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Electroporation of Mycobacteria
Published on: May 23, 2008
Improving the electro-transformation efficiency of Corynebacterium glutamicum by weakening its cell wall and
Yili Ruan1, Linjiang Zhu2, Qi Li3,4
1The Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, No 1800 Lihu Avenue, Wuxi, 214122, Jiangsu, China. summer.ruan19@gmail.com.
Objective:
To improve the transformation efficiency of Corynebacterium glutamicum cells with heterogenous plasmid DNA and single-strand DNA (ssDNA) using a methodology based on electro-transformation.
Results:
A semicomplex hypertonic medium was selected with addition of glycine and DL-threonine to weaken cell walls and addition of Tween 80 and isonicotinic acid hydrazide to increase cytoplasmic membrane fluidity. Their contents were optimized by response surface methodology. Cell growth, electro-transformation buffer, and transformation protocol were also optimized. Temporary heating inactivation of the host restriction enzyme showed a significant effect. Finally, a high transformation efficiency of 3.57 ± 0.13 × 10(7) cfu/μg DNA of plasmid and 1.05 × 10(6) Str (R) cfu per 10(9) viable cells with a ssDNA was achieved.
Conclusion:
The results shed light on the application in functional genomics and genome editing of C. glutamicum.
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