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Part Improvement

During the development of our iGEM project, particularly when designing our Part Collection, we decided to offer Printeria users a wide range of reporter proteins that they could use in their experiments. However it called our attention that some reporter proteins, such as the Yellow Fluorescent Protein (YFP), did not present much information about their use and experimentation, compared to the well-characterized Green fluorescent protein (GFP) or (superfolder Green Fluorescent Protein (sfGFP).

For this reason, the Printeria team has carried out several experiments using YFP as a reporter protein in order to better characterize it. Throughout our project, we have obtained its excitation and emission spectra, as well as the molecules of equivalent fluorescence (MEFL) per cell factor that allows us to convert FOD (Fluorescence/OD ratio) into MEFL.

Moreover, we decided to go a step further and improve the YFP coding sequence: BBa_K592101. With this aim, we design a new part by adding a LVA ssRA degradation tag (ssRA/tmRNA tag ending in codons coding for leucine, valine and alanine) to the YFP coding sequence, which increases the action of proteases and causes faster degradation. First, we standardized the part to be compatible with the GoldenBraid 3.0 assembly method creating the part BBa_K2656021. Then, we added the degradation tag ssRA LVA to the YFP, creating the part BBa_K2656020.

To test the effect of the degradation tag on YFP protein amount, we designed an experiment to measure the increase in protein degradation due to this tag by comparing two composite parts, with and without the degradation tag. To perform this experiment, we assembled these two composite parts with the same promoter, RBS and terminator:

Once the experiment was carried out, the results were plotted in Figure 1, in which we can observe that the growth of the bacteria with both constructions was very similar, while the fluorescence (protein amount) had a clear variation.

Figure 1. Comparison between the transcriptional unit with BBa_K2656021 (YFP) and the one with BBa_K2656020 (YFP LVA tag), and between the experimental and simulation data.

These data were optimized using our model, and the optimized parameters that we obtained are shown in Table 1. With these parameters it is possible to determine that the protein degradation of the protein with the LVA degradation tag is around twice as much as without the LVA degradation tag. This result indicates that the LVA degradation tag improvement is convenient for genetic circuits that need a reporter protein with rapid degradation.

Table 1. Optimized values of translation, Pol degradation and dilution rates from experimental data

Optimized parameters

Values

Translation rate p

PoI degradation rate dp

Dilution rate μ

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