Exploration of the Native Sucrose Operon Enables the Development of an Inducible T7 Expression System in Paenibacillus polymyxa.

Zilong Wang, Zhongpeng Guo, Yu Xin, Zhenghua Gu, Yi Shi, Ting Yang, Youran Li, Guiyang Shi, Zhongyang Ding, Liang Zhang

ACS synthetic biology 2024 Feb 16

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The use of Paenibacillus polymyxa as an industrial producer is limited by the lack of suitable synthetic biology tools. In this study, we identified a native sucrose operon in P. polymyxa. Its structural and functional relationship analysis revealed the presence of multiple regulatory elements, including four ScrR-binding sites and a catabolite-responsive element (CRE). In P. polymyxa, we established a cascade T7 expression system involving an integrated T7 RNA polymerase (T7P) regulated by the sucrose operon and a T7 promoter. It enables controllable gene expression by sucrose and regulatory elements, and a 5-fold increase in expression efficiency compared with the original sucrose operon was achieved. Further deletion of SacB in P. polymyxa resulted in a 38.95% increase in the level of thermophilic lipase (TrLip) production using the cascade T7 induction system. The results highlight the effectiveness of sucrose regulation as a novel synthetic biology tool, which facilitates exploring gene circuits and enables their dynamic regulation.

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Zilong Wang, Zhongpeng Guo, Yu Xin, Zhenghua Gu, Yi Shi, Ting Yang, Youran Li, Guiyang Shi, Zhongyang Ding, Liang Zhang. Exploration of the Native Sucrose Operon Enables the Development of an Inducible T7 Expression System in Paenibacillus polymyxa. ACS synthetic biology. 2024 Feb 16;13(2):658-668