Increased production of aspartase in Escherichia coli K-12 by use of stabilized aspA recombinant plasmid.
Recombinant plasmid pYT471, which consists of the aspartase gene (aspA) and the multicopy vector pBR322, was lost from cells of Escherichia coli K-12 at high frequencies in medium in which aspartase was abundantly formed due to release from catabolite repression. This plasmid loss was not completely prevented by the selective pressure of antibiotic addition. To increase the stability of the aspA plasmid, pNK101 (pBR322::aspA-par) was constructed by using the partition locus (par) derived from the low-copy vector pSC101. In E. coli K-12 cells, pNK101 was lost at a frequency as low as 0.4% per cell generation in nonselective medium, whereas pYT471 was lost at a frequency as high as 8.5%. Cells harboring this stable plasmid produced ca. 30-fold more aspartase than did cells harboring the unstable plasmid after 30 cell generations. Thus, we could increase aspartase production by stabilizing the aspA recombinant plasmid.[1]References
- Increased production of aspartase in Escherichia coli K-12 by use of stabilized aspA recombinant plasmid. Nishimura, N., Komatsubara, S., Kisumi, M. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. (1987) [Pubmed]
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