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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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<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 ''Bacillus subtilis'' spores. 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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<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 regulated by its own promoter P<sub>''cgeA''</sub>. The cluster ''cotVWXYZ'' contains the gene ''cotZ'' which is cotranscribed with ''cotY'' and regulated by 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. Those three promoters were [https://2012.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Data/crustpromoters evaluated] with the ''lux'' reporter genes to get an impression of their strength and their time of activation (see for more details [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K823025 pSB<sub>''Bs''</sub>3C-''lux''ABCDE]) so they could be used for expression of spore crust fusion proteins.</p>  
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===Cloning Strategy===
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<p align="justify">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 would 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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===GFP as a Proof of Principle===
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<p align="justify">We constructed the BioBrick for ''cotZ'', ''cgeA'' and ''gfp'' in [http://partsregistry.org/Help:Assembly_standard_25 Freiburg Standard]. ''cotZ''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]. While [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K823039 ''gfp''] was ligated to the terminator B0014 (see [http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_B0014 Registry]). When these constructs were finished and confirmed by sequencing, we fused them together by applying the Freiburg standard to create constructs, in which gfp is fused C-terminally to ''cotZ'' or ''cgeA'' flanked by one of the three promoters and the terminator. This way we created C-terminal fusion proteins.
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<p align="justify">Finally we needed to clone our constructs into an empty ''Bacillus'' vector, so that they could get integrated into the genome of ''B. subtilis'' after transformation. Thus we picked the empty vector pSB<sub>BS</sub>1C from our [https://2012.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Bacillus_BioBricks#Bacillus_Vectors '''''Bacillus''B'''io'''B'''rick'''B'''ox],  for the ''cotZ'' constructs. This vector integrates into the ''amyE'' locus, which allows to easily check the integration via starch test. In oder to also express both crust protein constructs in one strain, the ''cgeA'' fusion proteins had to be cloned into one of our other empty vectors pSB<sub>BS</sub>4S. Unfortunately for unknown reasons, the cloning of the constructs with ''cgeA'' into this vector has so far not been successful.
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<p align="justify">Finally, we started with the most important experiment for our GFP-'''Sporo'''beads, the fluorescence microscopy. Therefore we developed a sporulation protocol (for details see [https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2012/e/e9/LMU-Munich_2012_Protocol_for_enhancement_of_mature_spore_numbers.pdf Protocol for enhancement of mature spore numbers]), that increases the rates of mature spores in our mutant samples. The cells were fixed on agarose-pads and imaged in bright field and excited in blue wavelength. All '''Sporo'''beads showed green fluorescence on their surface. But B53-'''Sporo'''bead (containing the P<sub>''cotYZ''</sub>-''cotZ''-''gfp''-terminator construct) illusidated the highest fluorescence intensity (see Figure 4). For further experiments, we chose this as it showed the brightest fluorescence.</p>
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<p align="justify">Because of the low but distinct fluorescence of wildtype spores, we measured and compared the fluorescence intensity of 100 spores per construct (see [https://2012.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Data/gfp_spore data]). The '''Sporo'''beads were investigated by fluorescence microscopy and analysed. We obtained significant differences between wildtype spores and all our '''Sporo'''beads (see [https://2012.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Data/gfp_spore Data]). The intensity bar charts should thereby show the fluorescence difference between wildtype (W168), B53- and B70-'''Sporo'''beads (B53 strain with native ''cotZ'' deletion). To demonstrate the distribution of the fusion proteins we created 3D graphs, which show the fluorescence intensity spread across the spore surface. For analysis we measured the fluorescence intensity of an area of 750px per spore by using ImageJ and evaluated it with the statistical software '''R'''. The following graph (Fig. 6) shows the results of microscopy and ImageJ analysis of the strongest construct integrated into wildtype W168 (B53) and the clean deletion mutant of ''cotZ'' (B 70).</p> 
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