Difference between revisions of "Team:Fudan-TSI/Design"

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<html lang="en">
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<html>
<!--
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This html document is created by Tian Huang for Team Fudan iGEM 2018.
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We make it compatible on laptop and mobile devices by using Materialize 1.0.0-rc.2.
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-->
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<!-- LC check on 2018-10-18 -->
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<head>
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    <meta charset="UTF-8">
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    <!-- CSS -->
 
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://2019.igem.org/wiki/index.php?title=Template:Fudan-TSI/Fudan-css.css&action=raw&ctype=text/css" />
 
  
    <!-- Font-awesome icons 4.7.0 -->
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<script>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://2019.igem.org/wiki/index.php?title=Template:Fudan-TSI/Fudan-font-awesome.css&action=raw&ctype=text/css" />
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////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
  
    <!-- Materialize 1.0.0-rc.2 (Material Design like) -->
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$(document).ready(function() {
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://2019.igem.org/wiki/index.php?title=Template:Fudan-TSI/materialize.css&action=raw&ctype=text/css">
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    <!-- Clear default CSS settings; CSS reset -->
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//remove the HQ_page id
    <style>
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$("#HQ_page").attr('id','');
        *{margin: 0;padding: 0;list-style: none;}
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        /* via: https://blog.csdn.net/weixin_41014370/article/details/79523637 */
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        /** 清除内外边距 **/
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//highlight current page on the menu
        body, h1, h3, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, p, blockquote, /* structural elements 结构元素 */
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highlight_current_page_menu();
        dl, dt, dd, ul, ol, li, /* list elements 列表元素 */
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        pre, /* text formatting elements 文本格式元素 */
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//accessing submenus
        form, fieldset, legend, button, input, textarea, /* form elements 表单元素 */
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$(".menu_item").click(function(){
        th, td /* table elements 表格元素 */ {
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$(".submenu_control_icon", this).toggleClass("open");
            margin: 0;
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$(this).next(".submenu").fadeToggle(400);
            padding: 0;
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});
        }
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 +
//mobile menu access
 +
$(".igem_2019_team_mobile_bar").click(function(){
 +
$(this).next().toggleClass("displaying_menu");
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});
 +
 +
});
  
        /** 设置默认字体 **/
 
  
        /* @@@@ h1, h3, h3, h4, h5, h6 { font-size: 100%; }*/
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function highlight_current_page_menu() {
        address, cite, dfn, em, var { font-style: normal; } /* 将斜体扶正 */
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        code, kbd, pre, samp { font-family: courier new, courier, monospace; } /* 统一等宽字体 */
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var page_url="https://2019.igem.org/";
        /* @@@@ small { font-size: 12px; } /* 小于 12px 的中文很难阅读,让 small 正常化 */
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page_url = page_url + wgPageName;
 +
$("a[href$='"+ page_url +"']").children().addClass("current_page");
 +
 +
//if the page is in a submenu, open the submenu and make the appropiate changes
 +
if( $( ".current_page" ).hasClass( "submenu_item" )){
 +
 +
$(".current_page").parent().parent().fadeToggle(400);
 +
$(".current_page").parent().parent().prev().addClass("current_page");
 +
$(".menu_item.current_page > .submenu_control_icon").toggleClass("open");
 +
 +
}
 +
}
  
        /** 重置列表元素 **/
 
        ul, ol { list-style: none; }
 
  
        /** 重置文本格式元素 **/
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        a { text-decoration: none; }
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</script>
        a:hover { text-decoration: underline; }
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        /** 重置表单元素 **/
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<style>
        legend { color: #000; } /* for ie6 */
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/**************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************/
        fieldset, img { border: 0; } /* img 搭车:让链接里的 img 无边框 */
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        button, input, select, textarea { font-size: 100%; } /* 使得表单元素在 ie 下能继承字体大小 */
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        /* 注:optgroup 无法扶正 */
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        /** 重置表格元素 **/
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        table { border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; }
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    </style>
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/**************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************/
    <title>2019 Team:Fudan-TSI Design</title>
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/* DEFAULT WIKI SETTINGS */
 +
/**************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************/
 +
 
 +
 
 +
#home_logo, #sideMenu { display:none; }
 +
#sideMenu, #top_title, .patrollink  {display:none;}
 +
#content { margin-left:0px; margin-top:-7px; padding:0px; width:100%;}
 +
#bodyContent h1, #bodyContent h2, #bodyContent h3, #bodyContent h4, #bodyContent h5 { margin-bottom: 0px; }
 +
#bodyContent a[href ^="https://"], .link-https { padding-right:0px;}
 +
 +
 +
 
 +
 
 +
/**************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************/
 +
/* MENU */
 +
/**************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************/
 +
 
 +
/*wrapping for the menu*/
 +
.igem_2019_team_menu {
 +
background-color:#cecece;
 +
border-left: 1px solid #635d5d;
 +
float:right;
 +
height:100vh;
 +
max-width: 270px;
 +
overflow-y: auto;
 +
overflow-x: hidden;
 +
padding:0px;
 +
position:fixed;
 +
right:0%;
 +
text-align:left;
 +
width: 15%;
 +
}
 +
 
 +
/*controlling menu visibility*/
 +
.igem_2019_team_menu.displaying_menu{
 +
display:block;
 +
}
 +
 
 +
/*links in the menu*/
 +
.igem_2019_team_menu  a {
 +
color: #484848;
 +
text-decoration:none;
 +
}
 +
 
 +
/*images in the menu*/
 +
.igem_2019_team_menu img {
 +
width:100%;
 +
}
 +
 
 +
/*level 1 menu items*/
 +
.igem_2019_team_menu .menu_item {
 +
    background-color: #cecece;
 +
    border-bottom: 1px solid #635d5d;
 +
    clear: both;
 +
color: #484848;
 +
    cursor: pointer;
 +
float: left;
 +
    font-size: 120%;
 +
    font-weight: bold;
 +
    padding: 15px 0px 15px 5%;
 +
  width: 100%;
 +
}
 +
 
