Team:HokkaidoU Japan/Project/RFC87

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Contents

  • Abstract
  • What`s T3SS
    Detailed information about T3SS and summary of our achievements on iGEM 2010
  • Injection assay using onion cells
    Experiments using plant cells are easier to perform than with mammalian ones
  • Ready-to-inject backbone and Bsa I cloning site
    Ready-to-inject backbone and Bsa I cloning site enables easy fusion of T3S signal and protein
  • GSK tag system
    A neat injection assay using GSK tag, which can specifically detect successfully injected proteins
  • Bsa I cloning site, RFC submission
    Detailed documentation of costructing a BioBrick cloning site a BioBrick!

Illustrations for the Bsa I cloning site

Purpose

HokkaidoU BsaI Fig0.png

We designed "Bsa I cloning site" to accomplish following requirements.

  1. Production a fusion protein
  2. Insertion must be universal
  3. Retain BioBrick properties of the construct
  4. Insertion of the parts only in correct direction


It is ideal that the insert is cut with BioBrick official restriction enzymes (requirement 2) however, cloning site must be cut without using those enzymes (requirement 3). Overhangs resulting from Bsa 1 digestion should not be the same to prevent ligation in incorrect direction(requirement 4).


Restriction Enzyme Bsa I

HokkaidoU BsaI Fig1.png

We came up with an idea of using restriction enzyme Bsa I. Bsa I recognition site and its cutting site are separated, and the sequence on cutting site can be changed to suit different needs.


Design

HokkaidoU BsaI Fig2.png

We designed two Bsa I site to produce Not I like overhang and Spe I like overhang respectively. These cutting ends are ligated with Not I/ Spe I overhangs of digested BioBricks in correct direction, and the product cannot be re-digested by Not I or Spe I. We can amplify every insert part using Prefix and Suffix primer set.


Problems

HokkaidoU BsaI Fig3.png

If this goes on, we have a serious problem that the final product has Xba I site after the Not I site (fail to fulfill the requirement 3). What is worse is that an in-frame stop codon appears on the Xba I site, just before the insert.


Solution?

HokkaidoU BsaI Fig4.png

To solve this problem, it is easy to add only a Not I site and a Spe I site at each end of the insert part. However, it requires different primer set that anneals each insert part (fail to fulfill the requirement 2).


Solution!

HokkaidoU BsaI Fig5.png

We designed a new universal prefix primer named "Xba_byebye". This primer causes a point mutation to delete the Xba I site and its internal in-frame stop codon. Using the "Xba_byebye" prefix primer and the normal suffix primer, we can fulfill all the requirements. After PCR, the problematic template DNA can be removed by Dpn I digestion.


Application

HokkaidoU BsaI Fig6.png

In this construct, the inserted GFP is interchangeable with another BioBrick part using Bsa I again, you can easily identify the replacement of the insert by the color of colonies.


We have submitted this method as BBF RFC 87.

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