Parts

This page contains information about the parts created by the team.

Parts Table


Category Name Biobrick # Origin Engineering Decisions References Phase
Promoters Gmubi BBa_K4201000 Glycine Max (Soybean) 1 Complete, Tested
Geranylgeranyl Pyrophosphate Synthases Tc.cytoGGPPS BBa_K4201001 Taxus canadensis
  • Codon optimized for G. max
  • Location Tag Removal
2 Complete with P + T
Gm.cytoGGPPS BBa_K4201002 Glycine Max
  • Codon optimized for G. max
  • Location Tag Removal
NIH Protein BLAST Complete with P + T
CrtE BBa_K4201003 Pantoea anantis LMG 20103
  • Codon optimized for G. max
3 Complete with P + T
Taxadiene Synthases CrtE-cyto-TDS-MBP BBa_K4201004 Pantoea anantis LMG 20103 & Taxus brevifolia
  • Codon optimized for G. max
  • Location Tag Removal
  • Solubility Tag Added (MBP)
  • GGPPS and TDs merged to promote substrate channeling
3 Complete with P + T
cytoTDS2 BBa_K4201005 Taxus chinensis var. mairei
  • Codon optimized for G. max
  • Location Tag Removal
4 Complete with P + T
cytoTDS2-MBP BBa_K4201006 Taxus chinensis var. mairei
  • Codon optimized for G. max
  • Location Tag Removal
  • Solubility Tag Added (MBP)
4 Under Construction
Hydroxylases T5αOH BBa_K4201007 Taxus baccata
  • Codon optimized for G. max
  • Membrane associated sequence left intact
5 Complete with P + T
Acetyltransferases TAT BBa_K4201008 Taxus cuspidata
  • Codon optimized for G. max
6 Under Construction
Reporter Genes GUS BBa_K4201010 Multiple Sources
  • Codon optimized for G. max
7 Complete with P + T, Tested
SF-GFP BBa_K4201011 Aequorea victoria
  • Codon optimized for G. max
8 Complete with P + T, Tested
RUBY BBa_K4201012 Caryophyllal es Order
  • Codon optimized for G. max
9 Complete with P + T, Testing
Terminators AtHSP BBa_K4201009 Arabidopsis thaliana
  • Chosen for its small genomic size
10 Complete, Testing
Backbones Amp BsaI BBa_K4201013 NA
  • Blue/white gene occupying insert position
  • Ampicillin/Carbenicillin Resistance
  • BsaI and AarI/PaqCI Recognition Sites
  • E. coli origin of replication
- Complete for Use
Chlor AarI BBa_K4201014 NA
  • Blue/white gene occupying insert position
  • Chloramphenicol Resistance
  • BsaI and AarI/PaqCI Recognition Sites
  • E. coli origin of replication
- Complete for Use
Kan BsaI BBa_K4201015 NA
  • Blue/white gene occupying insert position
  • Kanamycin Resistance
  • BsaI Recognition Sites
  • E. coli origin of replication
- Complete for Use
Final Composite Parts (all coding sequences with Gmubi and AtHSP) Crte-cytoTDS-MBP_RUBY BBa_K4201016
  • See Basic Parts
- In Testing
Crte-cytoTDS2_RUBY BBa_K4201017
  • See Basic Parts
- Ready for Testing
Crte-cytoTDS2-MBP_RUBY BBa_K4201018
  • See Basic Parts
- Under Construction
CrtE_cytoTDS__T5αOH_RUBY BBa_K4201019
  • See Basic Parts
- Under Construction
CrtE_cytoTDS2__T5αOH_RUBY BBa_K4201020
  • See Basic Parts
- Under Construction
CrtE_cytoTDS2-MBP_T5αOH_RUBY BBa_K4201021
  • See Basic Parts
- Under Construction

References

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  2. De La Peña, R. & Sattely, E. S. Rerouting plant terpene biosynthesis enables momilactone pathway elucidation. Nat. Chem. Biol. 17, 205–212 (2021).
  3. Majer, E., Llorente, B., Rodríguez-Concepción, M. & Daròs, J.-A. Rewiring carotenoid biosynthesis in plants using a viral vector. Sci. Rep. 7, 41645 (2017).
  4. Xiong, X. et al. The Taxus genome provides insights into paclitaxel biosynthesis. Nat. Plants 7, 1026–1036 (2021).
  5. Edgar, S. et al. Mechanistic Insights into Taxadiene Epoxidation by Taxadiene-5α-Hydroxylase. ACS Chem. Biol. 11, 460–469 (2016).
  6. TAT - Taxadien-5-alpha-ol O-acetyltransferase - Taxus cuspidata (Japanese yew) | UniProtKB | UniProt. https://www.uniprot.org/uniprotkb/Q9M6F0/entry.
  7. Jefferson, R. A. The GUS reporter gene system. Nature 342, 837–838 (1989).
  8. Yang, S. et al. An efficient Agrobacterium-mediated soybean transformation method using green fluorescent protein as a selectable marker. Plant Signal. Behav. 14, 1612682 (2019).
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  10. Nagaya, S., Kawamura, K., Shinmyo, A. & Kato, K. The HSP Terminator of Arabidopsis thaliana Increases Gene Expression in Plant Cells. Plant Cell Physiol. 51, 328–32 (2010).
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