title: Efficient Flp-Int HK022 dual RMCE in mammalian cells.
abstract: Recombinase-mediated cassette exchange, or RMCE, is a clean approach of gene delivery into a desired chromosomal location, as it is able to insert only the required sequences, leaving behind the unwanted ones. RMCE can be mediated by a single site-specific DNA recombinase or by two recombinases with different target specificities (dual RMCE). Recently, using the Flp-Cre recombinase pair, dual RMCE proved to be efficient, provided the relative ratio of the enzymes during the reaction is optimal. In the present report, we analyzed how the efficiency of dual RMCE mediated by the Flp-Int (HK022) pair depends on the variable input of the recombinases-the amount of the recombinase expression vectors added at transfection-and on the order of the addition of these vectors: sequential or simultaneous. We found that both in the sequential and the simultaneous modes, the efficiency of dual RMCE was critically dependent on the absolute and the relative concentrations of the Flp and Int expression vectors. Under optimal conditions, the efficiency of 'simultaneous' dual RMCE reached ∼12% of the transfected cells. Our results underline the importance of fine-tuning the reaction conditions for achieving the highest levels of dual RMCE.
authors: School of Biosciences, Louisiana Tech University, 1 Adams Boulveard, Ruston, LA 71272, USA. voziyan@latech.edu
authors: Eugenia
authors: E
authors: Voziyanova
authors: Natalia
authors: N
authors: Malchin
authors: Rachelle P
authors: RP
authors: Anderson
authors: Ezra
authors: E
authors: Yagil
authors: Mikhail
authors: M
authors: Kolot
authors: Yuri
authors: Y
authors: Voziyanov
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D025523:Bacteriophage HK022 / Q000201:enzymology; D016466:CHO Cells; D006224:Cricetinae; D003412:Cricetulus; D004254:DNA Nucleotidyltransferases / Q000378:metabolism*; D017930:Genes, Reporter; D019426:Integrases / Q000378:metabolism*; D011995:Recombination, Genetic
chemical_list: D004254:DNA Nucleotidyltransferases; C045119:FLP recombinase; D019426:Integrases
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