Abstract
Targeted mutagenesis by homologous recombination (TMHR) is an efficient allelic exchange mutagenesis for bacterial genome engineering in synthetic biology. Unlike other allelic exchange methods, TMHR does not require a heterologous recombinase to insert or excise a selectable marker from the genome. In contrast, positive and negative selection is achieved solely by suicide vector-encoded functional and host cell proteins. Here we describe a concise protocol to knock out and knock in a 3-ketosteroid-1,2-dehydrogenase gene (kstd) in Mycobacterium neoaurum HGMS2 using TMHR approach. The homology arms flanking the kstd gene are amplified by PCR in vitro and then subcloned into a common homologous recombination vector. The vector is then electroporated into the HGMS2 competent cells. The replacement of the kstd gene by homologous recombination produces antibiotic-resistant single-crossover recombination via the first allelic exchange. Double-crossover markerless mutants are directly separated using sucrose-mediated counterselection. These two steps can generate seamless mutations down to a single DNA base pair. The whole process takes less than 2 weeks.
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This work was supported by the Key Laboratory of Industrial Fermentation (Ministry of Education), Cooperative Innovation Center of Industrial Fermentation (Ministry of Education & Hubei Province), and Hubei Key Laboratory of Industrial Microbiology to Z.D.S.
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Song, S., Su, Z. (2023). Targeted Mutagenesis of Mycobacterium Strains by Homologous Recombination. In: Barreiro, C., Barredo, JL. (eds) Microbial Steroids. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2704. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-3385-4_5
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