Team:NAU-CHINA/Basic Part



Best Basic Part

BBa_K2088000

This basic part encodes Catechol 2,3-Dioxygenase from Sphingobium sp. YBL2. This protein transforms catechol by meta-cleavage to the bright yellow product 2-hydroxymuconate semialdehyde(2-HMS). We tested it with J23100 (a strong promoter) and its native rbs before it and a double terminator after it in E.coli. It plays a great role in our project to degrade catechol to 2-HMS, a non-toxic molecule that can be metalbolized by E.coli DH5α.

For more details, see our experiment of C23O.