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Lac-inducible generator of Lpp-OmpA(46-159)-Streptavidin single-chain dimeric + His6 tag

This device contains a lac promoter and strong ribosome binding site for lac-inducible expression of the fusion protein of Lpp signal peptide, OmpA aa46-159, and streptavidin single-chain dimeric + His6 tag. This expression should display streptavidin on the cell surface of E. coli.

NOTE ABOUT THE SEQUENCE: The mixed site between parts is 'only' six base pairs, ACTAGA. There is no spacer T or G nucleotide. These spacer nucleotides have been placed in the results for "get selected sequence" as an automatic composite-parts addition for the BioBricks mixed site between assembled parts. However, this does not apply for the two spacer nucleotides betweeon R0010 and B0034, and the one spacer nucleotide after B0034, because those were standard BioBricks.

Usage and Biology

Characterized by [http://2009.igem.org/Team:Washington Washington 2009 iGEM team]. We sought to use these parts to display streptavidin on the surface of the cell. We confirmed the expression of these proteins by Western blot using an anti-His detection reagent. We then assayed each part for biotin binding using flow cytometry. Our assay was to incubate cells with a biotinylated fluorophore, wash cells, and then monitor by flow cytometry the retention of fluorophore on the surface of cells that had this part induced with IPTG. In this experiment, increased florescence would indicate binding interactions between the streptavadin and the biotin. Our results are described below in the histogram, the y-axis is the event frequency (equivalent to the number of cells counted) and the x-axis is the fluorescence intensity (FLA-1) of the cells/beads:

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  BBa_J36851 This image shows both the induced and uninduced cells for part 48 in varying levels of flourophore (0nM to 100nM). Expression of the surface display streptavidin in the cells was induced at 1mM IPTG. This data shows that there is no appreciable difference between the induced and uninduced cells at any given level of flourophore. There is an increase in fluorescence that increases with increased concentration of incubation - we believe this is because there is due to residual fluorophore present in solution after washing. Fluorescence retention was minimal compared to streptavidin-coated beads (see Control). For more info please see our [http://2009.igem.org/Team:Washington/Project/Display#Data iGEM 2009 Washington Display Wiki].

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  + Control We used streptavidin-coated beads as a positive control for binding of the biotinylated fluorophore to streptavidin. For this experiment, we treated beads as we treated the cells - incubation in biotinylated fluorophore followed by washing and fluorescence measurement by flow cytometry. As the concentration of flourophore was increased we could see increased retention between the beads and the flouophore. The black line is beads with no flouophore, the red is with 10 nM, and the blue is 100 nM. These showed a clear difference between the beads without flourophore and the beads with flourophore. See [http://2009.igem.org/Team:Washington/Notebook iGEM 2009 Washington Protocols] for details.

We also visualized these cells under a microscope. We used the same streptavidin-coated beads (SVP-15-5 1.5-1.9 μm polystyrene spheres, [http://www.spherotech.com/coa_pol_par.htm Spherotech]) as a control. Cells containing induced part J36851 were also tested for cell-surface-displayed streptavidin by incubation with a biotinylated fluorophore and visualization of cell fluorescence using fluorescence microscopy. In this experiment we sought to visualize binding between the cells and the biotinylated flourophore. No appreciable fluorescence was seen. See BBa_J36848 for representative images.

Sequence and Features