Pm Promoter Expression Mutants and Their Use in Broad-Host-Range RK2 Plasmid Vectors
✍ Scribed by Hanne C. Winther-Larsen; Janet M. Blatny; Bjørnar Valand; Trygve Brautaset; Svein Valla
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 284 KB
- Volume
- 2
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1096-7176
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✦ Synopsis
By coupling the PmÂxylS promoter system to minimal replicons of the broad-host-range plasmid RK2 we recently showed that such vectors are useful for both high-and low-level inducible expression of cloned genes in gram-negative bacteria. In this report, we extend this potential by identifying point mutations in or near the &10 transcriptional region of Pm. Point mutations leading to gene-independent enhancements of expression levels of the induced state or reduced background expression levels were identified using Escherichiacoli as a host. By combining these mutations an additive effect in expression levels from the constructed Pm was observed. The highest induced expression level was obtained by inserting an E. coli consensus _ 70 &10 recognition region. Most of the remaining activities in the reduced-background mutations appeared to originate from a transcriptional start site other than Pm. The effects of some of these mutations were also analyzed in Pseudomonas aeruginosa and were found to act similarly, but less pronounced in this host.