Abstract
The plasmid pSY130-14 for the high production of phenylalanine is a temperaturecontrollable expression vector composed of the $P_R$ and the $P_L$ promoter and a temperature sensitive repressor, $cI_{857}$ of bacteriophage lambda. Strain AT2471 harbouring plasmid pSY13O- 14 is induced the phenylalanine production by shifting up the incubation temperaure to $38.5^{\circ}C$. Plasmid stability of E. coli AT2471 harbouring pSY130-14 was very low, it was about 30% after 48 h cultivation at $38.5^{\circ}C$ without kanamycin. The plasmid disappeared immediately at $40^{\circ}C$ without kanamycin, and at $40^{\circ}C$ adding kanamycin, the plasmid stability decreased at the beginning, but rose with the extension of the culture time. For the improvement of plasmid stability, the plasmid obtaind was designated as pSY15O-1 by changing origin region (ori) pACYC 177 of pSY130-14 for ori pSC101. E. coli AT2471 harbouring pSY150-1 was stable at $38.5^{\circ}C$ without tetracycline, and the plasrnid stability was about 40% after 48 h cultivation at $40^{\circ}C$.
Phenylalanine 고생산용 plasmid pSY130-14는 $\lambda$-phage 유래 온도감수성을 가지고 있으므로 $cI_{857}$ repressor와 PL과 PR을 온도를 올려 phenylalanine의 생산을 유도한다. pSY130-14를 갖는 E.coli AT2471은 kanamycin 무첨가, $38.5^{\circ}C$, 48시간에서 약 30% 로 plasmid가 없어지며 첨가에서 안정성이 떨어졌다가 배양시간과 더불어 올라갔는데, 이것은 생육에 피요한 kanamycin gene과 ori만이 남는 것으로 생각된다.
