Part:BBa_K2254001
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Usage and Biology
The toehold trigger cloning tool is a part used by Hong Kong-CUHK 2017 team for convenient cloning and validation of toehold switch that detect specific sequence of RNA. After designing the trigger of a toehold switch in silico, user can insert the trigger into the part by Eco31I digestion followed by ligation.
To obtain the trigger insert, user can mix 2 DNA oligos (about 60nt): one oligo contains forward trigger sequence with AGGG at 5’ end, and one oligo contains reverse complement trigger sequence with AGTA at 5’ end. To allow convenient screening of correct clone, double digestion by Eco31I will remove the GFP gerenrator (I20260), and insertion of trigger will result in colonies that don’t express GFP, whereas ligation of single digested plasmid will give GFP colonies.
When the toehold switch hairpin is linearized by its orthogonal trigger RNA, RBS will be exposed, allowing the translation of downstream mRFP reporter gene.
The Part
Characterisation
Experimental:
Restriction mapping by XhoI and PstI showed correct insertion of our cloning tool into respective backbones pSB1K3, Eco31I could also digest the switch and trigger cloning tool. Below shows the 1% agarose gel:
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We tested our toehold trigger cloning tool when constructing our SAT switch. We ordered a pair of 60nt oligoes when constructing trigger-expressing plasmid. The complementary oligoes were mixed to give dsDNA insert with sticky end. The dsDNA was then ligated to Eco31I digested plasmid. Ligation product was transformed to E. coli DH5a competent cells. Below showed the plate of E. coli cell transformed with SAT trigger-oligoes-ligation product viewed under blue light:
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We can observed that there were fluorescent colonies and non- fluorescent colonies on plate. The black arrows point to 3 non- fluorescent colonies. Since fluorescent colonies are probably resulted by self-ligated plasmid, we picked the non- fluorescent colonies to sequence. Sequencing result showed that the switch were successfully inserted. This proved that our tools worked as expected and provide a convenient way for construction of trigger-expressing plasmid.
Sequence and Features
- 10COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]
- 12INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]Illegal NheI site found at 39
Illegal NheI site found at 62 - 21COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]
- 23COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[23]
- 25COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]
- 1000INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]Illegal BsaI.rc site found at 27
Illegal BsaI.rc site found at 738
Functional Parameters
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