PMID- 36087056 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20230330 LR - 20230330 IS - 2161-5063 (Electronic) IS - 2161-5063 (Linking) VI - 11 IP - 10 DP - 2022 Oct 21 TI - Reprogramming T7RNA Polymerase in Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 under Specific Lac Operon for Efficient p-Coumaric Acid Production. PG - 3471-3481 LID - 10.1021/acssynbio.2c00363 [doi] AB - Lac operon is the standard regulator used to control the orthogonality of T7RNA polymerase (T7RNAP) and T7 promoter inEscherichia coli BL21(DE3) strain for protein expression. However,E. coliNissle 1917 (EcN), the unique probiotic strain, has seldom been precisely adapted to the T7 system. Herein, we applied bioinformatics analysis on Lac operon from different strains, and it was observed that a weak promoter for LacI repressor existed in EcN. Furthermore, X-gal assay revealed a strong expression of lacZ in EcN. We demonstrated that Lac operon significantly affected the protein expression in the two T7-derived EcN, in which T7RNAP was integrated at lambda (ET7L) and HK022 (ET7H), respectively. Different combinations of replication origin, chaperonin GroELS, inducer, and medium were explored to fine-tune the best strain with tyrosine ammonia-lyase (TAL) for p-coumaric acid (pCA) production, which is one of the essential bioactive compounds for human health. Finally, the highest pCA conversion of 78.8% was achieved using RRtL (plasmid form) under the optimum condition, and a 51.5% conversion was obtained with L::Rt strain which has integrated T7-RtTAL at HK022 of ET7L in the simulated gut environment. The appropriate reprogramming of T7RNAP expedites EcN as an effective and promising cell factory for live bacterial therapeutics in the future. FAU - Effendi, Sefli Sri Wahyu AU - Effendi SSW AD - Department of Chemical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan. FAU - Ng, I-Son AU - Ng IS AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-1659-5814 AD - Department of Chemical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20220910 PL - United States TA - ACS Synth Biol JT - ACS synthetic biology JID - 101575075 RN - EC 2.7.7.6 (DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases) RN - IBS9D1EU3J (p-coumaric acid) SB - IM MH - Humans MH - *DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases/genetics/metabolism MH - *Escherichia coli/genetics/metabolism MH - Lac Operon MH - Operon/genetics OTO - NOTNLM OT - E. coli Nissle OT - T7RNA polymerase OT - chromosomal integration OT - lac operon OT - loci effect OT - p-coumaric acid EDAT- 2022/09/11 06:00 MHDA- 2022/10/25 06:00 CRDT- 2022/09/10 09:03 PHST- 2022/09/11 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/10/25 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/09/10 09:03 [entrez] AID - 10.1021/acssynbio.2c00363 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - ACS Synth Biol. 2022 Oct 21;11(10):3471-3481. doi: 10.1021/acssynbio.2c00363. Epub 2022 Sep 10.