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INPNC fused to 6xHis tag

INPNC codes for N- and C- terminal domain of Ice-Nucleation Protein (INP) from Pseudomonas syringae , fused to a 6xHis tag to be easily identified by Western blotting[1]. This is used as an anchoring motif for the cell surface display of passengers. This domain does not have signal peptide for anchoring on the cell surface[2]. Surface displayed passengers retain enzyme activity even when it is linked to INPNC with 6xHis tag.
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Sequence and Features

Usage and Biology

Ice Nucleation Protein(INP) used for our surface display systems is produced by P. syringae, a famous model organism among ice nucleation active (INA) bacteria. Although the freezing point of water is 0°C, pure water can supercool to -40°C before homogeneous ice nucleation randomly occur to form ice crystals. Generally, minimally impure water will freeze spontaneously before -15°C. However, INP produced by P. syringae causes ice nucleation as high as -2°C. This bacteria use this property to form frosts on plants, causing damage and making the plants release nutrients for their growth
INP are expressed as the ice nucleation site, expressed in the outer cell membrane. Modified INP are used as a surface expression system.

We omitted stop codon from this part to make BBa_K1933011.
We used BBa_K1933011 for construction of ☆BBa_K1933100, BBa_K1933101, ☆BBa_K1933200.

Characterization

We improved BBa_K811005 from Penn 2012!!

Western blotting

We added His-tag to BBa_K811005. This addition introduces two new functions to the fusion protein:

First, we can use anti-His tag antibody to detect their surface expression regardless of passenger protein placed downstream. We confirmed this with detections of the INPNC-His-(passenger protein) by Western blotting using anti-His tag antibody. (Fig.1(a))

Second, INPNC-His-(passenger protein) can be purified using His tag’s affinity to nickel columns even in denaturing conditions to recollect it from membrane fractions of E.coli. This would allow fusion protein detection even if the protein’s expression levels are low, further strengthening the first function. We tested this function with Western blotting. Sample was prepared by obtaining the membrane fraction from the E. coli lysate by ultracentrifugation, and solubilized them using 7M guanidine-HCl, then purification of the target protein using Nickel Sepharose. (Fig.1(b))

Figure 1: (a) whole cell Western blotting against His tag. (b) membrane fraction Western blotting against His tag.
Negative Control:BBa_K165002, BclA-His-scFv:33 kDa, INPNC-His-scFv:63 kDa, BclA-His-CBDcex:17 kDa, INPNC-His-CBDcex:47 kDa, Positive control:LPP-OmpA-scFv-His (43 kDa)

These two results confirms the enhanced functions of INPNC parts (BBa_K811005) existing in the iGEM Regisrtry.

Scanning Electron Microscope

We constructed INPNC-His-scFv and BclA-His-scFv (BclA:another surface display module) encoding plasmids using this part. Then we transformed E. coli (strain:DH5α)with these plasmids, and observed its interaction with NoV-like particles (NoVLP, the capsid proteins of NoV) of NoV GII.4 strain. (Fig.2) We observed NoVLP only on the surface of INPNC-His-scFv expressing E. coli, as NoVLP could not be observed in E.coli expressing BclA-His-scFv, (Which may be due to low expression levels, seen in Fig.2), this NoVLP is not unspecifically mixed with the sample. Thus we concluded that we observed the binding of our INPNC-His-scFv expressing E. coli specifically to NoVLP.

Fig.2: Images from scanning electron microscopy
1,2, E. coli expressing BclA-His-scFv. 3-6, E. coli expressing INPNC-His-scFv. 2-microm scale bars are shown in each picture.

Thus, we conclude that this part successfully worked.

• NoVLP was kindly given to us by Professor Daisuke Sano in Hokkaido University.

aspect ratio of recombinant E.coli

When comparing SEM pictures, we noticed that E. coli using INPNC system seems to be more elongated compared to those with BclA system. To confirm this, we determined aspect ratios of all E. coli from the SEM pictures using ImageJ (see Materials and Methods for more detail LINK). By Welch’s t-test (two-sided), we found that E. coli with INPNC system was in fact more elongated than BclA system expressing E. coli. (p=0.0015<0.05).

growth curve

We have also made a growth curve of the INPNC- and BclA- system expressing E. coli. (Fig. 13). It shows that INPNC-His-scFv expressing E. coli has significant delays in growth compared to its BclA counterpart. The results from growth curve and elongated shape both suggests that expression of INPNC-His-scFv to the outer membrane caused significant stress and deformation to the host E. coli.

Fig.4: Growth Curve
Measurements were done for 10 hours, but the graph only shows 4 hours of measurement since the medium saturated within 4 hours.

Please see ☆BBa_K1933100, BBa_K1933101, and [☆https://parts.igem.org/Part:BBa_K1933200 BBa_K1933200] for full characterization of this part.

Judging

We fulfilled criteria listed below with this part.

• Validated Part/ Validated Contribution(Silver)
• Improve a previous part or project(Gold)
• [http://2016.igem.org/Team:Kyoto/Proof Proof of concept](Gold)

Reference

[1]Yim, Sung-Kun, et al. "Surface display of heme-and diflavin-containing cytochrome P450 BM3 in Escherichia coli: a whole cell biocatalyst for oxidation." Journal of microbiology and biotechnology, 20.4, (2010): 712-717.

[2]Park, Tae Jung, et al. "Surface display of recombinant proteins on Escherichia coli by BclA exosporium of Bacillus anthracis." Microbial cell factories, 12.1, (2013): 1.

[3]Alexander M. McCorkle. "Natural Ice-Nucleating Bacteria Increase the Freezing Tolerance of the Intertidal Bivalve Geukensia demissa." Biology Honors Papers, 1.5,(2009): 1.