Use of the nucleotide sequence of the promoter of the lactose operon of Lactobacillus casei to regulate the genic expression through an anti-terminator protein

摘要

This invention describes the use of a method for the expression of proteins in bacteria, which is based on the inducer effect, for example, of a carbohydrate on the anti-terminating activity of a protein of the family of anti-terminators, B1gG/SacY. The procedure has been tested with the system derived from the operon lacTEGF, inducible by lactose in Lactobacillus casei, for the expression of proteins of different kinds. In the invention are included examples of expression in multicopy plasmids or of integration in the chromosomal operon lacTEGF, thus achieving the coordinated expression of the desired genes together with those that code the enzymes of the metabolism of the lactose.