1. Fluorescent protein vectors for promoter analysis in lactic acid bacteria and Escherichia coli
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Jerry M. Wells, Tomás García-Cayuela, M. Luz Mohedano, Teresa Requena, Pilar Fernández de Palencia, Luz P. Gómez de Cadiñanos, Carmen Peláez, Daniel Boden, Paloma López, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), European Commission, and Comunidad de Madrid
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Genetics, Microbial ,Transcription, Genetic ,Genetic Vectors ,genetic tools ,in-vitro ,medicine.disease_cause ,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology ,red ,Green fluorescent protein ,03 medical and health sciences ,green ,Genes, Reporter ,Gene expression ,expression ,medicine ,lactococcus-lactis ,Enterococcus faecalis ,Escherichia coli ,Host-Microbe Interactomics ,Promoter Regions, Genetic ,Molecular Biology ,030304 developmental biology ,0303 health sciences ,Expression vector ,biology ,030306 microbiology ,transformation ,Lactococcus lactis ,faecalis ,General Medicine ,Artificial Gene Fusion ,biology.organism_classification ,Molecular biology ,3. Good health ,streptococcus-pneumoniae ,Transformation (genetics) ,Luminescent Proteins ,cremoris ,WIAS ,mCherry ,Biotechnology - Abstract
29 p.- 4 tab.-2 fig., Fluorescent reporter genes are valuable tools for real-time monitoring of gene expression in living cells. In this study we describe the construction of novel promoter-probe vectors containing a synthetic mCherry fluorescent protein gene, codon-optimized for lactic acid bacteria, divergently linked, or not, to a gene encoding the S65T and F64L variant of the green fluorescent protein. The utility of the transcriptional fusion vectors was demonstrated by the cloning of a single or two divergent promoter regions and by the quantitative evaluation of fluorescence during growth of Lactococcus lactis, Enterococcus faecalis, and Escherichia coli., This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (grants AGL2009-12998-C03-01, AGL2009- 13361-C02-02, and CSD2007-00063 Consolider Ingenio 2010 FUN-CFOOD), the Comunidad de Madrid (grant ALIBIRD P2009/AGR-1469), and the European Union VII framework program (Initial Training Network, grant no. 238490). We thank Dr. Stephen Elson for the critical reading of the manuscript. We are grateful to M. Angeles Corrales for her technical assistance.
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- 2012