[en] The novel method described in this paper combines the use of blaI, which encodes a repressor involved in Bacillus licheniformis BlaP beta-lactamase regulation, an antibiotic resistance gene, and a B. subtilis strain (BS1541) that is conditionally auxotrophic for lysine. We constructed a BlaI cassette containing blaI and the spectinomycin resistance genes and two short direct repeat DNA sequences, one at each extremity of the cassette. The BS1541 strain was obtained by replacing the B. subtilis P(lysA) promoter with that of the P(blaP) beta-lactamase promoter. In the resulting strain, the cloning of the blaI repressor gene confers lysine auxotrophy to BS1541. After integration of the BlaI cassette into the chromosome of a conditionally lys-auxotrophic (BS1541) strain by homologous recombination and positive selection for spectinomycin resistance, the eviction of the BlaI cassette was achieved by single crossover between the two short direct repeat sequences. This strategy was successfully used to inactivate a single gene and to introduce a gene of interest in the Bacillus chromosome. In both cases the resulting strains are free of selection marker. This allows the use of the BlaI cassette to repeatedly further modify the Bacillus chromosome.
Disciplines :
Biotechnology Microbiology
Author, co-author :
Brans, Alain ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Centre d'ingénierie des protéines
Filée, Patrice ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Centre d'ingénierie des protéines
Chevigné, Andy ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Macromolécules biologiques
Claessens, Aurore; Université de Liège - ULiège > Centre d'ingénierie des protéines
Joris, Bernard ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Centre d'ingénierie des protéines
Language :
English
Title :
New integrative method to generate Bacillus subtilis recombinant strains free of selection markers
Publication date :
December 2004
Journal title :
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
ISSN :
0099-2240
eISSN :
1098-5336
Publisher :
Amer Soc Microbiology, Washington, United States - Washington
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