title: Recombineering in Corynebacterium glutamicum combined with optical nanosensors: a general strategy for fast producer strain generation.
abstract: Recombineering in bacteria is a powerful technique for genome reconstruction, but until now, it was not generally applicable for development of small-molecule producers because of the inconspicuous phenotype of most compounds of biotechnological relevance. Here, we establish recombineering for Corynebacterium glutamicum using RecT of prophage Rac and combine this with our recently developed nanosensor technology, which enables the detection and isolation of productive mutants at the single-cell level via fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS). We call this new technology RecFACS, which we use for genomic site-directed saturation mutagenesis without relying on pre-constructed libraries to directly isolate L-lysine-producing cells. A mixture of 19 different oligonucleotides was used targeting codon 81 in murE of the wild-type, at a locus where one single mutation is known to cause L-lysine production. Using RecFACS, productive mutants were screened and isolated. Sequencing revealed 12 different amino acid exchanges in the targeted murE codon, which caused different L-lysine production titers. Apart from introducing a rapid genome construction technology for C. glutamicum, the present work demonstrates that RecFACS is suitable to simply create producers as well as genetic diversity in one single step, thus establishing a new general concept in synthetic biology.
authors: Institut für Bio- und Geowissenschaften, IBG-1: Biotechnologie, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, D-52425 Jülich, Germany.
authors: Stephan
authors: S
authors: Binder
authors: Solvej
authors: S
authors: Siedler
authors: Jan
authors: J
authors: Marienhagen
authors: Michael
authors: M
authors: Bott
authors: Lothar
authors: L
authors: Eggeling
mesh_terms: D048230:Corynebacterium glutamicum / Q000235:genetics*; D005434:Flow Cytometry / Q000379:methods*; D014644:Genetic Variation; D008239:Lysine / Q000096:biosynthesis; D016297:Mutagenesis, Site-Directed / Q000379:methods*; D045522:Recombinases / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D045522:Recombinases; D008239:Lysine
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