scholarly journals A novel method for genetic transformation of C. albicans using modified-hydroxyapatite nanoparticles as a plasmid DNA vehicle

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (8) ◽  
pp. 3015-3022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ketaki Deshmukh ◽  
Sutapa Roy Ramanan ◽  
Meenal Kowshik

A new method for delivery of plasmid DNA into Candida albicans using arginine–glucose–PEG functionalized hydroxyapatite nanoparticles as the vehicle which delivers pDNA with high transformation efficiency.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuning Guo

This protocol is used to prepare electrocompetent cells with high transformation efficiency.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuning Guo

This protocol is used to prepare electrocompetent cells with high transformation efficiency.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuning Guo

This protocol is used to prepare electrocompetent cells with high transformation efficiency.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lizhen Hu ◽  
Shuqi Guo ◽  
Xin Yan ◽  
Tianqing Zhang ◽  
Jing Xiang ◽  
...  

One-carbon (C1) substrates such as methane and methanol have been considered as the next-generation carbon source in industrial biotechnology with the characteristics of low cost, availability, and bioconvertibility. Recently, methanotrophic bacteria naturally capable of converting C1 substrates have drawn attractive attention for their promising applications in C1-based biomanufacturing for the production of chemicals or fuels. Although genetic tools have been explored for metabolically engineered methanotroph construction, there is still a lack of efficient methods for heterologous gene expression in methanotrophs. Here, a rapid and efficient electroporation method with a high transformation efficiency was developed for a robust methanotroph of Methylomicrobium buryatense 5GB1. Based on the homologous recombination and high transformation efficiency, gene deletion and heterologous gene expression can be simultaneously achieved by direct electroporation of PCR-generated linear DNA fragments. In this study, the influence of several key parameters (competent cell preparation, electroporation condition, recovery time, and antibiotic concentration) on the transformation efficiency was investigated for optimum conditions. The maximum electroporation efficiency of 719 ± 22.5 CFU/μg DNA was reached, which presents a 10-fold improvement. By employing this method, an engineered M. buryatense 5GB1 was constructed to biosynthesize isobutyraldehyde by replacing an endogenous fadE gene in the genome with a heterologous kivd gene. This study provides a potential and efficient strategy and method to facilitate the cell factory construction of methanotrophs.


2016 ◽  
Vol 82 (7) ◽  
pp. 2062-2069 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Yan ◽  
Frances Chu ◽  
Aaron W. Puri ◽  
Yanfen Fu ◽  
Mary E. Lidstrom

ABSTRACTMethane is becoming a major candidate for a prominent carbon feedstock in the future, and the bioconversion of methane into valuable products has drawn increasing attention. To facilitate the use of methanotrophic organisms as industrial strains and accelerate our ability to metabolically engineer methanotrophs, simple and rapid genetic tools are needed. Electroporation is one such enabling tool, but to date it has not been successful in a group of methanotrophs of interest for the production of chemicals and fuels, the gammaproteobacterial (type I) methanotrophs. In this study, we developed electroporation techniques with a high transformation efficiency for three different type I methanotrophs:Methylomicrobium buryatense5GB1C,Methylomonassp. strain LW13, andMethylobactertundripaludum21/22. We further developed this technique inM. buryatense, a haloalkaliphilic aerobic methanotroph that demonstrates robust growth with a high carbon conversion efficiency and is well suited for industrial use for the bioconversion of methane. On the basis of the high transformation efficiency ofM. buryatense, gene knockouts or integration of a foreign fragment into the chromosome can be easily achieved by direct electroporation of PCR-generated deletion or integration constructs. Moreover, site-specific recombination (FLP-FRT [FLP recombination target] recombination) andsacBcounterselection systems were employed to perform marker-free manipulation, and two new antibiotics, zeocin and hygromycin, were validated to be antibiotic markers in this strain. Together, these tools facilitate the rapid genetic manipulation ofM. buryatenseand other type I methanotrophs, promoting the ability to perform fundamental research and industrial process development with these strains.


1996 ◽  
Vol 145 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donglu Zhang ◽  
Yifan Yang ◽  
Lisa A. Castlebury ◽  
Carl E. Cerniglia

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