000 BBa_K2507001) was designed by iGEM17-SHSBNU_China, and RiboJ(BBa_K3424024) was designed by iGEM20_UFlorida.

Table.1 Improvement for previous sensors with RiboJ
BBa_K2507000
BBa_K2507001		 BBa_K2507006
BBa_K2507007		 BBa_K1153000 BBa_K3924040 BBa_K3924041 BBa_K3924042
thsS/R ttrS/R PnorV Pttr-RiboJ Pths-RiboJ PnorV-RiboJ

Reference

[1]Riglar, D. T. , Giessen, T. W. , Baym, M. , Kerns, S. J. , Niederhuber, M. J. , & Bronson, R. T. , et al. (2017). Engineered bacteria can function in the mammalian gut long-term as live diagnostics of inflammation. Nature Biotechnology.
[2]Da effler, K. N, Galley, J. . , Sheth, R. U. , Ortiz-Velez, L. C. , Bibb, C. O. , & Shroyer, N. F. , et al. (2017). Engineering bacterial thiosulfate and tetrathionate sensors for detecting gut inflammation. Molecular Systems Biology,13,4(2017-04-03), 13(4), 923.
[3] Vlková, M., Morampalli, B. R., & Silander, O. K. (2021). Efficiency of the synthetic self-splicing RiboJ ribozyme is robust to cis- and trans-changes in genetic background. MicrobiologyOpen, 10(4), e1232.
[4] Clifton, K. P., Jones, E. M., Paudel, S., Marken, J. P., Monette, C. E., Halleran, A. D., Epp, L., & Saha, M. S. (2018). The genetic insulator RiboJ increases expression of insulated genes. Journal of biological engineering, 12, 23.


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