Journal
ACS SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY
Volume 2, Issue 8, Pages 425-430Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/sb300115n
Keywords
AND gate; SAM; metO; MetJ; doxycycline; tunability
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan
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Monitoring levels of key metabolites in living cells comprises a critical step in various investigations. The simplest approach to this goal is a fluorescent reporter gene using an endogenous promoter responsive to the metabolite. However, such a promoter is often not identified or even present in the species of interest. An alternative can be a synthetic gene circuit based on a heterologous pair consisting of a promoter and a transcription factor known to respond to the metabolite. We exploited the met operator and MetJ repressor of Escherichia coli, the interaction between which depends on S-adenosylmethionine (SAM), to construct synthetic gene circuits that report SAM levels in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Using a dual-input circuit that outputs selection marker genes in a doxycycline-tunable manner, we screened a genomic library to identify GAL11 as a novel multicopy enhancer of SAM levels. These results demonstrate the potential and utility of synthetic gene circuit-mediated metabolite monitoring.
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