Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

Engineered bidirectional promoters enable rapid multi-gene co-expression optimization

  • Thomas Vogl,
  • Thomas Kickenweiz,
  • Julia Pitzer,
  • Lukas Sturmberger,
  • Astrid Weninger,
  • Bradley W. Biggs,
  • Eva-Maria Köhler,
  • Armin Baumschlager,
  • Jasmin Elgin Fischer,
  • Patrick Hyden,
  • Marlies Wagner,
  • Martina Baumann,
  • Nicole Borth,
  • Martina Geier,
  • Parayil Kumaran Ajikumar,
  • Anton Glieder

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05915-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Classic monodirectional promoters are of limited use for multiple gene co-expression. Here the authors generate a library of 168 bidirectional promoters for the yeast K. phaffii (syn. P. pastoris) with diverse expression profiles to optimize metabolic pathway design.