Part:BBa_K1689005
Coding sequence of FKBP-Cluc398
FKBP-Cluc 398 fusion protein ORF
Firefly (Photinus pyralis) luciferase can be split to N terminal (Nluc) and C terminal (Cluc) fragments and each of them is inactive. When they two reassembled non-covalently, the enzymatic activity would be reconstituted and the recovered luciferase is able to oxidize luciferin and produce detectable bioluminescence. Currently there are different combinations of split fragments, among which Nluc 416 / Cluc 398 and Nluc 398/ Cluc 394 are widely used[1].
FKBP is a monomeric and highly abundant cytosolic protein that serves as the primary receptor for the immunosuppressive ligands FK506 and rapamycin. Previouly Raik Gruenberg had already designed the part BBa_J18925, containing the coding sequence of FKBP. Rapamycin-binding domain (FRB) of human mTOR (mammalian Target of Rapamycin) binds with high affinity to FKBP. Rapamycin is able to induce the dimerization to form a FRB-rapamycin-FKBP complex[2]. This protein-protein interaction can be visualized by split luciferase[3]. FRB and FKBP are fused to Nluc and Cluc respectively, and adding rapamycin can induce the approaching and reconstitution of split luciferase (Figure 1a).
2015 Peking iGEM improved the previous part BBa_J18925, they fused Cluc 398 to C terminus of FKBP (FKBP-Cluc 398, BBa_K1689005) and combined it with Nluc 416-FRB (BBa_K1689003) to validate the functional reconstitution of split luciferase. The result below (Figure 1b) confirmed that the luciferase activity is able to be successfully reconstituted in a rapamycin-dependent manner.
Figure 1. Rapamycin-induced N-luc-FRB/FKBP-C-luc complementation. (a) The working mechanism of rapamycin induced dimerization. The interacting protein partners (FRB & FKBP) get closer and dimerize soon after rapamycin is added (40nM) [3], thus to reconstitute the enzymatic activity of luciferase. (b) The experimental data. Error bars denote s.d.; n=3.
References
1. Ramasamy Paulmurugan, Sanjiv S. Gambhir. Firefly Luciferase Enzyme Fragment Complementation for Imaging in Cells and Living Animals. Anal Chem. 2005 March 1; 77(5): 1295–1302.
2. Rivera, V. M., T. Clackson, S. Natesan et al. A humanized system for pharmacologic control of gene expression. Nat. Med. 1996. 2:1028–1032.
3. Ramasamy Paulmurugan, Sanjiv S. Gambhir. Combinatorial Library Screening for Developing an Improved Split-Firefly Luciferase Fragment-Assisted Complementation System for Studying Protein-Protein Interactions. Anal. Chem. 2007, 79, 2346-2353.
Sequence and Features
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- 12INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]Illegal NheI site found at 7
Illegal NheI site found at 30 - 21COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]
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- 25INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]Illegal NgoMIV site found at 650
Illegal AgeI site found at 789 - 1000COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]
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