变铅青链霉菌启动子的克隆和表达

利用启动子探测质粒pIJ486(Tsr~(?) Neo~(?))将变铅青链霉菌(streptomyces lividans)TK24染色体DNA的BamHI酶切片段插入pIJ486的BamHI位点。获得4个硫链丝菌肽抗性、新霉素抗性的重组质粒。它们分别命名为pMGI(10.6kb)、pMG40(7.6kb)、pMG50(10.8kb)和pMG88(7.92kb)。BamHI酶切分析及再转化试验表明,新霉素抗性的恢复确实来自载体的外源插入序列。用BgⅢ酶切已将pMG40的插入序列缩小到0.78kb的pMG40-2,pMG50的插入序列缩小到2.2kb的pMG50-25,仍保留启动子活性。重组质粒pMG50-25的新霉素抗性水平高达90μg/ml(卡那霉素抗性水平为500μg/ml),表明这是一个活性很强的启动子。     

链霉菌和大肠杆菌穿梭质粒载体的构建

本文报道了链霉菌和大肠杆菌穿梭质粒载体pSE-3的构建;把具有双启动子的大肠杆菌的质粒pGEM-3与新霉素抗性基因启动子缺失的链霉菌的探针质粒pIJ486分别用BamHI和BglⅡ酶切,T4 DNA连接酶连接后转化到E.coli HB101(Amp(?),Neo(?)),所得重组质粒能强启动pIJ486质粒上的氨基糖苷磷酸转移酶基因(aph),并使新霉素抗性基因在大肠杆菌中得到强表达。此重组质粒被命名为pSE-3,当其转化到变青链霉菌TK54(Tsr(?),Neo(?))的原生质体前,新霉素抗性基因亦能得到强表达。酶切结果表明,构建的具有两个启动子的穿梭质粒载体pSE-3上有HindⅢ和EcoRI的单酶位点,拷贝数约为39。经再转化和传代50代等研究表明,穿梭质粒载体pSE-3在链霉菌和大肠杆菌中均是稳定的。为某些有应用价值的目的基因在大肠杆菌和链霉菌中的克隆与表达提供了一个有价值的穿梭质粒载体。     

在枯草杆菌中有启动子功能的噬菌体T5 DNA片段的克隆

用启动子探针质粒pTG 402为载体,用鸟枪射击法克隆了噬菌体T5 DNA的片段。克隆中的2％含有具启动子功能的插入片段,其中pTG 402-20含有启动功能最强的插入片段。DNA-DNA分子杂交实验结果表明,pTG 402-20的插入片段能与T5 DNA Hind Ⅲ酶切的G和B片段杂交。这个插入片段的大小约为0.84kb。     

在变铅青链霉菌基因组中定域克隆外源DNA的置换性载体及通过反选择获得重组体的模式方法

ΦHAU3^R是变铅青链霉菌66中对噬菌体ΦHAU3显示抗性的基因,已从基因组中获得分离。将基因组中邻近于该基因两侧的一个3.5kb和另一个3.8kb的DNA片段分别以其在染色体上的天然取向插入到一个由pIJ101衍生的质粒pIJ653上,构建成pHZ806。然后在pHZ806上对应于pIJ101复制子的区域中插入一个spc/str抗性基因,同时在3.5kb和3.8kb片段之间插入一个潮霉素抗性基因(hyg),衍生出一个新质粒pHZ808。由于pHZ808中不具有完整的pIJ101复制功能区,所以它不能在链霉菌中复制。然而,在该质粒3.5kb和3.8kb片段之间插入的任何DNA片段,在导入到变铅青链霉菌中后都可借助于3.5kb和3.8kb两个片段与内源染色体的同源区域所发生的双交换而稳定地整入到内源染色体的特定区域(3.5kb和3.8kb片段之间),同时置换出染色体上的ΦHAU3-R基因。发生了这种基因置换的重组子菌株会对噬菌体ΦHAU3变得敏感,这种反选择方法可用来浓缩和初选携带定域插入片段的重组子。已利用潮霉素抗性基因(hyg)作为一个模式基因片段阐明了这种载体和这种在染色体上定域克隆外源基因片段的方法学和适用性。同时,用pHZ808作载体克隆另外的基因片段时还有另一个优越性：hyg可作为报告基因一同参与外源基因片段的定域整合,携带插入片段的重组子除了对噬菌体ΦHAU3显示敏感性以外,还对潮霉素显示抗性。     

