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Abstract

The green fluorescent protein (GFP) of Aequorea victoria has been developed here as a reporter for gene expression and protein localization in Candida albicans. When wild-type (wt) GFP was expressed in C. albicans, it was not possible to detect fluorescence or a translation product for the wt protein. Since this was probably due in part to the presence of the non-canonical CTG serine codon in the Aequorea sequence, this codon was changed to the leucine codon TTG. C. albicans cells expressing this construct contained GFP mRNA but were non-fluorescent and contained no detectable translation product. Hence a codon-optimized GFP gene was constructed in which all of the 239 amino acids are encoded by optimal codons for C albicans. In this gene were also incorporated two previously identified mutations in the chromophore that increase GFP fluorescence. C. albicans cells expressing this yeast-enhanced GFP gene (yEGFP3) are fluorescent and contain GFP protein. yEGFP3 can be used as a versatile reporter of gene expression in C. albicans and Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the optimized GFP described here should have broad applications in these and other fungal species.

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Cormack, B. P., Bertram, G., Egerton, M., Gow, N. A. R., Falkow, S., & Brown, A. J. P. (1997). Yeast-enhanced green fluorescent protein (yEGFP): a reporter of gene expression in Candida albicans. Microbiology, 143(2), 303–311.

Authors 6
  1. Brendan P. Cormack (first)
  2. Gwyneth Bertram (additional)
  3. Mark Egerton (additional)
  4. Neil A. R. Gow (additional)
  5. Stanley Falkow (additional)
  6. Alistair J. P. Brown (additional)
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@article{Cormack_1997, title={Yeast-enhanced green fluorescent protein (yEGFP): a reporter of gene expression in Candida albicans}, volume={143}, ISSN={1465-2080}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/00221287-143-2-303}, DOI={10.1099/00221287-143-2-303}, number={2}, journal={Microbiology}, publisher={Microbiology Society}, author={Cormack, Brendan P. and Bertram, Gwyneth and Egerton, Mark and Gow, Neil A. R. and Falkow, Stanley and Brown, Alistair J. P.}, year={1997}, month=feb, pages={303–311} }