乳酸菌食品级nisin控制的基因表达系统NICE

乳酸菌安全应用于人们的生产和生活已有上千年的历史,是一种食品级的微生物。在过去二十年里,其生理及遗传学特性已被彻底研究。由于其遗传可行且操作简单,乳酸菌除了其传统应用外已被广泛用于表达异源基因,在食品、农业及医药工程领域具有重要的应用前景。人们已开发了一系列乳酸菌食品级基因表达系统。本文主要介绍了乳酸菌,重点是其模式菌Lactococcus lactis最常见的食品级诱导表达系统--nisin控制的基因表达系统NIC E及其食品级诱导物nisin、食品级的宿主及表达载体系统,以及NICE系统在表达异源基因方面的应用。     

应用于乳酸菌的非抗生素抗性选择标记系统

 乳酸菌是一类重要的安全型微生物,在免疫载体疫苗开发及食品菌株改良等医疗、食品领域均有广泛的应用.非抗生素抗性选择标记是乳酸菌基因工程菌株构建中必不可少的关键组成部分,也是目前乳酸菌研究的前沿和热点.根据筛选时质粒和受体菌之间的表型关系及特征,主要分为显性选择标记、互补型选择标记、显性/互补型选择标记、双质粒选择标记4大类.其中显性选择标记中的细菌素抗性/免疫性选择标记及互补型选择标记中的糖类选择标记均有较大的发展潜力及应用空间;双质粒选择标记系统构建的筛选过程新颖独特,为整个选择标记系统的发展开辟了新的途径及思路.     

乳酸菌在基因工程领域的应用

乳酸菌是工业微生物中一类非常重要的细菌,也是众所周知的维持人及动物健康的重要益生菌群.在最近十几年来,乳酸菌的遗传学和分子生物学特性很受关注,通过对它们进行遗传修饰改造取得了重要成果,扩大了它们的应用.     

Identification of a Cold Shock Gene in Lactic Acid Bacteria and the Effect of Cold Shock on Cryotolerance

When Lactic Acid Bacterial cultures were frozen at −20°C for 24 h, the cell viability decreased drastically, but when they were cold shocked at 10°C for 2 h prior to freezing, viability improved significantly for the Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis strains (25–37%) and Pediococcus pentosaceus PO2 (18%), but not for the Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris strains tested or for one strain of Lactobacillus helveticus LB1 and Streptococcus thermophilus TS2. When the period for cold shock was extended to 5 h, the viability increased even further for those strains that displayed cold shock cryotolerance. Use of degenerate PCR primers based on the major cold shock protein (csp) of both Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis resulted in PCR products from all strains tested. The PCR product from Lactococcus lactis ssp. lactis M474 was cloned and sequenced, and the deduced amino acid sequence displayed a high sequence similarity to other csp's. Use of PCR primers based on the M474 sequence resulted in PCR products being produced only from the lactococcal strains studied and not from the Lactobacillus helveticus, Streptococcus thermophilus, or Pediococcus pentosaceus strains tested. Received: 18 October 1996 / Accepted: 28 January 1997     

乳酸菌食品级基因表达系统

酸菌是一类重要工业菌株。最近,乳酸菌遗传学和分子生物学的研究取得长足进步,导致发展了乳酸菌食品级基因表达系统。通过介绍乳酸菌食品级基因表达系统的基本要求、食品级选择性标记、食品级诱导物及该系统的研究进展,展示了乳酸菌食品级基因表达系统的建立对研究乳酸菌的基因表达调控和它的深层次的开发利用所具有的重要意义。     

PCR Screening of Enterococcus faecalis from Mixture of Lactic Acid Bacteria Using Bile Salt Hydrolase Gene as a Selective Marker

Indian Journal of Microbiology - It is very important to rapidly detect the contamination of Enterococcus faecalis in fermented foods such as Korean Kimchi to maintain its freshness since Kimchi is...     

thyA as a Selection Marker in Construction of Food-Grade Host-Vector and Integration Systems for Streptococcus thermophilus

We constructed food-grade host-vector and integration systems for Streptococcus thermophilus by using a thymidylate synthase gene (thyA) as the selection marker. Two thyA genes, thyA_St and thyA_Lb, were cloned from S. thermophilus and Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus, respectively. Thymidine-requiring mutants of S. thermophilus were obtained after successive cultures in the presence of trimethoprim, and one of them, TM1-1, was used as the host. Food-grade vectors were constructed by using either thyA_St or thyA_Lb as the selection marker. Transformants of TM1-1 created by using these vectors were selected for thymidine autotrophy as efficiently as for erythromycin resistance. By using the host-vector system developed in this way, a foreign amylase gene (amyA) was expressed in TM1-1 and was also integrated into the chromosome by use of a temperature-sensitive integration vector constructed with thyA_Lb as the selection marker via a double-crossover event. The results obtained show that thyA is an efficient and safe selection marker for S. thermophilus that is suitable for food applications.     

Use of the Escherichia coli beta-Glucuronidase (gusA) Gene as a Reporter Gene for Analyzing Promoters in Lactic Acid Bacteria

[This corrects the article on p. 588 in vol. 60.].     