棒杆菌启动子片段的酶谱分析及定位

用大肠杆菌启动子探测质粒pSDS I (Ap^r,Tc^s)从钝齿棒杆菌(Corynebacterium crenatum)6282染色体的HindⅢ酶切片段中,克隆到两个具有启动功能的DNA片段,分别将两个重组质粒命名为pSDB5和pSDB21。含有这两个质粒的菌株均可以在含300μg/ml Tc的平板上生长。通过酶切分析,pSDB5的插入片段为1.6kb,pSDB21的插入片段为3.4kb,并分别作出了它们的限制性酶切图谱。对pSDB21利用其EcoR Ⅰ和BglⅡ位点,通过亚克隆删除了与启动功能无关片段,构建成pSDB210和pSDB211,从而使启动子定位于约0.1kb的BglⅡ/HindⅢ外源片段上。分子杂交实验证明所得到的这两个具有启动功能的DNA片段确实来源于钝齿棒杆菌6282的染色体DNA。     

具有原核基因启动子活性的蓖麻蚕染色体DNA片段

利用大肠杆菌启动子克隆载体pHE5,研究了蓖麻蚕染色体的Hind Ⅲ酶解片段在大肠杆菌中作为四环素抗性基因启动子的功能作用。蓖麻蚕染色体的Hind Ⅲ片段与pHE5重组,在大约10~6个重组子中获得953株启动子重组体。测定了这些含有重组质粒的菌株抗四环素能力,其中有4株在平板上抗四环素水平超过225微克/毫升。对其中pARP201的插入片段进行了限制性图谱分析和启动子活性区域的缺失定位,证明了pARP-DB(由pARP201衍生而来)中的约0.5kb的外源插入片段具有完整的原核启动子功能。我们分析了这段DNA的部分核苷酸顺序,发现它与原核基因启动子极其相似。     

谷氨酸棒杆菌10147基因组中启动子活性片段的克隆与分析

摘要：【目的】获得谷氨酸棒杆菌10147基因组中具有启动子活性片段的结构序列,为构建表达载体做准备。【方法】利用启动子探测载体pAKC6,采用鸟枪法克隆经过限制性内切酶Sau3A I完全酶切的谷氨酸棒杆菌10147染色体DNA片段,并测定pAKC6上报告基因编码的氯霉素乙酰转移酶（CAT）的比活力,以筛选有启动子功能的片段。【结果】共克隆到30个具有启动子功能的片段。其中有三个插入片段起动的氯霉素乙酰转移酶比活力大于24 U/mg,插入片段F57起动的CAT比活力为32.50 U/mg;而插入有启动子Ptrc的阳性对照的CAT比活力为26.33 U/mg。【结论】获得三个DNA插入片段具有与已知启动子Ptrc相当的启动活性,这些片段可以用于构建谷氨酸棒杆菌表达载体。     

链霉菌高拷贝质粒pIJ101的研究 V．两个拷贝数突变子及其与克隆片段的关系

在分离和定位链霉菌高拷贝质粒PlJ101上启动子活性区域的过程中,我们将Bc11-E片段经MboI进一步酶解后,克隆到由pIJ101基本复制功能区所衍生的载体pIJ425的BgIII位点上,从转化酶、铅青链霉菌TK64以原生质体所获得的硫链丝菌素抗性转化子中,发现了两个拷贝数极其异常的衍生质粒,命名为PI J2743和PIJ2744。与plJ425相比,pIJ2743的拷贝数增加约10倍,而pIJ2744的拷贝数则降低约10倍。拷贝数的剧增和剧减不是由于质粒宿主的突变,因为它们在重新转化的宿主中仍显示了突变型拷贝数特征。拷贝数的变化也不是由于载体的突变,因为切除插入片段后,载体区域再连接后的质粒仍与原始plJ425的拷贝数相同。将高拷贝突变子中0.63kb的插入片段以两种不同的取向克隆到另一个类似于pIJ425的载体p1J 486的BamHI位点,在一种取向插入时,新衍生的质拉仍显示出投高的拷贝数,而在另一种取向时,质粒的拷贝数不发生变化,说明拷贝数的剧增不仅只与插入片段有关,而且其功用具有明显的方向性,即为-顺式作用因子。     