 +
/*level 1 menu items without submenus*/
 +
.igem_2019_team_menu .menu_item.direct_link {
 +
color: #484848;
 +
padding-left: 15%;
 +
}
 +
 
 +
 +
/*level 1 menu items on hover*/
 +
.igem_2019_team_menu .menu_item:hover {
 +
background-color: #ecb656 !important;
 +
}
 +
 
 +
/*icon for expanding and collapsing level 1 menut items*/
 +
.igem_2019_team_menu .menu_item .submenu_control_icon {
 +
color: #484848;
 +
float: left;
 +
width: 10%;
 +
}
 +
 
 +
/* submenu icon  "-"*/
 +
.igem_2019_team_menu .menu_item .submenu_control_icon::before {
 +
content: "+";
 +
}
 +
 
 +
/* submenu icon  "-"*/
 +
.igem_2019_team_menu .menu_item .submenu_control_icon.open::before {
 +
content: "-";
 +
}
 +
 
 +
 +
/*level 2 menu (submenu) wrapper*/
 +
.igem_2019_team_menu .submenu{
 +
background-color: #ececec;
 +
clear:both;
 +
display:none;
 +
float: left; 
 +
width:100%;
 +
}
 +
 
 +
/*level 2 menu (submenu) item*/
 +
.igem_2019_team_menu .submenu .submenu_item {
 +
border-bottom: 1px solid #cecece;
 +
  color: #635d5d;
 +
    height: 30px;
 +
  float: left;
 +
    font-size: 110%;
 +
font-weight: bold;
 +
    padding: 12px 0px 0px 15%;
 +
    width: 100%;
 +
}
 +
 
 +
/*level 2 menu (submenu) items on hover*/
 +
.igem_2019_team_menu .submenu .submenu_item:hover {
 +
background-color: #ecb656 !important;
 +
}
 +
 
 +
/*color for highlighting current page on the wiki*/
 +
.igem_2019_team_menu .submenu .submenu_item.current_page,
 +
.igem_2019_team_menu .menu_item.current_page,
 +
.igem_2019_team_menu .menu_item.direct_link.current_page {
 +
background-color:#a2d3d0;
 +
}
 +
 
 +
 
 +
/*mobile menu bar styling*/
 +
/**************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************/
 +
 
 +
/*mobile bar that controls the menu*/
 +
.igem_2019_team_mobile_bar {
 +
background-color:#ececec;
 +
border-bottom: 1px solid #cecece;
 +
cursor:pointer;
 +
display:none;
 +
float:left;
 +
margin-top: 0;
 +
padding: 5px 0;
 +
position:fixed;
 +
width:100%;
 +
}
 +
 +
/*mobile logo*/
 +
.igem_logo_mobile {
 +
float:left;
 +
padding-left: 5%;
 +
width: 30%;
 +
}
 +
 
 +
/*image within the mobile logo*/
 +
.igem_logo_mobile img {
 +
width:70px;
 +
}
 +
 +
/*mobile expand collapse button*/
 +
.igem_menu_control_mobile {
 +
float:right;
 +
padding-right:5%;
 +
padding-top:5px;
 +
text-align:right;
 +
width: 30%;
 +
}
 +
 
 +
/*image for mobile expand collapse button*/
 +
.igem_menu_control_mobile img {
 +
width:25px;
 +
}
 +
 
 +
 
 +
/*add extra padding to the menu to improve mobile scrolling*/
 +
.menu_padding{
 +
float:left;
 +
height:100px;
 +
}
 +
 
 +
 
 +
/**************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************/
 +
/* CONTENT OF THE PAGE */
 +
/**************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************/
 +
 
 +
/* general wrapper for the content */
 +
.igem_2019_team_content {
 +
background-color:white;
 +
display:block;
 +
width: 87%;
 +
}
 +
 
 +
/* subwrapper to center content */
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper {
 +
margin:auto;
 +
max-width: 1400px;
 +
width:90%;
 +
}
 +
 
 +
 
 +
 
 +
/*general styling*/
 +
/**************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************/
 +
 
 +
/*size for title h tags*/
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper h1 { font-size: 210%;}
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper h2 { font-size: 190%;}
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper h3 { font-size: 170%;}
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper h4 { font-size: 150%;}
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper h5 { font-size: 140%;}
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper h6 { font-size: 130%;}
 +
 
 +
 
 +
/*titles h1, h2*/
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper h1, .igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper h2 {
 +
border-bottom:0px;
 +
color: white;
 +
font-family: "Arial Black", Gadget, sans-serif;
 +
padding: 10px 0px;
 +
}
 +
 
 +
/*titles h3, h3, h5, h6 */
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper h3,
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper h4,
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper h5,
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper h6 {
 +
border-bottom:0px;
 +
color: white; 
 +
font-family: "Arial Black", Gadget, sans-serif;
 +
padding: 5px 0px;
 +
}
 +
 
 +
/* text p tag*/
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper p {
 +
font-size: 130%;
 +
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
 +
padding: 5px 0px;
 +
text-align: left;
 +
color: white;
 +
}
 +
 
 +
/* Links a tag*/
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper a {
 +
color: #00a19b;
 +
font-weight: bold;
 +
text-decoration: underline;
 +
text-decoration-color:#00a19b;
 +
transition: all 0.4s ease;
 +
-webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease;
 +
-moz-transition: all 0.4s ease;
 +
-ms-transition: all 0.4s ease;
 +
-o-transition: all 0.4s ease;
 +
}
 +
 
 +
/* hover for the links */
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper a:hover {
 +
color: #085156;
 +
text-decoration:none;
 +
}
 +
 
