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Table 1 Strains and plasmids used and constructed in this study

From: Engineering Corynebacterium glutamicum for violacein hyper production

Strains/plasmids

Relevant characteristics

Sources

Strains

E. coli DH5α

F endA1thi-1 recA1 relA1 gyrA96deoRΦ80dlacΔ(lacZ) M15 Δ(lacZYA-argF)U169hsdR17(r K , m +K ) λ supE44 phoA

Invitrogen

ATCC 13032

C. glutamicum wild-type

ATCC

ATCC 21850

4-MTr 5-MTr 6-FTr 4-Apr 4-FPr TyrHxr Phe Tyr, tryptophan hyperproducer

ATCC

Plasmids

pEC-XK99E

C. glutamicum/E. coli shuttle expression vector, Ptrc, lacIq, Kanr

Add gene

pEC-vioABCDE

derived from pEC-XK99E, constitutive expression of C. violaceum vio operon

This study

pEC-J-vio-1

pEC-XK99E derivative containing vio operon from J. lividum, expressed under control of inducible promoter Ptrc

This study

pEC-J-vio-2

pEC-XK99E derivative containing synthetic J. lividum vio operon with each gene containing complete C. glutamicum RBS sequence

This study

pEC-C-vio-1

pEC-XK99E derivative containing synthetic C. violaceum vio operon with each gene containing complete C. glutamicum RBS sequence

This study

pEC-C-vio-2

pEC-XK99E derivative containing synthetic C. violaceum vio operon with each gene containing complete C. glutamicum RBS sequence, which gene order changed to vioB, vioA, vioE, vioC, vioD

This study