Part:BBa_K2507000
ThsS
Background
ThsS (BBa_K2507000) and ThsR (BBa_K2507001), both codon-optimized for E. coli, are two basic parts which belong to the two-component system from the marine bacterium Shewanella halifaxensis. ThsS is the membrane-bound sensor kinase (SK) which can sense thiosulfate outside the cell, and ThsR is the DNA-binding response regulator(RR).
Sequence and Features
- 10COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]
- 12INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]Illegal NheI site found at 1078
- 21INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]Illegal BamHI site found at 477
Illegal BamHI site found at 525 - 23COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[23]
- 25COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]
- 1000INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]Illegal SapI site found at 1010
Reference
Daeffler, K. N., Galley, J. D., Sheth, R. U., Ortiz‐Velez, L. C., Bibb, C. O., & Shroyer, N. F., et al. (2017). Engineering bacterial thiosulfate and tetrathionate sensors for detecting gut inflammation. Molecular Systems Biology, 13(4), 923.
Jackson MR, Melideo SL, Jorns MS (2012) Human sulfide: quinone oxidoreductase catalyzes the first step in hydrogen sulfide metabolism and produces a sulfane sulfur metabolite. Biochemistry 51: 6804 – 6815
Levitt MD, Furne J, Springfield J, Suarez F, DeMaster E (1999) Detoxification of hydrogen sulfide and methanethiol in the cecal mucosa. J Clin Invest 104: 1107 – 1114
Schmidl SR, Sheth RU, Wu A, Tabor JJ (2014) Refactoring and optimization of light-switchable Escherichia coli two-component systems. ACS Synth Biol 3: 820 – 831
Vitvitsky V, Yadav PK, Kurthen A, Banerjee R (2015) Sulfide oxidation by a noncanonical pathway in red blood cells generates thiosulfate and polysulfides. J Biol Chem 290: 8310 – 8320
Bacterial thiosulfate sensors (by IGEM23_WHU-China)
Thiosulfate (S2O32-) is a promising biomarker for gut inflammation. Bacterial sensors based on ThsS/R, two-component systems, can be used to diagnose colonic inflammation (colitis) through flow cytometry analysis of colon and fecal samples by responding to thiosulfate.
In a previous study, the sensitivity and specificity of thiosulfate sensors were measured.
In another literature, the ThsS/R-mediated expression of sfGFP was optimized in response to thiosulfate at transcription to increase the induction ratio and enhance the output intensity.
It tested the sensitivity of the biosensor to thiosulfate and the specificity by using a panel of metabolites in the gut. The result showed that the biosensor system on pWT-CS2R4 produced a detectable and especially specific signal for a minimal thiosulfate concentration (as low as 0.016 mM).
Reference
- Daeffler KN, Galley JD, Sheth RU, Ortiz-Velez LC, Bibb CO, Shroyer NF, Britton RA, Tabor JJ. Engineering bacterial thiosulfate and tetrathionate sensors for detecting gut inflammation. Mol Syst Biol. 2017 Apr 3;13(4):923.
- Zou ZP, Du Y, Fang TT, Zhou Y, Ye BC. Biomarker-responsive engineered probiotic diagnoses, records, and ameliorates inflammatory bowel disease in mice. Cell Host Microbe. 2023 Feb 8;31(2):199-212.e5.
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