Optimization of a whole-cell cadmium sensor with a toggle gene circuit

Biotechnology Progress

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 898-903

  Wu, Cindy H ^a,b,c   Le, David ^a   Mulchandani, Ashok ^a   Chen, Wilfred ^a  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

CadR promoter; Genetic circuits; P. putida 06909; Whole cell cadmium sensor

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM CHLORIDE; CADR PROMOTER; DETECTION LIMITS; DETECTION SENSORS; GENE CIRCUITS; GENETIC CIRCUITS; LOWER DETECTION LIMIT; P. PUTIDA 06909; PSUEDOMONAS PUTIDA; TAC PROMOTER; WHOLE-CELL CADMIUM SENSOR;

CELL MEMBRANES; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; LEAD; MANGANESE; MERCURY (METAL); SENSORS; ZINC;

CADMIUM;

CADMIUM; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; EVALUATION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; LUMINESCENCE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; CADMIUM; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 67651098653     PISSN: 87567938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/btpr.203     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Shiraishi Y. Cytogenetic studies in 12 patients with Itai-Itai disease. Humangenetik. 1975;27:31-44.
2. Larison JR, Likens GE, Fitzpatrick JW, Crock JG. Cadmium toxicity among wildlife in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Nature. 2000;406:181-183.
3. Stocker J, Balluch D, Gsell M, Harms H, Feliciano J, Daunert S, Malik KA, van der Meer JR. Development of a set of simple bacterial biosensors for quantitative and rapid measurements of arsenite and arsenate in potable water. Environ Sci Technol. 2003;37:4743-4750.
4. Hansen LH, Sorensen SJ. Versatile biosensor vectors for detection and quantification of mercury. FEMS Microbiol Lett. 2000;193:123-127.
5. Selifonova O, Burlage R, Barkay T. Bioluminescent sensors for detection of bioavailable Hg(II) in the environment. Appl Environ Microbiol. 1993;59:3083-3090.
6. Shetty RS, Deo SK, Shah P, Sun Y, Rosen BP, Daunert S. Luminescence-based whole-cell-sensing systems for cadmium and lead using genetically engineered bacteria. Anal Bioanal Chem. 2003;376:11-17.
7. Tauriainen S, Karp M, Chang W, Virta M. Luminescent bacterial sensor for cadmium and lead. Biosens Bioelectron. 1998; 13:931-938.
8. Neufeld T, Biran D, Popovtzer R, Erez T, Ron EZ, Rishpon J. Genetically engineered pfabA pfabR bacteria: an electrochemical whole cell biosensor for detection of water toxicity. Anal Chem. 2006;78:4952-4956.
9. van der Meer JR, Tropel D, Jaspers M. Illuminating the detection chain of bacterial bioreporters. Environ Microbiol. 2004;6: 1005-1020.
10. Ramanathan S, Ensor M, Daunert S. Bacterial biosensors for monitoring toxic metals. Trends Biotechnol. 1997;15:500-506.
11. Purohit HJ. Biosensors as molecular tools for use in bioremediation. J Clean Product. 2003;11:293-301.
12. Stark M. Multicopy expression vectors carrying the lac repressor gene for regulated high-level expression of genes in Escherichia coli. Gene. 1987;51:255-267.
13. Benner SA, Sismour AM. Synthetic biology. Nat Rev Genet. 2005;6:533-543.
14. Endy D. Foundations for engineering biology. Nature. 2005; 438:449-453.
15. Hasty J, McMillen D, Collins JJ. Engineered gene circuits. Nature. 2002;420:224-230.
16. McDaniel R, Weiss R. Advances in synthetic biology: on the path from prototypes to applications. Curr Opin Biotechnol. 2005;16:476-483.
17. Sprinzak D, Elowitz MB. Reconstruction of genetic circuits. Nature. 2005;438:443-448.
18. Wall ME, Hlavacek WS, Savageau MA. Design of gene circuits: lessons from bacteria. Nat Rev Genet. 2004;5:34-42.
19. Chen W, Kallio PT, Bailey JE. Construction and characterization of a novel cross-regulation system for regulating cloned gene expression in Escherichia coli. Gene. 1993;130:15-22.
20. Gardner TS, Cantor CR, Collins JJ. Construction of a genetic toggle switch in Escherichia coli. Nature. 2000;403:339-342.
21. Ptashne MA. Genetic Switch: Phage Lambda and Higher Organisms, 2nd ed. Cambridge: Blackwell; 1992.
22. Lee SW, Glickmann E, Cooksey DA. Chromosomal locus for cadmium resistance in Pseudomonas putida consisting of a cadmium-transporting ATPase and a merR family response regulator. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2001;67:1437-1444.
23. Permina EA, Kazakov AE, Kalinina OV, Gelfand MS. Comparative genomics of regulation of heavy metal resistance in Eubacteria. BMC Microbiol. 2006;6:49.
24. Helmann JD, Ballard BT, Walsh CT. Allosteric underwinding of DNA is a critical step in positive control of transcription by Hg-MerR. Science. 1990;247:946-948.
25. Newberry KJ, Brennan RG. The structural mechanism for transcription activation by MerR family member multidrug transporter activation, N terminus. J Biol Chem. 2004;279:20356-20362.
26. Sambrook J, Russell DW. Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual, 3rd ed. Cold Spring Harbor, New York: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press; 2001.
27. Knezevic SZ, Streibig JC, Ritz C. Utilizing R software package for dose-response studies: the concept and data analysis. Weed Technol. 2007;21:840-848.
28. Ritz C, Streibig JC. Bioassay analysis using R. J Stat Softw. 2005;12:1-22.
29. R Core Development Team. R: A language and Environment for Statistical Computing; 2008. R Foundation for statistical computing, Vienna, Austria. ISBN 3-900051-07-0, URL http://www.R-project.org
30. Brown S, Chaney R, Hallfrisch J, Ryan JA, William RB. In situtreatments to reduce the phyto-and bioavailablility of lead, zinc and cadmium. J Environ Qual. 2004;33:522-531.
31. Wu CH, Wood TK, Mulchandani A, Chen W. Engineering plant-microbe symbiosis for rhizoremediation of heavy metals. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2006;72:1129-1134.
32. Jin YH, Clark AB, Slebos RJC, Al-Refai H, Taylor JA, Kunkel TA, Resnick MA, Gordenin DA. Cadmium is a mutagen that acts by inhibiting mismatch repair. Nat Genet. 2003;34:326-329.