Part:BBa_K510021

pUC18R6KT-miniTn7BB-Gm-Lux

pUC18R6KT-miniTn7BB-Gm-Lux is a vehicle vector for the minitransposon miniTn7BB-Gm-Lux. This transposon is a part of the [http://2011.igem.org/Team:UPO-Sevilla/Foundational_Advances/MiniTn7/Overview miniTn7 BioBrick toolkit], a set of plasmids harboring Tn7 derivatives that can be used for integration of BioBricks in single copy at a conserved target (the attTn7 site), in multiple bacterial genomes.

The mini-Tn7-Gm-Lux artificial transposon has been constructed based on pUC18R6KT-miniTn7-Gm (BBa_K510012) by inserting a pBad/Lux operon (BBa_K325909) in its BioBrick cloning site (BCS). This plasmid can be used for visualization purposes or to brand a strain because of its insertion in the genome of the working organism and split the antibiotic resistance cassette with the temporary expression of Flp recombinase.

The structure of the mini-Tn7BB-Gm-Lux transposon is shown in the figure below. Tn7R and Tn7L are the right and left ends of Tn7 transposon, respectively, required for recognition of the transposase machinery and transposition. FRT is the Flp recombinase target site for excision of the resistance once the transposon is inserted in the genome of a living organism. The gentamycin resistance cassette (Gm) is flanked by restriction sites in order to facilitate the generation of variants with different antibiotic resistance markers. The pBad/Lux cassette has been inserted in the BioBrick cloning site (BCS).

This plasmid is replicative only in E. coli strains expressing the pir gene thanks to its R6K replication origin. Also it has an origin for transference (oriT) for conjugation purposes. This plasmid can be used to maintain the miniTn7BB-Gm-Lux transposon in E. coli pir+ strains and may be used for transposition into the genomes of any bacteria without the pir gen, in which it is non-replicative. As a BioBrick cloning vector, pUC18R6KT-miniTn7BB-Gm-Lux is fully compatible with Assembly Standard 10. The complete transposon is flanked by SfiI restriction sites to facilitate subcloning in other vectors.

Sequence and Features

Assembly Compatibility:

• 10
  INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]

  Illegal prefix found in sequence at 4528
  Illegal suffix found in sequence at 1
  
• 12
  INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]

  Illegal EcoRI site found at 4528
  Illegal NheI site found at 5762
  Illegal NheI site found at 8728
  Illegal SpeI site found at 2
  Illegal PstI site found at 16
  Illegal NotI site found at 9
  Illegal NotI site found at 4534
  
• 21
  INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]

  Illegal EcoRI site found at 4528
  Illegal BglII site found at 3212
  Illegal BglII site found at 3483
  Illegal BglII site found at 3769
  Illegal BglII site found at 7726
  Illegal BamHI site found at 5701
  Illegal XhoI site found at 8556
  
• 23
  INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[23]

  Illegal prefix found in sequence at 4528
  Illegal suffix found in sequence at 2
  
• 25
  INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]

  Illegal prefix found in sequence at 4528
  Illegal XbaI site found at 4543
  Illegal SpeI site found at 2
  Illegal PstI site found at 16
  Illegal AgeI site found at 5536
  
• 1000
  INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]

  Illegal BsaI site found at 10115
  Illegal BsaI.rc site found at 1854
  Illegal BsaI.rc site found at 7124
  Illegal SapI site found at 518
  Illegal SapI site found at 5518
  Illegal SapI.rc site found at 10440