 +
 
 +
/* Table tag*/
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper table {
 +
border: 1px solid #635d5d;
 +
border-collapse: collapse;
 +
font-size: 130%;
 +
width: 100%;
 +
}
 +
 
 +
/* table cells */
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper td {
 +
border: 1px solid #cecece;
 +
border-collapse: collapse;
 +
font-size: 105%;
 +
padding: 10px;
 +
vertical-align: text-top;
 +
}
 +
 
 +
/* table headers */
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper th {
 +
background-color:#cecece;
 +
border: 1px solid #635d5d;
 +
border-collapse: collapse;
 +
font-size: 110%;
 +
padding: 10px;
 +
vertical-align: text-top;
 +
}
 +
 
 +
 
 +
 
 +
/* non numbered lists */
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper ul, .igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper ol {
 +
font-size: 130%;
 +
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
 +
padding:0px 20px;
 +
}
 +
 
 +
 
 +
/*font sizing within list nesting*/
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper ul ul li, .igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper ul ul ul li,
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper ul ol li, .igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper ul ul ol li,
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper ol ol li, .igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper ul ol ul li,
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper ol ul li, .igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper ul ol ol li,
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper ol ul ul li, .igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper ol ol ul li,
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper ol ol ol li, .igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper ol ul ol li{ font-size: 76%; }
 +
 
 +
 
 +
 
 +
/*layout classes*/
 +
/**************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************/
 +
 
 +
/*main layout class */
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper .column  {
 +
float:left;
 +
margin: 1% 2%;
 +
padding: 0px;
 +
}
 +
 
 +
/* 100% */
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper .column.full_size { width:96%; }
 +
 
 +
/* 66% */
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper .column.two_thirds_size { width: 62.6%; }
 +
 
 +
/* 33% */
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper .column.third_size { width: 29.3%; }
 +
 
 +
 
 +
 
 +
 
 +
/*all images*/
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper .column.full_size img,
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper .column.two_thirds_size img,
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper .column.third_size img {
 +
margin-bottom: 15px;
 +
width: 100%;
 +
}
 +
 
 +
 
 +
/* page break */
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper .clear {
 +
clear:both;
 +
}
 +
/*add extra space to page break with clear class*/
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper .clear.extra_space {
 +
height: 30px;
 +
}
 +
 
 +
/* horizontal line to divide the page*/
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper .line_divider {
 +
    border-top: 1px solid #cecece;
 +
  margin: auto;
 +
  width: 98%;
 +
}
 +
 
 +
 
 +
 
 +
 +
/*support classes*/
 +
/**************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************/
 +
 
 +
 
 +
/*Button  */
 +
/************************************************/
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper .button_link {
 +
font-size: 130%;
 +
margin: 30px auto;
 +
text-align: center;
 +
}
 +
 
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper .button_link a  {
 +
background-color: #00a19bad !important;
 +
color: #000 !important;
 +
font-weight: bold;
 +
margin: auto;
 +
text-decoration: none !important;
 +
padding: 10px 15px !important;
 +
}
 +
 
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper .button_link a:hover {
 +
background-color: #ffb819 !important; 
 +
}
 +
 
 +
 +
 
 +
/*highlight */
 +
/************************************************/
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper .highlight {
 +
padding: 15px 20px;
 +
}
 +
 
 +
 
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper .highlight p,
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper .highlight h1,
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper .highlight h2,
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper .highlight h3,
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper .highlight h4,
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper .highlight h5,
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper .highlight h6 {
 +
padding: 5px 15px;
 +
}
 +
 
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper .highlight.decoration_background {
 +
background-color: #ececec;
 +
}
 +
 
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper .highlight.decoration_A_top {
 +
    border-top: 4px solid #00a19bad;
 +
}
 +
 
 +
 
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper .highlight.decoration_A_full {
 +
    border: 4px solid #00a19bad;
 +
}
 +
 
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper .highlight.decoration_B_top {
 +
    border-top: 4px solid #ffb819
 +
}
 +
 
 +
 
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper .highlight.decoration_B_full {
 +
    border: 4px solid #ffb819;
 +
}
 +
 
 +
 
 +
 
 +
 
 +
/*mobile*/
 +
/**************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************/
 +
 
 +
 
 +
/* 1800px  */
 +
/************************************************/
 +
@media only screen and (max-width: 1800px) {
 +
.igem_2019_team_content { width: 85%;}
 +
.igem_2019_team_menu {display:block;}
 +
 +
}
 +
 
 +
/* 1400px  */
 +
/************************************************/
 +
@media only screen and (max-width: 1400px) {
 +
.igem_2019_team_menu .menu_item { font-size:100%;}
 +
.igem_2019_team_menu .submenu .submenu_item { font-size:90%;}
 +
.igem_2019_team_menu {display:block;}
 +
}
 +
 
 +
 
 +
/* 1100px  */
 +
/************************************************/
 +
@media only screen and (max-width: 1100px) {
 +
.igem_2019_team_content {width:100%; margin-left:0px;}
 +
 +
.igem_2019_team_menu {display:none;float:right;margin-top:47px;max-width:100%;position:fixed;width:25%;}
 +
 +
.igem_2019_team_mobile_bar {display:block;}
 +
 +
.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper .column.full_size, .igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper .column.two_thirds_size,.igem_2019_team_content .igem_2019_team_column_wrapper .column.third_size {width:96%; }
 +
 
 +
}
 +
 
 +
/* 850px  */
 +
/************************************************/
 +
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Project Design
 
  
    Geraniol production
 
    Conversion of geraniol to nepetalactol by yeast
 
    Optimisation
 
        TALE stabilised promoters
 
        Gene deletion
 
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Figure. 1 Distributing the biosynthesis pathway of nepetalactol between E. coli and S. cerevisiae
 
Geraniol Production by E. coli
 
Figure. 2 Geraniol synthesis pathway and genetic parts design. (A) The biosynthetic route for obtaining geraniol from acetyl-coA, which requires either a MVA or MEP pathway, a GPPS, and a GES. (B) Plasmid design for strategy one. GPPS and GES are arranged in operon regulated by pTac, placed on a high copy vector pUC20. (C) Design of pMVA only. The MVA pathway is split into two clusters and placed on a low copy vector with the upper cluster containing three genes and the downstream containing four. (D) A combined plasmid with GPPS&GES operon and MVA pathway with a low copy p15A origin.
 
