在基因组规模上绘制温度敏感突变,以设计大肠杆菌的生长开关
Thorben Schramm1,2, Paul Lubrano1,2, Vanessa Pahl1,2
1Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Molecular systems biology
|August 29, 2023
概括
我们在大肠杆菌中设计了15120个温度敏感 (TS) 突变体,以研究细胞代谢. 许多TS突变使非生长细胞中可调节的代谢物产生,提供了新的工程策略.
科学领域:
- 微生物学 微生物学
- 合成生物学 合成生物学
- 代谢工程是代谢工程.
背景情况:
- 温度敏感 (TS) 突变物是扰乱和工程细胞功能的宝贵工具.
- 了解遗传干扰如何影响细胞代谢,特别是在非生长状态下,对于生物工程至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 开发一种高通量方法,用于产生和选大肠杆菌中温度敏感 (TS) 突变体.
- 研究非生长细胞中特定突变的代谢后果,并探索它们对代谢产生的潜力.
主要方法:
- 构建一个基于CRISPR的大规模库,其中包含15,120个单氨基酸替代突变体在E. coli必需蛋白质中.
- 时间解决的竞争试验用于识别表现出温度敏感生长的TS突变.
- 在高温 (42°C) 下停止生长的精选TS突变体的代谢分析.
主要成果:
- 在15120个构造突变物中,有1269个突变物表现出对温度敏感的生长.
- 代谢分析显示了非生长细胞中强烈的突变特异性代谢变化.
- 特定的TS突变,例如影响同类氨酸激酶 (ThrBF267D) 的突变,证明了它们的直接基质 (同类氨酸) 的可调节生产.
- 用DNA聚合酶III (DnaXL289Q) 的一个TS突变来将细胞生长与阿金氨酸过度生产脱.
结论:
- 该研究提出了一种有效的战略,用于大规模识别TS突变.
- 转基因突变提供了一个强大的平台,用于精确控制非生长的细菌细胞中的细胞代谢和代谢物生产.
- 这种方法在代谢工程和合成生物学中具有很大的应用潜力.
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