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Background  The development of the Nisin Inducible Controlled Expression (NICE) system in the food-grade bacterium  Lactococcus lactis  subsp.  cremoris  represents a cornerstone in the use of Gram-positive bacterial expression systems for biotechnological purposes. However, proteins that are subjected to such over-expression in  L. lactis  may suffer from improper folding, inclusion body formation and/or protein degradation, thereby significantly reducing the yield of soluble target protein. Although such drawbacks are not specific to  L. lactis , no molecular tools have been developed to prevent or circumvent these recurrent problems of protein expression in  L. lactis .    Results  Mimicking thioredoxin gene fusion systems available for  E. coli , two nisin-inducible expression vectors were constructed to over-produce various proteins in  L. lactis  as thioredoxin fusion proteins. In this study, we demonstrate that our novel  L. lactis  fusion partner expression vectors allow high-level expression of soluble heterologous proteins Tuc2009 ORF40, Bbr_0140 and Tuc2009 BppU/BppL that were previously insoluble or not expressed using existing  L. lactis  expression vectors. Over-expressed proteins were subsequently purified by Ni-TED affinity chromatography. Intact heterologous proteins were detected by immunoblotting analyses. We also show that the thioredoxin moiety of the purified fusion protein was specifically and efficiently cleaved off by enterokinase treatment.    Conclusions  This study is the first description of a thioredoxin gene fusion expression system, purposely developed to circumvent problems associated with protein over-expression in  L. lactis . It was shown to prevent protein insolubility and degradation, allowing sufficient production of soluble proteins for further structural and functional characterization.

Expanding the molecular toolbox for Lactococcus lactis: construction of an inducible thioredoxin gene fusion expression system