Coding

Part:BBa_K2992002

Designed by: Yaseen Tengur   Group: iGEM19_Nottingham   (2019-09-05)
Revision as of 16:46, 21 October 2019 by AliceHodson (Talk | contribs) (Characterisation)


botR gene from C. botulinum

botR encodes a positive transcriptional regulator of C. botulinum neurotoxin production which functions as an alternative sigma factor.

Usage and Biology

BotR regulates the the expression of boutlinum neruotoxin and non-toxic associated proteins during the late exponential and early stationary growth phases. We have integrated botR into the genome of C. sporogenes to generate a reporter strain to validate the concept of using volatile reporters to predict the production of botulinum neurotoxin following food manufacturing processes.

Characterisation

This is a basic part that we used in many experiments to produce the sigma factor to induce the expression of acetone, GusA or FAST. We made three BotR-expression modules comprising of the BotR sigma factor gene under the control of the native BotR promotor,an inducible system and one with no promotor. See theresults page for more information.


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Sequence and Features


Assembly Compatibility:
  • 10
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]
  • 12
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]
  • 21
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]
  • 23
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[23]
  • 25
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]
  • 1000
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]

References

Raffestin, S., Dupuy, B., Marvaud, J. and Popoff, M. (2004). BotR/A and TetR are alternative RNA polymerase sigma factors controlling the expression of the neurotoxin and associated protein genes in Clostridium botulinum type A and Clostridium tetani. Molecular Microbiology, 55(1), pp.235-249.

Zhang, Z., Korkeala, H., Dahlsten, E., Sahala, E., Heap, J., Minton, N. and Lindström, M. (2013). Two-Component Signal Transduction System CBO0787/CBO0786 Represses Transcription from Botulinum Neurotoxin Promoters in Clostridium botulinum ATCC 3502. PLoS Pathogens, 9(3), p.e1003252.


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