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ArticleExtremophiles : life under extreme conditions2024

The Tet-on system for controllable gene expression in the rock-inhabiting black fungus Knufia petricola.

Eileen A Erdmann, Antonia K M Brandhorst, Anna A Gorbushina, Julia Schumacher

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Article in Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Eileen A ErdmannBundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), Berlin, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0003-8200-3028
Antonia K M BrandhorstBundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), Berlin, Germany.
Anna A GorbushinaBundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), Berlin, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7685-7797
Julia SchumacherBundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), Berlin, Germany. Julia.Schumacher@bam.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9120-9675

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Knufia petricola is a black fungus that colonizes sun-exposed surfaces as extreme and oligotrophic environments. As ecologically important heterotrophs and biofilm-formers on human-made surfaces, black fungi form one of the most resistant groups of biodeteriorating organisms. Due to its moderate growth rate in axenic culture and available protocols for its transformation and CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing, K. petricola is used for studying the morpho-physiological adaptations shared by extremophilic and extremotolerant black fungi. In this study, the bacteria-derived tetracycline (TET)-dependent promoter (Tet-on) system was implemented to enable controllable gene expression in K. petricola. The functionality i.e., the dose-dependent inducibility of TET-regulated constructs was investigated by using GFP fluorescence, pigment synthesis (melanin and carotenoids) and restored uracil prototrophy as reporters. The newly generated cloning vectors containing the Tet-on construct, and the validated sites in the K. petricola genome for color-selectable or neutral insertion of expression constructs complete the reverse genetics toolbox. One or multiple genes can be expressed on demand from different genomic loci or from a single construct by using 2A self-cleaving peptides, e.g., for localizing proteins and protein complexes in the K. petricola cell or for using K. petricola as host for the expression of heterologous genes.

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Promoter Regions, GeneticAscomycotaGene Expression Regulation, Fungal2A peptideBimolecular fluorescence complementationCRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editingInducible promoterMicrocolonial fungiPigment synthesis

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PMID39105933
PMCPMC11303440

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