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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
卷 43, 期 3, 页码 1955-1964出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku1388
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- Royal Society [RG120527]
- BBSRC [BB/K016288/1]
- SULSA (Scottish Universities Life Sciences Alliance)
- Wellcome Trust ISSF
- EPSRC [EP/I032223/1]
- Research Councils UK (RCUK)
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/G020434/1, BB/K016288/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/I032223/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- BBSRC [BB/K016288/1, BB/G020434/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- EPSRC [EP/I032223/1] Funding Source: UKRI
Ligand-responsive transcription factors in prokaryotes found simple small molecule-inducible gene expression systems. These have been extensively used for regulated protein production and associated biosynthesis of fine chemicals. However, the promoter and protein engineering approaches traditionally used often pose significant restrictions to predictably and rapidly tune the expression profiles of inducible expression systems. Here, we present a new unified and rational tuning method to amplify the sensitivity and dynamic ranges of versatile small molecule-inducible expression systems. We employ a systematic variation of the concentration of intracellular receptors for transcriptional control. We show that a low density of the repressor receptor (e.g. TetR and ArsR) in the cell can significantly increase the sensitivity and dynamic range, whereas a high activator receptor (e.g. LuxR) density achieves the same outcome. The intracellular concentration of receptors can be tuned in both discrete and continuous modes by adjusting the strength of their cognate driving promoters. We exemplified this approach in several synthetic receptor-mediated sensing circuits, including a tunable cell-based arsenic sensor. The approach offers a new paradigm to predictably tune and amplify ligand-responsive gene expression with potential applications in synthetic biology and industrial biotechnology.
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