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Dual Expression of FucO and GSH

Usage and Biology

The first protein coding region we have, placed after the RBS, FucO, will code for L-1,2-propanediol oxidoreductase (a homodimer enzyme) in order to act upon furfural presence in the field (Zheng, 2013). The metabolism of furfural by NAD(P)H-dependent oxidoreductases will reduce the toxicity of the chemical by turning it into furfuryl alcohol, a derivative and increase the furfural tolerance (Zheng, 2013; Wang et al., 2013; Allen et al., 2010). Our second protein coding region, bifunctional gamma-glutamate-cysteine ligase/glutathione synthetase (GSH), is a non-protein thiol group and a tripeptide composed of cysteine, glycine and glutamic acid (Lu, 2013). It is crucial for the detoxification of reactive oxygen species and free radicals (Ask et al, 2013). Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are harmful substances that alter protein based matters by taking electrons (Lu, 2013; Burton & Jauniaux, 2011). Because many benefits of GSH include scavenging of ROS, protection against endogenous toxic metabolites and detoxification of xenobiotics, we choose this gene to entagrate with the FucO (Höck et al., 2013). Thus we constructed multi functional gene providing long life span and resistance.

Design Notes of Dual Expression of FucO and GSH (BBa_K2571006):

Our construct for composite part 3 is composed of two stages, first the reduction of furans (specifically furfural and 5-HMF) and second the detoxification of reactive oxygen species (ROS). To achieve this effect, we designed our composite 3 part as with a prefix, a strong promoter (J23100), RBS (B0034), fucO as the first protein coding region (BBa_K2571003), RBS (B0034), GSH as the second protein coding region(BBa_K2571005) , double terminator (B0015) and suffix.

Circuit design of BBa_K2571006. Our construct includes a strong promoter,RBS, FucO, RBS, GSH and double terminator.

Our construct is inserted into pSB1C3 and delivered to the Registry. Our construct is also inserted into pSB1A3 and transferred into KO11 to conduct further biochemical assays.

Given that fucO is NADH-dependent it outperforms other oxidoreductases, by not interfering with the NADPH metabolism of the organism while converting highly toxic substances, furfural and 5-HMF to non-harmful alcohols. This characteristic of fucO is crucial because the expression of oxidoreductases like Yqhd are NADPH-dependent, hence they compete with the biosynthesis for NADPH, which results in inhibiting the growth of the organism.

Glutathione, on the other hand, is recycled using NAD(P)H pathways and since now it will be overexpressed and with NADH metabolism is not being altered thanks to FucO, antioxidant capacity of the cell will be increased dramatically, result in amplified immunity to both furans and ROS, habilitating cell growth, increasing ethanol yield by the virtue of increasing cell mass and reproduction, and improved metabolism.

Gel Characterization

BBa_K2571006 check with GSH and FucO specific primers. Expected band length:194 bp. green boxes show positive results.

We’ve inserted our composite part 3(BBa_K2571006) in both pSB1C3 and pSB1A3 backbones. The construct in pSB1C3 is for submission to registry and is cultivated in DH5 alpha. The plasmid having pSB1A3 as backbone, thus carrying ampicillin resistance is for our biochemical assays since we’ve chosen the chassis organism for assays as E.coli strain KO11 which already has Chloramphenicol resistance in its genome. After cloning our genes, we’ve made colony PCR to verify our insertions. We chose the primers as FucO specific since the composite 3 contains FucO coding region. Expected band length was 194 bp, and as expected, the bands were given by all of the DH5 alpha and KO11 colonies we chose, confirming our transformations.

FucO specific primers were used:

FucO left: GTGATAAGGATGCCGGAGAA

FucO right: CTTCTCGCCGGTAAAGTCAG

Sequence and Features