Coding

Part:BBa_K4447004

Designed by: Rafael Garcia Gomez   Group: iGEM22_TecMonterrey_GDL   (2022-09-29)
Revision as of 19:50, 29 September 2022 by Rafa1470 (Talk | contribs) (Selecting Fluorescent Proteins)


FRET-based system for the detection of erythromycin

FRET-based sensor system for the detection of erythromycin that consists of erythromycin C-12 hydroxylase (BBa_K4447001),an enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of erythromycin, flanked by two fluorescent proteins: ECFP (BBa_K1159302)as an energy donor and Venus (BBa_K1907000)as an energy acceptor.


Sequence and Features


Assembly Compatibility:
  • 10
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]
  • 12
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]
  • 21
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]
    Illegal XhoI site found at 1913
  • 23
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[23]
  • 25
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]
  • 1000
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]
    Illegal BsaI.rc site found at 2562



Selecting Fluorescent Proteins

Fluorescent proteins are most commonly used as donor and acceptor fluorophores in FRET biosensors, especially since these proteins are genetically encodable and live-cell compatible. For this section, we relied on the articles from Bajar et al. (2016) and Agrawal et al. (2021), where different fluorescent proteins are compared according to the requirements of a particular system. The particularity of fluorescent proteins depends on three main advantages: fluorescent proteins-based biosensors are easily constructed via genetic engineering, they confer high cellular specificity by using specific promoters, and these systems are stable in cells for a long time due to high intracellular stability.

From the pairs suggested by Bajar et al. (2016), enhanced cyan fluorescent protein (ECFP) and mVENUS (YFP) are widely recommended because of a higher quantum yield and better folding at 37 °C. This fact is also confirmed by Agrawal et al. (2021), who successfully developed a functional FRET-based sensor to monitor silver ions using this pair of fluorescent proteins. Agrawal et al. (2021) mention that the emission spectrum was recorded after excitation of the sensor protein at 420 nm, and recording the emission in the range of 450 to 600 nm, reaching a peak in 530 nm.

Sequences from both fluorescent proteins were obtained from the BioBricks catalog provided by iGEM. Finally, we selected this fluorescent protein as the donor:

BBa_K1159302: Enhanced Cyan Fluorescent Protein (ECFP). This Biobrick is an improved version of BBa_E0022, 
allowing protein fusion that was not initially possible by assembly criteria.

Afterwards, we selected this fluorescent protein as an acceptor:

BBa_K1890055: Venus. This Biobrick is an improved version of BBa_E0022, allowing protein fusion that was not initially possible by assembly criteria.
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