  
In this study, we have planned two strategies for engineering a geraniol-producing E. coli strain.
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Strategy one: over-expressing only GPPS and GES
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Because of the presence of endogenous MEP pathway in E. coli, we want to investigate whether E. coli is able to produce geraniol with the heterologous expression of only GPPS and GES. So we used a colE1 high-copy plasmid backbone for constructing the vector pUC20-GPPS-GES for over-expressing an Abies Grandis GPPS and an Ocimum basilicum GES upon the induction by IPTG. The two synthases are arranged in an operon similar to the characterised limonene synthesis operon by J. Keasling.[1][2] An inducible promoter pTac is chosen to prevent bringing to much burden to the host by silencing the expression until it’s needed.
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From our early research, we know that introducing an upstream heterologous yeast MVA pathway beside monoterpenoid synthase is an effective approach to enhance monoterpenoid production.[3] So our second plasmid contains the yeast MVA pathway, the GPPS&GES operon. A single low-copy p15A origin is used to avoid heavy cellular burden.
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Although E. coli strain DH1 was reported to be suitable for monoterpene synthesis[4], we directly use our cloning host DH5alpha for geraniol synthesis because it saves time without needing to extract plasmids and transform it into a new host.
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To verify geraniol yield, we carry out shake-flask fermentations with LB medium. 25μM of IPTG is added when OD600 reached 1[1] and the fermentation continued for 24h. and analysed the result using gas chromatography (GC). A more accurate method would be using gas chromatography-mass spectrum (GC-MS) for result analysis. However, due to difficulties in accessing GC-MS, we are only able used GC and have referred to the time when peaks appeared for qualitative analysis.
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Though being the most common eukaryotic engineering chassis, yeast doesn’t have as many available, well-characterized parts compared to E. coli. In this study, we have selected most of the parts used in this subproject from an established yeast toolbox developed by J.M. Dueber[5].
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We designed three separate genetic circuits encoding for G8H, GOR and ISY from the species Catharanthus roseus in order to enhance the expression of G8H. To ensure a higher expression of G8H, we have selected the strongest constitutive promoter pTDH3 from the toolbox for G8H over-expression. Worrying that high constant expression of G8H would pose to much stress to the host, we created another version of G8H genetic circuit using galactose-inducible promoter pGAL instead of pTDH3. GOR and ISY are under the regulation of pTEF1 and pRP18B which are two consensus promoters of similar strength lower than that of pTDH3.
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Initially, we have chosen the following terminators from the toolbox: tENO1, tENO2, and tTDH1. However, later we found that tENO1 and tENO2 had near 100% similarity, which might induce homologous recombination in the host, so tENO1 was replaced by tADH1 in the 2018 distribution kits.
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The three genetic circuits were put together on a single yeast expression vector pYES whose copy number was 50~100 per cell. We used www.syntegron.org to generate random spacers of 25bp between circuits.
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BY4741 is the strain we chose to for nepetalactol biosynthesis as the highest biosynthetic nepetalactol titre was achieved with this strain.
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Designing, Building, and Testing Transcription-activator-like Effector Stabilized Promoters for Geraniol Synthesis
 
Figure. 4 Transcription-activator-like effector stabilized promoters design. (A) Transcription-activator-like-effector stabilised promoters (TALEsp) achieve independence of expression level to copy number using a non-cooperative repression by TALE which binds specifically to DNA sequence (B) By employing incoherent feedforward loop (iFFL), copy number accretes both gene expression and the repression to the gene expression, thus the effect of copy number on expression level is canceled out. (C) TALE1 and TALE2 are two TALEs used in TALEsps. By changing the core promoter that they repress, we can obtain new TALEsps. A sfGFP is placed downstream of the promoter for characterization. (D) Core promoter sequences used in the library. Each contains a binding site of the corresponding TALE.
 
