Types | DnaRegion
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Roles | Device
engineered_region
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Sequences | BBa_K1998000_sequence (Version 1)
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Description
This composite part is made up of various genes that form a part of the chlorophyll biosynthesis pathway. ChlI1 and ChlI2 forms a Mg-chelatase complex which catalyzes the insertion of magnesium ion into protoporphyrin IX to yield Mg-protoporphyrin IX. ChID forms an ATP dependent complex with ChlI1 and ChlI2 before acting of protoporphyrin. GUN4 is a tetrapyrrole-binding protein which controls the production of Mg-protoporphyrin IX found only in aerobic photsynthetic organisms. It is thought to participate in plastid-to-nucleus signalling by regulating Mg-protoporphyrin IX synthesis. Finally, ChlH is a chloroplast precursor which plays a role in the regulation of light in chlorophyll biosynthesis.
CTH1 is a functional protein that is developed in the prescense of oxygen or copper. It catalyzes Mg-protoporphyrin IX monomethyl, which converts to divinyl protochlorophyllide in the presence of NADPH and O2.
Notes
Codon optimisation, order of parts in operon, illegal enzyme kinetics.
Source
The genes were sourced from Chlamydomonas rienhardtii and synthesised.