INTEGRATIVE GENE-EXPRESSION IN FOOD-GRADE MICROORGANISMS

摘要

A process for integrating a promoter-less foreign gene into an operon in front of at least one essential cistron on the DNA of a food-grade microorganism, in such a way that the gene is expressed as functional part of this operon and that the gene is stably maintained and expressed due to selective pressure on correct functioning of the essential cistron upon growth in standard medium, the integration being preferably carried out by transforming said microorganism with a donor plasmid which is not able to replicate by itself in the microorganism and which carries said foreign gene as a functional part of said operon in front of said essential cistron.