Journal
BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL
Volume 13, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/biot.201700582
Keywords
CRISPR; dCas9; gene multiplexing; metabolic engineering; tRNA splicing; Type IIs synthesis
Funding
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research [FA9550-14-1-0089]
- National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
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Metabolic engineering typically utilizes a suboptimal step-wise gene target optimization approach to parse a highly connected and regulated cellular metabolism. While the endonuclease-null CRISPR/Cas system has enabled gene expression perturbations without genetic modification, it has been mostly limited to small sets of gene targets in eukaryotes due to inefficient methods to assemble and express large sgRNA operons. In this work, we develop a TEF1p-tRNA expression system and demonstrate that the use of tRNAs as splicing elements flanking sgRNAs provides higher efficiency than both Pol III and ribozyme-based expression across a variety of single sgRNA and multiplexed contexts. Next, we devise and validate a scheme to allow modular construction of tRNA-sgRNA (TST) operons using an iterative Type IIs digestion/ligation extension approach, termed CRISPR-(LEGO). This approach enables facile construction of large TST operons. We demonstrate this utility by constructing a metabolic rewiring prototype for 2,3-butanediol production in 2 distinct yeast strain backgrounds. These results demonstrate that our approach can act as a surrogate for traditional genetic modification on a much shorter design-cycle timescale.
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