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      Engineering of genetic control tools in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 using rational design techniques.

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          Cyanobacteria show promise as photosynthetic microbial factories capable of harnessing sunlight and CO2 to produce valuable end products, but few genetic control tools have been characterized and utilized in these organisms. To develop a suite of control elements capable of gene control at a variety of expression strengths, a library of 10 promoter-constructs were developed and built via rational design techniques by adding individual nucleotides in a step-wise manner within the -10 and -35 cis-acting regions of the tac promoter. This suite produced a dynamic range of expression strength, exhibiting a 78 fold change between the lowest expressing promoter, Psca8- and the highest expressing promoter, Psca3-2 when tested within Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Additionally, this study details the construction of a chemically inducible construct for use in Synechocystis that is based on the tac repressor system most commonly used in Escherichia coli. This research demonstrates the construction of a highly expressed inducible promoter that is also capable of high levels of gene repression. Upon chemical induction with IPTG, this same mutant strain was capable of exhibiting an average 24X increase in GFP expression over that of the repressed state.

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          Journal
          J. Biotechnol.
          Journal of biotechnology
          Elsevier BV
          1873-4863
          0168-1656
          Dec 20 2015
          : 216
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Program, Colorado State University, 1005 Campus Delivery, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA. Electronic address: steve.albers@colostate.edu.
          [2 ] Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, 1870 Campus Delivery, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA; Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado State University, 1370 Campus Delivery, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA. Electronic address: victor.gallegos@me.com.
          [3 ] Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Program, Colorado State University, 1005 Campus Delivery, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA; Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado State University, 1370 Campus Delivery, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA. Electronic address: christie.peebles@colostate.edu.
          Article
          S0168-1656(15)30148-6
          10.1016/j.jbiotec.2015.09.042
          26450561
          72a1582c-35fe-4604-8b26-7bfde71ddf26
          History

          Cyanobacteria,Metabolic engineering,Metabolic tool development,Rational design,Synthetic biology

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