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A Targetron-Recombinase System for Large-Scale Genome Engineering of Clostridia

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Clostridia are a group of Gram-positive anaerobic bacteria of medical and industrial importance for which limited genetic methods are available. Here, we demonstrate an approach to make large genomic deletions and insertions in the model Clostridium phytofermentans by combining designed group II introns (target-rons) and Cre recombinase. We apply these methods to delete a 50-gene prophage island by programming targetrons to position markerless lox66 and lox71 sites, which mediate deletion of the intervening 39-kb DNA region using Cre recombinase. Gene expression and growth of the deletion strain showed that the prophage genes contribute to fitness on nonpreferred carbon sources. We also inserted an inducible fluorescent reporter gene into a neutral genomic site by recombination-mediated cassette exchange (RMCE) between genomic and plasmid-based tandem lox sites bearing heterospecific spacers to prevent intracassette recombination. These approaches generally enable facile markerless genome engineering in clostridia to study their genome structure and regulation. IMPORTANCE Clostridia are anaerobic bacteria with important roles in intestinal and soil microbiomes. The inability to experimentally modify the genomes of clostridia has limited their study and application in biotechnology. Here, we developed a targetron-recombinase system to efficiently make large targeted genomic deletions and insertions using the model Clostridium phytofermentans. We applied this approach to reveal the importance of a prophage to host fitness and introduce an in-ducible reporter by recombination-mediated cassette exchange.
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hal-03000600 , version 1 (12-11-2020)

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Tristan Cerisy, William Rostain, Audam Chhun, Magali Boutard, Marcel Salanoubat, et al.. A Targetron-Recombinase System for Large-Scale Genome Engineering of Clostridia. MSphere, 2019, ⟨10.1128/mSphere⟩. ⟨hal-03000600⟩
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