Characterization of in vivo reporter systems for gene expression and biosensor applications based on luxAB luciferase genes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2013-2021

  Blouin, Kim ^a   Walker, Stephen G ^a   Smit, John ^a   Turner, Robin F B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUCIFERASE;

ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; BIOLUMINESCENCE; BIOSENSOR; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; REPORTER GENE;

EID: 0029924916     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.6.2013-2021.1996     Document Type: Article

References (56)

1. Abu-Soud, H., L. S. Mullins, T. O. Baldwin, and F. M. Raushel. 1992. Stopped-flow kinetic analysis of the bacterial luciferase reaction. Biochemistry 31:3807-3813. la.Ajioka, J. Unpublished data.
2. Athwal, G. K., E. A. EI-Kohly, and A. E. G. Cass. 1990. Amplified bioluminescence assays, p. 67-70. In P. E. Stanley and L. J. Kricka (ed.), Bioluminescence and chemiluminescence: current status. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York.
3. Baldwin, T. O., T. Berends, T. A. Bunch, T. F. Holzman, S. K. Rausch, L. Shamansky, M. L. Treat, and M. M. Ziegler. 1984. Cloning of the luciferase structural genes from Vibrio harveyi and expression of bioluminescence in Escherichia coli. Biochemistry 23:3663-3667.
4. Baldwin, T. O., L. H. Chen, L. H. Chlumsky, J. H. Devine, and M. M. Ziegler. 1989. Site-directed mutagenesis of bacterial luciferase: analysis of the essential thiol. J. Biolumin. Chemilumin. 4:40-48.
5. Burlage, R. S., G. S. Sayler, and F. Larimer. 1990. Monitoring of naphthalene catabolism by bioluminescence with nah-lux transcriptional fusion. J. Bacteriol. 172:4749-4757.
6. Carmi, O. A., G. S. A. B. Stewart, S. Ulitzur, and J. Kuhn. 1987. Use of bacterial luciferase to establish a promoter probe vehicle capable of nondestructive real-time analysis of gene expression in Bacillus spp. J. Bacteriol. 169:2165-2170.
7. Dower, W. J., J. F. Miller, and C. W. Ragsdal. 1988. High efficiency transformation of Escherichia coli by high voltage electroporation. Nucleic Acids Res. 16:6127-6145.
8. Engebrecht, J., M. Simon, and M. Silverman. 1985. Measuring gene expression with light. Science 227:1345-1347.
9. Farinha, M. A., and A. M. Kropinski. 1990. Construction of broad-hostrange plasmid vectors for easy visible selection and analysis of promoters. J. Bacteirol. 172:3496-3499.
10. Gilchrist, A., and J. Smit. 1991. Transformation of freshwater and marine caulobacters by electroporation. J. Bacteriol. 173:921-925.
11. Guzzo, A., and M. S. Dubow. 1991. Construction of stable, single-copy luciferase gene fusions in Escherichia coli. Arch. Microbiol. 156:444-448.
12. Harvey, E. N. 1952. Bioluminescence. Academic Press. Inc., New York.
13. Hastings, J. W., T. O. Baldwin, and M. Z. Nicoli. 1978. Bacterial luciferase: assay, purification, and properties. Methods Enzymol. 52:135-153.
14. Hastings, J. W., A. Eberhard, T. O. Baldwin, M. Z. Nicoli, T. W. Cline, and K. H. Nealson. 1978. Bacterial bioluminescence. Mechanistic implications of active center chemistry of luciferase, p. 369-380. In M. J. Cormier, D. M. Hercules, and J. Lee (ed), Chemiluminescence and bioluminescence. Plenum Press, New York.
15. Hastings, J. W., and H. Q. Gibson. 1963. Intermediate in the bioluminescence oxidation of reduced flavin mononucleotide. J. Biol. Chem. 238:2537-2544.
16. Hastings, J. W., C. J. Potrikus, S. C. Gupta, M. Kurfurst, and J. C. Makemson. 1985. Biochemistry and physiology of bioluminescent bacteria. Adv. Microb. Physiol. 26:235-291.
