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=='''Sporo'''beads - What Protein Do ''You'' Want to Display?==  
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<p align="justify">'''Sporo'''beads are the first generation of ''Bacillus subtilis'' endospores displaying a protein of our choice on their outermost layer, the spore crust. In future '''Sporo'''beads could serve as a platform for protein display and thus be used for numerous versatile [https://2012.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Application applications]. Our goal was to show that ''B. subtilis'' spores have the ability to do so. As a [https://2012.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Spore_Coat_Proteins/result proof of principle] we successfully fused GFP to the spore crust and obtained fluorescence with microscopy.</p> 
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===What are '''Sporo'''beads?===
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|<p align="justify">Three sporulation-dependent promoters (P<sub>''cotYZ''</sub>, P<sub>''cotV''</sub>, P<sub>''cgeA''</sub>) were constructed, two of which show the expected behavior.</p>
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<p align="justify">'''Sporo'''beads are ''Bacillus subtilis'' spores modulated in a way that they can be used as a platform for individual protein display. The aim of this module is to create these spores that display fusion proteins on their surface. There are several different proteins forming the spore coat layers of ''B. subtilis'' spores (Fig. 1). The outermost layer, the so-called spore crust, is composed of two proteins, CotZ and CgeA ([http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=imamura%20et%20al.%202011%20spore%20crust Imamura et al., 2011]). This is why we used them to create functional fusion proteins to be expressed on our '''Sporo'''beads.</p>
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===GFP as a Proof of Principle===
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<font color="#000000"; size="2">Fig. 1: Composition of the ''Bacillus subtilis'' spore coat ([http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=mckenney%202010%20spore%20crust McKenney ''et al''., 2010] & [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=imamura%20et%20al.%202011%20spore%20crust Imamura ''et al''., 2011])
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<p align="justify">The gene ''cgeA'' is located in the ''cgeABCDE'' cluster and is expressed from its own promoter P<sub>''cgeA''</sub>. The cluster ''cotVWXYZ'' contains the gene ''cotZ'' which is cotranscribed with ''cotY'' and expressed from the promoter P<sub>''cotYZ''</sub>. Another promoter of this cluster, P<sub>''cotV''</sub>, is responsible for the transcription of the other three genes (Fig. 2). Those three promoters were evaluated with the ''lux'' reporter genes ([http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K823025 pSB<sub>''Bs''</sub>3C-''lux''ABCDE]) to analyze their strength and the time point of their activation (see [https://2012.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Data/crustpromoters data]).</p>  
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<p align="justify">Based on this data, two of the three promoters could be used for expression of spore crust fusion proteins (Fig. 3). First, we used [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K823039 ''gfp''] as a proof of principle and fused it to ''cgeA'' and [http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K823031 ''cotZ'']. This way, we can determine if it is possible to display proteins on the spore crust and if their expression has any effect on spore formation.</p>
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<p align="justify">We constructed the BioBricks for ''cotZ'', ''cgeA'' and ''gfp'' in [http://partsregistry.org/Help:Assembly_standard_25 Freiburg Standard]. The ''cotZ'' gene was then fused to its two native promoters, P<sub>''cotV''</sub> and to P<sub>''cotYZ''</sub>, and P<sub>''cgeA''</sub>, which regulates the transcription of ''cgeA''. For ''cgeA'' we only used its native promoter P<sub>''cgeA''</sub> and the stronger one of the two promoters of the ''cotVWXYZ'' cluster, P<sub>''cotYZ''</sub> (for more details see [https://2012.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Data/crustpromoters crust promotor evaluation]). In addition [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K823039 ''gfp''] was ligated to the [http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_B0014 terminator B0014]. After sequence confirmation, we fused the ''cgeA''/''cotZ''- and ''gfp''-constructs together, applying the [http://partsregistry.org/Help:Assembly_standard_25 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 (Fig. 4). </p>
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