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Revision as of 11:36, 19 September 2012
The LMU-Munich team is exuberantly happy about the great success at the World Championship Jamboree in Boston. Our project Beadzillus finished 4th and won the prize for the "Best Wiki" (with Slovenia) and "Best New Application Project".
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Bacillus BioBricks
We will create a toolbox of Bacillus BioBricks to contribute to the registry.
This BacillusBioBrickBox contains Bacillus specific:
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pSBBs3C pSBBs3C pSBBs3C | Pveg
PliaI PlepA Anderson |
mkate2 luc lacZ |
Flag His cMyc |
Bacillus Vectors
Here is a list of all the vectors we cloned and used. Please note that pMAD is not in a BioBrick standard, but it is a useful tool to knock out genes in Bacillus subtilis.
For the use of our vectors, please see our Protocols page. A general introduction to Bacillus subtilis and its integrative vectors can be found here. All vectors have ampicillin as E. coli resistance and RFP as selection marker.
| Name BioBrick | E. coli res. | B. subt. res. | Insertion locus | Description | Derived from | Reference |
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| pSBBs1C-lacZ [http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K823021 (BBa_K823021) ] | Amp | Cam | amyE | with lacZ reporter gene | pAC6 | [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11902727 Stülke et al.] |
| pSBBs4S [http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K823022 (BBa_K823022)] | Amp | Spec | thrC | empty | pDG1731 | [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8973347 Guérout-Fleury et al.] |
| pSBBs1C [http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K823023 (BBa_K823023)] | Amp | Cam | amyE | empty | pDG1662 | [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8973347 Guérout-Fleury et al.] |
| pSBBs4S-PXyl [http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K823024 (BBa_K823024)] | Amp | Spec | thrC | with Xylose-inducible promoter | pXT | [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11069659 Derré et al.] |
| pSBBs3C-luxABCDE [http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K823025 (BBa_K823025)] | Amp | Cam | sacA | with luxABCDE reporter cassette | pAH328 | [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20709900 Schmalisch et al.] |
| pSBBs0K-Pspac [http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K823026 (BBa_K823026)] | Amp | Kan | replicative | with IPTG inducible promoter | pDG148 | [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11728721 Joseph et al.] |
| pSBBs2E [http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K823027 (BBa_K823027)] | Amp | MLS | lacA | empty | pAX01 | [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11274134 Härtl et al.] |
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The number in the vector's name codes for the insertion locus and the following letter for the Bacillus subtilis resistance gene according to the following table:
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| 0 | replicative | C | Chloramphenicol |
| 1 | amyE (amylase) | E | MLS (Erythromycin + Lincomycin) |
| 2 | lacA (laccase) | K | Kanamycin |
| 3 | sacA (sucrase) | S | Spectinomycin |
| 4 | thrC (threonine C) |
The concentrations of the antibiotics and the insertion tests can be found in our Protocol section.
The promoters we submit are:
Pveg, PliaI, PliaG, plepA, Pxyl, Pxyl+XylR
We also tested the [http://partsregistry.org/Promoters/Catalog/Anderson Anderson promoter collection] in Bacillus subtilis with pSBBs3C-luxABCDE. The data will be online in our Data section soon.
Furthermore we plan to submit reporter genes optimized for Bacillus subtilis, namely GFP, lacZ, luc and mKate2.
Useful for the registry are also 5 tags in Freiburg Standard (cMyc, 10His, Flag, Strep, HA).
More details to come soon. </div>
Bacillus Promoters
To get a set of promoters with different strength we characterized several promoters in B. subtilis. They can be divided in three different groups: the constitutive promoters from the [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_J23100 Anderson collection] from the Partsregistry, the constitutive promoters PliaG, Pveg and PlepA from B. subtilis, and the inducible promoters PliaI and Pxyl-XylR from B. subtilis. For the characterization of the different promoters we used the two reporter vectors pSBBs3C-luxABCDE and pSBBs1C-lacZ as well as the reporters lacZ, luc and mKate2 in BioBrick standard.
Anderson promoters
The first group of promoters evaluated are the promoters of the [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_J23100 Anderson collection] which we call Anderson promoters. They have already been measured in Escherichia coli where they all showed a constitutive behavior with a different strength. In this project, eleven Anderson promoters were characterized in B. subtilis. Therefore we used the reporter vector pSBBs3C-luxABCDE from the BioBrickBox were they showed quiet a low activity in B. subtilis (see Data). To confirm this result some Anderson promoters were also evaluated in the reporter vector pSBBs1C-lacZ(see Data).
- J23100 ([http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K823004 BioBrick:BBa_K823004])
- J23101 ([http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K823005 BioBrick:BBa_K823005])
- J23102 ([http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K823006 BioBrick:BBa_K823006])
- J23103 ([http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K823007 BioBrick:BBa_K823007])
- J23106 ([http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K823008 BioBrick:BBa_K823008])
- J23107 ([http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K823009 BioBrick:BBa_K823009])
- J23113 ([http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K823010 BioBrick:BBa_K823010])
- J23114 ([http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K823011 BioBrick:BBa_K823011])
- J23115 ([http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K823012 BioBrick:BBa_K823012])
- J23117 ([http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K823013 BioBrick:BBa_K823013])
- J23118 ([http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K823014 BioBrick:BBa_K823014])
Constitutive promoters from B. subtilis
The second group of promoters charaterized are constitutive promoters from B. subtilis. We evaluated the promoters PliaG, Pveg and PlepA. Therefore we used the reporter vectors pSBBs3C-luxABCDE and pSBBs1C-lacZ as well as the BioBrick reporters lacZ, luc and mKate2.
