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Discovery of a super-strong promoter enables efficient production of heterologous proteins in cyanobacteria

Jie Zhou,  Haifeng Zhang,  Hengkai Meng,  Yan Zhu,  Guanhui Bao,  Yanping Zhang,  Yin Li  & Yanhe Ma

Cyanobacteria are oxygenic photosynthetic prokaryotes that play important roles in the global carbon cycle. Recently, engineered cyanobacteria capable of producing various small molecules from CO2 have been developed. However, cyanobacteria are seldom considered as factories for producing proteins, mainly because of the lack of efficient strong promoters. Here, we report the discovery and verification of a super-strong promoter Pcpc560, which contains two predicted promoters and 14 predicted transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs). Using Pcpc560, functional proteins were produced at a level of up to 15% of total soluble protein in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. 6803, a level comparable to that produced in Escherichia coli. We demonstrated that the presence of multiple TFBSs in Pcpc560 is crucial for its promoter strength. Genetically transformable cyanobacteria neither have endotoxins nor form inclusion bodies; therefore, Pcpc560 opens the possibility to use cyanobacteria as alternative hosts for producing heterogeneous proteins from CO2 and inorganic nutrients.