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ArticlePloS one2019

A new toolkit for gene tagging in Candida albicans containing recyclable markers.

Encarnación Dueñas-Santero, Ana Santos-Almeida, Patricia Rojo-Dominguez, Francisco Del Rey, Jaime Correa-Bordes, Carlos R Vázquez de Aldana

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Article in PloS one, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Encarnación Dueñas-SanteroInstituto de Biología Funcional y Genómica (IBFG), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas/Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.
Ana Santos-AlmeidaInstituto de Biología Funcional y Genómica (IBFG), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas/Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.
Patricia Rojo-DominguezDepartamento de Ciencias Biomédicas, Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-6149-3449
Francisco Del ReyInstituto de Biología Funcional y Genómica (IBFG), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas/Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.
Jaime Correa-BordesDepartamento de Ciencias Biomédicas, Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain.
Carlos R Vázquez de AldanaInstituto de Biología Funcional y Genómica (IBFG), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas/Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-4513-3654
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas · ESUniversidad de Extremadura · ES

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gene manipulation and epitope tagging are essential tools for understanding the molecular function of specific genes. The opportunistic human pathogen Candida albicans is a diploid fungus that utilizes a non-canonical genetic code. Since selection markers available in this organism are scarce, several tools based on recyclable markers have been developed for gene disruption, such as the Clox system. This system relies on the Cre recombinase, which recycles selection markers flanked by loxP sites with high efficiency, facilitating single marker or multi-marker recycling. However, PCR-based modules for epitope tagging, such the pFA-modules, mainly use limited non-recyclable auxotrophic markers. To solve this problem, we have used a Gibson assembly strategy to construct a set of new plasmids where the auxotrophic markers of the pFA vectors were swapped with five recyclable marker modules of the Clox system, enhancing the versatility of the pFA plasmids. This new toolkit, named pFA-Clox, is composed of 36 new vectors for gene disruption and epitope tagging (GFP, 3xGFP, mCherry, 3xHA, 5xmyc and TAP). These plasmids contain the dominant NAT1 marker, as well as URA3, HIS1 and ARG4 cassettes, thereby permitting functional analysis of laboratory strains as well as clinical isolates of C. albicans. In summary, we have adapted the Clox system to the pFA-backbone vectors. Thus, the set of primers used for the amplification of previously published pFA modules can also be utilized in this new pFA-Clox system. Therefore, this new toolkit harbors the advantages of both systems, allowing accelerated gene modification strategies that could reduce time and costs in strain construction for C. albicans.

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Genetic TechniquesTransformation, GeneticCandida albicansEpitope MappingEpitopesGenetic VectorsGreen Fluorescent ProteinsHumansIntegrasesPlasmidsCre recombinaseEpitopesGreen Fluorescent ProteinsIntegrases

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