Chiba/Engeneering Flagella

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Stickey Tags

Our Aim

Fig1.Bacteria Linker

To make stickey hands on E.coli, we focused on their flagella that are located outside the cells. We used the following mechanisms:

  • Display sticky peptides in flagellar filament.
  • His-tag. The imidazole group in histidines make a complex with metal ions. 

We combined these two and made a His-tagged flagella in the hope to stick them together via metal ions.

About flagella

E.Coli have 5-10 flagella. The flagella is used for swimming and for chemotaxis; the bacteria run when they find attractant, tumble when there is a repellent.

E.coli flagella consist of three parts: a basal body, a hook, and a filament. The filament of E.Coli is a rigid, helical, and cylindrical structure which is 10-15μm long and 23nm thick in diameter. It is built from ~20000 subunits of a ~55kDa single protein, FliC. FliC has three domains, D1,D2,D3; although D1 and D2 are needed for the formation of the functional flagellar filament, D3 domain which sticks outside of the fillament are not essential[1].

"Variable" FliC D3 domain

It is reported that the proteins up to 49.4kDa could be displayed on the cell surface of E.Coli using flagellin fusion protein.[2]

References

  1. Kuwajima, G. et al.: Nature Biotechnology, 6, 1080-1083 (1988).
  2. Tanskanen, J. et. al.: Appl. and Env. Microbiol., 4152-4156 (2000)

About Histidine Tag

See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His-tag wikipedia article].

Experiments

Making FliC-his gene

  • We inserted the short peptide with six histidine (“His-Tag”) into the fliC D3 domain.

Chiba flichisgene.png

  • Chiba check.png Sequence Confirmed
  • Chiba check.png Swarm Confirmed
  • Chiba check.png Flagella strained with anti-flagella antibody

Checking the "Stickiness": Beads Adsorption

Purpose

Confirm that the his-tag are displaied on the flagella and are capable of binding to Co2+-surface.

Samples

  • JW1908(⊿fliC strain)
    • pUC19-fliC-his
    • no plasmid
  • GI826(⊿fliC⊿motB strain)
    • pUC19-fliC-his
    • no plasmid


Procedure

  1. pUC19-FliC-His was transformed to JW1908(fliC) and GI826(fliC motB).
  2. Incubated 4 cell samples written above.
  3. Culture was suspended with beads which will stick to histidine.
  4. Adsorbed E.coli on the beads was washed with a buffer and spreaded on agar plates.
  5. The colony of each plate was counted.

Results&Discussion

1.Stickiness check

fig2. Strain GI826(⊿fliC,⊿motB).

  • In the presence of Co2+Histidine tag,beads

Co2+Histidine Tagの存在よって大腸菌がビーズに吸着している.

  • Ni2+よりもCo2+のほうがfliC-his存在下でより吸着している.
  • Ni2+よりもCo2+のほうがfliC-hisの有無で吸着の差が大きい
  • The number of colony dramatically decreased with out Co2+ or FliC-His plasmid.


2.Strainの比較

fig2. Strain JW1908(⊿motB).