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Translation regulation in Bacillus subtilis and its applications in heterologous protein expression: A review
Abstract:
Bacillus subtilis is widely used for industrial enzyme production due to its food safety and good capability of protein synthesis and secretion. However, the production of heterologous proteins is often inefficient, partly due to poor compatibility and versatility of genetic elements in B. subtilis. Recent study shows that transcription and translation is uncoupled in B. subtilis, which is quite different from general knowledge about the transcription-translation coupling mechanism in bacteria. The uncoupling mechanism in B. subtilis shows that the transcription rate is much faster than translation rate. Therefore, the translation regulation will play an important role in highly-effective synthesis of heterologous protein. To better understanding the different regulation strategies at the translation level in B. subtilis, this review will summarize the translation process in B. subtilis cell and its regulatory mechanisms as well as the differences in comparison to other bacteria. Besides, the genetic engineering strategies for engineering the translation regulatory elements are also summarized.
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