Harnessing Bacterial Toxins for Allelic Exchange
Type
Blog Post
Published
Aug. 15, 2019, 12:30 p.m.
...created vectors for Lambda Red that contained one of eight bacterial toxin genes isolated from E. coli or Psuedomonas...both rhamnose- and arabinose-inducible promoters. Tight control of toxin expression is absolutely necessary...induction system is well-characterized and quite tight (Giacalone et al., 2006). The Chen lab demonstrated... selected the three toxins so that at least one might be useful in a broad array of pathogenic Proteobacteria...expression in Escherichia coli using a rhamnose-based tightly regulated and tunable promoter system." Biotechniques...