Conjugative Gene Transfer in Clostridia

Young, Michael

doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-7087-5_6

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“…Techniques like random mutagenesis (Bowring and Morris, 1985) and transformation have been developed for solvent-producing strains (Young et al, 1989, Young, 1993, making the engineering of recombinant strains with altered product formation possible. Integration-vectors have been developed and used to specifically disrupt genes in C. acetobutylicum.…”

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Production of longer-chain alcohols from lignocellulosic biomass: butanol, isopropanol and 2,3-butanediol

López-Contreras¹,

Kuit²,

Siemerink³

et al. 2010

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Section: Improvement Of the Butanol And Isopropanol Producing Strainsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Production of longer-chain alcohols from lignocellulosic biomass: butanol, isopropanol and 2,3-butanediol

López-Contreras¹,

Kuit²,

Siemerink³

et al. 2010

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Gene transfer to Clostridium cellulolyticum ATCC 35319

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Although much is known about the bacterial cellulosome and its various protein components, their contributions to bacterial growth on cellulose and the process of cellulolysis in vivo cannot currently be assessed. To remedy this, the authors have developed gene transfer techniques for Clostridium cellulolyticum ATCC 35319. Firstly, transfer of Tn1545 has been obtained using an Enterococcus faecalis donor. Secondly, IncP-mediated conjugative mobilization of plasmids from Escherichia coli donors has also been achieved. The yield of transconjugants in both cases was low and was probably limited by the suboptimal growth conditions that must of necessity be employed for the co-culture of oligotrophic C. cellulolyticum with copiotrophic donors. A restriction endonuclease was detected in crude extracts of C. cellulolyticum. This enzyme, named CceI, is an isoschizomer of MspI (HpaII). Electrotransformation was employed to establish plasmids containing the replication functions of pAMβ1 (En. faecalis), pIM13 (Bacillus subtilis), pCB102 (Clostridium butyricum), pIP404 (Clostridium perfringens) and pWV01 (Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris) in C. cellulolyticum. Transformants were only obtained if the DNA was appropriately methylated on the external C of the sequence 5'-CCGG-3' using either BsuFI methylase in vivo or MspI methylase in vitro. Plasmids based on the pAMβ1 and pIM13 replicons were more stably maintained than one based on the pCB102 replicon. Selection of transformants on solid medium led to low apparent transformation efficiencies (approx. 10 2 transformants per µg DNA) which might, in part, reflect the low plating efficiency of the organism. Selection of transformants in liquid medium led to a higher apparent yield of transformants (between 10 5 and 10 7 transformants per µg DNA). The methods developed here will pave the way for functional analysis of the various cellulosome components in vivo.

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Conjugative Gene Transfer in Clostridia

Cited by 2 publications

References 95 publications

Production of longer-chain alcohols from lignocellulosic biomass: butanol, isopropanol and 2,3-butanediol

Production of longer-chain alcohols from lignocellulosic biomass: butanol, isopropanol and 2,3-butanediol

Gene transfer to Clostridium cellulolyticum ATCC 35319

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