Coding
Part:BBa_K2485011:Design
Designed by: Michael Herschl Group: iGEM17_Stanford-Brown (2017-09-20)
cPT Region of IcsA
Assembly Compatibility:
- 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
A start codon and two stop codons have been added.
Source
This region is part of the larger IcsA protein which is a unipolarly expressed outer membrane protein endogenous to Shigella flexneri. In S. flexneri, IcsA catalyzes the unipolar polymerization of filamentous actin which generates a propulsive force allowing the bacteria to swim inside mammalian host cells. Although this is an outer membrane protein, its polar localization occurs before export to the outer membrane and is subsequently maintained by a complete lipopolysaccharide layer which slows the diffusion of the protein around the outer membrane.