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Biotechnol Lett ; 36(4): 761-6, 2014 Apr.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24322773

ABSTRACT

A Pseudomonas putida whole-cell bioreporter for detecting bioavailable copper was constructed by inserting a CueR-regulated sensor element upstream of a promoterless green fluorescent protein (GFP) reporter gene. The constructed bioreporter cells expressed GFP only in response to Cu and Ag when cultivated in different metal salt solutions. M9 supplemented medium provided higher sensitivity compared with LB medium. The optimal test condition was cell suspension with an OD600 of 0.4-0.5 incubated at 30 °C. The detection range of Cu is 1-70 mg/l under optimal test condition in M9 supplemented medium.


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Biosensing Techniques/methods , Copper/analysis , Green Fluorescent Proteins/analysis , Pseudomonas putida/chemistry , Pseudomonas putida/drug effects , Artificial Gene Fusion , Copper/metabolism , Culture Media/chemistry , Genes, Reporter , Green Fluorescent Proteins/genetics , Promoter Regions, Genetic , Pseudomonas putida/genetics
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Biotechnol Lett ; 35(8): 1253-8, 2013 Aug.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23609235

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The metalloprotein, CadR, was redesigned to optimize cadmium and mercury specificity of CadR-based E. coli biosensors. By truncating 10 and 21 amino acids from the C-terminal extension of CadR, CadR-TC10 and CadR-TC21 were obtained, respectively. The genes cadR, cadR-TC10 and cadR-TC21 were used as sensing elements to construct green fluorescent protein based E.coli biosensors. Induction at 30 °C for 4 h in supplemented M9 medium was the optimized condition for the biosensor. Compared with CadR-based biosensor, there was a clear decline in induction coefficient for CadR-TC21-based biosensor (decreased by 86 % in Zn(II), 44 % in Hg(II), and only 37 % in Cd(II)). While in CadR-TC10-based biosensor, the induction coefficient decreased by 95 % in Zn(II), 70 % in Hg(II), and 67 % in Cd(II). Improved performances of CadR mutants based E. coli biosensors indicated that truncating C-terminal extension of CadR could improve the specificity.


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Biosensing Techniques/methods , Cadmium/analysis , Escherichia coli Proteins/genetics , Escherichia coli/drug effects , Escherichia coli/genetics , Mercury/analysis , Transcription Factors/genetics , Artificial Gene Fusion , Environmental Pollutants/analysis , Escherichia coli Proteins/metabolism , Genes, Reporter , Green Fluorescent Proteins/genetics , Green Fluorescent Proteins/metabolism , Metabolic Engineering/methods , Transcription Factors/metabolism
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