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About Autoinduction media
- Glucose and the inducing sugar are present in the media while the cells grow. In the beginning, the cells prefer glucose. As the glucose runs out, the cells start taking up the induction sugar (usually lactose), causing induction of genes related to that sugar's metabolism (e.g. lac promoter, pTrc promoter, T7 promoter).
- Can also be done with arabinose or galactose.
Recipe:
References
- Original Paper: Studier FW (2005), Protein Production by Auto-Induction in High-Density Shaking Cultures. Protein Expr. Purif. 41(1): 207–234. <-- we make media ZYM-5052.
- A more practical recap of the original paper by the same author 7 years later: Stable Expression Clones and Auto-Induction for Protein Production in E. coli (free version (?))
- Practical summary slides: Imperial college .ppt slides: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/pls/portallive/docs/1/15699698.PPT
Comparing autoinduction media to TB induced with IPTG
Janet did an experiment in 12/2014 comparing cell pellets of His-tagged ADH grown in autoinduction media to the same culture grown in TB and induced with IPTG as part of this experiment. The autoinduced culture had comparable amounts of protein as seen by SDS-PAGE, and yielded more protein upon Co-NTA purification.
Questions
How good does the oxygenation need to be?
See Stable Expression Clones and Auto-Induction for Protein Production in E. coli, which says you will get more protein with more oxygen. I think you still get good yields if they are fermenting but you will get even more if they aren't.
How does temperature affect the process?
See Stable Expression Clones and Auto-Induction for Protein Production in E. coli, which points out that oxygen is more soluble at lower temperatures. It may take longer to get to induction but the final OD and amount of protein produced may also be higher.
Other notes
- "Expression strains suitable for auto-induction must have functional transporters for the appropriate sugar. Induction by lactose requires active β-galactosidase to convert lactose to allolactose, the actual inducer, and a functional LacY transporter. Induction by galactose would not require active β-galactosidase, but the host strain must lack galactokinase activity and transport galactose well enough to achieve an intracellular concentration sufficient for inducing promoters blocked by lac repressor. IPTG is not suitable for use in auto-induction because it can enter the cell and induce expression without a specific transporter, and cultures cannot grow uninduced in the presence of IPTG." -- Sturdier 2014