Part:BBa_K2290000

Fluoride Riboswitch regulated Chloramphenicol Acetyltranferase Operon

This is a composite part that allows for regulating the expression of a gene of interest with the B. ceres fluoride riboswitch. The functional parts of the switch are the following:

BBa_J23100 – a constitutively active promoter from the Anderson collection.

BBa_K2290008 – The B. cereus riboswitch with an engineered terminator that results in less read through/background. (This part is highly similar to BBa_K911003, but the BBa_K911003 sequence includes both the Lys promoter and the riboswitch).

BBa_K2290004 – This is a sequence for a strong RBS that doesn't appear to be in the iGEM repository.

BBa_K2290005 – This is an E. coli optimized chloramphenicol resistance gene that we had synthesized.

BBa_B0010 – This is the T1 terminator from E. coli rrnB, reportedly a strong terminator

This part is designed to allow the delta-crcB E. coli strain (strain JW0619-1 from the Yale Coli Genetics Stock Center) to grow on chloramphenicol in the presence of activating concentrations of fluoride (above 75uM). In theory, this part can be used to screen any transcriptional riboswitches by looking for growth on chloramphenicol in the presence of a ligand. To use CHOP in this manner, order an E.coli promotor riboswitch combination with appropriate Gibson overhangs, cut with HindIII to linearize the vector, and do Gibson. We also designed the vector so that genes besides the fluoride riboswitch can be swapped out easily. In this case cut with XhoI.

Sequence and Features

Assembly Compatibility:

• 10
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]
• 12
  INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]

  Illegal NheI site found at 31
  Illegal NheI site found at 54
  
• 21
  INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]

  Illegal XhoI site found at 182
  Illegal XhoI site found at 887
  
• 23
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[23]
• 25
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]
• 1000
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]

2018 East Chapel Hill iGem:
We added new high quality experimental characterization to part BBa K2290000. We grew BBa K2290000 on plates with 0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100 uM fluoride. Our results were interesting because we observed significantly more growth of CHOP (the left most column) compared to what was previously observed.