  
Genetic engineering requires elaborative design and a sensible proportion of different components[6]. For instance, unbalanced enzyme expression in metabolic engineering would lead to not only shunted flux to the product, but also an unnecessary waste of carbon source and host growth inhibition[7]. Plasmids are common engineering tools used to tune gene expression. People often assume that plasmids exist in stable copies, but this is a misleading assumption to make as plasmid copy number is actually subjected to huge variability. Altered chassis strains, new culture medium composition, different temperature, and the difference in growth phase all hugely affect plasmid copy number[8][9]. In our case, although E. coli and yeast are engineered separately, they eventually would be cultured together and probably using very different conditions because compromise is made to meet both requirements of both species. Subsequently, gene expression regulated by such design is easily agitated, leading to potential failure of a synthetic device.
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Transcription-activator-like-effector (TALE) stabilised promoters are a type of promoters able to untie gene expression level from gene copy number using an incoherent feedforward loop (iFFL) in which transcription-activator-like effectors (TALEs) function as a perfectly non-cooperative negative regulation. While copy number accretes gene expression, it also elevates the repression to the gene expression, thus has canceled out the effect of copy number on expression level[10]. This design can also eliminate the impact of the location of genes (whether they are placed on plasmids or in the genome, and wherein the genome) on gene expression.
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Having comprehended the incredible capability and potential of TALEsp, we were deeply inspired yet felt sorry that there were only six TALEsp available to use[11]. In metabolic engineering and other areas of synthetic biology, people select promoters very carefully to ensure the most suitable strength is chosen, which seems difficult given so few candidates. Therefore, we expanded the TALEsp library through mutating core promoters of existing TALEsp, and adding TALE binding sites to the classical consensus promoter J23119, we created six more TALEsp, and have added all of twelve TALEsps to the iGEM Registry.
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Table. 1 The source of all promoters in the library
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Figure. 5 Twelve plasmids designs for geraniol synthesis, generated by combinations of four promoters with three vectors. They are transformed into E. coli with pMVA for geraniol synthesis characterization.
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We first characterized the GFP expression driven by these promoters on low (pSC101), medium (pR6K), and high (pUC20) copy vectors using flow cytometry to measure the fluorescence. Then, we used three TALEsp in the library varying in strength (TALE1 sp1, TALE2 sp1, TALE2 sp6) and an inducible-promoter pTac along with the same set of vectors to express the geraniol synthesis operon, by which we investigated the impact of using TALEsp in metabolic engineering. In total, we tested twelve combinations of promoter and vector, and have co-expressed them with pMVA in E. coli. 25μM IPTG is added to the culture when OD600 reached 1. Geraniol yield is measured using gas chromatography 24h after induction. After we found out the promoter which drove the highest geraniol production, we integrated the entire geraniol synthesis construct to the attB locus of E. coli genome using the plasmid pOSIP provided by Yiming Dong.[12]
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Figure. 6 Preventing carbon source diversion from nepetalactol synthesis by knocking out oye2, oye3, adh7 using CRISPR-Cas9. (A) Carbon source flux is diverted to other pathways at geraniol, 8-hydroxygeraniol, and 8-oxogeranial respectively. OYE2 and ATF1 show unwanted biocatalytic activity upon geraniol. OYE2 and OYE3 metabolize 8-hydroxygeraniol. 8-oxogeranial is subjected by dehydrogenation by ADH6 and ADH7. (B) An ultrahigh copy number plasmid pCRCT harboring both Cas9 and sgRNA. (C) An 8bp deletion is made between two homologous recombination disruption donor upon disruption by CRISPR
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The crosstalk between the heterologous synthesis pathway, endogenous ‘ene’-reduction and alcohol dehydrogenation pathways is the main factor preventing effective biosynthesis of nepetalactol in S. cerevisiae, making the deletion of promiscuous endogenous enzymes a requisite. A number of genes including oye2, oye3, atf1, ari1, adh6, adh7 were reported by negatively affect nepetalactol production. However, as time is limited we only targeted three genes, which were oye2, oye3, and adh7.
 
  
Homologous recombination and CRISPR-Cas9 are two common tools for gene deletion in S. cerevisiae. In addition, a Homology-Integrated CRISPR−Cas (HI-CRISPR) System was reported able to generate multiple gene disruption in yeast.
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At first, we tried to use a selection marker to replace the target gene by homologous recombination. But after the success of the substitution, we experienced difficulties in losing the selection marker. Since recycling is necessary with only a limited number of selection markers, we eventually gave up this method and went for Hi-CRISPR which sounded very efficient. However, although Hi-CRISPR achieved deletion of oye2, it failed to knock out oye3 and adh7. It was mentioned that the efficiency of gene deletion using Hi-CRISPR is influenced by the order in which sgRNAs of multiple targets are arranged, so we then use the receiver plasmid of Hi-CRISPR, pCRCT, to perform single gene disruption at each time. Once the success in gene knock-out was verified, we plated yeast culture on 5-FOA plate, forcing it to abandon pCRCT which contains URA3 and would be changed to produced toxic materials by 5-FOA. After, another pCRCT carrying the sgRNA of next gene would be transformed into yeast again. This process repeated until all three genes were knocked out.
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Creating a Stable, Mutualistic Microbial Consortium using Xylose as the Carbon Source
 
  
Functional reconstitution of nepetalactol biosynthesis pathway in E. coli and yeast is a promising tool for enhancing nepetalactol yield. However, maintaining an equilibrium of such a co-culture system could be a difficult task due to difference in metabolism and optimal growth conditions. To be more specific, co-culturing E. coli and yeast is challenging for the following reasons:
 
  
    E. coli has a doubling time much shorter than S. cerevisiae, resulting in the domination of bacteria over fungus in the system[12]
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    When fed glucose, S. cerevisiae produces toxic metabolites such as ethanol which inhibit the growth of E. coli
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    Determining the growth conditions like temperature and pH is a time-consuming drudgery
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<li>MMLV-RT’s enhanced version is commonly used in in vitro reverse transcription, which guarantees the safety and well characterization of this part.</li>
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<li>MMLV-RT has a higher processivity in relation to other viruses’ RT such as HIV and AMV. This feature gives our system a greater range of mutagenesis length.</li>
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Even though RT does the function of reverse transcription, what is expressed in the cell is its polyprotein version. The gag-pol polyprotein has four parts—capsid protein, protease (stop codon separated), reverse transcriptase, and integrase. The integrase is deleted from the polyprotein to eliminate the possibility of genome interference. The protease contains a UAG stop codon at its 5th amino acid site1, which is readthrough as glutamine at a 5% efficiency in its native host cells, to enable the 20:1 ratio between capsid and reverse transcriptase protein. As its readthrough efficiency is much lower in E. coli cells, and studies have shown that lower efficiency greatly damages the activity of reverse transcriptase2, we mutated the UAG codon into CAG, making a complete readthrough of the polyprotein. This will slightly decrease the activity of RT but within an acceptable range. The capsid protein is necessary as it has been found to promote the annealing of tRNA primer to the primer binding site (PBS) in MMLV, and plays an important role in the following two strand transfer steps3,4. To be certain of this design, we have consulted Prof. Alper through mail and received his confirmation on the necessity of the capsid protein.<br /><br />
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To increase the mutation of our RT, we built a mutated version (Y1245F). This mutation has been shown to increase the mutation level by 5 times5.<br /><br />
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The gag-pol polyprotein is placed under Lac operon, whose expression controlled by IPTG.<br /><br />
  
