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Improved bacterial recombineering by parallelized protein discovery

Wannier, Timothy M. and Nyerges, Ákos and Kuchwara, Helene M. and Czikkely, Márton and Balogh, Dávid and Pál, Csaba (2020) Improved bacterial recombineering by parallelized protein discovery. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117 (24). pp. 13689-13698. ISSN 0027-8424

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Abstract

Exploiting bacteriophage-derived homologous recombination processes has enabled precise, multiplex editing of microbial genomes and the construction of billions of customized genetic variants in a single day. The techniques that enable this, multiplex automated genome engineering (MAGE) and directed evolution with random genomic mutations (DIvERGE), are however, currently limited to a handful of microorganisms for which single-stranded DNA-annealing proteins (SSAPs) that promote efficient recombineering have been identified. Thus, to enable genome-scale engineering in new hosts, efficient SSAPs must first be found. Here we introduce a highthroughput method for SSAP discovery that we call "serial enrichment for efficient recombineering" (SEER). By performing SEER in Escherichia coli to screen hundreds of putative SSAPs, we identify highly active variants PapRecT and CspRecT. CspRecT increases the efficiency of single-locus editing to as high as 50% and improves multiplex editing by 5- to 10-fold in E. coli, while PapRecT enables efficient recombineering in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a concerning human pathogen. CspRecT and PapRecT are also active in other, clinically and biotechnologically relevant enterobacteria. We envision that the deployment of SEER in new species will pave the way toward pooled interrogation of genotype-to-phenotype relationships in previously intractable bacteria.

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Additional Information: Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, United States Synthetic and Systems Biology Unit, Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre, Szeged, HU-6726, Hungary Cited By :1 Export Date: 24 August 2020 CODEN: PNASA Correspondence Address: Wannier, T.M.; Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical SchoolUnited States; email: timothy_wannier@hms.harvard.edu Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, United States Synthetic and Systems Biology Unit, Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre, Szeged, HU-6726, Hungary Cited By :3 Export Date: 8 December 2020 CODEN: PNASA Correspondence Address: Wannier, T.M.; Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical SchoolUnited States; email: timothy_wannier@hms.harvard.edu
Subjects: Q Science / természettudomány > QH Natural history / természetrajz > QH301 Biology / biológia
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Depositing User: MTMT SWORD
Date Deposited: 29 Jan 2021 13:01
Last Modified: 29 Jan 2021 13:01
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/120240

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