链霉菌启动子的研究Ⅰ.灰色链霉菌启动子在大肠杆菌中的克隆和表达

灰色链霉菌(streptomyces griseus)No.45是链霉素产生菌,用于工业规模的链霉素生产,其启动子结构及基因表达的调控尚未揭示。本文报道了S.riseus启动子在大肠杆菌(Escherichia coil)中的克隆和表达,证实了S.griseus中也存在E.coli类型的启动子。我们已将S.griseus DNA的PstⅠ、BglⅡ酶切片段克隆到启动子探测质粒pGA46上,在大肠杆菌中表达四环素抗性基因启动子的功能。S.griseus DNA的Hin dⅢ酶切片段也已经克隆到另一个启动子探测质粒pPV33-H上,在E.coli中表达四环素抗性基因启动子的功能。为了进一步验证和分析,将重组质粒和载体以限制性内切酶酶切,从电泳图谱中可以重新找到共同的载体区带。以DNA分子杂交的方法进行DNA同源性分析,结果表明载体pGA46或pPV33-H和S.griseus DNA没有可察觉的杂交区带,而重组质粒和S.griseus DNA及载体均有明显的杂交区带。这说明重组质粒中的外源插入序列确是来自S.griseus,这些DNA片段携带了四环素抗性基因的启动子。为了进一步分析启动子功能区域的结构,已将重组质粒No.8中4.24kb的S.griseus插入序列缩短到1.89kb。插入序列的继续缩小正在进行中。     

大豆启动功能片段的克隆及在转化甘草中启动β-葡糖苷酸酶基因的表达

将大豆DNA的HindⅢ和BamHⅠ酶切片段连接到pBⅠ101载体缺启动子的GUS基因上游,构建了含有不同DNA片段的重组质粒,转化大肠杆菌C600,获得了具Km抗性的转化子。通过三亲交配将上述重组质粒转移至发根农杆菌R1000(PRiA4b)中,用注射法,将各含重组质粒的发根农杆菌菌液感染甘草外植体,在含cb的无激素MS培养基上诱发毛状根并再生成植株。转化甘草具Km抗性,有甘露碱和农杆碱存在。经组织化学法检测,在转化株C2和C13的毛根、茎、叶中有靛蓝色沉淀物产生。证明大豆启动功能片段在转化甘草中启动了GUS基因表达。重组质粒的酶切分析证明C2和C13大豆DNA插入片段均约为0.8kb。DNA分子杂交也证明C2、C13 DNA与大豆DNA和转化株DNA有同源性。     

嗜热硫杆菌启动子的克隆及定位

用DNA体外重组技术,将嗜热硫扦菌(Thiobacillus sp．)染色体DNA的Hind III片段插人启动子探测质粒pSDSI(Apr、Tc2)的Hind III位点,在四环素平板上获得一批转化子。四环素抗性能力测定表明,有12个转化子可以在含240／μg／ml四环素的平板上生长,有2个可以在360μg／ml的四环素平板上生长,对这二个抗性表达能力较高、分子量较小的质粒pSDH7和pSDH11作了限制性酶切图谱分析,并利用PstI位点,通过亚克隆将pSDH11插人片段上的启动子定位在0．25kb片段内。分子杂交实验证明克隆的启动子活性片段确实来源于嗜热硫杆菌染色体DNA。     

