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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2010

Application of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae FLP/FRT recombination system in filamentous fungi for marker recycling and construction of knockout strains devoid of heterologous genes.

Katarina Kopke, Birgit Hoff, Ulrich Kück

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Katarina KopkeRuhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsstrasse 150, 44780 Bochum, Germany.
Birgit Hoff
Ulrich Kück
Ruhr University Bochum · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To overcome the limited availability of antibiotic resistance markers in filamentous fungi, we adapted the FLP/FRT recombination system from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae for marker recycling. We tested this system in the penicillin producer Penicillium chrysogenum using different experimental approaches. In a two-step application, we first integrated ectopically a nourseothricin resistance cassette flanked by the FRT sequences in direct repeat orientation (FRT-nat1 cassette) into a P. chrysogenum recipient. In the second step, the gene for the native yeast FLP recombinase, and in parallel, a codon-optimized P. chrysogenum flp (Pcflp) recombinase gene, were transferred into the P. chrysogenum strain carrying the FRT-nat1 cassette. The corresponding transformants were analyzed by PCR, growth tests, and sequencing to verify successful recombination events. Our analysis of several single- and multicopy transformants showed that only when the codon-optimized recombinase was present could a fully functional recombination system be generated in P. chrysogenum. As a proof of application of this system, we constructed a DeltaPcku70 knockout strain devoid of any heterologous genes. To further improve the FLP/FRT system, we produced a flipper cassette carrying the FRT sites as well as the Pcflp gene together with a resistance marker. This cassette allows the controlled expression of the recombinase gene for one-step marker excision. Moreover, the applicability of the optimized FLP/FRT recombination system in other fungi was further demonstrated by marker recycling in the ascomycete Sordaria macrospora. Here, we discuss the application of the optimized FLP/FRT recombination system as a molecular tool for the genetic manipulation of filamentous fungi.

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Recombination, GeneticAntifungal AgentsDNA, FungalDNA NucleotidyltransferasesDrug Resistance, FungalGene Knockout TechniquesGenes, FungalMutagenesis, InsertionalPenicillium chrysogenumPolymerase Chain ReactionRecombinant ProteinsSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsSequence Analysis, DNAStreptothricinsAntifungal AgentsDNA, FungalDNA NucleotidyltransferasesFLP recombinaseRecombinant ProteinsSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsStreptothricins

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PMID20472720
PMCPMC2901726
OpenAlexW2165443664

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