Stabilized Bacterial Promoters: Constant Gene Expression at any Copy Number
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...is useful for many metabolic engineering and synthetic biology goals. In metabolic engineering, the expression...problems. Rapidly dividing cells initiate genome replication more than once per cell division and thus, genes...genes closer to the origin of replication will be overrepresented compared to those further away.
As a...or can interfere with the precision needed in metabolic engineering or other synthetic biology circuits...cells are dividing rapidly, multiple rounds of replication are initiated before the cell has divided. This...maximal gene expression near genomic origins of replication, the stabilized promoters created by Segall-Shapiro...the control of IPTG. Because RepA is a plasmid replication initiator protein, they could alter copy number...