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Biosensors regulated by specific substrates are needed to develop genetic tools to meet the needs of engineering microbial cell factories. Here, a xylose-inducible biosensor (xylbiosensor), comprising the Escherichia coli activation factor XylR, fusion activation domain (AD) VPRH, and a hybrid promoter with operator xylO, was established in Yarrowia lipolytica. The addition of xylose to an engineered Y. lipolytica strain harboring the xylbiosensor could trigger significant transcriptional activation of target genes, such as mcherry and the xylose utilization gene. Furthermore, a novel promoter Pleu-Pxo-Ptef was developed to construct a bidirectional expression system. The xylbiosensor showed good portability in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, suggesting its potential value in other eukaryotic cells. This study is the first to construct a "turn-on" xylbiosensor induced by xylose addition based on a prokaryotic activator XylR and eukaryotic universal AD. The xylbiosensor exhibits potential in pathway engineering for xylose utilization and xylose-derived product biosynthesis in yeast.

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Wenping Wei, Yanzhe Shang, Ping Zhang, Yong Liu, Di You, Bincheng Yin, Bangce Ye. Engineering Prokaryotic Transcriptional Activator XylR as a Xylose-Inducible Biosensor for Transcription Activation in Yeast. ACS synthetic biology. 2020 May 15;9(5):1022-1029

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