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A CRISPR-based chromosomal-separation technique for Escherichia coli

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MICROBIAL CELL FACTORIES
卷 21, 期 1, 页码 -

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BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12934-022-01957-4

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Synthetic biology; Genome engineering; Chromosomal-separation; CRISPR-Cas9

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  1. National Key Research and Development Program of China [2018YFA0903700, 2018YFA0901300]
  2. National Natural Science Foundation of China [32171449, 31861143019, 32001041]
  3. Tianjin Synthetic Biotechnology Innovation Capacity Improvement Project [TSBICIP-KJGG-017]
  4. Tianjin Natural Science Foundation [20JCYBJC00310]

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In this study, a simple CRISPR-based genome engineering technique was developed to construct multi-chromosomal E. coli strains without heterologous genetic parts. The successful creation of a new E. coli strain using this technique has important implications for synthetic biology research and applications.
Background Natural life systems can be significantly modified at the genomic scale by human intervention, demonstrating the great innovation capacity of genome engineering. Large epi-chromosomal DNA structures were established in Escherichia coli cells, but some of these methods were inconvenient, using heterologous systems, or relied on engineered E. coli strains. Results The wild-type model bacterium E. coli has a single circular chromosome. In this work, a novel method was developed to split the original chromosome of wild-type E. coli. With this method, novel E. coli strains containing two chromosomes of 0.10 Mb and 4.54 Mb, and 2.28 Mb and 2.36 Mb were created respectively, designated as E. coli(0.10/4.54) and E. coli(2.28/2.36). The new chromosomal arrangement was proved by PCR amplification of joint regions as well as a combination of Nanopore and Illumina sequencing analysis. While E. coli(0.10/4.54) was quite stable, the two chromosomes of E. coli(2.28/2.36) population recombined into a new chromosome (Chr.4.64M(Mut)), via recombination. Both engineered strains grew slightly slower than the wild-type, and their cell shapes were obviously elongated. Conclusion Finally, we successfully developed a simple CRISPR-based genome engineering technique for the construction of multi-chromosomal E. coli strains with no heterologous genetic parts. This technique might be applied to other prokaryotes for synthetic biology studies and applications in the future.

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