Team:LMU-Munich/Data/gfp spore

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GFP-Sporobead Evaluation

For creating fusion proteins for the Sporobeads, the genes gfp, cotZ and cgeA were amplified and brought into Freiburg Standard. The restriction site NgoMIV was inserted just after the start codon of the genes of the spore crust proteins. Since this restriction site adds six additional base pairs, the resulting genes are two amino acids longer (CotZ, CgeA). Since there is no way of knowing if this insertion has any effect on protein expression, we created an additional trancated version. The deletion of the six base pairs downstream of the restriction site resulted in fusion proteins that were two amino acids shorter than the constructs above (derivatives of CotZ-2aa and CgeA-2aa).
Afterwards, we first fused both versions of cotZ to its two native promoters, P_cotV and P_cotYZ, and to P_cgeA. For the two cgeA variants, we only used the native promoter P_cgeA, and P_cotYZ, the stronger one of the two promoters of the cotVWXYZ (for more details see crust promotor evaluation). In addtion gfp was ligated to the terminator B0014. After sequence confirmation, we fused the cgeA/cotZ- and gfp-constructs together, applying the Freiburg standard to create in-frame fusion proteins. This way, we created C-terminal gfp fusion to both spore crust proteins flanked by the promoters and terminator above.
Since we want to display the fusion proteins on the surface of B. subtilis spores, we needed to clone our final constructs into an empty Bacillus vector, so that they would integrated into the chromosome of B. subtilis after transformation. We chose the empty vector pSB_BS1C from our BacillusBioBrickBox for the cotZ constructs.
All resulting Sporobeads were investigated by fluorescence microscopy. The intensity bar charts show the fluorescence intensity, while the 3D graphs illustrate the distribution of fluorescence intensity across the spore surface. This correlates with the localization of our fusion proteins in the crust. For image analysis we measured the fluorescence intensity of an area of 750 pixel per spore by using ImageJ and evaluated the results with the statistical software R. The graph below shows a summery of our results obtained from all constructs.

Fig. 1 verifies the previously discribed diffuse background fluorescence of wild type spores (W168). The B49 strain even shows a increased fluorescence background. Nevertheless there is a signficant difference between gfp-Sporobeads and W168 and B 49,respectively. Sporobeads with present native cotZ revealed uniformal distribution around the edge, whereas the ones with the deletion of cotZ elucidated a clear "polar" distribution. Additionally there is a difference in fluorescence activity between the two versions of cotZ recognizable. It appears the strain B 70 with the construct P_cotYZ-cotZ_-2aa-gfp-terminator and the deleted native cotZ had the strongest fluorescence. But as it does not have a uniformal fusion protein distribution, B 53 would be the strain for future Sporobead applications.
In some 3D graphs the picked cell does not represent the average fluorescence intensity depicted in the bar chart, because it was chosen randomly.

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-<p align="justify">It appears the strain B70 with the construct [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K823049 P<sub>''cotYZ''</sub>-''cotZ''<sub>-2aa</sub>-''gfp''-''terminator''] and the deleted native ''cotZ'' had the strongest fluorescence. Thus this would be the strain for future '''Sporo'''beads with special functions. In some 3D graphs the picked cell does not respresent the average fluorescence intensity depicted in the bar chart, because it was chosen randomly. Furthermore it is noitcable that the strain B 45 containing the same construct but without the deletion of the native gene has a strong fluorescence output as well even though it is not as high as the deletion muant. Additionally there is a difference in fluorescence activity between the two versions of ''cotZ'' recognizable. ''CotZ''-2aa is glowing stronger than the other variant in both the cotZ deletion mutant and the wildtype strain</p>
+<p align="justify">Fig. 1 verifies the previously discribed diffuse background fluorescence of wild type spores (W168). The B49 strain even shows a increased fluorescence background. Nevertheless there is a signficant difference between gfp-'''Sporo'''beads and W168 and B 49,respectively. '''Sporo'''beads with present native ''cotZ'' revealed uniformal distribution around the edge, whereas the ones with the deletion of ''cotZ'' elucidated a clear "polar" distribution. Additionally there is a difference in fluorescence activity between the two versions of ''cotZ'' recognizable. It appears the strain B 70 with the construct [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K823049 P<sub>''cotYZ''</sub>-''cotZ''<sub>-2aa</sub>-''gfp''-''terminator''] and the deleted native ''cotZ'' had the strongest fluorescence. But as it does not have a uniformal fusion protein distribution, B 53 would be the strain for future '''Sporo'''bead applications.
+<br>In some 3D graphs the picked cell does not represent the average fluorescence intensity depicted in the bar chart, because it was chosen randomly.</p>