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The initiation of reverse transcription requires its cognate tRNA primer. For MMLV-RT, the primer is tRNAPro (AGG)6. After comparing its sequence to the endogenous tRNA sequences in E. coli, we found very little homology between them, which again proves our system’s orthogonality to prokaryotic system. However, this also arises problems regarding its post-transcriptional processing. To make sure that the exogenous tRNA could be successfully expressed and processed in E. coli cells into its matured form, we placed it under two promoters, one T7 promoter, and another pGlnW promoter, which is the endogenous promoter for GlnW and its downstream MetU. The CCA motif is added to the 3’ end, and followed by the interval sequence between two tRNAGln, and a T7Te terminator.<br /><br />
  
We set the initial inoculation ratio of E. coli and yeast to about 1:40 to offset the slower growth rate of yeast and culture them using a previously reported medium for co-culture supplemented with ammonium phosphate to improve their growth.
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The reverse transcriptase has three functions: 1) RNA-dependent DNA polymerase 2) DNA-dependent DNA polymerase 3) RNaseH activity.<br /><br />
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In a full reverse transcription process, the target strand will go through annealing with tRNA primer, and two strand transfer. To make sure that all three stages will be completed successfully, the noncoding sequences on the MMLV genome has been cloned to flank the target sequence. Flanking sequences include the following components:
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When Cre is not present in the cell, the system’s outcome would be reverse transcribed double-stranded cDNA. After lysing the cell and extracting its DNA components within, PCR amplification of the cDNA product would be performed and after electrophoresis, we could observe a brighter band if RT is induced to express compared to RT non-existent cells. For more quantitative analysis, qPCR would be performed.
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Cre recombinase is derived from P1 bacteriophage, which could initiate recombination events between two loxP sites. Cre recombinase binds to the palindromic sequence in loxP, and after forming a tetramer (two Cre on one loxP), its active site would initiate different recombination process based on the orientation of the two loxP12. Two loxP sites in the same direction would initiate self-splicing, resulting the sequence in between be excised and form a circular loop. If the two loxP sites are oriented opposingly, the sequence in between would be inverted. If the two loxP sites are placed on different sequences, the two sequence would be transferred into each other’s place, but at a lower efficiency than the other two events. Our system utilizes its strand-transfer recombination activity to insert the mutated target into its original place, thus replacing the unmutated version and allows for another round of mutation.<br /><br />
  
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The expression of Cre recombinase is placed under a different operon, and anhydrotetracycline (aTc) serves as its inducer. The reason behind placing RT and Cre under different control has been elaborated in our modelling. Apart from the need of different final concentration of these two proteins for the system to achieve its optimal function, putting them under different promoters also enables better control over the system’s status.
  
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Cre recognizes loxP sites and after forming a tetramer, initiates the recombination process12. The 2 loxP sites are placed at the farthest 5’ and 3’ end of the target sequence respectively. Since we need to utilize the recombination activity and eliminate its self-splicing ability, the two loxP sites need to be compatible with itself but incompatible with each other. We chose lox511, lox5171 and lox2272 to pair with wild-type loxP sites13,14, and examined their incompatibility with wild-type loxP.
  
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We found that even though we’re putting Cre under a controllable promoter, its small leakage already can initiate self-splicing between 2 wildtype loxP (see Results for elaboration). This is undesirable as uncontrollable recombination could greatly damage the confidentiality of our result. The desired sequence could be recombined and expressed for a time and then be gone with the ongoing recombination. Our modelling result also shows that Cre expression needs to stay at a low level for a higher recombination rate.<br /><br />
  
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Then, we added different degradation tags following it. We designed the tags utilizing the endogenous degradation system of E. coli15. We tested 5 tags, (YA)LAA, LVA, LAV, LVV, and (WV)LAA based on research literatures16,17. With the support of our Modelling, we found that XXX tag best suits our need, with moderate steady state level and quick degradation dynamic.<br /><br />
  
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As an alternative approach, we also tested the split-Cre construct18. Cre recombinase is split between its 59th and 60th amino acid, the N- and C-terminal fragments are attached to FRB and FKBP separately. When the inducer rapamycin is absent, the two fragments will not polymerize and no detectable Cre activity is found. After adding rapamycin into the culture, FKBP and FRB will polymerize, thus bringing the two Cre fragments into contact, and recombination activity will be gained.
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Cre is co-transformed with two plasmids. One plasmid contains a stably expressed full-length mCherry flanked by 2 different loxP sites; the other carries a truncated version of mCherry, its flanking loxP sites match with the first plasmid. The truncated version is known to be inactive. If recombination occurs successfully, we would detect the first plasmid carrying the truncated version through PCR amplification and agarose gel analysis. Also, the fluorescent level would decrease.
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We have constructed plasmids carrying chloramphenicol resistance gene with different stop-codon mutations. The gene is thus inactive, and acts as the target sequence. The two plasmids, carrying the target and other mutation necessary components respectively, are co-transformed. After incubation, the reverse transcriptase would be induced first, then Cre recombinase. The target sequence would be randomly mutated in the system, and if the mutation happens to successfully reverse the stop-codon back into its original coding sequence, the cell would grow successfully on solid medium containing chloramphenicol. By counting the number of cells grown, we could get a picture of the efficiency of single site mutation.
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The surviving cells would be cultured and plasmid extracted. The plasmids would be sent for sequencing to prove that other sequences unrelative to the target is not mutated. It would also be retransformed into bacteria which has never encountered the system, and be planted on media containing chloramphenicol. If the cell could still grow normally, we could assume that the bacteria’s genome is not mutated in our mutagenesis process.
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<li>Mak, J. &amp; Kleiman, L. Primer tRNAs for reverse transcription. J. Virol. 71, 8087–8095 (1997).</li>
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<li>Gonsky, J., Bacharach, E. &amp; Goff, S. P. Identification of residues of the Moloney murine leukemia virus nucleocapsid critical for viral DNA synthesis in vivo. J. Virol. 75, 2616–2626 (2001).</li>
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<li>Lee, G. &amp; Saito, I. Role of nucleotide sequences of loxP spacer region in Cre-mediated recombination. Gene 216, 55–65 (1998).</li>
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                    <p class="flow-text" style="margin:0">Mutation library generation is critical for biological and medical research, but current methods cannot mutate a specific sequence continuously without manual intervention. Here we present a toolbox for <i>in vivo</i> continuous mutation library construction. First, the target DNA is transcribed into RNA. Next, our reverse transcriptase reverts RNA into cDNA, during which the target is randomly mutated by enhanced error-prone reverse transcription. Finally, the mutated version replaces the original sequence through recombination. These steps will be carried out iteratively, generating a random mutation library of the target with high efficiency as mutations accumulate along with bacterial growth. Our toolbox is orthogonal and provides a wide range of applications among various species. R-Evolution could mutate coding sequences and regulatory sequences, which enables the <i>in vivo</i> evolution of individual proteins or multiple targets at a time, promotes high-throughput research, and serves as a foundational advance to synthetic biology.
 
