RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Exploration of the autonomous replication region and its utilization for expression vectors in cyanobacteria
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 2022.11.17.516977
DO 10.1101/2022.11.17.516977
A1 Yutaka Sakamaki
A1 Kaisei Maeda
A1 Kaori Nimura-Matsune
A1 Taku Chibazakura
A1 Satoru Watanabe
YR 2022
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2022/11/18/2022.11.17.516977.abstract
AB Due to their photosynthetic capabilities, cyanobacteria is expected to be an ecologically friendly host for the production of biomaterials. However, compared to other bacteria, there is little information of autonomous replication sequences, and tools for genetic engineering, especially expression vector systems, are limited. In this study, we established an effective screening method, namely AR-seq (Autonomous Replication sequencing), for finding autonomous replication regions in cyanobacteria and utilized the region for constructing expression vector. AR-seq using the genomic library of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 revealed that a certain region containing Rep-related protein (here named as Cyanobacterial Rep protein A2: CyRepA2) exhibits high autonomous replication activity in a heterologous host cyanobacterium, Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942. The reporter assay using GFP showed that the expression vector pYS carrying CyRepA2 can be maintained in a wide range of multiple cyanobacterial species, not only S. 6803 and S. 7942, but also Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 and Anabaena sp. PCC 7120. In S. 7942, the GFP expression in pYS-based system can be tightly regulated by IPTG, achieving 10-fold higher levels than that of chromosome-based system. Furthermore, pYS can be used together with conventional vector pEX, which was constructed from an endogenous plasmid in 5. 7942. The combination of pYS with other vectors is useful for genetic engineering, such as modifying metabolic pathways, and is expected to improve the performance of cyanobacteria as bioproduction chassis.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.