An operator-based expression toolkit for Bacillus subtilis enables fine-tuning of gene expression and biosynthetic pathway regulation

G Fu, J Yue, D Li, Y Li, SY Lee… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Genetic elements are key components of metabolic engineering and synthetic biological
applications, allowing the development of organisms as biosensors and for manufacturing …

Rational Design of the N-Terminal Coding Sequence for Regulating Enzyme Expression in Bacillus subtilis

K Xu, Y Tong, Y Li, J Tao, J Li, J Zhou… - ACS Synthetic …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Synonymous mutation of the N-terminal coding sequence (NCS) has been used to regulate
gene expression. We here developed a statistical model to predict the effect of the NCSs on …

Exploitation of Bacillus subtilis as a robust workhorse for production of heterologous proteins and beyond

W Cui, L Han, F Suo, Z Liu, L Zhou, Z Zhou - World Journal of Microbiology …, 2018 - Springer
Bacillus subtilis, belonging to the type species of Bacillus, is a type of soil-derived, low% G+
C, endospore-forming Gram-positive bacterium. After the discovery of B. subtilis 168 that …

A part toolbox to tune genetic expression in Bacillus subtilis

S Guiziou, V Sauveplane, HJ Chang… - Nucleic acids …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Libraries of well-characterised components regulating gene expression levels are essential
to many synthetic biology applications. While widely available for the Gram-negative model …

Reconstruction of the Regulatory Network for Bacillus subtilis and Reconciliation with Gene Expression Data

JP Faria, R Overbeek, RC Taylor, N Conrad… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
We introduce a manually constructed and curated regulatory network model that describes
the current state of knowledge of transcriptional regulation of Bacillus subtilis. The model …

Construction, Model-Based Analysis, and Characterization of a Promoter Library for Fine-Tuned Gene Expression in Bacillus subtilis

D Liu, Z Mao, J Guo, L Wei, H Ma, Y Tang… - ACS synthetic …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Promoters are among the most-important and most-basic tools for the control of metabolic
pathways. However, previous research mainly focused on the screening and …

An Engineered B. subtilis Inducible Promoter System with over 10 000-Fold Dynamic Range

SM Castillo-Hair, M Fujita, OA Igoshin… - ACS synthetic …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Bacillus subtilis is the leading model Gram-positive bacterium, and a widely used chassis for
industrial protein production. However, B. subtilis research is limited by a lack of inducible …

A modular autoinduction device for control of gene expression in Bacillus subtilis

GG Corrêa, MRCR Lins, BF Silva, GB de Paiva… - Metabolic …, 2020 - Elsevier
Intense synthesis of proteins and chemicals in engineered microbes impose metabolic
burden, frequently leading to reduced growth and heterogeneous cell population. Thus, the …

Efficient Protein Expression and Biosynthetic Gene Cluster Regulation in Bacillus subtilis Driven by a T7-BOOST System

Y Wu, Y Li, Y Zhang, Y Liu, J Li, G Du, X Lv… - ACS Synthetic …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Bacillus subtilis is a generally recognized as safe microorganism that is widely used for
protein expression and chemical production, but has a limited number of genetic regulatory …

Metabolic engineering of Bacillus subtilis fueled by systems biology: recent advances and future directions

Y Liu, J Li, G Du, J Chen, L Liu - Biotechnology advances, 2017 - Elsevier
By combining advanced omics technology and computational modeling, systems biologists
have identified and inferred thousands of regulatory events and system-wide interactions of …