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pSB1KY-URA3

backbone for shuttle vector. It is compatible with RFC1000 standart.

Sequence and Features

Usage and Biology

Advantages of pSB1KY shuttle vectors

Figure 1: A Plasmid map of the pSB1KY-URA3 shuttle plasmid. Its size after removal of the RFP device (BBa_J04550) is ~4.7 kb. B Plasmid map of the p426 shuttle plasmid. Its size is ~5.6 Kb. Created with Snapgene.

The pSB1KY (Y stands for yeast) is the adapted pSB1K plasmid made into shuttle plasmids for the iGEM RFC1000 assembly in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The addition of a yeast origin of replication and an auxotrophy cassette introduced a new function in the original pSB1K plasmid that allows it not only to be expressed in Escherichia coli cells but also in eukaryotic cells of S. cerevisiae.

The origin of replication that we have introduced is a multicopy yeast origin of replication, the 2µOri, and it allows multiple copies to be maintained in yeast cells for increased protein production. The availability of the various auxotrophy cassettes in pSB1KY plasmid series enhances the accessibility and versatility of the pSB1KY plasmid since users can now choose the pSB1KY that is most suitable for the yeast strain at hand in their laboratory.

The series of pSB1KY plasmids complements the Open Yeast Collection. It is compatible with Open Yeast Collection genetic parts and it can be assembled without the need to put together the whole plasmid from scratch, as is the case for the assembly system on which the Open Yeast Collection is based. This means that the users of the Open Yeast Collection can choose three plasmids out of the collection, a promoter, a CDS, and a terminator, and can assemble them directly into the pSB1KY that is compatible with their lab’s auxotrophic yeast strain.

The pSB1KY plasmids have shown to have great versatility and have found their first users in TU_Dresden22 partners from WWU_Münster.

pSB1KY-URA3 assembly

Inserts carrying genetic elements for the maintenance, selection, and replication of the plasmids in yeast were introduced into the pSB1K. These inserts were a multi-copy 2μ Ori sequence and one of the four of the auxotrophy markers from the Yeast Collection (ScURA3-marker, ScTRP1-marker, ScHIS3-marker, ScLEU2-marker).

Figure 1: Scheme of the cloning performed to create a new shuttle vector for RFC1000 assembly in S. cerevisiae. Created with Biorender.com.

Three restriction enzymes were selected from the list of non-cutters in the selection markers, in the backbones, and the 2μ Ori: BamHI, SpeI, and NotI.

These restriction sites were added via primers in a PCR reaction using the plasmids from the Open Yeast Collection as templates. We decided to create a level 1 shuttle plasmid with the *URA3* cassette first and use it then as a base for the cloning of other auxotrophy markers (HIS3, TRP1, LEU2).

The pSB1K4 was linearized by PCR with the primers iGEM level1 BamHI and iGEM level1 NotI (Table 2, Figure 2).

Characterization of the pSB1KY in comparison to the p426 shuttle vector

To understand whether the new functionalities introduced into the pSB1K were suitable for subsequent experiments, we compared the growth curves of the pSB1KY-transformed yeast cells and p426-transformed ones expressing turboRFP. Two main cultures were adjusted to 1 OD in 20 ml of MV medium in flasks and, after 12 hr, their growth rates were monitored using a spectrophotometer.

From the plots of the growth rates (Figure 8) we were able to observe that the new pSB1KY performs just as well as the widely used p426 shuttle plasmid [1].

During the experiments for the creation of the SP-SUMO tag for protein production in yeast (read more about it here), we were once again able to compare the two plasmids. Both the p426 and the new pSB1KY were used to express the SP-SUMO device aminoterminally fused to the turboRFP fluorescent protein. This construct allowed the protein to be secreted in the medium and we were able to measure the development of fluorescence. The fluorescence intensity in the medium normalized over growth (expressed in nephelometric turbidity units) (Figure 9) showed that the pSB1KY is able to produce and secrete larger quantities of turboRFP. This was observed in two other experiments (data not shown) and seems to indicate that the pSB1KY allows for higher protein production.