Types | DnaRegion
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Roles | engineered_region
Composite
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Sequences | BBa_K1800000_sequence (Version 1)
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Description
This codes for the peptide Mambalgin-1, an analgesic. Mambalgin is a protein component of the venom of Dendroaspis polylepis, better known as the Black Mamba. Mambalgin-1 peptide that is a powerful analgesic that directly blocks pain transmission in the peripheral nervous system (Diochot et al, 2012) by targeting acid-sensing ion channels within nociceptors beneath the epidermis. Because Mambalgin acts on pain receptors within the skin rather than on opioid receptors in the brain, this peptide has great potential as a medication for pain treatment that is non-addicting and non-habit forming. Furthermore, recombinant purification of Mambalgin could assist in developing anti-venom without the attendant risk of harvesting venom directly from snakes. This part is designed for expression in E. coli.
Notes
For the design, we used assembly standard 10 and also included a start codon in the Mambalgin-1 cDNA sequence and had it synthesized with an RBS region, lacI promoter region, MYC epitome, and 6xHis tag for optimized expression in E. coli.
Source
Mambalgin-1 sequence (BBa_k1110003), RBS (BBa_j61101), lacI Promoter (BBa_R0011), MYC and 6xHis tag was copied from the pGAPZα vector sequence.