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Obtaining a Panel of Cascade Promoter-5′-UTR Complexes in <i>Escherichia coli</i>
A promoter
is one of the most important and basic tools used to
achieve diverse synthetic biology goals. Escherichia
coli is one of the most commonly used model organisms
in synthetic biology to produce useful target products and establish
complicated regulation networks. During the fine-tuning of metabolic
or regulation networks, the limited number of well-characterized inducible
promoters has made implementing complicated strategies difficult.
In this study, 104 native promoter-5′-UTR complexes (PUTR)
from <i>E. coli</i> were screened and characterized based
on a series of RNA-seq data. The strength of the 104 PUTRs varied
from 0.007% to 4630% of that of the P<sub>BAD</sub> promoter in the
transcriptional level and from 0.1% to 137% in the translational level.
To further upregulate gene expression, a series of combinatorial PUTRs
and cascade PUTRs were constructed by integrating strong transcriptional
promoters with strong translational 5′-UTRs. Finally, two combinatorial
PUTRs (P<sub>ssrA</sub>-UTR<sub>rpsT</sub> and P<sub>dnaKJ</sub>-UTR<sub>rpsT</sub>) and two cascade PUTRs (PUTR<sub>ssrA</sub>-PUTR<sub>infC‑rplT</sub> and PUTR<sub>alsRBACE</sub>-PUTR<sub>infC‑rplT</sub>) were
identified as having the highest activity, with expression outputs
of 170%, 137%, 409%, and 203% of that of the P<sub>BAD</sub> promoter,
respectively. These engineered PUTRs are stable for the expression
of different genes, such as the red fluorescence protein gene and
the β-galactosidase gene. These results show that the PUTRs
characterized and constructed in this study may be useful as a plug-and-play
synthetic biology toolbox to achieve complicated metabolic engineering
goals in fine-tuning metabolic networks to produce target products