Abstract
AbstractMicrobial genetic manipulation requires access to engineerable plasmids that can be programmed to perturb genes, pathways and genomes. The extensive repertoire of plasmids available for model microbes, such asEscherichia coli, has facilitated fundamental biology studies and synthetic biology applications. However, the scarcity of plasmids for non-model microbes hinders efforts to broaden our biological knowledge and constrains the development of biotechnological solutions. In this study, we introduce a molecular toolkit and multiplexed screen to evaluate functional plasmids in non-model microbes. We constructed a collection of genetic parts consisting of 22 origins of replication (ORIs), 20 antibiotic selectable markers, and 30 molecular barcodes, which can be assembled combinatorially to create a library of plasmids trackable by next-generation DNA sequencing. We demonstrate our approach by delivering a pooled library of 22 ORIs to 12 bacterial species including extremophiles, electroactive bacteria and bioproduction strains. We report, for the first time, DNA delivery by conjugation and functional ORIs forHalomonas alkaliphila, Halomonas neptunia,andShewanella electrodiphila. Furthermore, we expand the list of functional ORIs forDuganella zoogloeoides,Pseudomonas alcaliphila,Shewanella oneidensisandShewanella putrefaciens. This screen provides a scalable high-throughput system to rapidly build and identify functional plasmids to establish genetic tractability in non-model microbes.
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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