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The pRFN4 plasmid, which contains the riboflavin synthesis genes from Bacillus subtilis, was originally designed for overproduction of the fluorescent ligand of 6,7-dimethyl 8-ribityllumazine. To provide the basis for a biosensor based on the lux gene from bioluminescent bacteria of Photobacterium leiognathi, the gene coding for N-terminal domain half of the lumazine protein extending to amino acid 112 (N-LumP) and the gene for whole lumazine protein (W-LumP) from P. leiognathi were introduced by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and ligated into pRFN4 vector, to construct the recombinant plasmids of N-lumP-pRFN4 and W-lumP-pRFN4 as well as their modified plasmids by insertion of the lux promoter. The expression of the genes in the recombinant plasmids was checked in various Escherichia coli strains, and the fluorescence intensity in Escherichia coli 43R can even be observed in a single cell. 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