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Design and application of a lactulose biosensor.
Scientific reports - 7 Apr 2017
Wu Jieyuan, Jiang Peixia, Chen Wei, Xiong Dandan, Huang Linglan, Jia Junying, Chen Yuanyuan, Jin Jian-Ming, Tang Shuang-Yan
Abstract excerpt
In this study the repressor of Escherichia coli lac operon, LacI, has been engineered for altered effector specificity. A LacI saturation mutagenesis library was subjected to Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting (FACS) dual screening. Mutant LacI-L5 was selected and it is specifically induced by lactulose but not by other disaccharides tested (lactose, epilactose, maltose, sucrose, cellobiose and melibiose)....
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