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Transactivator mutants with altered effector specificity allow selective regulation of two genes by tetracycline
Christel Krueger1, Andreas Schmidt, Christina Danke
1Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Staudtstr. 5, 91058 Erlangen, Germany.
Abstract:
A set of Tet repressor (TetR) based eukaryotic transactivators that respond to 4-de(dimethylamino)-6-deoxy-6-demethyl-tetracycline (cmt3) but no longer to tetracycline (tc) is presented. The novel transactivators exhibit high activation in absence of an effector and a 200-fold reduction of reporter gene activity in the presence of cmt3. The most cmt3-sensitive mutant was coexpressed with a tc-responsive Tet transregulator harbouring an altered DNA recognition specificity. Use of cmt3 and tc yields independent control of expression of two genes in the same cell without crosstalk.
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