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GAM1 promoter / pSB1C3

GAM1 is an inducible promoter from mosquitoes and regulated by Toll signaling in the mosquito defense system. The promoter drives the immune responsive antimicrobial peptide (AMP), Gambicin to kill both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. And it can control Dengue virus infection and malaria parasite through Toll pathway. It works both in mosquitoes (e.g, Anopheles gambiae, Aedes aegypti, Aedes albopictus, etc.) and insect cell lines (e.g, Drosophila S2 cells, Aag2 cells, C6/36 cells, etc.)

Mosquito Toll-AMP Signaling

Mosquito GAM1 promoter is one of the AMP promoters driven by Toll signaling and activated by mosquito-borne pathogens

GENE CLONING

GAM1 Promoter Cloned from the Mosquito Genomic DNA

The DNA fragment of GAM1 promoter was amplified from gDNA of Aedes aegypti by PCR. The PCR products were cloned onto pSB1C3 vector and the sequence was confirmed by sequencing.

FUNCTIONAL ASSAY

To test the function of GAM1 promoter, the part was assembled with GFP and polyA (Part: BBa_K2543005, GAM1-GFP-polyA/pSB1C3)

Green Fluorescence Observed by E. coli Challenge

To test the function of the devices, C6/36 cells were transfected with the plasmid vectors. And the mosquito cells were challenged with bacteria on 2 days after transfection.

Sequence and Features

References

1. PNAS (2001) Gambicin: a novel immune responsive antimicrobial peptide from the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae.
2. Insect Mol Biol. (2007) Regulated expression of microinjected DNA in adult Aedes aegypti mosquitoes
3. PLoS Pathog. (2008) The Aedes aegypti toll pathway controls dengue virus infection.
4. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. (2017) Regulation of Antimicrobial Peptides in Aedes aegypti Aag2 Cells
5. PNAS (2017) Insect pathogenic fungus interacts with the gut microbiota to accelerate mosquito mortality.