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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> | ||
| - | <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. | + | <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. |
| + | 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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Spore Crust Proteins
The aim of this project part is to create spores that display fusion proteins on their crust. There are several different proteins forming the spore coat layers of Bacillus subtilis spores. On the outermost layer, the so called spore crust, the CotZ and CgeA proteins are located ([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 Sporobeads.
The gene cgeA is located in the cgeABCDE cluster and is regulated by its own promoter PcgeA. The cluster cotVWXYZ contains the gene cotZ which is cotranscribed with cotY regulated by the promoter PcotYZ. Another promoter of this cluster PcotV 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 Bacillus BioBrick Box) so they could be used for expression of spore crust fusion proteins.
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, PcotV and PcotYZ, and to PcgeA, which regulates the transcription of cgeA. For cgeA we only used its native promoter PcgeA and the stonger one of the two promoters of the cotVWXYZ cluster, PcotYZ. 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. 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 BacillusBioBrickBox, pSBBS1C for the cotZ constructs and pSBBS4S cgeA constructs.
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