TY - JOUR
T1 - Using an AraC-based three-hybrid system to detect biocatalysts in vivo
AU - Firestine, Steven M.
AU - Salinas, Frank
AU - Nixon, Andrew E.
AU - Baker, Stephen J.
AU - Benkovic, Stephen J.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors wish to acknowledge the kind gift of the DDBO, plasmids, and strains used in this work (D. Jordan, G. Basarab, R. Schlief, J. Steffans, and M. Casadaban). The authors also thank M. Ostermeier for a critical reading of the manuscript. S.M.F. is funded by a fellowship from the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation and F.S. is funded by a fellowship from the National Institutes of Health.
PY - 2000/5
Y1 - 2000/5
N2 - Recent methods to create large libraries of proteins have greatly advanced the discovery of proteins with novel functions. However, one limitation in the discovery of new biocatalysts is the screening or selection methods employed to find enzymes from these libraries. We have developed a potentially general method termed QUEST (QUerying for Enzymes using the Three-hybrid system), which allows the construction of an easily screened or selected phenotype for, in theory, any type of enzymatic reaction. The method couples the in vive concentration of an enzyme's substrate to changes in the transcriptional level of a reporter operon. Using the arabinose operon activator AraC, we constructed a system capable of detecting the fungal enzyme scytalone dehydratase (SD) in bacteria, and demonstrated its sensitivity and usefulness in library screening.
AB - Recent methods to create large libraries of proteins have greatly advanced the discovery of proteins with novel functions. However, one limitation in the discovery of new biocatalysts is the screening or selection methods employed to find enzymes from these libraries. We have developed a potentially general method termed QUEST (QUerying for Enzymes using the Three-hybrid system), which allows the construction of an easily screened or selected phenotype for, in theory, any type of enzymatic reaction. The method couples the in vive concentration of an enzyme's substrate to changes in the transcriptional level of a reporter operon. Using the arabinose operon activator AraC, we constructed a system capable of detecting the fungal enzyme scytalone dehydratase (SD) in bacteria, and demonstrated its sensitivity and usefulness in library screening.
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U2 - 10.1038/75414
DO - 10.1038/75414
M3 - Article
C2 - 10802623
AN - SCOPUS:0034022841
SN - 1087-0156
VL - 18
SP - 544
EP - 547
JO - Nature Biotechnology
JF - Nature Biotechnology
IS - 5
ER -