Types | DnaRegion
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Roles | Reporter
engineered_region
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Description
This is a fusion protein coding region of TetR and mRFP. When the gene is expressed, both TetR and mRFP expresses the protein. The mRFP acts as a reporting mechanism to visually confirm if TetR is being expressed. When TetR is not being expressed, the mRFP is not expressed.
This part is useful instead of just having a TetR coding region because it is a way to visually confirm expression without DNA sequencing.
Notes
There is a short segment of nucleotides between the two genes to connect them.
Source
This protein is created by fusing two genes together with the TetR coding region followed by mRFP.