A quick and reliable method for monitoring gene expression in actinomycetes

Autor: Wolfgang Wohlleben, Meike Chevillotte, Evi Stegmann, Günther Muth, Rainer Menges
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: Journal of Biotechnology. 135:262-265
ISSN: 0168-1656
Popis: Amycolatopsis balhimycina DSM5908 is the producer of the vancomycin-type glycopeptide antibiotic balhimycin. Balhimycin production is controlled by transcriptional regulators and depends on different environmental factors. To analyse the regulatory network P tba , a representative promoter of the balhimycin gene cluster, was fused to the reporter gene egfp and integrated into the genome of A. balhimycina . Balhimycin production, fluorescence intensity and the amount of tba -transcript were determined under different cultivation conditions in microtiter plates. Thus we could demonstrate that these values are directly correlated. This approach facilitates the analysis of a large number of samples in parallel and it provides the opportunity to easily define conditions to increase balhimycin production.
Databáze: OpenAIRE