Intermittent induction of LEA peptide by lactose enhances the expression of insecticidal proteins in Bacillus thuringiensis

Autor: Mahmuda Akthar, Tomoko Shimokawa, Yinghan Wu, Taichi Arita, Kazuhiro Mizuta, Yuria Isono, Minoru Maeda, Shinya Ikeno
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: FEBS Open Bio, Vol 12, Iss 8, Pp 1534-1541 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2211-5463
DOI: 10.1002/2211-5463.13448
Popis: Cry toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) have been extensively applied in agriculture to substitute the use of chemical insecticides. We have previously reported the use of a coexpression system in which late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) peptides under the control of the lac promoter increase the expression of insecticidal proteins in Bt. The use of lactose to induce the expression of LEA peptides may be a desirable alternative to isopropyl β‐D‐thiogalactopyranoside, the most frequently used inducer for recombinant protein expression. In this study we investigated the use of lactose as an inducer for optimal protein expression. We observed enhanced insecticidal Cry protein expression by applying a simple technique based on intermittent induction, and then optimized concentration and the point of induction time from the 11th h to the 15th h. Our data suggest that intermittent induction of lactose might be a new technique for the enhancement of bacterial protein expression.
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