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PLOS ONE
Volume 8, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055049
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- Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia (FCT), Lisbon, Portugal [PTDC/SAU-MII/75696/2006, PTDC/BIA-MIC/100747/2008]
- FCT [PEst-OE/EQB/LA0004/2011, SFRH/BD/43797/2008, SFRH/BPD/77758/2011]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [PTDC/BIA-MIC/100747/2008, SFRH/BD/43797/2008, PTDC/SAU-MII/75696/2006] Funding Source: FCT
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We have constructed a set of plasmids that allow efficient expression of both N- and C-terminal fusions of proteins of interest to fluorescent proteins mCherry, Citrine, CFP and GFP in the Gram-positive pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae. In order to improve expression of the fluorescent fusions to levels that allow their detection by fluorescence microscopy, we have introduced a 10 amino acid tag, named i-tag, at the N-terminal end of the fluorescent proteins. This caused increased expression due to improved translation efficiency and did not interfere with the protein localization in pneumococcal bacteria. Localizing fluorescent derivatives of FtsZ, Wzd and Wze in dividing bacteria validated the developed tools. The availability of the new plasmids described in this work should greatly facilitate studies of protein localization in an important clinical pathogen.
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