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Rapid metabolic pathway assembly and modification using serine integrase site-specific recombination

Colloms, SD, Merrick, CA, Olorunniji, FJ, Stark, WM, Smith, MCM, Osbourn, A, Keasling, JD and Rosser, SJ (2013) Rapid metabolic pathway assembly and modification using serine integrase site-specific recombination. Nucleic Acids Research, 42 (4). ISSN 0305-1048

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Abstract

Synthetic biology requires effective methods to assemble DNA parts into devices and to modify these devices once made. Here we demonstrate a convenient rapid procedure for DNA fragment assembly using site-specific recombination by ϕC31 integrase. Using six orthogonal attP/attB recombination site pairs with different overlap sequences, we can assemble up to five DNA fragments in a defined order and insert them into a plasmid vector in a single recombination reaction. ϕC31 integrase-mediated assembly is highly efficient, allowing production of large libraries suitable for combinatorial gene assembly strategies. The resultant assemblies contain arrays of DNA cassettes separated by recombination sites, which can be used to manipulate the assembly by further recombination. We illustrate the utility of these procedures to (i) assemble functional metabolic pathways containing three, four or five genes; (ii) optimize productivity of two model metabolic pathways by combinatorial assembly with randomization of gene order or ribosome binding site strength; and (iii) modify an assembled metabolic pathway by gene replacement or addition.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: 05 Environmental Sciences, 06 Biological Sciences, 08 Information and Computing Sciences
Subjects: R Medicine > RM Therapeutics. Pharmacology
R Medicine > RS Pharmacy and materia medica
Divisions: Pharmacy & Biomolecular Sciences
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
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Date Deposited: 06 Mar 2020 12:05
Last Modified: 04 Sep 2021 07:45
DOI or ID number: 10.1093/nar/gkt1101
URI: https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/12426
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