期刊
JOURNAL OF GENETICS AND GENOMICS
卷 38, 期 6, 页码 261-269出版社
SCIENCE PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.jgg.2011.05.003
关键词
Knockout system; pyrF; Pop-in/pop-out method; Haloarchaea
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [30830004, 30925001]
- National 863 Program of China [2009AA09Z401]
- Chinese Academy of Sciences [KSCX2-EW-G-2]
The haloarchaea Haloferax mediterranei and Haloarcula hispanica are both polyhydroxyalkanoate producers in the domain Archaea, and they are becoming increasingly attractive for research and biotechnology due to their unique genetic and metabolic features. To accelerate their genome-level genetic and metabolic analyses, we have developed specific and highly efficient gene knockout systems for these two haloarchaea. These gene knockout systems consist of a suicide plasmid vector with the pyrF gene as the selection marker and a uracil auxotrophic haloarchaeon (Delta pyrF) as the host. For in-frame deletion of a target gene, the suicide plasmid carrying the flanking region of the target gene was transferred into the corresponding Delta pyrF host. After positive selection of the single-crossover integration recombinants (pop-in) on AS-168SY medium without uracil and counterselection of the double-crossover pyrF-excised recombinants (pop-out) with 5-fluoroorotic acid (5-FOA), the target gene knockout mutants were confirmed by PCR and Southern blot analysis. We have demonstrated the effectiveness of these systems by knocking out the crtB gene which encodes a phytoene synthase in these haloarchaea. In conclusion, these well-developed knockout systems would greatly accelerate the functional genomic research of these halophilic archaea.
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