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Improvement of organic solvent tolerance level of Escherichia coli by overexpression of stress-responsive genes.
Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions - 1 Aug 1998
Aono R
Abstract excerpt
Water-immiscible organic solvents can be toxic to microorganisms. The tolerance levels differ among strains of Escherichia coli, suggesting that the organic solvent tolerance level is strain specific and determined genetically. We constructed several mutants from E. coli, of which the organic solvent tolerance levels were improved. The mutants were defective in the marR gene encoding a repressor protein for the...
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