A test system based on the lux-regulon from Vibrio fischeri for studying the functional activity of mutant forms of Escherichia coli lon-proteinase
Manukhov, I.V.; Eroshnikov, G.E.; Zavil'gel'skiĭ, G.B.; Ginodman, L.M.; Mel'nikov, E.E.; Rotanova, T.V.; Starkova, N.N.; Tsirul'nikov, K.B.
Bioorganicheskaia Khimiia 25(5): 365-368
1999
ISSN/ISBN: 0132-3423 PMID: 10495894 Document Number: 502468
The possibility of application of the bioluminescence method (Lux-test) for studying in vivo functional activity of Escherichia coli protease Lon and its mutants was demonstrated. This assay is based on the capacity of protease Lon and its mutant forms for specific degradation of the LuxR protein, a positive transcriptional activator of the right operon luxICDABE from the marine bacterium Vibrio fischeri, and thus to affect the level of AB luciferase in the cells. A correlation between in vitro activity of the protease Lon mutants and the intensity of bioluminescence measured by the Lux-test was revealed.