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Reverse transcription
Moloney murine leukemia virus reverse transcriptase
Why MMLV?
Reverse transcriptase (RT) is one of the most crucial part in our system, we chose it from Moloney murine leukemia virus (MMLV) for five reasons.
  • MMLV-RT’s enhanced version is commonly used in in vitro reverse transcription, which guarantees the safety and well characterization of this part.
  • Unlike the reverse transcriptase of HIV, MMLV-RT acts as a monomer, this brings less trouble to its production in an heterogenous host.
  • MMLV is a eukaryotic virus, which means it’s orthogonal to prokaryotic species. This orthogonality makes up of the host adaptability of our system.
  • MMLV-RT has a higher processivity in relation to other viruses’ RT such as HIV and AMV. This feature gives our system a greater range of mutagenesis length.
  • MMLV-RT has low primer specificity, which means that if we change the sequence of its primer and its corresponding primer binding site (PBS), unlike HIV, the change will not be reverted in the following reverse transcription process. This makes it possible for us to customize the sequence of the tRNA primer used in accord with the target sequence in our software.
Design
Even though RT does the function of reverse transcription, what is expressed in the cell is its polyprotein version. The gag-pol polyprotein has four parts—capsid protein, protease (stop codon separated), reverse transcriptase, and integrase. The integrase is deleted from the polyprotein to eliminate the possibility of genome interference. The protease contains a UAG stop codon at its 5th amino acid site1, which is readthrough as glutamine at a 5% efficiency in its native host cells, to enable the 20:1 ratio between capsid and reverse transcriptase protein. As its readthrough efficiency is much lower in E. coli cells, and studies have shown that lower efficiency greatly damages the activity of reverse transcriptase2, we mutated the UAG codon into CAG, making a complete readthrough of the polyprotein. This will slightly decrease the activity of RT but within an acceptable range. The capsid protein is necessary as it has been found to promote the annealing of tRNA primer to the primer binding site (PBS) in MMLV, and plays an important role in the following two strand transfer steps3,4. To be certain of this design, we have consulted Prof. Alper through mail and received his confirmation on the necessity of the capsid protein.

To increase the mutation of our RT, we built a mutated version (Y1245F). This mutation has been shown to increase the mutation level by 5 times5.

The gag-pol polyprotein is placed under Lac operon, whose expression controlled by IPTG.

tRNA
The initiation of reverse transcription requires its cognate tRNA primer. For MMLV-RT, the primer is tRNAPro (AGG)6. After comparing its sequence to the endogenous tRNA sequences in E. coli, we found very little homology between them, which again proves our system’s orthogonality to prokaryotic system. However, this also arises problems regarding its post-transcriptional processing. To make sure that the exogenous tRNA could be successfully expressed and processed in E. coli cells into its matured form, we placed it under two promoters, one T7 promoter, and another pGlnW promoter, which is the endogenous promoter for GlnW and its downstream MetU. The CCA motif is added to the 3’ end, and followed by the interval sequence between two tRNAGln, and a T7Te terminator.

Apart from using the native tRNAPro, which requires an additional PBS outside the target sequence, we have designed a software tool which can design novel tRNAs aligning with the target sequence.
Flanking sequences
The reverse transcriptase has three functions: 1) RNA-dependent DNA polymerase 2) DNA-dependent DNA polymerase 3) RNaseH activity.

In a full reverse transcription process, the target strand will go through annealing with tRNA primer, and two strand transfer. To make sure that all three stages will be completed successfully, the noncoding sequences on the MMLV genome has been cloned to flank the target sequence. Flanking sequences include the following components:
  • Primer binding site (PBS) recognizes and anneals with tRNA7, initiates reverse transcription.
  • 5’ noncoding sequence (U5) has been shown to affect the replication ability of RT and its alteration affects the synthesis of minus strand DNA8, it is also linked with the efficiency of the first strand transfer.
  • Poly-purine tract (PPT) is resistant to RNaseH digestion, its remaining RNA serves as primer for the plus strand initiation9,10. We also reserved several nucleotides near its site for they have shown to impact the function of PPT11.
These sequences are transcribed with the target and helps to accomplish reverse transcription.
Experimental design
Successful induction and processing of reverse transcriptase
EGFP is cloned in the place of the reverse transcriptase, and fluorescence level is measured.

