Martinez-Arias A E, Casadaban M J
Mol Cell Biol. 1983 Apr;3(4):580-6. doi: 10.1128/mcb.3.4.580-586.1983.
The promoter and translation initiation region of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae leu2 gene was fused to the Escherichia coli beta-galactosidase gene. This fusion located the control region of the leu gene and orientated its direction of expression. When the fusion was placed into yeast cells, beta-galactosidase was expressed under the same regulatory pattern as the original leu2 gene product: its synthesis was repressed in the presence of leucine and threonine. Sensitive chromogenic substrates for beta-galactosidase were used to detect expression in isolated colonies growing on agar medium. Mutant yeast cells with increased beta-galactosidase activity were identified by the color of the colonies they formed. One class of mutants obtained appeared to affect ars1 plasmid maintenance, and another class appeared to affect beta-galactoside uptake.
将酿酒酵母亮氨酸2基因的启动子和翻译起始区域与大肠杆菌β-半乳糖苷酶基因融合。这种融合确定了亮氨酸基因的控制区域并确定了其表达方向。当将该融合体导入酵母细胞时,β-半乳糖苷酶以与原始亮氨酸2基因产物相同的调控模式表达:在亮氨酸和苏氨酸存在的情况下其合成受到抑制。使用对β-半乳糖苷酶敏感的显色底物来检测在琼脂培养基上生长的分离菌落中的表达。通过它们形成的菌落颜色鉴定出具有增加的β-半乳糖苷酶活性的突变酵母细胞。获得的一类突变体似乎影响ars1质粒的维持,另一类似乎影响β-半乳糖苷的摄取。