Broad purpose vector for site-directed insertional mutagenesis in Bifidobacterium breve

dc.contributor.authorHoedt, Emily C.en
dc.contributor.authorBottacini, Francescaen
dc.contributor.authorCash, Noraen
dc.contributor.authorBongers, Roger S.en
dc.contributor.authorvan Limpt, Keesen
dc.contributor.authorBen Amor, Kaoutheren
dc.contributor.authorKnol, Janen
dc.contributor.authorMacSharry, Johnen
dc.contributor.authorvan Sinderen, Douween
dc.contributor.funderNutricia Research Foundation
dc.contributor.funderScience Foundation Ireland
dc.contributor.funderFederation of European Microbiological Societies
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-10T10:42:50Z
dc.date.available2023-05-10T11:13:54Zen
dc.date.available2023-05-10T10:42:50Z
dc.date.issued2021-03en
dc.date.updated2023-05-10T10:13:57Zen
dc.description.abstractMembers of the genus Bifidobacterium are notoriously recalcitrant to genetic manipulation due to their extensive and variable repertoire of Restriction-Modification (R-M) systems. Non-replicating plasmids are currently employed to achieve insertional mutagenesis in Bifidobacterium. One of the limitations of using such insertion vectors is the presence within their sequence of various restriction sites, making them sensitive to the activity of endogenous restriction endonucleases encoded by the target strain. For this reason, vectors have been developed with the aim of methylating and protecting the vector using a methylase-positive Escherichia coli strain, in some cases containing a cloned bifidobacterial methylase. Here, we present a mutagenesis approach based on a modified and synthetically produced version of the suicide vector pORI28 (named pFREM28), where all known restriction sites targeted by Bifidobacterium breve R-M systems were removed by base substitution (thus preserving the codon usage). After validating the integrity of the erythromycin marker, the vector was successfully employed to target an alpha-galactosidase gene responsible for raffinose metabolism, an alcohol dehydrogenase gene responsible for mannitol utilization and a gene encoding a priming glycosyltransferase responsible for exopolysaccharides (EPS) production in B. breve. The advantage of using this modified approach is the reduction of the amount of time, effort and resources required to generate site-directed mutants in B. breve and a similar approach may be employed to target other (bifido)bacterial species.en
dc.description.sponsorshipFederation of European Microbiological Societies (Research Grant FEMS-RG-2016-0103)
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.articleid636822
dc.identifier.citationHoedt, E.C., Bottacini, F., Cash, N., Bongers, R.S., Van Limpt, K., Ben Amor, K., Knol, J., MacSharry, J. and Van Sinderen, D. (2021) ‘Broad purpose vector for site-directed insertional mutagenesis in bifidobacterium breve’, Frontiers in Microbiology, 12, 636822 (12pp). doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.636822
dc.identifier.doi10.3389/fmicb.2021.636822en
dc.identifier.eissn1664-302X
dc.identifier.endpage12
dc.identifier.journaltitleFrontiers in Microbiology
dc.identifier.startpage1
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/14446
dc.identifier.volume12
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFrontiers Media S.A.
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/SFI/SFI Research Centres/12/RC/2273/IE/Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre (APC) - Interfacing Food & Medicine/
dc.rights© 2021 Hoedt, Bottacini, Cash, Bongers, van Limpt, Ben Amor, Knol, MacSharry and van Sinderen. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectSynthetic vector
dc.subjectBifidobacteria
dc.subjectFunctional genomics
dc.subjectMutagenesis
dc.titleBroad purpose vector for site-directed insertional mutagenesis in Bifidobacterium breveen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)
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