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CRISPR-assisted multi-dimensional regulation for fine-tuning gene expression in Bacillus subtilis.

ABSTRACT: Fine-tuning of gene expression is crucial for protein expression and pathway construction, but it still faces formidable challenges due to the hierarchical gene regulation at multiple levels in a context-dependent manner. In this study, we defined the optimal targeting windows for CRISPRa and CRISPRi of the dCas9-?/? system, and demonstrated that this system could act as a single master regulator to simultaneously activate and repress the expression of different genes by designing position-specific gRNAs. The application scope of dCas9-? was further expanded by a newly developed CRISPR-assisted Oligonucleotide Annealing based Promoter Shuffling (OAPS) strategy, which could generate a high proportion of functional promoter mutants and facilitate the construction of effective promoter libraries in microorganisms with low transformation efficiency. Combing OAPS and dCas9-?, the influences of promoter-based transcription, molecular chaperone-assisted protein folding and protease-mediated degradation on the expression of amylase BLA in Bacillus subtilis were systematically evaluated, and a 260-fold enhancement of BLA production was obtained. The success of the OAPS strategy and dCas9-? for BLA production in this study thus demonstrated that it could serve as a powerful tool kit to regulate the expression of multiple genes multi-directionally and multi-dimensionally in bacteria.

SUBMITTER: Lu Z

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6468239 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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CRISPR-assisted multi-dimensional regulation for fine-tuning gene expression in Bacillus subtilis.

Lu Zhenghui Z Yang Shihui S Yuan Xin X Shi Yunyun Y Ouyang Li L Jiang Sijing S Yi Li L Zhang Guimin G

Nucleic acids research 20190401 7

Fine-tuning of gene expression is crucial for protein expression and pathway construction, but it still faces formidable challenges due to the hierarchical gene regulation at multiple levels in a context-dependent manner. In this study, we defined the optimal targeting windows for CRISPRa and CRISPRi of the dCas9-α/ω system, and demonstrated that this system could act as a single master regulator to simultaneously activate and repress the expression of different genes by designing position-speci ...[more]

PMID: 30767015

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Project description:The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)-Cas9 system from Streptococcus pyogenes has been widely deployed as a tool for bacterial strain construction. Conventional CRISPR-Cas9 editing strategies require design and molecular cloning of an appropriate guide RNA (gRNA) to target genome cleavage and a repair template for introduction of the desired site-specific genome modification. Here, we present a streamlined method that leverages the existing collection of nearly 4,000 Bacillus subtilis strains (the BKE collection) with individual genes replaced by an integrated erythromycin (erm) resistance cassette. A single plasmid (pAJS23) with a gRNA targeted to erm allows cleavage of the genome at any nonessential gene and at sites nearby to many essential genes. This plasmid can be engineered to include a repair template, or the repair template can be cotransformed with the plasmid as either a PCR product or genomic DNA. We demonstrate the utility of this system for generating gene replacements, site-specific mutations, modification of intergenic regions, and introduction of gene-reporter fusions. In sum, this strategy bypasses the need for gRNA design and allows the facile transfer of mutations and genetic constructions with no requirement for intermediate cloning steps. IMPORTANCE Bacillus subtilis is a well-characterized Gram-positive model organism and a popular platform for biotechnology. Although many different CRISPR-based genome editing strategies have been developed for B. subtilis, they generally involve the design and cloning of a specific guide RNA (gRNA) and repair template for each application. By targeting the erm resistance cassette with an anti-erm gRNA, genome editing can be directed to any of nearly 4,000 gene disruptants within the existing BKE collection of strains. Repair templates can be engineered as PCR products, or specific alleles and constructions can be transformed as chromosomal DNA, thereby bypassing the need for plasmid construction. The described method is rapid and facilitates a wide range of genome manipulations.

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CRISPR-assisted multi-dimensional regulation for fine-tuning gene expression in Bacillus subtilis.

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CRISPR-assisted multi-dimensional regulation for fine-tuning gene expression in Bacillus subtilis.

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