Multicopy Integration and Expression of Heterologous Genes in <i>Methylobacterium extorquens</i> ATCC 55366
Bibliographic record
Abstract
High-level expression of chromosomally integrated genes in Methylobacterium extorquens ATCC 55366 was achieved under the control of the strong M. extorquens AM1 methanol dehydrogenase promoter (PmxaF) using the mini-Tn7 transposon system. Stable maintenance and expression of the integrated genes were obtained in the absence of antibiotic selective pressure. Furthermore, using this technology, a multicopy integration protocol for M. extorquens was also developed. Chromosomal integration of one to five copies of the gene encoding the green fluorescent protein (gfp) was achieved. The multicopy-based expression system permitted expression of a preset number of gene copies. A unique specific Tn7 integration locus in the chromosome of M. extorquens, known as the Tn7 attachment site (attTn7 site), was identified. This single attTn7 site was identified in an intergenic region between glmS, which encodes the essential enzyme glucosamine-6-phosphate synthetase, and dhaT, which encodes 1,3-propanediol dehydrogenase. The fact that the integration event is site specific and the fact that the attTn7 site is a noncoding region of the chromosome make the mini-Tn7 transposon system very useful for insertion of target genes and subsequent expression. In all transformants tested, expression and segregation of the transforming gene were stable without generation of secondary mutations in the host. In this paper, we describe single and multicopy chromosome integration and stable expression of heterologous genes (bgl [beta-galactosidase], est [esterase], and gfp [green fluorescent protein]) in M. extorquens.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".