Part:BBa_K592101

Yellow Fluorescent Protein (YFP)

Yellow Fluorescent Protein derived from Aequorea victoria GFP. This sequence is cloned from the pZE12-YFP plasmid used by Elowitz (see reference). The original gene was made by the The Yeast Resource Center (YRC) based at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington.

iGEM12_Uppsala_University: If you are looking for a bright yellow fluorescent protein, the improved gene SYFP2 BBa_K864100 is a better choice than this part.

Usage and Biology

This part is useful as a reporter.

The images above show E coli constitutively expressing YFP BBa_K592101 (yellow) and mTagBFP BBa_K592100 (blue) illuminated on a UV table.

[http://2017.igem.org/Team:AFCM-Egypt# Egypt-AFCM Team] tried to improve YFP gel characterization and function at BBa_K592101 regarding its expression by the lac promoter (BBa_K2217017) as a weak constitutive promoter in one composite part to help enhancing YFP expression to characterize non-coding RNA regulatory activity. Part characterization and usage can be found at BBa_K2217023_Experience.

Contribution

Group: Valencia_UPV iGEM 2018
Author: Adrián Requena Gutiérrez
Summary:We have adapted the part to be able to assemble transcriptional units with the Golden Gate method and we have added the degradation tag ssRA LVA. After that, we have characterized the protein degradation variation due to this tag.
Documentation:

First, we adapted the CDS BBa_K592101 to be used to assemble composite parts using the Golden Gate method, creating BBa_K2656021. Next, we performed an experiment to obtain the excitation and emission spectra. To do this, we created the transcriptional unit BBa_K2656112 and we used the parameters of the Table 1:

• BBa_K2656004: the J23106 promoter in its GoldenBraid compatible version from our Part Collection

• BBa_K2656009: the B0030 ribosome biding site in its GoldenBraid compatible version from our Part Collection

• BBa_K2656021: The original part BBa_K592101 compatible with the GoldenBraid assembly method

• BBa_K2656026: the B0015 transcriptional terminator in its GoldenBraid compatible version from our Part Collection

Table 1. Parameters used to obtain the spectra
Parameter	Value
Number of samples	6
Excitation Wavelength measurement range (nm)	[450-550]
Emission wavelenght (nm)	580
Emission Wavelength measurement range (nm)	[500-580]
Excitation wavelenght (nm)	470
Gain (G)	50

Figure 1. YFP emission and excitation spectra

To test the effect of the degradation tag, we designed an experiment with which we measured the increase in protein degradation due to this tag. To perform this experiment, we assembled two composite parts with the same promoter, RBS and terminator:

• BBa_K2656112

BBa_K2656111:

• BBa_K2656004

• BBa_K2656009

• BBa_K2656020: The original part with the added LVA ssRA degradation tag compatible with the GoldenBraid assembly method

• BBa_K2656026