Types | DnaRegion
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Roles | engineered_region
Generator
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Sequences | BBa_K1833004_sequence (Version 1)
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Description
This part encodes the fusion protein consisting of the RpoA-N-terminus and Gal4. The part has a lacUV5 promoter, so the production of protein can be induced with IPTG in any E. coli strain. RpoA is the gene encoding the alpha subunit of E. coli RNA Polymerase, and the N-terminal domain is responsible for assembly of RNAP, while the C-terminal domain is responsible for recruiting the polymerase to DNA. This fusion protein is used as part of a bacterial two-hybrid system, where the Gal4 binds to Gal11P as in the yeast 2-hybrid system.
Notes
The part was designed with a lacUV5 promoter for simple induction that would not overwhelm the bacteria (as opposed to using a T7 promoter, which is often so active that it inhibits the cells from growing).
Source
The protein encoded by this part is used in the PNAS 2000 paper "A bacterial two-hybrid selection system for studying protein???DNA and protein???protein interactions," vol. 97, no. 13, pgs. 7382???7387. The part submitted to the registry was synthesized de novo and thus has a different nucleotide sequence, with the coding sequence codon optimized for E. coli.