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Overcoming chromopr...
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Bao, LetianUppsala universitet,Molekylärbiologi
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Overcoming chromoprotein limitations by engineering a red fluorescent protein
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Elsevier BV,2020
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ab.2020.113936DOI
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Chromoproteins (CPs) are widely-used visual reporters of gene expression. We previously showed that, for coloration in Escherichia coli, CPs had to be overexpressed and that this caused large fitness costs with the most useful (darkly colored) CPs. These fitness costs were problematic because passage of plasmids encoding darkly colored CPs in liquid culture frequently resulted in loss of color due to mutations. Unexpectedly, an early variant of the monomeric red fluorescent protein 1 (mRFP1) gene that was codon-optimized for E. coli (abbreviated mRFP1E) was found here to be an ideal replacement for CP genes. When we subcloned mRFP1E in the same way as our CP genes, it produced a similarly dark color, yet affected E. coli fitness minimally. This finding facilitated testing of several hypotheses on the cause of CP cytotoxicities by gel electrophoresis and size-exclusion chromatography: toxicities correlated with the combination of amounts of expression, oligomerization and inclusion bodies, not isoelectric point. Finally, a semi-rational mutagenesis strategy created several mRFP1 protein variants with different colors without altering the fitness cost. Thus, these mutants and mRFP1E are suitable for comparative fitness costs between different strains of E. coli. We conclude that our new mRFP1E series overcomes prior limitations of CPs.
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Menon, P. Navaneeth K.Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för cell- och molekylärbiologi
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Liljeruhm, JosefineUppsala universitet,Molekylärbiologi(Swepub:uu)josli366
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Forster, Anthony C.Uppsala universitet,Molekylärbiologi(Swepub:uu)antfo425
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Uppsala universitetMolekylärbiologi
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