乳酸菌受体菌株的筛选、鉴定及特性研究

从乳酸菌保健品中分离筛选到一株能作为受体菌的乳酸菌菌株COCC101,经鉴定为粪肠球菌(Enterococcusfaecali)。抗药性实验显示这株粪肠球菌对多数药物敏感或中度敏感;粪肠球菌中没有质粒存在,转化效率和电场强度有对应的正相关,最高达到2×104转化子/μgDNA,并且能广泛接受不同来源的质粒;在Nisin诱导下可表达外源的绿色荧光蛋白(GFP)。这些结果显示COCC101菌株在乳酸菌基因工程研究中有望成为受体菌。     

乳酸菌在苹果酒酿造中的应用

乳酸菌用于苹果酒酿造中 ,可以触发苹果酸 乳酸发酵 ,通过分解苹果酸 ,产生乳酸 ,并引起其他有机酸的变化而使苹果酒的口感质量得以改善。供试的 3个乳酸菌种中 ,L3由于具有较高的苹果酸分解速率 ,发酵的苹果酒感官质量优良而成为苹果酒苹果酸 乳酸发酵的优良菌种。pH、温度、二氧化硫、酒度通过影响乳酸菌的活动而对苹果酸 乳酸发酵产生一定的影响     

Design of a Protein-Targeting System for Lactic Acid Bacteria

We designed an expression and export system that enabled the targeting of a reporter protein (the staphylococcal nuclease Nuc) to specific locations in Lactococcus lactis cells, i.e., cytoplasm, cell wall, or medium. Optimization of protein secretion and of protein cell wall anchoring was performed with L. lactis cells by modifying the signals located at the N and C termini, respectively, of the reporter protein. Efficient translocation of precursor (approximately 95%) is obtained using the signal peptide from the lactococcal Usp45 protein and provided that the mature protein is fused to overall anionic amino acids at its N terminus; those residues prevented interactions of Nuc with the cell envelope. Nuc could be covalently anchored to the peptidoglycan by using the cell wall anchor motif of the Streptococcus pyogenes M6 protein. However, the anchoring step proved to not be totally efficient in L. lactis, as considerable amounts of protein remained membrane associated. Our results may suggest that the defect is due to limiting sortase in the cell. The optimized expression and export vectors also allowed secretion and cell wall anchoring of Nuc in food-fermenting and commensal strains of Lactobacillus. In all strains tested, both secreted and cell wall-anchored Nuc was enzymatically active, suggesting proper enzyme folding in the different locations. These results provide the first report of a targeting system in lactic acid bacteria in which the final location of a protein is controlled and biological activity is maintained.     

A Model for Small Heat Shock Protein Inhibition of Polyglutamine Aggregation

Polyglutamine (polyQ) repeat expansions that lead to the formation of amyloid aggregates are linked to several devastating neurodegenerative disorders. While molecular chaperones, including the small heat shock proteins (sHsp), play an important role in protection against protein misfolding, the aberrant protein folding that accompanies these polyQ diseases overwhelms the chaperone network. By generating a model structure to explain the observed suppression of spinocerebellar ataxia 3 (SCA3) by the sHsp αB-crystallin, we have identified key vulnerabilities that provide a possible mechanism to explain this heat shock response. A docking study involving a small bioactive peptide should also aid in the development of new drug targets for the prevention of polyQ-based aggregation.     

番茄线粒体和内质网小分子热激蛋白基因的分子克隆

以热激处理的番茄（Lycopersicon esculentum Mill．）花为实验材料,构建了cDNA库,运用ＲＴ－ＰＣＲ方法克隆番茄粒体和内质网小分子热激蛋白cDNA,利用这两个保守区片段为探针,筛选cDNA库,获得线粒体和内质网小分子热激蛋白全序列cDNA。;通过分析线粒体和内质网小分子热激蛋白基因对温度的反应,发现小分子热激蛋白基因在番茄花中的热激应答温度低于它们在叶片中的热激应答温度,并且番茄叶片中的线粒体小分子热激蛋白基因还具有低温应答特性。对线粒体和内质网小分子热激蛋白基因的分子结构特点,小分子热激蛋白基因在番茄花中的特别热激应答温度的调控机理以及线粒体小分子热激蛋白的基因在中片中的低温度应答成因进行了讨论。     

Molecular Cloning the Gene of Small Heat Shock Protein in the Mitochondria and Endoplasmic Reticulum of Tomato

A cDNA library was constructed with the heat shocked tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) flowers and then was screened with the probes of mitochondrial and endoplasmic reticulum conservative regions that were cloned by using RT-PCR. The complete cDNAs of mitochondrial and endoplasmic reticulum small heat shock protein ( shsp ) were selected out from the cDNA library. Furthermore, the temperature responses of these shsp genes were determined. Northern hybridization showed that the heat response temperatures of both genes in tomato flower were lower than that in leaf and that mitochondria shsp in leaf was cold-inducible. In this paper, the molecular features of the cloned genes, the causes of the uncommon heat response temperatures of sHSP in flower and the cold inducible character of mitochondria shsp gene in leaf were discussed. 