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Published on: November 30, 2018
A genetic system for RNase E variant-controlled overproduction of ColE1-type plasmid DNA
1School of Biological Sciences, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 156-756, Republic of Korea.
Abstract:
Escherichia coli endoribonuclease RNase E (Rne) regulates replication of ColE1-type plasmids by cleaving RNA I transcripts, which are synthesized from the plasmid and regulate the plasmid replication as antisense RNA. Here, we report the development of a genetic system that efficiently overproduces ColE1-type plasmid DNA when an RNase E variant that confers a hyperactive phenotype in RNA I cleavage is conditionally expressed from chromosome. This genetic system offers a method for isolation of large quantities of pure ColE1-type plasmid DNA, which have been most commonly used as molecular biology and biotechnology tools for research and industrial purposes.
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