Part:BBa_K4335004

mCherry

mCherry is a red fluorescent protein. Fluorescent reporter genes for biological applications. We optimized its codon to express in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii more efficiently.

BBa_K4335004 is the DNA of mCherry gene derived from mushroom coral and it is codon optimized for Chlamydomonas reinhardtii .

The advantage of mcherry over other fluorescent proteins is that its color and green fluorescent protein (GFP) are co-labeled, and mcherry also has excellent light stability over other monomeric fluorescent proteins.

Protein structure of mCherry.[Image origin]

It's believed that codon-choice have been conserved during evolution course and because not all tRNA are expressed equally, specially across species, a particular DNA sequence can be codon optimised to match the most prevalent tRNAs of the host cell, improving the efficiency of protein translation [1].

When we looked through the blast tool on the registry page, we found a part [BBa_K2136016] that was very similar to ours.

This is also a codon optimized mCherry for Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.

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]