Analysis of the nourseothricin-resistance gene (nat) of Streptomyces noursei

A gene (nat) conferring resistance to the streptothricin antibiotic nourseothricin (Nc) was cloned from the producer Streptomyces noursei into Streptomyces lividans on the vector pIJ702 to form pNAT1. The nat gene was localized on a 1-kb SalI-MboI fragment, which also carries the nat promoter. Divergent promoter activity from the nat promoter region was identified on the cloned fragment using promoter probe plasmids pIJ486 and pIJ487. The nat gene is not expressed from its own promoter in Escherichia coli as shown by its failure to promote cat expression in promoter-less plasmid pBB100 and by the expression of NcR in only one orientation, when cloned in pUC19. In S. lividans 7A, harbouring plasmid pNAT1, an Nc-acetylating activity (NAT) was associated with the cloned resistance gene. The substrate specificity of NAT correlated well with the substrate range of the acetyltransferase in S. noursei and Tn1825-determined streptothricin resistance in Gram-negative bacteria. Moreover, an extract of S. lividans carrying pNAT1 showed specific serological cross-reactivity with an extract of E. coli carrying Tn1825.     

Cloning and expression of the tyrosinase gene from Streptomyces antibioticus in Streptomyces lividans

In two separate studies a BclI-generated DNA fragment coding for the enzyme tyrosinase, responsible for melanin synthesis, was cloned from Streptomyces antibioticus DNA into two SLP1.2-based plasmid vectors (pIJ37 and pIJ41) to generate the hybrid plasmids, designated pIJ700 and pIJ701, using S. lividans 66 as the host. The fragment (1.55 kb) was subcloned into the multicopy plasmid pIJ350 (which carries thiostrepton resistance and has two non-essential BclI sites) to generate four new plasmids (pIJ702-pIJ705) with the tyrosinase insert located in either orientation at each site. All six plasmids conferred melanin production (the Mel+ phenotype) on their host. As in the S. antibioticus parent, strains of S. lividans carrying the gene specifying tyrosinase synthesis possessed an enzyme activity which was inducible. Most of the tyrosinase activity was secreted during growth of S. antibioticus; in contrast, the majority remained intracellular in the S. lividans clones. The specific activity of the induced tyrosinase activity (intracellular) was higher (up to 36-fold) when the gene was present on the multicopy vector in comparison with its location on the low copy plasmids, pIJ700 or pIJ701, or in S. antibioticus. Restriction mapping of the tyrosinase fragment in pIJ702 revealed endonuclease cleavage sites for several enzymes, including single sites for BglII, SphI and SstI that are absent from the parent vector (pIJ350). Insertion of DNA fragments at any one of these sites abolished the Mel+ phenotype. The results indicate that pIJ702 is a useful cloning vector with insertional inactivation of the Mel+ character as the basis of clone recognition.     

Cloning and amplified expression in Streptomyces lividans of the gene encoding the extracellular beta-lactamase from Streptomyces cacaoi

A 19 kb SphI DNA fragment containing the gene for the extracellular active-site serine beta-lactamase of Streptomyces cacaoi KCC-SO352 was cloned in Streptomyces lividans TK24 using the high-copy-number plasmid pIJ702 as vector. A 30-fold higher yield of beta-lactamase was obtained from S. lividans strain ML1, carrying the recombinant plasmid pDML51, than from S. cacaoi grown under optimal production conditions. In all respects (molecular mass, isoelectric point, kinetics of inhibition by beta-iodopenicillanate) the overproduced S. lividans ML1 beta-lactamase was identical to the original S. cacaoi enzyme. A considerable reduction of beta-lactamase production was caused by elimination of a 12.8 kb portion of the 19 kb DNA fragment by cleavage at an internal SphI site located more than 3 kb upstream of the beta-lactamase structural gene. The beta-lactamase gene was located within a 1.8 NcoI-BclI fragment but when this fragment was cloned in S. lividans pIJ702, the resulting strain produced hardly any more beta-lactamase than the original S. cacaoi.     

