Abstract
The suitability of three β-galactosidases as reporter enzymes for promoter expression analyses was investigated in Bacillus subtilis with respect to various temperature conditions during cultivation and assay procedures. Starting from the hypothesis that proteins derived from diverse habitats have different advantages as reporters at different growth temperatures, the beta-galactosidases from the thermophilic organism Bacillus stearothermophilus, from the mesophilic bacterium Escherichia coli and from the psychrophilic organism Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis TAE79 were analysed under control of the constitutive B. subtilis lepA promoter. Subsequent expression of the β-galactosidase genes and determination of specific activities was performed at different cultivation and assay temperatures using B. subtilis as host. Surprisingly, the obtained results demonstrated that the highest activities over a broad cultivation temperature range were obtained using the β-galactosidase from the mesophilic bacterium E. coli whereas the enzymes from the thermophilic and psychrophilic bacteria revealed a more restricted usability in terms of cultivation temperature.
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