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His:CIBN:cLuc:HA

This part is one of the two components of the dimerazing system which is induced by blue light. We adapted this system for the reconstitution of split luciferase to create a blue-light sensor. To the C-terminus of CIBN, C-terminus of split firefly luciferase was added. Upon induction with light and concequent dimerisation, the split luciferase is reconstituted and regains activity, which results in biolumiescence if luciferin is added.

Introduction

BBa_K1965008 contains the coding sequence for the truncated version of the CIB1 protein from Arabidopsis thaliana (CIBN), fused to the C-terminal part of split firefly luciferase. This part works together with BBa_K1965007 (CRY2PHR:nLuc) and is one of the two components of the blue light-inducible dimerization system CRY2/CIB1. For our project, we used the conserved N-terminal photolyase homology region of CRY2 (CRY2PHR; aa 1-498) that mediates light-responsiveness and the truncated version of the CIB1 protein (CIBN; aa 1-170) without the helix-loop-helix region, which mediates DNA binding ^[1].. Dimerization of CRY2PHR and CIBN can be induced by blue light illumination at approximately 460 nm, after which the interaction occurs on a millisecond timescale and can be reversed within minutes by removing the stimulus. We adapted this system for the reconstitution of split luciferase to create a blue-light sensor.

Upon induction with light and consequent dimerization of CIBN:cLuc (BBa_K1965008) and CRY2PHR:nLuc (BBa_K1965007), the split luciferase is reconstituted, resulting in bioluminescence ( 1 ).

Characterization

To determine the most efficient ratios of both proteins, the cells were transfected with different amounts of the plasmid encoding CIBN:cluc, while the amount of the plasmid encoding CRY2PHR:nLuc was kept constant. 24 hours after transfection, luciferin was added to the media and the transfected cells were induced with blue light at 460nm for 30 minutes , lysed, and luciferase activity was measured with dual luciferase assay. As the luciferase activity was highest at a 1:3 ratio of CRY2PHR:CIBN, all subsequent experiments were performed with this ratio.

Further characterization showed that the CRY2PHR/CIBN system shows maximum activity after only 2 minutes of induction with blue light and drops to background levels 10 minutes after the stimulus is removed. The system could also facilitate repeated reconstitution of the split firefly luciferase after 5 consequent illuminations ( 2 ) .

References

^[1]Kennedy, M. J. et al. Rapid blue light induction of protein interaction in living cells. Nat. Methods 7, 973–975 (2010).

Sequence and Features