Project description:Heat-responsive and time-resolved changes in transcriptome of E. coli BL21(DE3) Experimentally mapped transcriptome structure of Escherichia coli BL21(DE3) by hybridizing total RNA (including RNA species <200 nt) to genome-wide high-density tiling arrays (60 mer probes tiled every 10 nt).
Project description:Experimentally mapped transcriptome structure of Escherichia coli BL21(DE3) by hybridizing total RNA (including RNA species <200 nt) to genome-wide high-density tiling arrays (60 mer probes tiled every 10 nt).
Project description:Different genetic engineering strategies have been proposed to obtain E. coli strains that selectively consume xylose. In this study, a previously reported strategy for obtaining a xylose-selective strain in E. coli K12 was applied to E. coli BL21 (DE3). While this approach resulted in the expected xylose-selective phenotype, a low xylose consumption rate was recorded when the strain was grown on a mixture of xylose and glucose. To enhance xylose consumption, a variant of the transcriptional activator XylR was expressed. The resulting strain not only exhibited an improved capacity to consume xylose but also slightly recovered the ability to consume glucose. The aim of the microarray analysis was to identify the transcriptional changes associated with glucose assimilation in the BL21(DE3) derived xylose-selective strain.
