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Development of an antibiotic marker-free platform for heterologous protein production in Streptomyces.

Laura SevillanoMargarita DíazRamón I Santamaría
Published in: Microbial cell factories (2017)
The total absence of antibiotic resistance genes makes this system a powerful tool for using Streptomyces as a host to produce proteins at the industrial level. This work is the first Streptomyces antibiotic marker-free system to be described. Graphical abstract Antibiotic marker-free platform for protein expression in Streptomyces. The antitoxin gene present in the expression plasmid counteracts the effect of the toxin gene in the genome. In absence of the expression plasmid, the toxin causes cell death ensuring that only plasmid-containing cells persist.
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