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Flexible Rigid Flexible (FRF) linker

Introduction

Vilnius-Lithuania iGEM 2023 team's goal was to create synthetic biology tools for in vivo alterations of Komagataeibacter xylinus bacterial cellulose polymer composition. Firstly, we chose to produce a cellulose-chitin copolymer that would later be deacetylated, creating bacterial cellulose-chitosan. This polymer is an easily modifiable platform when compared to bacterial cellulose. The enhanced chemical reactivity of the bacterial cellulose-chitosan polymer allows for specific functionalizations in the biomedicine field, such as scaffold design. As a second approach, we designed indigo-dyed cellulose that could be used as a green chemistry way to apply cellulose in the textile industry. Lastly, we have achieved a of bacterial cellulose and polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) composite, which is synthesized by K. xylinus.

Usage and Biology

This is a synthetic linker generated by Vilnius-Lithuania 2023 software. The FRF-linker is constituted of three parts: 2 flexible ends and a rigid middle section. The initial version of this linker was generated with our software and was later curated manually. The graph for the flexibility profile is listed below.

Figure 1: Graph of linker rigidity, low DFI means ridig section, while high DFI is flexible section.

Sequence and Features BBa_K4719023 SequenceAndFeatures