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12x[TALD] operator_minimal promoter_fLuciferase

• TALD label represents TAL effector 1295 from zebrafish experiments (Sander et al., 2011).
• DNA binding sites for individual TAL effectors are indicated with square brackets [ ].

Introduction

Transcription activation like (TAL) effectors are DNA binding proteins with a high specifity, built from tandem repeats, with near identical seqences, differing only in two amino acids in each repeat called “repeat variable diresidue” (RVD), which determine the specifity for a single nucleotide.(Scholze and Boch, 2011).

We designed our construct with 12 binding sites for TALD, upstream of a minimal promoter. Downstream of the promoter we cloned fLuciferase (firefly luciferase) to function as a reporter.

Figure 1: Schematic representation of our construct.

Characterisation

12x[TALD] operator_minimal promoter was characterised with mCitrine reporter.

References

Sander, J. D., Cade, L., Khayter, C., Reyon, D., Peterson, R. T., Joung, J. K., and Yeh, J.-R. J. (2011) Targeted gene disruption in somatic zebrafish cells using engineered TALENs. Nature Biotechnology 29, 697–698.

Scholze, H., and Boch, J. (2011) TAL effectors are remote controls for gene activation. Curr. Opin. Microbiol. 14, 47-53.

Sequence and Features

Assembly Compatibility:

• 10
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]
• 12
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]
• 21
  INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]

  Illegal XhoI site found at 749
  
• 23
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[23]
• 25
  INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]

  Illegal NgoMIV site found at 847
  Illegal NgoMIV site found at 2191
  Illegal NgoMIV site found at 2212
  Illegal NgoMIV site found at 2527
  Illegal NgoMIV site found at 2635
  Illegal AgeI site found at 460
  Illegal AgeI site found at 692
  Illegal AgeI site found at 1915
  
• 1000
  INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]

  Illegal SapI.rc site found at 2097