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In anEscherichia coli K-12 strain (trpA trpE tnaA) cultured in LB broth without selective pressure, a pBR322 derivative containing the gene for tryptophan synthase (pBR322-trpBA) was found to be unstable. After 70 cell-number doublings, only 50% of the host cells retained the gene for ampicillin resistance (Apr). Insertion of the mini-F fragment of F factor DNA into this plasmid could effectively reduce the plasmid loss. Partial derepression of the tryptophan promotor-operator by 3-indopleacrylic acid further decreased the stability of the pBR322-trpBA but not that of the mini-F inserted plasmid (pBR322F-trpBA) The vector pBR322F-trpBA could be maintained at high copy number in the culture after 100 generations of growth; the culture was able to overproduce tryptophan synthase in the presence of 3-indoleacrylic acid.l-Tryptophan was produced from indole andl-serine using andE. coli host transformed with.pBR322F-trpBA DNA. After 8 h of incubation, the expression level was approximately 180 g/l.
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Yukawa, H., Kurusu, Y., Shimazu, M. et al. Stabilization of anE. coli plasmid by a mini-F fragment of DNA. Journal of Industrial Microbiology 2, 323–328 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01569570
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