Part:BBa_K237003

RIP +export signal (OmpA). Quorum sensing inhibitor of Staphylococcus spp. (Including MRSA)

RIP or RNAIII inhibiting peptide is a heptapeptide capable of severely reducing the Qourum sensing(QS) abilities of Staphylococcus species. RIP effectively works as an antibiotic in its inhibition of bacterial growth.

RIP has the sequence YSPXTNF and has been tested extensively in a synthetic (as in organic) form for ability to inhibit bacterial infections in mice.

References will come later.

This is an export-tagged RIP brick. We used an OmpA tag, which (at least in theory) targets the peptide to the periplasmic space from where, there has been described numerous cases of leakage into the medium. Under the transport into the periplasmic space, the OmpA-leader should be cut off, leaving the RIP intact, and ready to inhibit some staph's.

We can at this point in our project not verify that RIP will be exported by our Coli's.

We have come to affectionately call this brick sRIP (short for signal-RIP, in contrast to just RIP).

Sequence and Features

Assembly Compatibility:

• 10
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]
• 12
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]
• 21
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]
• 23
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[23]
• 25
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]
• 1000
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]