Coding

Part:BBa_K3113101

Designed by: Alejandro Salinas Illarena   Group: iGEM19_Munich   (2019-10-04)
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mGag

mGag is short for mouse Gag. This sequence codes for the coat protein of the human immunodeficiency virus optimised to bud in mice. It mediates the essential events in virion assembly, including binding the plasma membrane, making the protein-protein interactions necessary to create spherical particles.

Usage and Biology

While exosome secretion is a ubiquitous mechanism, HIV Gag vesicle formation is a bioorthogonal mechanism in mice. This poses a problem because it is known that small animal models have several cellular barriers to prevent HIV replication. In mice, assembly and budding of HIV vesicles are blocked[1], thus severely interfering with the usage of Gag vesicles for our purposes. However, publications report different modifications to overcome these limitations[2]. We, therefore, codon-optimized our Gag construct for expression in mouse cells and introduced the point mutation L21S[3] to aid vesicle formation and secretion. As can be seen in Figure X, we succeeded in secreting Gag vesicles from MIN6-K8 as shown by HiBiT measurements. Introducing the L21S point mutation almost doubled the absolute amount of secreted vesicles compared to the wildtype Gag construct, while relative secretion rates were robustly above 40%.

Characterization

Optimization

Figure 1: The three measured HiBiT signals per condition from VLP production in MIN6-K8 cells. Data from n = 6 biological replicates in a 96-well format. The total Gag amount shown in the main results page equals the sum of “Gag in cells” and “Gag in supernatant”. The export value is (“Gag in supernatant” - “Gag outside VLPs in supernatant”) / “Total Gag amount”. And the leakage equals “Gag outside VLPs in supernatant” / “Total Gag amount”.

Sequence and Features


Assembly Compatibility:
  • 10
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]
  • 12
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]
  • 21
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]
    Illegal BglII site found at 779
    Illegal BglII site found at 1307
  • 23
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[23]
  • 25
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]
    Illegal NgoMIV site found at 709
  • 1000
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]

References

  1. ↑ Sherer, N.M., Swanson, C.M., Papaioannou, S., and Malim, M.H. (2009). Matrix Mediates the Functional Link between Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 RNA Nuclear Export Elements and the Assembly Competency of Gag in Murine Cells. J. Virol. 83, 8525–8535.
  2. ↑ Quellen
  3. ↑ Diaz-Griffero, F., Taube, R., Muehlbauer, S.M., and Brojatsch, J. (2008). Efficient production of HIV-1 viral-like particles in mouse cells. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 368, 463–469.
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