LoxTnSeq: random transposon insertions combined with cre/lox recombination and counterselection to generate large random genome reductions
Data de publicació
2021ISSN
1751-7915
Resum
The removal of unwanted genetic material is a key aspect in many synthetic biology efforts and often requires preliminary knowledge of which genomic regions are dispensable. Typically, these efforts are guided by transposon mutagenesis studies, coupled to deepsequencing (TnSeq) to identify insertion points and gene essentiality. However, epistatic interactions can cause unforeseen changes in essentiality after the deletion of a gene, leading to the redundancy of these essentiality maps. Here, we present LoxTnSeq, a new methodology to generate and catalogue libraries of genome reduction mutants. LoxTnSeq combines random integration of lox sites by transposon mutagenesis, and the generation of mutants via Cre recombinase, catalogued via deep sequencing. When LoxTnSeq was applied to the naturally genome reduced bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae, we obtained a mutant pool containing 285 unique deletions. These deletions spanned from > 50 bp to 28 Kb, which represents 21% of the total genome. LoxTnSeq also highlighted large regions of non-essential genes that could be removed simultaneously, and other non-essential regions that could not, providing a guide for future genome reductions.
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Article
Versió del document
Versió publicada
Llengua
English
Matèries (CDU)
57 - Biologia
Paraules clau
Material genètic
Biologia sintètica
Genoma
Material genético
Biología sintética
Genoma
Genetic material
Synthetic biology
Genome
Pàgines
17
Publicat per
John Wiley & Sons
Publicat a
Microbial Biotechnology
Citació
Shaw, Daniel; Miravet-Verde, Samuel; Piñero-Lambea, Carlos [et al.]. LoxTnSeq: random transposon insertions combined with cre/lox recombination and counterselection to generate large random genome reductions. Microbial Biotechnology, 2020, p. 1-17. Disponible en: <https://sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1751-7915.13714>. Fecha de acceso: 10 sep. 2021. DOI: 10.1111/1751-7915.13714
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