The gag-pol polyprotein is induced and SDS-PAGE is run to see if it has been successfully processed by the protease.
Reverse transcription completion
When Cre is not present in the cell, the system’s outcome would be reverse transcribed double-stranded cDNA. After lysing the cell and extracting its DNA components within, PCR amplification of the cDNA product would be performed and after electrophoresis, we could observe a brighter band if RT is induced to express compared to RT non-existent cells. For more quantitative analysis, qPCR would be performed.
Recombination
Cre recombinase
Cre recombinase is derived from P1 bacteriophage, which could initiate recombination events between two loxP sites. Cre recombinase binds to the palindromic sequence in loxP, and after forming a tetramer (two Cre on one loxP), its active site would initiate different recombination process based on the orientation of the two loxP12. Two loxP sites in the same direction would initiate self-splicing, resulting the sequence in between be excised and form a circular loop. If the two loxP sites are oriented opposingly, the sequence in between would be inverted. If the two loxP sites are placed on different sequences, the two sequence would be transferred into each other’s place, but at a lower efficiency than the other two events. Our system utilizes its strand-transfer recombination activity to insert the mutated target into its original place, thus replacing the unmutated version and allows for another round of mutation.

The expression of Cre recombinase is placed under a different operon, and anhydrotetracycline (aTc) serves as its inducer. The reason behind placing RT and Cre under different control has been elaborated in our modelling. Apart from the need of different final concentration of these two proteins for the system to achieve its optimal function, putting them under different promoters also enables better control over the system’s status.
Flanking sequence
Cre recognizes loxP sites and after forming a tetramer, initiates the recombination process12. The 2 loxP sites are placed at the farthest 5’ and 3’ end of the target sequence respectively. Since we need to utilize the recombination activity and eliminate its self-splicing ability, the two loxP sites need to be compatible with itself but incompatible with each other. We chose lox511, lox5171 and lox2272 to pair with wild-type loxP sites13,14, and examined their incompatibility with wild-type loxP.
Cre mutation and alternative versions
We found that even though we’re putting Cre under a controllable promoter, its small leakage already can initiate self-splicing between 2 wildtype loxP (see Results for elaboration). This is undesirable as uncontrollable recombination could greatly damage the confidentiality of our result. The desired sequence could be recombined and expressed for a time and then be gone with the ongoing recombination. Our modelling result also shows that Cre expression needs to stay at a low level for a higher recombination rate.

To bring Cre expression under more stringent control, we made several different versions of Cre.

Firstly, we mutated some of the encoding codons to rare codons in hope that this would bring difficulty to translation and thus bring down the expression level.

Then, we added different degradation tags following it. We designed the tags utilizing the endogenous degradation system of E. coli15. We tested 5 tags, (YA)LAA, LVA, LAV, LVV, and (WV)LAA based on research literatures16,17. With the support of our Modelling, we found that XXX tag best suits our need, with moderate steady state level and quick degradation dynamic.

As an alternative approach, we also tested the split-Cre construct18. Cre recombinase is split between its 59th and 60th amino acid, the N- and C-terminal fragments are attached to FRB and FKBP separately. When the inducer rapamycin is absent, the two fragments will not polymerize and no detectable Cre activity is found. After adding rapamycin into the culture, FKBP and FRB will polymerize, thus bringing the two Cre fragments into contact, and recombination activity will be gained.
Testing
Cre expression
EGFP is put under the ptetR promoter in place of Cre, and its fluorescence level is measured.

Cre is co-transformed with another plasmid containing a stably expressed mCherry with two wildtype loxP sites flanking. Afterwards the whole sequence is amplified through PCR, and if Cre is in the system, mCherry would be spliced from its plasmid, and the amplification result would be a short sequence, while the non-spliced mCherry would be fully amplified.
loxP sites compatibility test
Cre is co-transformed with another plasmid containing a stably expressed mCherry flanking by two different loxP sites. The whole region is PCR amplified, and gel run to see if self-splicing event has occurred.
Degradation tag dynamic
EGFP carrying all five tags have been cloned and measured for its fluorescent level.
Recombination event test
Cre is co-transformed with two plasmids. One plasmid contains a stably expressed full-length mCherry flanked by 2 different loxP sites; the other carries a truncated version of mCherry, its flanking loxP sites match with the first plasmid. The truncated version is known to be inactive. If recombination occurs successfully, we would detect the first plasmid carrying the truncated version through PCR amplification and agarose gel analysis. Also, the fluorescent level would decrease.
Demonstration
System verification
We have constructed plasmids carrying chloramphenicol resistance gene with different stop-codon mutations. The gene is thus inactive, and acts as the target sequence. The two plasmids, carrying the target and other mutation necessary components respectively, are co-transformed. After incubation, the reverse transcriptase would be induced first, then Cre recombinase. The target sequence would be randomly mutated in the system, and if the mutation happens to successfully reverse the stop-codon back into its original coding sequence, the cell would grow successfully on solid medium containing chloramphenicol. By counting the number of cells grown, we could get a picture of the efficiency of single site mutation.
Sequence specificity
The surviving cells would be cultured and plasmid extracted. The plasmids would be sent for sequencing to prove that other sequences unrelative to the target is not mutated. It would also be retransformed into bacteria which has never encountered the system, and be planted on media containing chloramphenicol. If the cell could still grow normally, we could assume that the bacteria’s genome is not mutated in our mutagenesis process.
Host adaptability
Since we’re using parts that are orthogonal of native bacterial systems, our system is expected to work independently in different species. The system is tested in E. coli, and will then expand to species including cyanobacteria and lactic acid bacteria.
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  • Csibra, E., Brierley, I. & Irigoyen, N. Modulation of Stop Codon Read-Through Efficiency and Its Effect on the Replication of Murine Leukemia Virus. J. Virol. 88, 10364 (2014).
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  • Zhang, W.-H., Svarovskaia, E. S., Barr, R. & Pathak, V. K. Y586F mutation in murine leukemia virus reverse transcriptase decreases fidelity of DNA synthesis in regions associated with adenine-thymine tracts. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 99, 10090–10095 (2002).
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