EGP-2 promoter is the promoter of Epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) protein.
EpCAM is a transmembrane glycoprotein which is expressed in epithelial cells and shows high level expression in various type of human epithelial carcinomas (van der Gun, Bernardina TF, et al. "EpCAM in carcinogenesis: the good, the bad or the ugly." Carcinogenesis 31.11 (2010): 1913-1921.). Using this promoter, cancer cells shows higher expression of reporter genes. EGP-2 promoter is originally about 3.5kb and therefore it is not convenient to make into a DNA construct. However, in the previous research, about 1.5 kb of EGP-2 promoter was shown to be sufficient for the specific expression in epithelial carcinomas (McLaughlin, Pamela MJ, et al. "Use of the EGP-2/Ep-CAM promoter for targeted expression of heterologous genes in carcinoma derived cell lines." Cancer gene therapy 11.9 (2004): 603-612.). In this project, We cloned the 1.5kb fragment of EGP-2 promoter, and made it useful as a biobrick parts ( BBa_K1461104).