- PliaG ([http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K823000 BioBrick:BBa_K823000])
PliaG is a weak, constitutive promoter from B. subtilis. It is responsible for the transcription of the last four genes of the liaIHGFSR locus and therefore for the production of the components of the LiaRS system, which is important for the detection of cell wall antibiotics [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Journal%20of%20Bacteriology%2C%20188%20%2814%29%3A%205153%E2%80%935166: (Jordan et al., 2006)]. PliaG was evaluated with the reporter vectors pSBBs3C-luxABCDE and pSBBs1C-lacZ as well as the reporter BioBrick lacZ. This promoter showed a much higher activity than the Anderson promoters which was still weak in comparison to the other evaluated Bacillus promoters (see Data).
- Pveg ([http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K823003 BioBrick:BBa_K823003])
Pveg is known to show a strong constitutive activity during the vegetative growth phase and sporulation phase. This promoter is important for the transcription of the veg gene, which plays an important role during sporulation [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=J.%20Biochem.%2C%20133%20%284%29%3A%20475%E2%80%93483: (Fukushima et al., 2003)]. Pveg was measured by using the reporter vector pSBBs1C-lacZ as well as the reporter BioBrick lacZ. This promoter was the strongest of our evaluated promoters (see Data).
- PlepA ([http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K823002 BioBrick:BBa_K823002])
PlepA is constitutive promoter which is important for the transcription of a bicistronic operon. One of the expressed proteins is the protein PlepA [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Microbiology%2C%20142%3A%201641%E2%80%931649: (Homuth et al., 1996)]. This protein plays an important role during the translation as it can move the mRNA-tRNA complex one step back in the ribosome which is expected to improve the fidelity of translation [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Cell%2C%20127%20%284%29%3A%20721%E2%80%93733: (Qin et al., 2006)]. This promoter was evaluated with the reporter vector pSBBs3C-luxABCDE as well as the reporter BioBricks luc and mKate2. The activity of this promoter is between the activity of the strongest promoter Pveg and the weak Bacillus promoter PliaG (see Data).
Inducible promoters from B. subtilis
The last group of promoters consists of two inducible promoters of B. subtilis , PliaI and Pxyl-XylR. They are useful to decide when to turn on gene expression because these promoters need an inducer to start transcription. They are evaluated with the reporter vectors pSBBs3C-luxABCDE and pSBBs1C-lacZ and the BioBrick reporters lacZ, luc and mKate2.
- PliaI ([http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K823001 BioBrick:BBa_K823001])
PliaI is an inducible promoter from B. subtilis which is induced by antibiotics that interact with the lipidII cycle, e.g. bacitracin. If the cell senses stress there is a phosphorylation of the two proteins LiaS and LiaR. LiaR binds to the operator of the promoter and induces the transcription. When the promoter is turned on the two proteins LiaI and LiaH are expressed which play an important role in the stress response [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Journal%20of%20Bacteriology%2C%20188%20%2814%29%3A%205153%E2%80%935166: (Jordan et al., 2006)]. This promoter is evaluated with the reporter vectors pSBBs3C-luxABCDE and pSBBs1C-lacZ as well as the reporter genes lacZ, luc and mKate2. The induction was measured with different concentrations of bacitracin (see Data).
- PXyl-XylR ([http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K8230015 BioBrick:BBa_K823015])
PXyl-XylR is a inducible promoter from B. subtilis which is induced by xylose. XylR is constitutively expressed, and is the repressor of PXyl in absence of the sugar Xylose. In presence of Xylose, XylR leaves the operator and the PXyl is active [see e.g. [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2544559 Kreuzer et al.]. This promoter was evaluated with the BioBrick reporter lacZ (see Data).
Bacillus Reporters
We designed some reporters that are commonly used in B. subtilis or are codon optimized versions of popular reporter genes. All reporters have a modified iGEM Freiburg standard ([http://partsregistry.org/Help:Assembly_standard_25 RCF 25]) pre- and suffix for assembly of in-frame fusion proteins. Our prefix also includes the B. subitlis optimized RBS.
prefix: GAATTCCGCGGCCGCTTCTAGATAAGGAGGAACTACTATGGCCGGC
suffix: ACCGGTTAATACTAGTAGCGGCCGCTGCAGT
- GFP ([http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K823039 BioBrick:BBa_K823039])
We took a gfp derivate of the Bacillus subtilis plasmids pGFPamy and added the BioBrick compatiple pre- and suffix of the Freiburg standard (Assembly 25).
- mKate ([http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K823029 BioBrick:BBa_K823029])
We synthesized this rfp derivate with a codon-optimized version for the use in B. subtilis with pre- and suffix of the Freiburg standard
- LacZ ([http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K823019 BioBrick:BBa_K823019])
This lacZ gene is derived from the Bacillus reporter vector pAC6. It is constructed in the Freiburg Standard (Assembly 25) for in-frame fusion proteins. It also includes a Shine-Dalgarno Sequence optimized for Bacillus subtilis translation.
- luc ([http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K823028 BioBrick:BBa_K823028])
We synthesized this luciferase for luminescence assays with luciferin as substrate.
Affinity Tags
- 3x Flag - tag [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K823034 (BioBrick:BBa_K823034)]
- HA - tag [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K823035 (BioBrick:BBa_K823035)]
- cMyc - tag [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K823036 (BioBrick:BBa_K823036)]
- His - tag [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K823037 (BioBrick:BBa_K823037)]
- Strep - tag [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K823038 (BioBrick:BBa_K823038)]
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