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pSETT4, an Improved φC31-Based Integrative Vector System for Actinoplanes sp. SE50/110

Lena Schaffert, Lucas Jacob, Susanne Schneiker-Bekel, Marcus Persicke, Camilla März, Christian Rückert, Alfred Pühler, Jörn Kalinowski
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Lena Schaffert
aMicrobial Genomics and Biotechnology, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
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Lucas Jacob
aMicrobial Genomics and Biotechnology, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
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Susanne Schneiker-Bekel
aMicrobial Genomics and Biotechnology, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
bSenior Research Group in Genome Research of Industrial Microorganisms, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
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Marcus Persicke
aMicrobial Genomics and Biotechnology, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
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Camilla März
aMicrobial Genomics and Biotechnology, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
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Christian Rückert
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DOI: 10.1128/MRA.00596-20
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ABSTRACT

The pSETT4 vector integrates into the Actinoplanes sp. SE50/110 chromosome via the bacteriophage φC31 integrase and allows cloning of a gene of interest by Golden Gate assembly (BsaI). T4 terminators surround the expression cassette to isolate the transcriptional unit and to prevent antisense transcription. The system can be used in other Actinomycetales by exchanging the promoter.

ANNOUNCEMENT

Actinoplanes sp. SE50/110 (strain ATCC 31044) is known as a natural producer of acarbose (1, 2), which has been used in the treatment of diabetes mellitus since the early 1990s (3, 4). Due to its medical importance, first, genetic tools such as CRISPR/Cas9 (5) and a promoter library (6) were established.

The knowledge gained in previous work (6) was used to develop a novel expression vector, called pSETT4, which will allow easy cloning and overexpression of single genes in Actinoplanes sp. SE50/110.

For this, the strong promoter of the gene gapDH from Eggerthella lenta (6, 7) was cloned in front of a lacZ′ cassette in a pSET152 backbone (Fig. 1A). The gene lacZ′ is transcribed under the control of the lac promoter and flanked by the recognition sites of the type IIS restriction enzyme BsaI, which enables seamless Golden Gate cloning (8). This way, the cloning effort and time were substantially decreased. In addition, cloning via Gibson assembly (9) and restriction/ligation is also possible.

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(A) Novel integrative pSETT4 cloning system. The lacZ′ cassette is flanked by the recognition sites of the restriction enzyme BsaI. BsaI enables exchange of lacZ by the gene of interest using Gibson assembly, restriction/ligation cloning, or Golden Gate cloning. As strong expression needs strong termination, T4 terminators were introduced before and after the cloning site. Behind the cloning site, two antiparallel-oriented T4 terminators prevent read-through from both directions. For exchange of the promoter sequence, NdeI and KpnI restriction sites were introduced. Furthermore, the vector contains the integrase gene int and the attachment site attP of the phage φC31, the origin of transfer (incP) and relaxosome gene traJ, the high-copy-number ColE1 origin of replication, and the apramycin resistance gene aac(3)-IV. (B) Growth and acarbose formation of Actinoplanes sp. SE50/110 (pSETT4tip), Actinoplanes sp. SE50/110 (pSET152), and the wild-type Actinoplanes sp. SE50/110 took place in a shake flask in maltose minimal medium. Numbers of replicates are indicated by the n values shown in parentheses for both the cell dry weight (cdw) and the acarbose concentration (acb).

To isolate the transcriptional units, T4 terminators were introduced before and after the cloning cassette (Fig. 1A). T4 terminators have already been successfully used in the pGUS-cloning system (10). They were proven to block transcription efficiently and prevent read-through from the integrase gene into the gene of interest by whole-track transcriptome sequencing (RNA-seq) analysis (11). By sequencing of native 5′ ends of transcripts derived from a previous promoter-screening experiment (6), two putative antisense promoters were identified behind the gene of interest in antisense orientation in the original vector backbone pSET152 (11), which were removed in the novel system. An additional (third) T4 terminator was introduced behind the cloning side in the opposite orientation to prevent further antisense reads (Fig. 1A). The vector is named pSETT4gap.

To allow exchange of the promoter sequence, NdeI and KpnI restriction sites were introduced (Fig. 1A). Here, the medium-strong promoter of tipA from Streptomyces lividans (6, 12) was cloned by restriction/ligation cloning, and the vector was named pSETT4tip.

For construction of pSETT4gap, the cassette, consisting of the gapDH promoter, a lacZ′ gene under the control of the lac promoter, and several restriction sites flanked by three T4 terminators, was obtained in three string DNAs (Integrated DNA Technologies, Coralville, IA, USA), assembled by gene splicing by overlap extension (gene SOEing) (13), and cloned into a PCR-linearized backbone using Gibson assembly (9) according to a protocol from reference 6 and using the primers in Table 1.

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Sequencing and Gibson assembly primers for the assembly of the novel expression system pSETT4

For exchange of the promoter, pSETT4gap was digested with NdeI and KpnI and treated with shrimp alkaline phosphatase following the supplier’s instructions (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, USA). The tipA promoter was amplified from pSETGUS (10) (Table 1) and assembled with the linearized backbone using Gibson assembly (9).

The cloning mixtures were transferred to Escherichia coli DH5αMCR (14) and selected on Luria/Miller broth medium with 15 g · liter−1 agar-agar and 50 mg · liter−1 apramycin sulfate. Positive colonies were tested with Sanger sequencing at our in-house sequencing core facility and transferred to Actinoplanes sp. SE50/110 by conjugation (6).

The novel expression system pSETT4tip displays growth behavior and an acarbose-producing phenotype similar to those of the wild type and the empty vector control carrying pSET152 (Fig. 1B). The cultivation and acarbose quantification were carried out as described before (6).

Data availability.The complete sequences of pSETT4gap and pSETT4tip have been deposited at Addgene under the accession numbers 153413 and 153414. The resources can be obtained from the Addgene depository (https://www.addgene.org/).

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This work was funded by Bayer AG (Leverkusen, Germany). We acknowledge support for the article processing charge by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Open Access Publication Fund of Bielefeld University.

We thank our colleague Julian Droste for reviewing the pSETT4 vector design.

FOOTNOTES

    • Received 14 July 2020.
    • Accepted 13 August 2020.
    • Published 24 September 2020.
  • Copyright © 2020 Schaffert et al.

This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

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