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ArticleMicrobial cell factories2022

Fusing an exonuclease with Cas9 enhances homologous recombination in Pichia pastoris.

Kun Zhang, Xingpeng Duan, Peng Cai, Linhui Gao, Xiaoyan Wu, Lun Yao, Yongjin J Zhou

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Article in Microbial cell factories, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. Genetic tools for metabolic engineering ofEngineering microbiology · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Kun ZhangDivision of Biotechnology, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, China.
Xingpeng DuanDivision of Biotechnology, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, China.
Peng CaiDivision of Biotechnology, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, China.
Linhui GaoDivision of Biotechnology, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, China.
Xiaoyan WuDivision of Biotechnology, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, China.
Lun YaoDivision of Biotechnology, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, China.
Yongjin J ZhouDivision of Biotechnology, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, China. zhouyongjin@dicp.ac.cn.
Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics · CNChinese Academy of Sciences · CNLiaoning Normal University · CNUniversity of Chinese Academy of Sciences · CN

Funding

DICP innovation grant from Dalian Institute of Chemicals Physics, CAS DICP I201920National Key Research and Development Program of China 2021YFC2100500National Natural Science Foundation of China 22161142008 and 21922812
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris is considered as an ideal host for the production of recombinant proteins and chemicals. However, low homologous recombination (HR) efficiency hinders its precise and extensive genetic manipulation. To enhance the homology-directed repair over non-homologous end joining (NHEJ), we expressed five exonucleases that were fused with the Cas9 for enhancing end resection of double strand breaks (DSBs) of DNA cuts.

resultsThe endogenous exonuclease Mre11 and Exo1 showed the highest positive rates in seamless deletion of FAA1, and fusing the MRE11 to the C-terminal of CAS9 had the highest positive rate and relatively high number of clones. We observed that expression of CAS9-MRE11 significantly improved positive rates when simultaneously seamless deletion of double genes (from 76.7 to 86.7%) and three genes (from 10.8 to 16.7%) when overexpressing RAD52. Furthermore, MRE11 overexpression significantly improved the genomic integration of multi-fragments with higher positive rate and clone number.

conclusionsFusion expression of the endogenous exonuclease Mre11 with Cas9 enhances homologous recombination efficiency in P. pastoris. The strategy described here should facilitate the metabolic engineering of P. pastoris toward high-level production of value-added compounds.

Indexed as

CRISPR-Cas SystemsDNA End-Joining RepairCoenzyme A LigasesHomologous RecombinationSaccharomycetalesCoenzyme A LigasesCRISPR/Cas9Gene editingHomology-directed repairMetabolic engineeringPichia pastoris

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PMID36071435
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