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MICROBIAL CELL FACTORIES
Volume 15, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12934-016-0594-4
Keywords
Type I-E CRISPR-Cas system; TCA cycle; Escherichia coli; Poly-3-hydroxbutyrate
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- National Basic Research Program of China [2012CB725202]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31370085]
- National Undergraduate Training Program for Innovation and Entrepreneurship [201610422074]
- Shandong Science and Technology Development Plan [2015GSF121042]
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Background: Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats interference (CRISPRi) is a recently developed powerful tool for gene regulation. In Escherichia coli, the type I CRISPR system expressed endogenously shall be easy for internal regulation without causing metabolic burden in compared with the widely used type II system, which expressed dCas9 as an additional plasmid. Results: By knocking out cas3 and activating the expression of CRISPR-associated complex for antiviral defense (Cascade), we constructed a native CRISPRi system in E. coli. Downregulation of the target gene from 6 to 82% was demonstrated using green fluorescent protein. Regulation of the citrate synthase gene (gltA) in the TCA cycle affected host metabolism. The effect of metabolic flux regulation was demonstrated by the poly-3-hydroxbutyrate (PHB) accumulation in vivo. Conclusion: By regulating native gltA in E. coli using an engineered endogenous type I-E CRISPR system, we redirected metabolic flux from the central metabolic pathway to the PHB synthesis pathway. This study demonstrated that the endogenous type I-E CRISPR-Cas system is an easy and effective method for regulating internal metabolic pathways, which is useful for product synthesis.
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