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Genome editing of Ralstonia eutropha using an electroporation-based CRISPR-Cas9 technique

Overview of attention for article published in Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts, June 2018
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Title
Genome editing of Ralstonia eutropha using an electroporation-based CRISPR-Cas9 technique
Published in
Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts, June 2018
DOI 10.1186/s13068-018-1170-4
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Bin Xiong, Zhongkang Li, Li Liu, Dongdong Zhao, Xueli Zhang, Changhao Bi

Abstract

Ralstonia eutropha is an important bacterium for the study of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) synthesis and CO2 fixation, which makes it a potential strain for industrial PHA production and attractive host for CO2 conversion. Although the bacterium is not recalcitrant to genetic manipulation, current methods for genome editing based on group II introns or single crossover integration of a suicide plasmid are inefficient and time-consuming, which limits the genetic engineering of this organism. Thus, developing an efficient and convenient method for R. eutropha genome editing is imperative. An efficient genome editing method for R. eutropha was developed using an electroporation-based CRISPR-Cas9 technique. In our study, the electroporation efficiency of R. eutropha was found to be limited by its restriction-modification (RM) systems. By searching the putative RM systems in R. eutropha H16 using REBASE database and comparing with that in E. coli MG1655, five putative restriction endonuclease genes which are related to the RM systems in R. eutropha were predicated and disrupted. It was found that deletion of H16_A0006 and H16_A0008-9 increased the electroporation efficiency 1658 and 4 times, respectively. Fructose was found to reduce the leaky expression of the arabinose-inducible pBAD promoter, which was used to optimize the expression of cas9, enabling genome editing via homologous recombination based on CRISPR-Cas9 in R. eutropha. A total of five genes were edited with efficiencies ranging from 78.3 to 100%. The CRISPR-Cpf1 system and the non-homologous end joining mechanism were also investigated, but failed to yield edited strains. We present the first genome editing method for R. eutropha using an electroporation-based CRISPR-Cas9 approach, which significantly increased the efficiency and decreased time to manipulate this facultative chemolithoautotrophic microbe. The novel technique will facilitate more advanced researches and applications of R. eutropha for PHA production and CO2 conversion.

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Unknown 196 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 38 19%
Researcher 31 16%
Student > Master 20 10%
Student > Bachelor 19 10%
Other 10 5%
Other 23 12%
Unknown 55 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 75 38%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 22 11%
Engineering 11 6%
Chemical Engineering 8 4%
Unspecified 5 3%
Other 14 7%
Unknown 61 31%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 August 2018.
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#2,040,212
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#78
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#4
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