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Nokitchen, You can clone just about any gene into bacteria to produce proteins. We can even clone these genes to only produce proteins in the presence of a particular sugar or compound, which is called inducible expression. The only limitations that I can think of are proteins that are toxic...

As a molecular microbiologist, I feel like I might be able to shed a little light on this question. The advantages of using bacteria instead of yeast include: faster doubling rate, the ability to grow the organism to a higher density, and the ability to overexpress the proteins involved in...