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Record W4408447627 · doi:10.1038/s41598-025-91954-5

A galactose-based auto-expression system improves T7-inducible protein production in Escherichia coli

2025· article· en· W4408447627 on OpenAlexaff
James Bosco, Emily Gagliano, Kassandra L. Boshae, John P. Statz, Timothy B. Wheeler, DeAnna Cuello, Ashlyn Sliter, Christian Newby, Bernice Lin, Aysha K. Demeler, Christopher L. Pierpont, Cindee Yates-Hansen, Matthew J. Sydor, Marc Ferrini, Kellie C. Kuch, Brandon S. Cooper, Beverly J. Piggott, Sarah J. Certel, Kasper B. Hansen, Stephen R. Sprang, Bruce E. Bowler, Levi J. McClelland, Mehmet Berkmen, Ekaterina Voronina

Bibliographic record

VenueScientific Reports · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicAmino Acid Enzymes and Metabolism
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Lethbridge
FundersNational Institute of Neurological Disorders and StrokeNational Institute of General Medical SciencesNational Institutes of HealthNational Science Foundation
KeywordsEscherichia coliGalactoseProtein expressionMicrobiologyBiologyComputational biologyBiochemistryGene

Abstract

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Protein production using Escherichia coli is a cornerstone of modern biotechnology. In this study, we developed a novel auto-expression medium to maximize protein production. Each E. coli strain tested was capable of auto-expression in response to galactose, including strains in which the endogenous lacZ had been disrupted. This provides key evidence that galactose can regulate the lac operon independent of known lac operon-regulated metabolism. The enhanced capabilities of the novel auto-expression medium were documented across protein production systems including (1) increased yields for routinely expressed proteins (e.g. eGFP), (2) improved expression of human cytochrome c within a dual expression system, (3) robust auto-expression in lacZ-deficient strains producing proteins with challenging disulfide bonds, and (4) reproducible 8-fold increase in SpCas9 yields, at ≥ 95% purity. This novel medium can streamline production and improve yields for routine as well as challenging proteins, accelerating recombinant protein production and creating new opportunities in biotechnology and structural biology.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.001
Threshold uncertainty score0.002

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.006
GPT teacher head0.231
Teacher spread0.224 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Published2025
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