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Tenna A Møller1, Thomas J Booth1, Simon Shaw1
1The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark.
Synthetic and systems biotechnology
|April 16, 2025
概括
我们使用Opentrons平台开发了一种半自动化工作流程,用于Streptomyces的基因工程. 这种方法简化了DNA引入,增强了从这些有价值的细菌中发现抗生素化合物的方法.
科学领域:
- 微生物学 微生物学
- 分子生物学分子生物学
- 生物技术是生物技术.
背景情况:
- 菌株对于生产抗生素和生物活性化合物至关重要.
- 目前用于Streptomyces的基因工程方法缓慢且劳动密集.
- 克里斯普尔技术改善了对Streptomyces代谢潜力的获取,但转化仍然是一个瓶.
研究的目的:
- 提出一个半自动化,中等吞吐量的工作流程,用于将重组DNA引入Streptomyces物种.
- 为了提高对Streptomyces的基因工程协议的可访问性.
- 验证自动化工作流程的效率和可扩展性.
主要方法:
- 使用了Opentrons (OT-2) 机器人平台进行半自动化DNA转换.
- 开发了ActinoMation,这是一个基于Jupyter Notebook的开源Python协议创建器.
- 通过将Streptomyces coelicolor,S. albidoflavus和S. venezuelae转化为特定的等离子体验证了工作流.
主要成果:
- 在不同的Streptomyces菌株和等离子体中实现了不同的结合效率,在S. venezuelae中取得了显著的成功 (高达6.13%).
- 表现出一个错误的阳性率,范围从8.33%到54.54%.
- 证实自动化可以简化结合工作流程,而不会影响大规模应用的效率.
结论:
- 使用Opentrons和ActinoMation的半自动化工作流显著提高了Streptomyces基因工程的效率.
- 这种方法使复杂的基因操纵更容易获得,加速新生物活性化合物的发现.
- 开发的协议是可扩展的,并保持了结合效率,促进了Streptomyces的更广泛的研究和开发.
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