Part:BBa_K1937009:Design
Epsilon/MazF : toxin and antitoxin
- 10COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]
- 12COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]
- 21COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]
- 23COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[23]
- 25COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]
- 1000COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]
Design Notes
Epsilon and MazF are under the control of the promoter Pveg (constitutive promotor for B. subtilis) followed by a strong RBS. A theophylline-dependent riboswitch was used to prevent the MazE toxin expression during the cloning steps in presence of theophylline (Topp and Gallivan, 2008). Indeed, with an expressed toxin, it would be impossible to clone the Biobrick in E. coli.SacII and SalI are the restriction sites placed respectively before and after the riboswitch so that this fragment can easily be replaced depending on the control we want to apply to the bacteria.
Source
The gene Epsilon codes for a toxin countered by the anti-toxin Zeta (Zielenkiewicz and Cegłowski, 2005 ; Mutschler et al., 2011). The gene MazF encodes the anti-toxin for the MazE toxin (Bravo et al., 1987, Zhang et al., 2005, Wang et al., 2013).
References
Bravo A, de Torrontegui G, and Díaz R (1987). Identification of components of a new stability system of plasmid R1, ParD, that is close to the origin of replication of this plasmid. Mol. Gen. Genet. 210: 101–110. Mutschler H, Gebhardt M, Shoeman RL, and Meinhart A (2011). A novel mechanism of programmed cell death in bacteria by toxin-antitoxin systems corrupts peptidoglycan synthesis. PLoS Biol. 9, e1001033. Topp S. and Gallivan JP (2008). Riboswitches in unexpected places—A synthetic riboswitch in a protein coding region. RNA 14: 2498–2503. Wang X, Lord DM, Hong SH, Peti W, Benedik MJ, Page R, and Wood TK (2013). Type II Toxin/Antitoxin MqsR/MqsA Controls Type V Toxin/Antitoxin GhoT/GhoS. Environ. Microbiol.15: 1734–1744. Zhang Y, Zhang J, Hara H, Kato I, and Inouye M. (2005). Insights into the mRNA Cleavage Mechanism by MazF, an mRNA Interferase. J. Biol. Chem. 280: 3143–3150. Zielenkiewicz U and Cegłowski P (2005). The Toxin-Antitoxin System of the Streptococcal Plasmid pSM19035. J. Bacteriol. 187: 6094–6105.