Difference between revisions of "Part:BBa M36394:Design"

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===Design Notes===
 
===Design Notes===
Our overall design had a base pair limit of 3000. The point of using of Fos and Jun leucine zippers was to attempt to get the spider silk hexamers to link up head to tail via covalent bonds in the E. coli cells. We were not able to spin the spider silk protein out, isolate it, or analyze its structural properties.  
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Our overall design had a base pair limit of 3000. The point of using of Fos and Jun leucine zippers was to attempt to get the spider silk hexamers to link up head to tail via covalent bonds in the E. coli cells. We were not able to spin the spider silk protein out, isolate it, or analyze its structural properties. Our system was placed into a Rhamnex 67K Xbrane plasmid and tested using varying concentrations of rhamnose.
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===Source===
 
===Source===
  
RBS Leader and ATG came from BioFAB. Terminator comes from BioFAB. Spider silk monomer sequence was repeated six times, and the monomer AA sequence comes from Xia, X.-X., Z.-G. Qian, C. S. Ki, Y. H. Park, D. L. Kaplan, and S. Y. Lee. "Native-sized Recombinant Spider Silk Protein Produced in Metabolically Engineered Escherichia Coli Results in a Strong Fiber." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107.32 (2010): 14059-4063. Print. The sequence was codon optimized for E. coli. Fos-Jun leucine zipper sequences were taken from . O'Shea, E., R. Rutkowski, W. Stafford, and P. Kim. "Preferential Heterodimer Formation by Isolated Leucine Zippers from Fos and Jun." Science 245.4918 (1989): 646-48. Print. They were also codon optimized for E.coli.
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RBS Leader and ATG came from BioFAB. Terminator comes from BioFAB. Spider silk monomer sequence was repeated six times, and the monomer AA sequence comes from Xia et al. The sequence was codon optimized for E. coli. Fos-Jun leucine zipper sequences were taken from O'Shea et al. They were also codon optimized for E.coli.  
 
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Our system was placed into a Rhamnex 67K Xbrane plasmid and tested using varying concentrations of rhamnose.  
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===References===
 
===References===
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Xia, X.-X., Z.-G. Qian, C. S. Ki, Y. H. Park, D. L. Kaplan, and S. Y. Lee. "Native-sized Recombinant Spider Silk Protein Produced in Metabolically Engineered Escherichia Coli Results in a Strong Fiber." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107.32 (2010): 14059-4063. Print.
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O'Shea, E., R. Rutkowski, W. Stafford, and P. Kim. "Preferential Heterodimer Formation by Isolated Leucine Zippers from Fos and Jun." Science 245.4918 (1989): 646-48. Print.

Revision as of 22:39, 6 December 2011

Spider Silk Actuator


Assembly Compatibility:
  • 10
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]
    Illegal PstI site found at 109
    Illegal PstI site found at 151
    Illegal PstI site found at 510
  • 12
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]
    Illegal PstI site found at 109
    Illegal PstI site found at 151
    Illegal PstI site found at 510
    Illegal NotI site found at 302
  • 21
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]
  • 23
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[23]
    Illegal PstI site found at 109
    Illegal PstI site found at 151
    Illegal PstI site found at 510
  • 25
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]
    Illegal PstI site found at 109
    Illegal PstI site found at 151
    Illegal PstI site found at 510
  • 1000
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]
    Illegal BsaI site found at 663


Design Notes

Our overall design had a base pair limit of 3000. The point of using of Fos and Jun leucine zippers was to attempt to get the spider silk hexamers to link up head to tail via covalent bonds in the E. coli cells. We were not able to spin the spider silk protein out, isolate it, or analyze its structural properties. Our system was placed into a Rhamnex 67K Xbrane plasmid and tested using varying concentrations of rhamnose.



Source

RBS Leader and ATG came from BioFAB. Terminator comes from BioFAB. Spider silk monomer sequence was repeated six times, and the monomer AA sequence comes from Xia et al. The sequence was codon optimized for E. coli. Fos-Jun leucine zipper sequences were taken from O'Shea et al. They were also codon optimized for E.coli.

References

Xia, X.-X., Z.-G. Qian, C. S. Ki, Y. H. Park, D. L. Kaplan, and S. Y. Lee. "Native-sized Recombinant Spider Silk Protein Produced in Metabolically Engineered Escherichia Coli Results in a Strong Fiber." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107.32 (2010): 14059-4063. Print.

O'Shea, E., R. Rutkowski, W. Stafford, and P. Kim. "Preferential Heterodimer Formation by Isolated Leucine Zippers from Fos and Jun." Science 245.4918 (1989): 646-48. Print.