Types | DnaRegion
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Roles | engineered_region
Composite
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Sequences | BBa_K1387006_sequence (Version 1)
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Description
The casette of degradation module is comprised of constitutive promoter, tet operator, RBS, outer membrane protein A (ompA) fused with LC Cutinase, and double terminator. By using constitutive promoter, we expect the recombinant protein, in this case ompA-LC Cutinase, will be synthesized indefinitely. ompA is outer membrane protein. It comprises of β???strand B3-B7. Rather than using full sequence of ompA, we use ompA (46-159) fused with lipoprotein signal sequence, thus exposing it on the cell surface of bacteria1. We fuse lpp-ompA with LC Cutinase, an enzyme that exhibit esterase activity. LC-Cutinase esterase activity will cleave the ester bond on PET and releasing terephthalic acid and ethylene glycol as a product. Fusion strategy of lpp-ompA on LC Cutinase gene is one of our way to create a whole cell biocatalyst which will be an effective molecular machinery to degrade PET on the environment. Due to constitutive expression of the recombinant protein in E.coli, there is a possibility of formation of insoluble protein inside the cell (inclusion body), because of that, we put tet operator upstream of RBS for further regulation.
Notes
Fusion strategy of lpp-ompA on LC Cutinase gene is one of our way to create a whole cell biocatalyst
Source
This part, we desgned through synthetic gene (G-Blocks)