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modified AID with CMV, hGH-polyA and eGFP

CMV_mod. AID_pA
BioBrick Nr.	BBa_K929003
RFC standard	RFC 10 with aditional AgeI restriciton site
Requirement	pSB1C3
Source	existing parts:(BBa_K929004; BBa_I712004; BBa_K404108)
Submitted by	[http://2012.igem.org/Team:Potsdam_Bioware Potsdam_Bioware2012]

The BioBrick "modified AID with CMV, hGH-polyA and eGFP" is an extended version of the existing BioBrick "modified AID eGFP(BBa_K929003). It is built of 3 parts: CMV promoter (BBa_I712004), modified AID and eGFP (BBa_K929004) and hGH polyadenylation signal sequence (BBa_K404108). It was designed for strong expression of the fusion protein modified AID+eGFP. For using different promoters or terminators see BBa_K929004 (modified AID+eGFP), BBa_K929001 (just modified AID), its expression part BBa_K929001 (modified AID, CMV and hGH-polyadenylation sequence)or the expression part for wildtype AID BBa_K929000 (wtAID, CMV and hGH-polyadenylation sequence).

AID:

AID is known to be responsible for somatic hypermutation and the class-switch recombination of immunoglobulin in B cells. This enzyme of 28 kDa originally occurs in B cells but does also show activity after transfection into CHO cells. AID induces the deamination of cytidine to uridine at actively transcribed single strand DNA. The replacement of cytidine by uridine leads to a mismatch during DNA replication and integrates a single base substitution predominantly in the immunoglobulin genes.

The AID motif is naturally terminated with the Nuclear Export Sequence (NES) that causes the protein to translocate from the nucleus to the cytoplasm. Additionally, upstream, dysfunctional Nuclear Localization Sequence (NLS) is located. Due to the fact that AID mutates the actively transcribed single stranded DNA, it is supposed that the direction of the enzyme to the inside of the nucleus would improve the mutation rate.

Functional NLS sequence:

This part of the BioBrick directs the expressed protein into the nucleus, where it can mutate stronger.

Kozak sequence

Kozak consensus sequence is added upstream of the AID mutant to express the protein stronger.

CMV promoter:

CMV is an immediate-early Cytomegalovirus promoter for high-level expression. The CMV promoter is commonly used due to its very strong activity and effectivity in a broad range of cell types. The BioBrick is therefore improved via addition of the strong promoter.

hGH polyadenylation signal sequence:

Polyadenylation is a significant part for the translation and stability of mRNA. In eukaryotes, it is part of the process that produces mature messenger RNA (mRNA) for translation. It, therefore, forms part of the larger process of gene expression. hGH terminator gives a signal to start polyadenylation in the translation process.

eGFP:

In order to test where and if the AID modified sequence is functional we added to it a eGFP protein. It is used as a marker gene for detection of transfected cells, e.g. tumor cells.

Sequence and Features