Cling- E. coli : Bacteria on target

1. Cling-E. coli :Bacteria on target Harvard iGEM 2007 Kevin Shee Perry Tsai Shaunak Vankudre George Xu Ellenor Brown Stephanie Lo Alex Pickett Sammy Sambu

2. The motivationTo develop a system for targeting bacteria to a specific substrate and effecting a cellular response

3. Potential Targets and Applications Bind Proteins Bind Toxins Bind Tissue Bind DNA/RNA Bind Viruses Bind Surface Bind Other Cells

4. Bacterial targeting Quorum-sensing Fec signal transduction Quorum-sensing Fec signal transduction

5. Fusion Protein Membrane Protein Surface Engineered Bacteria Engineered to Bind and Signal OmpA – C terminal insertion OmpA-Loop1 insertion AIDA-1 – N terminal insertion

6. Selecting/enriching for surface engineered bacteria Tags 6xHis + nickel beads Strep2 + streptavidin beads Assays Magnetic Activated Cell Sorting (MACS) Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting (FACS) Magnetic Bead Assays Fluorescence Bead Assays

7. His/Strep2 –tagged bacteria are enriched by MACS (after MACS selection)

8. Results: Cell Selection Assays are a Success! AIDA was re-engineered to target nickel and streptavidin with 6xHis and Strep2 tags respectively, and selecting for surface-engineered bacteria was accomplished through magnetic activated cell sorting.

9. Bacterial targeting Quorum-sensing Fec signal transduction

10. luxI/luxR Quorum Sensing Receiver + R OHHL Sender

11. Receiver Sender Cell-Cell Signaling Constructs • Receivers (luxR + Reporter) • GFPReceivers • tetR controlled (Bba_T9002) • Quorum controlled (Bba_R0062 + Bba_C0261 + Bba_E0240) • mRFPReceivers • tetR controlled (Bba_F2620 + Bba_I13507) • Quorum controlled (Bba_R0062 + Bba_C0261 +Bba_I13507) • mCherryReceivers (Bba_F2620 + Bba_J06702) • Senders (bicistronic luxI + Reporter) • mRFPSender • tetR controlled (Bba_S03623 + Bba_I13507) • lacI controlled (Bba_S03608 + Bba_I13507) • Quorum controlled (Bba_R0062 + Bba_A340620 + Bba_I13507) • GFPSender • tetR controlled (Bba_S03623 + Bba_E0240) • lacI controlled (Bba_S03608 + Bba_E0240) • Quorum controlled (Bba_R0062 + Bba_A340620 + Bba_E0240) • mCherrySender • tetR controlled (Bba_S03623 + Bba_J06702) • Single Cell • Constitutive (Bba_J23039 + Bba_T9002) • Quorum Controlled (Bba_R0062 + Bba_A340620 + Bba_C0261 + Bba_E0240) • Construction Intermediates

12. Receiver Sender Switch-like Quorum Response

13. Selection with Magnetic Beads AIDA-1 – N terminal insertion Sender

14. 60-fold Enrichment through Direct Magnetic Beads Control: no beads Selection with streptactin beads

15. Receiver Sender Enriched senders activate quorum response

16. Bacterial targeting Quorum-sensing Fec signal transduction

17. Motivation: Fec System • Goal: Direct cell signaling • Method: Re-engineer an existing signal transduction pathway • Fec system: • well-characterized • substrate specific

18. Overview of Fec System Ferric citrate Braun et al. “Gene Regulation by Transmembrane Signaling.” Biometals 2006 Apr;19(2):103-13.

19. Overview of Fec System Ferric citrate Loops 7 & 8

20. Constructs • From Braun lab (U. Tuebingen, Germany) • Fec knock-out strain, AA93 • FecIRA plasmid • Fec promoter, GFP plasmid • pColA Duet Vector • Allows regulated expression of Fec genes under T7 promoter

21. Wild-Type GFP Expression

22. Troubleshooting andNext Steps • Problems: • Growth media • Toxicity: membrane disruption? • Goals: • Nickel and Streptavidin Binding • Finding new targets with signaling • Random library • Computational Approach

23. Conclusions • Targeting • His and Strep2 tags on AIDA, targeting bacteria to nickel and streptavidin was successful • Quorum sensing • Constructed one-cell system • Characterized two-cell system • Combined with targeting • Fec signal transduction • Characterized Fec system

24. Future Directions • Bacterial targeting • Trying out new targeting peptides (calmodulin) • Optimizing the random library approach in selecting for targeting peptides • Quorum sensing • Characterizing one-cell system • Optimizing quorum response after targeting • Fec signal transduction • Effect signal transduction with targeting • Application

25. Acknowledgements Teaching Fellows Nicholas Guido Bill Senapedis Mike Strong Harris Wang Advisors George Church Debra Auguste Jagesh V. Shah William Shih Pamela Silver Alain Viel Tamara Brenner Funding HHMI Harvard Provost Harvard Life Sciences Division Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Special thanks to… Volkmar Braun (University of Tuebingen) Costas Maranas (Penn State University)

26. N terminus modification of AIDA1

27. CSR by gene Design Fusion of tags & randomers to extracellular portion of OmpA loop 1 (loop insertion) PCR product insertion (950 bps) Insertion of ds oligos

28. CSR by gene design

29. Bacterial Targeting: Cell Surface Reengineering (CSR) CSR by PCR product digestion & ligation: Fusion of peptides to the C terminus of OmpA Fusion of peptides to the N terminus of AIDA1 <OmpA AIDA1 structures> Fusion of tags & randomers to extracellular portion of OmpA loop 1 (loop insertion) PCR product insertion (950 bps) Insertion of ds oligos