Engineering transcription factor-based biosensors for repressive regulation through transcriptional deactivation design in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Microbial Cell Factories
Chenxi QiuJin Hou

Abstract

With the development of engineering the microbial cell factories, biosensors have been used widely for regulation of cellular metabolism and high-throughput screening. However, most of the biosensors constructed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae are designed for transcriptional activation. Very few studies have dedicated to the development of genetic circuit for repressive regulation, which is also indispensable for the dynamic control of metabolism. In this study, through transcriptional deactivation design, we developed transcription-factor-based biosensors to allow repressive regulation in response to ligand. Using a malonyl-CoA sensing system as an example, the biosensor was constructed and systematically engineered to optimize the dynamic range by comparing transcriptional activity of the activators, evaluating the positions and numbers of the operators in the promoter and comparing the effects of different promoters. A biosensor with 82% repression ratio was obtained. Based on this design principle, another two biosensors, which sense acyl-CoA or xylose and downregulate gene expression, were also successfully constructed. Our work systematically optimized the biosensors for repressive regulation in yeast for the first time. It ...Continue Reading

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