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Standardized Cas9 coding sequence + B0015 terminator

This brick was engineered to be a building block of the standard BioBrick vector for one-step bacterial genome engineering: the ([http://2017.igem.org/Team:Amazonas_Brazil pCRISPeasy]). BBa_K2457001 is composed of the Cas9 coding sequence from Streptococcus pyogenes + BBa_B0015 double terminator. It was rationally designed to be interchangeable AND standardized, providing a BioBrick to attend multiple SynBio purposes. For that matter, the RBS and promoter are easily switchable through 3A Assembly. It’s also standard restriction enzymes safe for all RFCs assemblies.

Usage and Biology

In bacterias and archeas, the CRISPR system associated to the Cas proteins is, shortly, a clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats: repeated sequences interspaced by small unrepeated sequences (spacers) resulted from exogenous DNAs segments (protospacers) (Nishimasu et al., 2014). A natural mechanism that promotes immunity through invaders bacteriophage fragments transduction or plasmidial DNA incorporation in prokaryotes CRISPR locus (Church, 2013). The Cas9 (CRISPR-associated protein 9) originated from CRISPR system type II is a tool that has been very explored in genome edition methodologies, it does a sequence-specific cleavage of DNA. Compared to other genomic editing systems, this protein detaches itself for the site-specific cleavage programming possibilities through a single guide RNA (sgRNA). Due to its versatility, is unnecessary design a new protein to each target sequence, as in the traditional methods, like ZFNs and TALENs. Thus, the genetic edition by Cas9 has been integrating innovative applications.

The crystallography made by Jinek (2014) and Nishumasu et al. (2015) revealed the presence of two lobules in Cas9 protein: the first one is Recognition (REC) dividing itself in three parts, a extensive alpha helix, called bridge helix (60-93 residues), REC1 domain (94-179 and 308-713 residues) and REC2 domain (180-307 residues); the second lobule is from nucleases (NUC), splitting in RuvC in amimoterminal which is divided in three discontinuous segments (RuvC-I to RuvC-III), (1-59, 718-769 and 909-1098 residues), HMN in central part (775-908 residues) and the PAM-interacting domains, which is related to the carboxyterminal (1099-1368 residues).

Design

Figure 1: BBa_K2457001 circuit.

Characterization

Figure 2:Sequencing electropherogram from BBa_K2457001.

Figure 3:Alignment of the designed sequence and our final construction from BBa_K2457001.

Sequence and Features