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ReviewMicrobial biotechnology2017

The XylS/Pm regulator/promoter system and its use in fundamental studies of bacterial gene expression, recombinant protein production and metabolic engineering.

Agnieszka Gawin, Svein Valla, Trygve Brautaset

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Review in Microbial biotechnology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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37citing papers in PubMed
4.9field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

37 citing papers in PubMed, 65 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Agnieszka GawinDepartment of Biotechnology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
Svein VallaDepartment of Biotechnology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
Trygve BrautasetDepartment of Biotechnology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
Norwegian University of Science and Technology · NO

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The XylS/Pm regulator/promoter system originating from the Pseudomonas putida TOL plasmid pWW0 is widely used for regulated low- and high-level recombinant expression of genes and gene clusters in Escherichia coli and other bacteria. Induction of this system can be graded by using different cheap benzoic acid derivatives, which enter cells by passive diffusion, operate in a dose-dependent manner and are typically not metabolized by the host cells. Combinatorial mutagenesis and selection using the bla gene encoding β-lactamase as a reporter have demonstrated that the Pm promoter, the DNA sequence corresponding to the 5' untranslated end of its cognate mRNA and the xylS coding region can be modified and improved relative to various types of applications. By combining such mutant genetic elements, altered and extended expression profiles were achieved. Due to their unique properties, obtained systems serve as a genetic toolbox valuable for heterologous protein production and metabolic engineering, as well as for basic studies aiming at understanding fundamental parameters affecting bacterial gene expression. The approaches used to modify XylS/Pm should be adaptable for similar improvements also of other microbial expression systems. In this review, we summarize constructions, characteristics, refinements and applications of expression tools using the XylS/Pm system.

Indexed as

Promoter Regions, GeneticBacteriaBacterial ProteinsBenzoic AcidMetabolic EngineeringRecombinant ProteinsTrans-ActivatorsTranscriptional ActivationBacterial ProteinsBenzoic AcidRecombinant ProteinsTrans-ActivatorsXylS protein, Pseudomonas putida

Identifiers

PMID28276630
PMCPMC5481539
OpenAlexW2593436713

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