Journal article · Book chapter
Assembly and Multiplex Genome Integration of Metabolic Pathways in Yeast Using CasEMBLR
Genome integration is a vital step for implementing large biochemical pathways to build a stable microbial cell factory. Although traditional strain construction strategies are well established for the model organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae, recent advances in CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome engineering allow much higher throughput and robustness in terms of strain construction.
In this chapter, we describe CasEMBLR, a highly efficient and marker-free genome engineering method for one-step integration of in vivo assembled expression cassettes in multiple genomic sites simultaneously. CasEMBLR capitalizes on the CRISPR/Cas9 technology to generate double-strand breaks in genomic loci, thus prompting native homologous recombination (HR) machinery to integrate exogenously derived homology templates.
As proof-of-principle for microbial cell factory development, CasEMBLR was used for one-step assembly and marker-free integration of the carotenoid pathway from 15 exogenously supplied DNA parts into three targeted genomic loci. As a second proof-of-principle, a total of ten DNA parts were assembled and integrated in two genomic loci to construct a tyrosine production strain, and at the same time knocking out two genes.
This new method complements and improves the field of genome engineering in S. cerevisiae by providing a more flexible platform for rapid and precise strain building.
Language: | English |
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Year: | 2018 |
Pages: | 185-201 |
Series: | Methods in Molecular Biology |
ISBN: | 1493972944 , 1493972952 , 9781493972944 and 9781493972951 |
ISSN: | 19406029 and 10643745 |
Types: | Journal article and Book chapter |
DOI: | 10.1007/978-1-4939-7295-1_12 |
ORCIDs: | Jakočiūnas, Tadas , Jensen, Emil D. and Jensen, Michael Krogh |