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ArticleScientific reports2017

High-fidelity de novo synthesis of pathways using microchip-synthesized oligonucleotides and general molecular biology equipment.

Wen Wan, Min Lu, Dongmei Wang, Xiaolian Gao, Jiong Hong

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Wen WanThe Key Laboratory of Biotechnology for Medicinal Plant of Jiangsu Province, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, 221116, China.
Min LuSchool of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230027, China.
Dongmei WangSchool of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230027, China.
Xiaolian GaoSchool of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230027, China.
Jiong HongSchool of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230027, China. hjiong@ustc.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0002-4592-7083

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Engineering and evaluation of synthetic routes for generating valuable compounds require accurate and cost-effective de novo synthesis of genetic pathways. Here, we present an economical and streamlined de novo DNA synthesis approach for engineering a synthetic pathway with microchip-synthesized oligonucleotides (oligo). The process integrates entire oligo pool amplification, error-removal, and assembly of long DNA molecules. We utilized this method to construct a functional lycopene biosynthetic pathway (11.9 kb encoding 10 genes) in Escherichia coli using a highly error-prone microchip-synthesized oligo pool (479 oligos) without pre-purification, and the error-frequency was reduced from 14.25/kb to 0.53/kb. This low-equipment-dependent and cost-effective method can be widely applied for rapid synthesis of biosynthetic pathways in general molecular biology laboratories.

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Molecular BiologyOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisBiosynthetic PathwaysDNA ReplicationGenes, SyntheticLycopenePlasmidsLycopene

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PMID28733633
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