Abstract:
In order to provide a transformant by which a high containment effect is obtained and which can be prepared by a simple procedure, a method for producing the transformant, and a method for detecting the presence of a reduced phosphorous compound with use of the transformant, a transformant in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention is a transformant which is defective in functions of a gene encoding a phosphate transporter protein and a gene encoding a phosphate ester transporter protein and into which a gene encoding a hypophosphite transporter protein is introduced.
Abstract:
A simple and inexpensive method for selectively culturing a microorganism which method makes it possible to selectively culture a microorganism of interest even without using a sterilization operation or an antibiotic substance is provided. The method according to the present invention selectively culturing a microorganism includes the step of culturing, in a culture medium containing phosphorous acid as a sole phosphorous source, a recombinant microorganism into which a phosphite dehydrogenase gene has been introduced.
Abstract:
It is an object of an aspect of the present invention to provide (i) transformants, whose proliferation depends on phosphite, of various species of organism and (ii) a method for detecting the presence of a reduced phosphorous compound with use of such a transformant. Use is made of a transformant which is defective in functions of a gene encoding a phosphate transporter protein and a gene encoding a phosphate ester transporter protein and into which a gene encoding a hypophosphite transporter protein is introduced, a signal peptide of a hypophosphite binding protein being substituted with a signal peptide derived from a host or a species of organism closely related to the host.
Abstract:
A simple and inexpensive method for selectively culturing a microorganism which method makes it possible to selectively culture a microorganism of interest even without using a sterilization operation or an antibiotic substance is provided. The method according to the present invention selectively culturing a microorganism includes the step of culturing, in a culture medium containing phosphorous acid as a sole phosphorous source, a recombinant microorganism into which a phosphite dehydrogenase gene has been introduced.