Journal
METABOLIC ENGINEERING
Volume 14, Issue 1, Pages 59-67Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2011.10.004
Keywords
Clostridium acetobutylicum; Inducible gene expression systems; Tetracycline regulatory system; Metabolic engineering tools
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- National Basic Research Program of China (973 program) [2011CBA00807]
- National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 program) [2011AA02A208]
- Chinese Academy of Sciences [KSCX2-EW-Q-14]
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Clostridium acetobutylicum is an important solvent (acetone-butanol-ethanol) producing bacterium. However, a stringent, effective, and convenient-to-use inducible gene expression system that can be used for regulating the gene expression strength in C acetobutylicum is currently not available. Here, we report an anhydrotetracycline-inducible gene expression system for solvent-producing bacterium C acetobutylicum. This system consists of a functional chloramphenicol acetyltransferase gene promoter containing tet operators (tetO), Pthl promoter (thiolase gene promoter from C acetobutylicum) controlling TetR repressor expression cassette, and the chemical inducer anhydrotetracycline (aTc). The optimized system, designated as pGusA2-2tetO1, allows gene regulation in an inducer aTc concentration-dependent way, with an inducibility of over two orders of magnitude. The stringency of TetR repression supports the introduction of the genes encoding counterselective marker into C acetobutylicum, which can be used to increase the mutant screening efficiency. This aTc-inducible gene expression system will thus increase the genetic manipulation capability for engineering C acetobutylicum. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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