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Ara h 2 expression at the surface of E. coli cells sortable by FACS using mRFP1

Brick expressing Ara h 2 at the surface of E. coli cell sortable by FACS

Introduction

The part expressing the gene of arachid Ara h 2 (K4197008) has been completed with the ihfb800-RFP construction (K41970012) to express red fluorescence. This red fluorescence allows sorting of bacteria by FACS.

Construction

The ihfb800-mRFP1 construction was amplified by PCR with the high-fidelity Phusion polymerase using BFP/RFP IF+BglII R site R (cgcgggatcgagatctatcacgaggcagaatttcagat) and BFP/RFP IF+BglII R site F (tagaggatcgagatctctgaaacagtgcaaagctaaccc) primers. The expected size of the amplicon is 1622 bp. The fragment was inserted on the linearized plasmid pET21b(+) with Ara h 2 (K4197008) by In-Fusion.

The resulting products were transformed into Stellar cells and transformants were selected. Colonies were screened by PCR using screening_insert_R (ccgaaacaagcgctcatgagc) and screening_insert_F (ggttatgctagttattgctcagc) primers. The expected sizes of amplicons was 3046 bp with RFP and 1454 bp without.

Figure 1: Verification of the insertion of RFP fragment in Ara h 2 with gel. The PCR screening was checked with 0.6% agarose electrophoresis gel and revealed with EtBr. A theoretical gel is presented with each gel and the NEB 1 kb DNA ladder is used for the experimental gels (note that a different ladder is presented on the theoretical gel). Colonies 1, 2 and 3 have shown the right size.

Validation

Successful colonies were further tested by digestion with NotI which cut both in the plasmid and in the mRFP1 gene (Figure 2). Correct sizes were expected to be 1280 and 6791 bp for Ara h 2.

Figure 2: Digestion by NotI of Ara h 2 with mRFP1 insertion. The digestion product was checked with 0.6% agarose electrophoresis gel and revealed with EtBr. A theoretical gel is presented with each gel and the NEB 1 kb DNA ladder is used for the experimental gels (note that a different ladder is presented on the theoretical gel). Colonies 21 and 23 present the correct size for Ara h 2.

This construction has not shown red fluorescence on the microscope. After sequencing, a mutation has been revealed on the mRFP sequence which does not allow us to continue further with this construction.

References

1. K4197008
2. K4197012
3. DAISY (INSA-UPS 2022)

Sequence and Features