title: Construction and analysis of a recombinant cyanobacterium expressing a chromosomally inserted gene for an ethylene-forming enzyme at the psbAI locus.
abstract: The coding sequence of a gene for a Pseudomonas syringae ethylene-forming enzyme was inserted at the psbAI locus in a cyanobacterium, Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 via rps12-mediated gene replacement. The recombinant strain photoautotrophically produced ethylene at 451 nl ml(-1) h(-1) OD730(-1), but showed a depressed specific growth rate as well as a yellow-green phenotype indicating a severe metabolic stress. The rate of ethylene production in the recombinant culture decreased as a result of competition with faster growing ethylene-non-forming mutants that carried short nucleotide insertions within the coding sequence of the gene for the ethylene-forming enzyme.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Microbial Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Sojo University, 4-22-1 Ikeda, Kumamoto 860-0082, Japan.
authors.forename: Kazutaka
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takahama
authors.forename: Masayoshi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Matsuoka
authors.forename: Kazuhiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nagahama
authors.forename: Takahira
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ogawa