Part:BBa_K1850007:Design
pRha - fimH - MBD_N - SpyTag_225
- 10INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]Illegal PstI site found at 374
- 12INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]Illegal PstI site found at 374
- 21COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]
- 23INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[23]Illegal PstI site found at 374
- 25INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]Illegal PstI site found at 374
- 1000COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]
Design Notes
We selected a rhamnose-inducible promoter (BBa_K902065) with a strong ribosome binding site (BBa_B0034), since this promoter is titratable and would allow for controlled expression of the fimH adhesin.
We edited out an illegal PstI cut site in fimH through site-directed mutagenesis.
The SpyTag binding motif was inserted into the fusion site of fimH via site-directed mutagenesis.
The stainless steel binding Metal Binding Domain (MBD) was inserted into fusion sites of fimH via site-directed mutagenesis.
We picked site 225 since there was strong evidence in the literature that small fusions inserted at this site such as his-tags were expressed and functional on assembled pili.
We picked the N-terminus as a new insertion site to try since prior work did not show if peptide fusions could be expressed and properly assembled at this site.
Source
The fimH gene was amplified from the E. coli K-12 genome.
References
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Bhomkar, Prasanna, Wayne Materi, Valentyna Semenchenko, and David S. Wishart. "Transcriptional Response Of E. Coli Upon FimH-mediated Fimbrial Adhesion." Gene Regulation and Systems Biology 4 (2010): 1-17. NCBI. Libertas Academica, 24 Mar. 2010. Web. 18 Sept. 2015.