PCR-寻靶体系构建棒状链霉菌lat基因插入突变的重组质粒pELA

本实验将PCR所得的1.8kb的lat基因片段插入到pUCm-T载体的多克隆位点,得到重组质粒pUCm-T-lat,经EcoRI-HindⅢ双酶切后得到lat基因片段,与经同样双酶切的穿梭质粒pGH112进行连接,得到重组质粒pGH112-lat。将其电转至大肠杆菌E.coli BW25113/pIJ790中得到E.coli BW25113/pIJ790/pGH112-lat。同时,根据棒状链霉菌lat基因的序列及质粒pIJ77(3 pIJ773为可提供阿泊拉抗性的模板质粒)中阿泊拉抗性基因(aac(3)iv)的序列设计一对长59nt及58nt的引物,两引物分别含有20nt及19nt的阿泊拉抗性基因的互补序列和39nt的lat基因两端的互补序列,以质粒pIJ773为模板,PCR扩增得到的产物为两端带有lat基因上下游同源序列的阿泊拉抗性基因,将此PCR产物称为阿泊拉抗性框,将此阿泊拉抗性框电转至E.coli BW25113/pIJ790/pGH112-lat转化子中。在质粒pIJ790的作用下,阿泊拉抗性框中两端的lat基因同源序列与pGH112-lat中的野生型lat基因发生同源双交换,使得阿泊拉抗性框插入lat基因中,得到lat基因中插入阿泊拉抗性基因(lat::apr)的重组质粒pELA。该质粒的构建为进一步构建棒状链霉菌lat基因插入阻断的突变株,从而实现克拉维酸产量的提高奠定了初步基础。     

Chloramphenicol resistance in Streptomyces: cloning and characterization of a chloramphenicol hydrolase gene from Streptomyces venezuelae

A 6.5 kb DNA fragment containing a chloramphenicol-resistance gene of Streptomyces venezuelae ISP5230 was cloned in Streptomyces lividans M252 using the high-copy-number plasmid vector pIJ702. The gene was located within a 2.4 kb KpnI-SstI fragment of the cloned DNA and encoded an enzyme (chloramphenicol hydrolase) that catalysed removal of the dichloroacetyl moiety from the antibiotic. The deacylated product, p-nitrophenylserinol, was metabolized to p-nitrobenzyl alcohol and other compounds by enzymes present in S. lividans M252. Examination of the genomic DNA from several sources using the cloned 6.5 kb SstI fragment from S. venezuelae ISP5230 as a probe showed a hybridizing region in the DNA from S. venezuelae 13s but none in the DNA from another chloramphenicol producer, Streptomyces phaeochromogenes NRRLB 3559. The resistance phenotype was not expressed when the 6.5 kb SstI fragment or a subfragment was subcloned behind the lac-promoter of plasmid pTZ18R in Escherichia coli.     

Cloning of a chloramphenicol acetyltransferase gene of Streptomyces acrimycini and its expression in Streptomyces and Escherichia coli

A gene (cat) for chloramphenicol (Cm) acetyltransferase (CAT) was cloned from Streptomyces acrimycini into S. lividans 66 on the plasmid vector pIJ61. The cat gene was localized on a 1.7-kb BclI fragment, which probably also carries the cat promoter. This DNA fragment conferred Cm resistance, through CAT activity, on S. lividans, S. coelicolor and S. parvulus, but not on Escherichia coli when inserted in the BamHI site of the tetracycline-resistance(TcR) gene of pBR322. However, when inserted in a particular orientation in this site, spontaneous deletions of 0.7 kb led to CAT activity and Cm resistance. DNA homologous to the 1.7-kb BclI cat fragment was found in most, but not all, of a series of other streptomycetes that have CAT activity. The cat provides a potentially useful screening marker for Streptomyces cloning vectors.     

圈卷产色链霉菌分化关键基因——saw1的克隆及酶切分析

链霉菌是现代生物学研究中一种重要的微生物,它有两个突出的特征:其一,有无与伦比的合成次生代谢产物的能力,世界上所知数千种抗生素的70％由其产生。其二,有一个复杂的发育分化的生命周期,是微生物分化研究的一个最好的模式材料。链霉菌分化主要为形态分化和生理分化,两者彼此独立又相互关联,构成复杂的分化调控网络,研究分化基因的调控不但有重要的理论意义,而且可用于控制抗生素的生物合成,因此弄清合成途径的分子机制,也有潜在的应用价值。圈卷产色链霉菌是从我国东北土