17. 2 and long chain aldehyde with bacterial luciferase. Photochem. Photobiol. 29:383-387.
18. Holzman, T. F., and T. O. Baldwin. 1983. Reversible inhibition of the bacterial luciferase catalyzed bioluminescence reaction by aldehyde substrate: kinetic mechanism and ligand effects. Biochemistry 22:2838-2846.
19. Hong, X., A. Dingwall, and L. Shapiro. 1989. Negative transcriptional regulation in Caulobacter flagellar hierarchy. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 86:6656-6660.
20. Ismailov, A. D., A. Y. Sobolev, and V. S. Danilov. 1990. Bioluminescence decay kinetics in the reaction of bacterial luciferase with different aldehydes. J. Biolumin. Chemilumin. 5:213-217.
21. Jablonski, E., and M. DeLuca. 1978. Studies of the control of luminescence in Beneckea harveyi: properties of the NADH and NADH:FMN oxidoreductases. Biochemistry 17:672-678.
22. Jassim, S. A. A., A. Ellison, S. P. Denyer, and G. S. A. B. Stewart. 1990. In vivo bioluminescence: a cellular reporter for research and industry. J. Biolumin. Chemilumin. 5:115-122.
23. Kaaret, T. W., and T. C. Bruice. 1990. Electrochemical luminescence with n(5)-ethyl-4a-hydroxy-3-methyl-4a, 5-dihydrolumiflavin. The mechanism of bacterial luciferase. Photochem. Photobiol. 51:629-633.
24. Karp, M. 1989. Expression of bacterial luciferase genes from Vibrio harveyi in Bacillus subtilis and Escherichia coli. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1007:84-90.
25. Keen, N. T., S. Tamaki, D. Kobayashi, and D. Trollinger. 1988. Improved broad-host range plasmids for DNA cloning in gram-negative bacteria. Gene 70:191-197.
26. Korpela, M., and M. Karp. 1988. Stable-light producing Escherichia coli. Biotechnol. Lett. 10:383-388.
27. Korpela, M., P. Mantsala, E. M. Lilius, and M. Karp. 1989. Stable-light-emitting Escherichia coli as a biosensor. J. Biolumin. Chemilumin. 4:551-554.
28. Kosower, E. M. 1980. A proposed mechanism for light emission by bacterial luciferase involving dissociative electron transfer. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 29:356-364.
29. Kricka, L. J. 1988. Clinical and biochemical applications of luciferases and lueiferins. Anal. Biochem. 175:14-21.
30. Lavi, J., R. Raunio, V. Malkov, and T. Lovgren. 1983. The effect of luciferase and NADH:FMN oxidoreductase concentrations on the light kinetics of bacterial bioluminescence. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 111:266-273.
31. Lee, J. 1985. The mechanism of bacterial luminescence, p. 401-437. In J. Burr (ed.), Chemi- and bioluminescence. Marcel Dekker. Inc., New York.
32. Lilius, E. M., M. Korpela, and M. Karp. 1986. Luminescent Escherichia coli as an immunosensor, p. 431-434. In J. Scholmerich, R. Andreesen, A. Kapp, M. Erst, and W. G. Woods (ed.), Bioluminescence and chemiluminescence: new perspectives. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York.
33. Macheroux, P., J. Eckstein, and S. Ghisla. 1987. Studies on the mechanism of bacterial bioluminescence. Evidence compatible with one electron transfer process and a CIEEL mechanism in the luciferase reaction, p. 613-619. In D. Edmonson and D. McMormick (ed.), Flavins and flavoproteins. Walter de Gruyter & Co., New York.
34. Mager, H. I. X., and R. Addink. 1984. On the role of some flavin adducts as one-electron donors, p. 37-40. In D. Edmonson and D. McMormick (ed.), Flavins and flavoproteins. Walter de Gruyter & Co., New York.
35. Makemson, J. C., and J. W. Hastings. 1991. Bovine serum albumin interacts with bacterial luciferase. J. Biolumin. Chemilumin. 6:131-136.
36. Meighen, E. A. 1988. Enzymes and genes from the lux operons of biolumincscent bacteria. Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 42:151-176.
