Chiang Mai Journal of Science

     Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an endogenous bacterium with the ability to degrade petroleum pollution and promote reed growth. This study aims to introduce the plasmid pBBR1-MCS5, which confers gentamicin resistance, into this bacterium and optimize the electroporation conditions to lay the foundation for constructing a genetically engineered strain, thereby enhancing its application potential. In this study, single-factor experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of OD_600nm value of cell growth state, sucrose concentration in the washing buffer, plasmid addition amount of pBBR1-MCS5, final OD value, electroporation voltage, and recovery time on electroporation efficiency, to identify the primary influencing factors. Subsequently, Box-Behnken design response surface method was used to optimize these main factors. Additionally, a pBBR1-MCS5 expression vector with a fluorescent gene was constructed, and the expression of fluorescent proteins in Pseudomonas aeruginosa was measured by fluorescence intensity. The results showed that the optimal transformation conditions for Pseudomonas aeruginosa L10 were: OD_600nm value of 0.6 for cell growth state, sucrose concentration of 400 mmol/L in the washing buffer, plasmid concentration of 500 ng, final OD value of 64, electroporation voltage of 2.5 kV, and recovery time of 3 hours. Under these optimal conditions, further optimization using the response surface method resulted in an electroporation efficiency of 3.3×10³CFU/μg DNA for Pseudomonas aeruginosa L10, which is 37 times higher than the unoptimized electroporation efficiency. This lays the groundwork for further research into the genomic functions of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.