期刊
TUBERCULOSIS
卷 89, 期 1, 页码 12-16出版社
CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE
DOI: 10.1016/j.tube.2008.07.007
关键词
Inducible expression; Gene expression; Nitrile; Overexpression
资金
- National Institutes of Health [AI073509]
- RNH [AI066978]
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES [R03AI066978, R21AI073509, R01AI037901] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
The ability to ectopically control gene expression is a fundamental tool for the study of bacterial physiology and pathogenesis. While many efficient inducible expression systems are available for Gram-negative bacteria, few are useful in phylogenetically distant organisms, such as mycobacteria. We have adapted a highly-inducible regulon of Rhodococcus rhodochrous to artificially regulate gene expression in both rapidly-growing environmental mycobacteria and slow-growing pathogens, such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We demonstrate that this artificial regulatory circuit behaves as a bistable switch, which can be manipulated regardless of growth phase in vitro, and during intracellular growth in macrophages. High-level overexpression is also possible, facilitating biochemical and structural studies of mycobacterial proteins produced in their native host. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
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