Team:LMU-Munich/Spore Coat Proteins

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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'' 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 evaluated with ''lux'' reporter genes to get an impression of their time of activation and their strength (see for more details [https://2012.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Bacillus_BioBricks '''B'''acillus '''B'''io'''B'''rick '''B'''ox]) so they could be used for expression of spore crust fusion proteins.</p>  
<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'' 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 evaluated with ''lux'' reporter genes to get an impression of their time of activation and their strength (see for more details [https://2012.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Bacillus_BioBricks '''B'''acillus '''B'''io'''B'''rick '''B'''ox]) so they could be used for expression of spore crust fusion proteins.</p>  
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<p align="justify">The first step was to fuse ''gfp'' to ''cgeA'' and ''cotZ'' as a proof of principle. 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. Therefore we first fused ''cotZ'' to its two native promoters, P<sub>''cotV''</sub> and P<sub>''cotYZ''</sub>, and to P<sub>''cgeA''</sub>, which regulates the transcription of ''cgeA''. For cgeA we only used its native promoter P<sub>''cgeA''</sub> and the stonger one of the two promoters of the ''cotVWXYZ'' cluster, P<sub>''cotYZ''</sub>. While ''gfp'' was ligated to B0014, a terminator. When these constructs were finished and confirmed by sequencing, we fused them together applying the Freiburg standard to create in frame fusion proteins, flanked by one of the three promoters and the terminator.  
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<p align="justify">The first step was to fuse ''gfp'' to ''cgeA'' and ''cotZ'' as a proof of principle. 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. Therefore we first fused ''cotZ'' to its two native promoters, P<sub>''cotV''</sub> and P<sub>''cotYZ''</sub>, and to P<sub>''cgeA''</sub>, which regulates the transcription of ''cgeA''. For cgeA we only used its native promoter P<sub>''cgeA''</sub> and the stonger one of the two promoters of the ''cotVWXYZ'' cluster, P<sub>''cotYZ''</sub>. While ''gfp'' was ligated to B0014, a terminator. When these constructs were finished and confirmed by sequencing, we fused them together applying the Freiburg standard to create in frame fusion proteins, flanked by one of the three promoters and the terminator.</p>
[[File:Final construct.png|Scheme of variants of the final fusion constructs Promoter-Gen-GFP-Terminator|thumb|610px]]
[[File:Final construct.png|Scheme of variants of the final fusion constructs Promoter-Gen-GFP-Terminator|thumb|610px]]
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As we are working with B. subtilis spores, we needed to clone our final constructs into an empty Bacillus vector, so that the construct gets integrated into the genome of ''B. subtilis''. We picked the two empty vectors from our '''''Bacillus''B'''io'''B'''rick'''B'''ox, pSB<sub>BS</sub>1C for the ''cotZ'' constructs and pSB<sub>BS</sub>4S ''cgeA'' constructs.
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<p align="justify">As we are working with B. subtilis spores, we needed to clone our final constructs into an empty Bacillus vector, so that they could get integrated into the genome of ''B. subtilis'' after transformation. Thus we picked the two empty vectors from our '''''Bacillus''B'''io'''B'''rick'''B'''ox, pSB<sub>BS</sub>1C for ''cotZ'' constructs and pSB<sub>BS</sub>4S for ''cgeA'' constructs. While the integration of pSB<sub>BS</sub>1C-''cotZ'' constructs was checked via a starch test, the one of pSB<sub>BS</sub>4S''-cgeA'' constructs was tested with threonin-deficient agar plates. The clones with the right integrated constructs have then been chosen for further analysis.</p>
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<p align="justify">Finally we could start with the important experiment for our GFP-'''Sporo'''beads, fluorescence microscopy. Therefore we developed a sporulation protocol, that increases the rates of mature spores in our mutant samples (for details see link). The cells were fixed on agarose-pads and imaged in bright field and blue light.</p>
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