Part:BBa_K823034

3x FLAG tag (Freiburg standard+RBS)

3x FLAG tag with RBS in Freiburg standard.

Find out more about the design of our prefix with ribosome binding site.

prefix:GAATTCCGCGGCCGCTTCTAGATAAGGAGGAACTACTATGGCCGGC

suffix:ACCGGTTAATACTAGTAGCGGCCGCTGCAGT

The Flag-tag was the first epitope tag to be published ([http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v6/n10/full/nbt1088-1204.html T.P. Hopp, K.S. Prickett et al. (1988)]). It consists of eight hydrophobic aminoacids: DYKDDDDK and the 3x Flag tag is: DYKDHDGDYKDHDIDYKDDDDK. There are a variety of monoclonal antibodies against this tag, N-terminal as well as position insensitive.

This is a part created by the LMU-Munich 2012 team. We added five tags to the registry, all in the Freiburg standard for N-and C-terminal fusions:

• 3x Flag - tag

• HA - tag

• cMyc - tag

• His - tag

• Strep - tag

Visit our project page for more usefull parts of our [http://2012.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Bacillus_BioBricks BacillusBioBrickBox]. This part was also evaluated in the publication [http://www.jbioleng.org/content/7/1/29 The Bacillus BioBrick Box: generation and evaluation of essential genetic building blocks for standardized work with Bacillus subtilis] by Radeck et al..

Evaluation

All 5 epitope tags were fused C- and N-terminally to GFP using the NgoMIV and AgeI restriction sites. These constructs were expressed in Bacillus subtils using pSB_Bs0K-P_spac. This vector did not need to be induced by IPTG due to a premature stop codon in the lacI gene.

Fig. 1: Western blots of N- and C-terminal fusions of each tag to GFP, using the strains TMB1920 (Flag-gfp), TMB1921 (gfp-Flag), TMB1922 (HA-gfp), TMB1923 (gfp-HA), TMB1924 (cMyc-gfp), TMB1925 (gfp-cMyc), TMB1926 (His-gfp), TMB1927 (gfp-His), TMB1928 (StrepII-gfp) and TMB1929 (gfp-StrepII). For each construct, two independent clones were tested with epitope tag- and GFP-specific antibodies as a positive control.

Methods

To verify the functionality of the epitope tags, Western blot analyses of the strains TMB1920-TMB1929 were performed. LB medium (15 ml) was inoculated 1:100 from overnight culture and grown at 37°C and 200 rpm to OD600 ~ 0.5. Of this, 10 ml were harvested by centrifugation (8000 × g, 5 min) and the pellets stored at -20°C. Pellets were resuspended in 1 ml disruption buffer (50 mM Tris–HCl pH 7.5, 100 mM NaCl) and lysed by sonication. Samples (12 μl of lysate) were loaded per lane on two 12.5% SDS-polyacrylamide gels and SDS-PAGE was performed according standard procedure [60]. One gel was stained with colloidal coomassie, the other one was used for protein transfer to a PVDF membrane (Merck Millipore, Billerica, MA, USA) by submerged blotting procedure (Mini Trans-Blot Electrophoretic Transfer Cell (Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA, USA)). After protein transfer, the membranes were treated with the following antibodies and conditions. Detailed protocols can be found [http://www.jbioleng.org/content/7/1/29/suppl/S3 here].

GFP

Probing with primary antibodies takes place with rabbit anti-GFP antibodies (1:3000, Epitomics, No. 1533). Horseradish-peroxidase (HRP)-conjugated anti-rabbit antibodies (1:2000, Promega, W401B) were used as secondary antibody. Hybridization of both antibodies was carried out in Blotto-buffer (2.5% (w/v) skim milk powder, 1 × TBS (50 mM Tris–HCl pH 7.6, 0.15 M NaCl)).

FLAG

Rabbit anti-FLAG (1:2000, Sigma, Anti-Flag polyclonal, F7425) and anti-rabbit-HRP (1:2000, Promega, W401B) were used in Blotto-buffer.

Chemiluminescence signals were detected after addition of the HRP-substrate Ace Glow (Peqlab, Erlangen, Germany) using a Fusion^TM imaging system (Peqlab).

Usage and Biology

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]