Team:Gifu/Experiments

Experiments


The design of DNA fragment (Seq.1) we used this year is shown below. In PURE system, T7 RNA polymerase is contained. Basically, we need to use T7 promoter designated by the inventors for transcription. SD sequence and Red fluorescent protein lie between BBa_K1859015 and BBa_K1859016. As terminator of this alignment, T7 terminator (BBa_K731721) was selected. In case of myTXTL, it uses σ70 promoter. When you use T7 promoter, you need to add T7 RNA polymerase. The recommended concentration of the polymerase is 2U/μL. SD sequence (RBS) and RBS are sandwiched by ribosomes. As T7 promoter, we did not use the sequence which has been registered in iGEM catalog. Instead of this, we used the new sequence of T7 promoter.

*Caution: BBa_K1332002 contains histidine tag. This time we excluded histidine tag. The function of the coding of this sequence is exactly the same as BBa_E1010 except for stop codon.


Seq.1 T7p-Ribozyme-SD-RFP-Ribozyme-T7t

As proof of improvement of previous composite part of iGEM, BBa_K1491033 was provided by iGEM HQ. Typical alignment of T7 promoter is used in this part. However, in PURE system, the enhancer of the stem-loop structure need to be located in the downstream of T7 promoter to make an expression of protein intense. Thus we also design the part (Seq.2) below to show the improvement and this may contribute to the development of synthetic biology and iGEM competition. In Fig.1 we showed the detail of T7 promoter we used this year. Translation enhancer upstream of the SD sequence of mRNA, enhance the biosynthesis of protein. The enhancer may contribute to a direct interaction with ribosome protein S1. Fig.1 shows the detail of the enhancer.

*Caution: BBa_K1332002 contains histidine tag. This time we excluded histidine tag. The function of the coding of this sequence is exactly the same as BBa_E1010. In Seq.2 it has s stop codon.


Seq.2 T7p--SD-RFP-T7t


Fig.1 Explanation of enhancer of T7 promoter