37. Meighen, E. A. 1990. Molecular biology of bioluminescence, p. 3-10. In P. E. Stanley and L. J. Kricka (ed.), Bioluminescence and chemiluminescence: current status. John Wiley & Sons. Inc., New York.
38. Meighen, E. A., and I. Bartlet. 1980. Complementation of subunits from different bacterial luciferases. Evidence for the role of the β subunit in the bioluminescent mechanism. J. Biol. Chem. 255:11181-11187.
39. Meighen, E. A., and R. E. Mackenzie. 1973. Flavine specificity of enzyme-substrate intermediates in the bacterial bioluminescence reaction. Biochemistry 12:1482-1491.
40. Miller, J. H. 1972. Experiments in molecular genetics. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.
41. Pointdexter, J. S. 1964. Biological properties and classification of the Caulobacter group. Bacteriol. Rev. 28:231-295.
42. Rattray, E. A. S., J. A. Prosser, K. Killham, and L. A. Glover. 1990. Luminescence-based nonextractive technique for in situ detection of Escherichia coli in soil. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 56:3368-3374.
43. Sambrook, J., E. F. Fritsch, and T. Maniatis. 1989. Molecular cloning: a laboratory manual, 2nd ed. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.
44. Schauer, A. T. 1988. Visualizing gene expression with luciferase fusions. Trends Biotechnol. 6:23-27.
45. Schmetterer, G., C. P. Wolk, and J. Elhai. 1986. Expression of luciferase from Vibrio harveyi and Vibrio fischen in filamentous cyanobacteria. J. Bacteriol. 167:411-414.
46. Schulz, P., V. Haring, B. Wittmann-Liebold, K. Ashman, M. Bagdasarian, and E. Scherzinger. 1989. Complete nucleotide sequence and gene organization of the broad-host-range RSF1010. Gene 75:271-288.
47. Sévigny, P., and F. Gossard. 1990. Construction of cloning vectors using the Vibrio haneyi luminescence genes luxA and luxB as markers. Gene 93:143-146.
48. Sigma Chemical Co. 1992. Bacterial luciferase enzyme assay protocol. Product numbers L-1637 and L-4626. Sigma Chemical Co., St. Louis.
49. Smit, J., and N. Agabian. 1984. Cloning of the major protein of the Caulobacter crescentus periodic surface layer: detection and characterization of the cloned peptide by protein expression assays. J. Bacteriol. 160:1137-1145.
50. Stewart, G. S. A. B. 1989. The detection of microorganisms using in vivo bioluminescence, p. 175-182. In Biotech '89. Blenheim Online Publications, London.
51. Stewart, G. S. A. B. 1990. A review, in vivo bioluminescence: new potentials for microbiology. Lett. Appl. Microbiol. 10:1-8.
52. Szitner, R., and E. A. Meighen. 1990. Nucleotide sequence, expression, and properties of luciferase coded by lux genes from a terrestrial bacterium. J. Biol. Chem. 265:16581-16587.
53. Ulitzur, S., and J. Kuhn. 1986. Introduction of lux genes into bacteria, a new approach for specific determination of bacteria and their antibiotic susceptibility. p. 463-472. In J. Scholmerick, R. Andreeson, A. Kapp, M. Erst, and W. G. Woods (ed.), Bioluminescence and chemiluminescence: new perspectives, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York.
54. Wolk, C. P., C. Yuping, and J.-M. Panoff. 1991. Use of a transposon with luciferase as a reporter to identify environmentally responsive genes in cyanobacterium. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 88:5355-5359.
55. Yanisch-Perron, C., J. Vieira, and J. Messing. 1985. Improved M13 phage cloning vectors and host strains: nucleotide sequences of the M13mp18 and pUC19 vectors. Gene 33:103-119.
56. Ziegler, M. M., and T. O. Baldwin. 1981. Biochemistry of bacterial bioluminescence. Curr. Top. Bioenerg. 12:65-113.