One step engineering of T7-expression strains for protein production: increasing the host-range of the T7-expression system.
The T7-expression system has been very useful for protein expression in Escherichia coli. However, it is often desirable to over-express proteins in species other than E. coli. Here, we constructed an inducible broad-host-range T7-expression transposon, which allows simple one-step construction of T7-expression strains in various species, providing the option to over-express proteins of interest in a broader host-range. This transposon contains the T7 RNA polymerase driven by the lacUV5 promoter, which is repressed by the lac-repressor. Leaky expression is prevented by the presence of T7-lysozyme on this construct. The complete T7-expression system is flanked by mariner transposon repeats of the suicidal R6Kgammaori plasmid, pBT20-Deltabla. Stable integration of the whole system is possible by a one-step selection for a Flp-excisable Gm(R)-marker. We showed the engineering of E. coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Erwinia carotovora, Salmonella choleraesuis, Agrobacterium tumefaciens, and Chromobacterium violaceum strains with this construct and demonstrated the expression of the Burkholderia pseudomallei Asd protein in these hosts, by induction with isopropyl-beta-d-thiogalactopyranoside (IPTG).
Kang
Yun
Y
Department of Microbiology, College of Natural Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA.
Son
Mike S
MS
Hoang
Tung T
TT
D017123:Bacteriophage T7 / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D017931:DNA Primers; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
D017931:DNA Primers; D011994:Recombinant Proteins
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