Kang Hahk-Soo, Charlop-Powers Zachary, Brady Sean F
Laboratory of Genetically Encoded Small Molecules, The Rockefeller University , 1230 York Avenue, New York, New York 10065, United States.
ACS Synth Biol. 2016 Sep 16;5(9):1002-10. doi: 10.1021/acssynbio.6b00080. Epub 2016 Jun 10.
The use of DNA sequencing to guide the discovery of natural products has emerged as a new paradigm for revealing chemistries encoded in bacterial genomes. A major obstacle to implementing this approach to natural product discovery is the transcriptional silence of biosynthetic gene clusters under laboratory growth conditions. Here we describe an improved yeast-based promoter engineering platform (mCRISTAR) that combines CRISPR/Cas9 and TAR to enable single-marker multiplexed promoter engineering of large gene clusters. mCRISTAR highlights the first application of the CRISPR/Cas9 system to multiplexed promoter engineering of natural product biosynthetic gene clusters. In this method, CRISPR/Cas9 is used to induce DNA double-strand breaks in promoter regions of biosynthetic gene clusters, and the resulting operon fragments are reassembled by TAR using synthetic gene-cluster-specific promoter cassettes. mCRISTAR uses a CRISPR array to simplify the construction of a CRISPR plasmid for multiplex CRISPR and a single auxotrophic selection to improve the inefficiency of using a CRISPR array for multiplex gene cluster refactoring. mCRISTAR is a simple and generic method for multiplexed replacement of promoters in biosynthetic gene clusters that will facilitate the discovery of natural products from the rapidly growing collection of gene clusters found in microbial genome and metagenome sequencing projects.
利用DNA测序指导天然产物的发现已成为揭示细菌基因组中编码化学物质的一种新范式。在实验室生长条件下,生物合成基因簇的转录沉默是实施这种天然产物发现方法的一个主要障碍。在此,我们描述了一种改进的基于酵母的启动子工程平台(mCRISTAR),它结合了CRISPR/Cas9和TAR,能够对大型基因簇进行单标记多重启动子工程。mCRISTAR突出了CRISPR/Cas9系统在天然产物生物合成基因簇多重启动子工程中的首次应用。在该方法中,CRISPR/Cas9用于在生物合成基因簇的启动子区域诱导DNA双链断裂,产生的操纵子片段通过TAR使用合成的基因簇特异性启动子盒进行重新组装。mCRISTAR使用CRISPR阵列简化了用于多重CRISPR的CRISPR质粒构建,并通过单一营养缺陷型选择提高了使用CRISPR阵列进行多重基因簇重构的效率低下问题。mCRISTAR是一种用于生物合成基因簇中启动子多重替换的简单通用方法,将有助于从微生物基因组和宏基因组测序项目中快速增长的基因簇集合中发现天然产物。