Difference between revisions of "Part:BBa K2206008"

Latest revision as of 23:25, 30 October 2017

Toehold switch for hsa-miR-15b-5p with luciferase and inducible promoter

Toehold switches are synthetic riboregulators that regulate gene expression post-transcriptionally. Gene expression can be activated in the presence of a cognate single stranded RNA molecule that contains an arbitrary sequence (the trigger RNA). The trigger RNA binds to the switch through base pairing, causing a conformational change that results in translation of the downstream protein coding region.

This part codes for a toehold switch that contains a region that is complementary to the microRNA hsa-miR-15b-5p (the trigger RNA). The toehold switch is activated by hsa-miR-15b-5p and regulates production of luciferase. The luminescence intensity from luciferase is proportional to the number of toehold switches activated (as the more switches activated, the greater the amount of luciferase is produced), thus indicating the levels of hsa-miR-15b-5p present (as the more microRNA there is, the greater the number of switches activated). This part can therefore be used to quantify the levels of hsa-miR-15b-5p.

The transcripts produced by this part are toxic to E. coli. Therefore, we recommend the use of an inducible non-leaky promoter to allow for amplification in E. coli. For reference, we found Bba_K808000 was too leaky.

This part is too large to be inserted into the pSB1C3 plasmid backbone in one ligation step. To insert it into the plasmid, the individual parts that make up this construct must be ligated into the plasmid backbone separately.

This part contains a strong RBS sequence.

NUPACK Structure Analysis

Sequence and Features

Assembly Compatibility:

10
COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]
12
COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]
21
INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]
Illegal BamHI site found at 1144
23
COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[23]
25
INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]
Illegal AgeI site found at 979
1000
INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]
Illegal SapI site found at 961
Illegal SapI.rc site found at 2102

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-Toehold switches are synthetic riboregulators that regulate gene expression post-transcriptionally. Gene expression can be activated in the presence of a cognate single stranded RNA molecule that contains an arbitrary sequence (the trigger RNA). The trigger RNA binds to the switch through base pairing, resulting in translation of the protein coding region. This part codes for a toehold switch that contains a region that is complementary to the micro-RNA hsa-mir-15b-5p (the trigger RNA). The toehold switch is activated by hsa-mir-15b-5p and regulates production of Luciferase. Luminescence intensity from Luciferase is proportional to the number of toehold switches activated, thus indicating the levels of hsa-mir-15b-5p present. We believe that the transcripts produced by this part are toxic when expressed at reasonably high concentrations in E.coli (e.g. the concentrations produced from the BBa_J23111 constitutive promoter). We therefore redesigned the constructs to contain an inducible promoter to allow for amplification in E.coli.
+Toehold switches are synthetic riboregulators that regulate gene expression post-transcriptionally. Gene expression can be activated in the presence of a cognate single stranded RNA molecule that contains an arbitrary sequence (the trigger RNA). The trigger RNA binds to the switch through base pairing, causing a conformational change that results in translation of the downstream protein coding region.
+This part codes for a toehold switch that contains a region that is complementary to the microRNA hsa-miR-15b-5p (the trigger RNA). The toehold switch is activated by hsa-miR-15b-5p and regulates production of luciferase. The luminescence intensity from luciferase is proportional to the number of toehold switches activated (as the more switches activated, the greater the amount of luciferase is produced), thus indicating the levels of hsa-miR-15b-5p present (as the more microRNA there is, the greater the number of switches activated). This part can therefore be used to quantify the levels of hsa-miR-15b-5p.
+The transcripts produced by this part are toxic to E. coli. Therefore, we recommend the use of an inducible non-leaky promoter to allow for amplification in E. coli. For reference, we found Bba_K808000 was too leaky.
+This part is too large to be inserted into the pSB1C3 plasmid backbone in one ligation step. To insert it into the plasmid, the individual parts that make up this construct must be ligated into the plasmid backbone separately.
+This part contains a strong RBS sequence.
+{{Template:CLSB-UK 17 Images 15p5p 1}}
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