Part:BBa_K3185008

GST -> SPYCatcher -> Hydrophobin

Usage and Biology

Hydrophobin is a protein from Bacillus subtilis. In this paper, it shows that they self-assemble and get hydrophobic region[1]. iGEM OLS_Canmore_Canada 2018 team used this protein as PET binding protein.(BBa_K2650003) Because PET is hydrophobic, hydrophobin might contact with PET.

We wanted to know if hydrophobin can bind to PET by themselves. We put SpyCatcher(BBa_K1159200) on N-terminus of hydrophobin because we used SpyTag/SpyCatcher system to bind hydrophobin to other parts. Also, according to the paper which shows how to purify hydrophobins, they add GST, so we used the pGEX-6P-1whose backbone is GST as a vector too[1].

This part has three tags. First is 6×His-tag inserted in the N-terminus of SpyCatcher for protein purification. Second is MYC-tag inserted between sfGFP and SpyCatcher to detect it by using the antibody. Third is a TEV protease site and we put it between SpyCatcher and 6xHis-tag because it was used for protein purification in the paper[2].

We inserted it in the C-terminal of GST on the pGEX-6P-1.We used BL21 (DE3) for gene expression. We used Ni-NTA Agarose for purification. After that, we confirmed the molecular weight of hydrophobin by using SDS-PAGE. The result is shown below.

Sequence and Features

Assembly Compatibility:

• 10
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]
• 12
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]
• 21
  INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]

  Illegal BamHI site found at 688
  
• 23
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[23]
• 25
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]
• 1000
  INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]

  Illegal SapI site found at 1444
  Illegal SapI.rc site found at 85
  

Purification

Expression

• Cells were grown in 200ml LB media (100μg/ml Ampicillin) at 37^oC shaking at 140 rpm to an OD600 of 0.5, verifying via a spectrophotometer.

• Protein was expressed in 0.1mM IPTG for 2hours.

SDS-PAGE

hydrophobin!

Reference

1 Al, L. H. and N. R. S.-W. et. (2019).
BslA is a self-assembling bacterial hydrophobin that coats the Bacillus subtilis biofilm.
Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 53(9), 1689–1699.

2 Veggiani, G., Nakamura, T., Brenner, M. D., Gayet, R. V., Yan, J., Robinson, C. V., & Howarth, M. (2016).
Programmable polyproteams built using twin peptide superglues.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(5), 1202–1207.