Upstream construction flanking FSTK gene
This divice blocks conjugation by acting on the TraJ Operon. It can be excised form the genome by a Cre recombinase, which recognizes the Lox66 site.
Gabriel Francisco Zaniboni, Victor Augusti Negri, Marcelo Colika Bassalo and Bruno Vaz de oliveira
Derived from the TE terminator of T7 bacteriophage between Genes 1.3 and 1.4 <genbank>V01146</genbank>.
Transcription terminator for the E.coli RNA polymerase.
Suggested by Sri Kosuri and Drew Endy as a high efficiency terminator. The 5' end cutoff was placed immediately after the TAA stop codon and the 3' end cutoff was placed just prior to the RBS of Gene 1.4 (before AAGGAG). Use anywhere transcription should be stopped when the gene of interest is upstream of this terminator.
Transcriptional terminator consisting of a 64 bp stem-loop.
Lutz, R., Bujard, H., Nucleic Acids Research (1997) 25, 1203-1210.
Sequence for pTet inverting regulator driven by the TetR protein.
BBa_R0040 TetR-Regulated Promoter is based on a cI promoter. It has been modified to include two TetR binding sites and the BioBrick standard assembly head and tail restriction sites.
June Rhee, Connie Tao, Ty Thomson, Louis Waldman
RBS.1 (strong) -- modified from R. Weiss
Strong RBS based on Ron Weiss thesis. Strength is considered relative to <bb_part>BBa_B0031</bb_part>, <bb_part>BBa_B0032</bb_part>, <bb_part>BBa_B0033</bb_part>.
Varies from -6 to +1 region from original sequence to accomodate BioBricks suffix ("orig" in figure 4-14 of Ron Weiss thesis). No secondary structures are formed in the given RBS region. Users should check for secondary structures induced in the RBS by upstream and downstream elements in the +50 to -50 region, as such structures will greatly affect the strength of the RBS. Contact info Brian Chow
Vinay S Mahajan, Voichita D. Marinescu, Brian Chow, Alexander D Wissner-Gross and Peter Carr IAP, 2003.
This part was generated in the form of a forward & a reverse primer. After annealing these primers EcoRI & PstI compatible cohesive ends at the 5' & 3' ends of the dsDNA were generated. Next, the dsDNA was subcloned in a pSB1A2 open plasmid (digested with EcoRI & PstI) You can follow the construction process by following the links available in the Paris iGEM 2007 wiki: http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Paris "freezer" section plasmids table. A links sends you to the corresponding notebook date when the ligation reaction was performed
lox66 is a site specific recombination cassette. It belongs to the loxP family frequently used in genetics, particularily in mouse genetics. lox site recombination is catalysed by a Site specific recombinase, Cre. lox sequences are composed of an 8 bp Core sequence surrounded by two Arms. The particularity of lox66 is that it has an altered sequence at the end of it's left arm compared to loxP. This sequence variation reduces affinity of the Cre recombinase for the arm. As a consequence, after a recombination between a lox66 and a lox71 (altered right arm sequence), one of the two resulting generated lox sites has very low recombination potential as it inherited both mutated arms. Use of lox66 & lox71 sites is potentially interresting when the recombination reaction must be "irreversible".
No modidification was made on the lox66 sequence
finO conjugal transfer fertility inhibition protein FinO from Plasmid R100
the basic protein FinO is part of the the two component FinOP system which is responsible for repressing bacterial conjugation; the FinOP system represses the transfer (tra) operon of the F-plasmid which encodes the proteins responsible for conjugative transfer of this plasmid from host to recipient Escherichia coli cells; antisense RNA, FinP is thought to interact with traJ mRNA to occlude its ribosome binding site, blocking traJ translation and thereby inhibiting transcription of the tra operon; FinO protects FinP against degradation by binding to FinP and sterically blocking the cellular endonuclease RNase E; FinO also also binds to the complementary stem-loop structures in traJ mRNA and promotes duplex formation between FinP and traJ RNA in vitro; this domain contains two independent RNA binding regions.
FinO was amplified from E. coli R100 Plasmid (conjugative)
Marcelo Colika Bassalo, Gabriel Francisco Zaniboni, Victor Augusti Negri and Bruno Vaz de oliveira
Antisense RNA of tra operon; binds traJ mRNA leader and blocks translation; requires the RNA-binding protein FinO to achieve duplex formation.
Finp was amplified from E. coli F plasmid (conjugative).
Gabriel Francisco Zaniboni, Marcelo Colika Bassalo, Victor Augusti Negri and Bruno Vaz de oliveira
Conversion of the iGEM parts registry to SBOL2.1