Part:BBa_K2978000

Causes cell lysis of the pathogen Clostridium difficile

This part makes reference to an endolysin from a bacteriophage that infects Clostridium difficile. It is a segment of the complete protein CD27L, which residues from 2 to 143 are homolougous to the domain N-acetyl-muramoyl-L-alanine amidase. This part codes for residues 1 to 179 of the mentioned protein. It has been codon optimized for E.coli. In previous works this domain has shown a faster lysis to different strains of the pathogen and a high level of selectivity against clostridia compared to the complete protein (Wang et al., 2015).

Usage

The expression of this part is under a T7 promoter, therefore the chasis must contain the T7 polymerase. Considering that this promoter is induce with IPTG, this molecule was applied to an E. coli BL21 de3 culture to estimulate lysin production.

Characterization

For its purification, the lysin was tagged with 6 histidines in the C-terminal, using a Ni-NTA resin column. Protein was washed with 10 and 20 mM Imidazol and then, eluted in 500 mM Imidazole. After dialyzation, protein was stored in 50 mM Tris Buffer pH 7.45. style="width:50%;"

Lysis assay

The lysis activity of CD27L_1-179 was test in Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus sp. and Salmonella abatetuba. Following the Kirby-Bauer method, bacterias were inoculated in a Mueller-Hinton agar, using different concentration of lysin. Amoxicillin and chloramphenicol were used as positive controls and PBS as negative control. Plates were incubated for 48 hours at 37ºC. No inhibitory halos were observed. Thus, we conclude that this protein CD27L_1-179 wasn't able to inhibit their growing.

Sequence and Features

Assembly Compatibility:

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  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]
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  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]