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Reporter gene and gene fusions T.Y.Bsc
1. ? The Mandavi Education Society
T.Y.Bsc(Microbiology)
Krishna prajapati
Teaching Assistance(Microbiology)
3. Introduction
? DNA manipulation has revolutionary the study of
gene regulation.
? A coading sequence from one source(the
reporter)may be fused to a regulatory region
from another source.
? Such gene fusions are often used in studying gene
regulation especially where assaying the level of
the natural gene product is difficult or time
consuming.
? They may also be used to increase expression of
desired gene product.
4. Reporter genes
? The key property of reporter gene
is that it encodes a protein that is
easy to detect and assay.
? Reporter gene are used for
variety of purposes.
? They may used to report on the
presence or absence of particular
genetic elements(such as
plasmid)or DNA inserted within
the vector.
? They can also fused to other
genes or to promoter of other
genes so that gene expression
can be studied.
5. LacZ gene
? The first gene to be used
widely as reporter gene was
lacZ, which encodes the
enzyme ¦Â-galactosidase.
? Cells expressing ¦Â-
galactosidasecan be
detected by easily by their
color on indicater plates
that contain the artificial
substrates Xgal ,which
cleaved by ¦Â-galactosidase
to yield blue colour.
8. Green flourescent protein(GFP)
? Another widely used
reporter gene encodes
luciferase.
? This enzymes makes cells
expressing it luminescent.
colonies containing the
reporter system can be
detected by on agar plate
by their luminscense
against a large
background of other
colonies.
9. Conti..
? However,the expression of luciferase depends on
more than one gene beacause several accesary
factors are needed.
? By contrast, the green fluroscent protein needs
no accessary factors and is widely used as
reporter
? Gene for was GFP was originally cloned from the
jelly Aequorea victoria,the GFP protein may be
expressed in most bacterial cell.
? It is stable and causes little or no disruption of
host cell metabolism.
10. Conti¡
? If expression of cloned
gene linked to that of GFP,
expression of GFP signals
that the cloned gene has
also been expressed.
? Recent advance in
fluorescent labeling now
allow the simultaneous
use of multiple
fluorescent markers.
12. Gene fusion..
? It is possible to
engineering construct
that consist of segment
from two different
genes.
? such construct are
known as gene fusions.
13. Conti..
? If the promoter that
controls a coding
sequence is removed, the
coding sequence can be
fused to different
regularly region to place
the gene under the
control of different
promoter alternatively.
? The promoter region can
be fused to gene whose
product is east to assay.
14. There are two types of gene fusion
Fig..
.
Operon fusion
? In operon fusion, a coading
sequence that retain its
own translation start site
and signals is fused to the
transcriptional signals of
another gene.
15. Gene fusion
Protein fusion
? In protein fusion, two
coading sequence are fused
with the result that they
share the same
transcriptional and
traslational start sites and
signals.
Fig¡
16. Conti¡.
? Gene fusion are often used in
studying gene regulation, especially if
measuring the level of natural gene
product is difficult and time
consuming.
? The reulatery region of the gene of
interest is fused to coding sequence
for reporter gene, such as ¦Â-
galactosidase or GFP.
? The reporter is then made under the
condition that would trigger
expression of the target gene.
? The expression of reporter is assay
under variety of condition to
determine how the gene of interest is
regulated, where as protein fusion
reveal translational cantrol.
18. Conti..
? Gene fusion may also be used
to test for the effect of
regulatory genes.
? Mutation that effect
regulatory genes are
inroducted into cells carrying
gene fusion, and expression is
measured and compared to
cell lacking the regulatory
mutation.
? This allows the rapid screening
of multiple regulatory genes
that are suspected of
controlling the target gene.