title: Foreign gene expression in marine cyanobacteria under pseudo-continuous culture.
abstract: Foreign gene expression in a marine cyanobacterium, Synechococcus NKBG 15041c, has been carried out in both batch and pseudo-continuous culture, using chloramphenicaol acetyltransferase (CAT) as a model peptide and the broad host range vector pKT230. CAT has been successfully expressed in marine cyanobacteria under kanamycin resistance gene promoter. Pseudo-continuous culture of these recombinant marine cyanobacteria has been done by varying the dilution rate. At a dilution rate between 0.01 to 0.02 h-1, highest productivity was achieved. Under these conditions, long-term pseudo-continuous culture of recombinant marine cyanobacteria was achieved for more than 600 h with CAT productivity 18-fold greater than that observed in batch culture.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Technology, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sode
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tatara
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hatano
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Matsunaga
mesh_terms: D015500:Chloramphenicol O-Acetyltransferase / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics*; D000458:Cyanobacteria / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis*
chemical_list: D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D015500:Chloramphenicol O-Acetyltransferase