Generator

Part:BBa_K638202

Designed by: Matthew Jones   Group: iGEM11_Cambridge   (2011-09-19)
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Arabinose inducible Poly-His Reflectin A1 generator

Arabinose inducible Poly-His Reflectin A1 generator produces a poly-histidine (his-tagged) form of Reflectin A1( BBa_K638001). Bacteria expressing this construct will produce Reflectin A1 with a poly-histidine tag at the N-terminus in order to enable purification with a his-affinity column used in conjunction with nickel or cobalt resins.

Sequence and Features


Assembly Compatibility:
  • 10
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]
  • 12
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]
    Illegal NheI site found at 1205
  • 21
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]
    Illegal BamHI site found at 1144
    Illegal BamHI site found at 1261
  • 23
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[23]
  • 25
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]
    Illegal AgeI site found at 979
  • 1000
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]
    Illegal SapI site found at 961

Usage and Biology

This device was characterised as Part:BBa_K638301, where reflectin is fused to GFP as an easy reporter for microscopy. We assessed folding on multiple backbones.

From this confocal imaging, we recommend that reflectin be expressed on a low/med copy number backbone to allow protein folding to occur to give soluble protein. High copy number plasmids give inclusion bodies. Some inclusion bodies are also visible in the low copy construct, suggesting that some cells are expressing more fusion protein than others. See our experience of the pBAD promoter for a discussion of variations of induction within a population of cells.



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n/aArabinose inducible Poly-His Reflectin A1 generator