Part:BBa_K4586015
L7Ae
Part Description
L7Ae is a 50S ribosomal protein that is considered an RNA-binding protein. It has the ability to recognize its K-turn motif or C/D box in ribosomal RNA and can be used to build more complicated genetic circuits that are regulated at both the translational and transcriptional levels as well as as an adapter for RNA binding in the extracellular vesicles.
Usage
Our team uses this part in loading our cargo into the exosomes. By binding to the C/D boxes to load a specific RNA into the vesicles, we fused it to RNA-motifs, which are bound specifically by RNA-binding proteins as shown in figure 1. and figure 2.
Figure 1: This figure illustrates the mechanism of loading our therapeutic agent in the form of mRNA selectively and efficiently into our engineered exosomes secreted form the MSCs,this loading is done through labeling the gene of interest with C\D box a hairpin structure IN THE 3` end this box have high affinity to the RNA binding protein L7Ae that is expressed on the internal surface of the engineered exosomes membrane conjugated to his tagged CD63 protein that is a natural highly expressed transmembrane protein within the exosomes.
Figure 2: This figure shows the design of the biological circuit expressing our loading system on the exosomes membrane ,this system consists of two main component ,First the RNA binding protein L7Ae conjugated to the second component, which is CD3 a transmembrane protein that is naturally expressed on the exosomes membrane.
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- 25COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]
- 1000COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]
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