Difference between revisions of "Part:BBa K732001"

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Synthetic Chorionic Gonadotropin, beta (synCG-β)

Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) is a hormone produced during pregnancy. Its beta subunit (hCG-β) contains epitopes recognized by pregnancy tests. The full hCG dimer is also used as an ovulation inducer and can stimulate the production of testosterone in men.

This sequence could ideally be used to express hCG for any downstream uses, and also as an output signal since it could trigger pregnancy tests at low concentrations when properly folded.

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
INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]
Illegal NgoMIV site found at 163
Illegal NgoMIV site found at 207
1000
COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]

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 <partinfo>BBa_K732001 short</partinfo>
-A synthetic version of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), a hormone produced during pregnancy. The nucleotide sequence was modified to maximize expression efficiency in bacteria and to conform to standard assembly, and the gene was chemically synthesized. The protein coded by this part is the beta subunit of hCG (hCG-&#946;), which contains epitopes recognized by pregnancy tests. The full hCG dimer is also used as an ovulation inducer and can stimulate the production of testosterone in men.
+Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) is a hormone produced during pregnancy. Its beta subunit (hCG-β) contains epitopes recognized by pregnancy tests. The full hCG dimer is also used as an ovulation inducer and can stimulate the production of testosterone in men.
-This sequence can be used to express hCG for any downstream uses, and also as an output signal since it triggers pregnancy tests at low concentrations when properly folded.
-'''Proof-of-principle'''
-One application of this component is detection by pregnancy test.
-When heterogeneous mixture of ''E. coli'' expressing BBa_K732001 and BBa_K732002 was lysed by either sonication or T7 infection, re-folded using a literature-based protocol, and applied to NewChoice pregnancy tests (purchased from Dollar Tree), positive results were visible.
-Note that (a) there was some coloration around the positive band, and (b) the pregnancy tests were left overnight for bands to become visible. We hypothesize that the delayed read-time is necessary because the folding solution interferes with band visibility.
-[[Image:Virginia 2012 Oct_2_Preg_Test_Results.jpg]]
+This sequence could ideally be used to express hCG for any downstream uses, and also as an output signal since it could trigger pregnancy tests at low concentrations when properly folded.
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