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  Vector redesign and in-droplet cell-growth improves enrichment and recovery in live Escherichia coli

Eenink, B., Kaminski, T., Bornberg-Bauer, E., Jose, J., Hollfelder, F., & van Loo, B. (2022). Vector redesign and in-droplet cell-growth improves enrichment and recovery in live Escherichia coli. Microbial Biotechnology, 15(11), 2845-2853. doi:10.1111/1751-7915.14144.

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Eenink, BDG, Author
Kaminski, TS, Author
Bornberg-Bauer, E1, Author           
Jose, J, Author
Hollfelder, F, Author
van Loo, B, Author
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1Department Protein Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Max Planck Society, ou_3375791              

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 Abstract: Directed evolution (DE) is a widely used method for improving the function of biomolecules via multiple rounds of mutation and selection. Microfluidic droplets have emerged as an important means to screen the large libraries needed for DE, but this approach was so far partially limited by the need to lyse cells, recover DNA, and retransform into cells for the next round, necessitating the use of a high-copy number plasmid or oversampling. The recently developed live cell recovery avoids some of these limitations by directly regrowing selected cells after sorting. However, repeated sorting cycles used to further enrich the most active variants ultimately resulted in unfavourable recovery of empty plasmid vector-containing cells over those expressing the protein of interest. In this study, we found that engineering of the original expression vector solved the problem of false positives (i.e. plasmids lacking an insert) cells containing empty vectors. Five approaches to measure activity of cell-displayed enzymes in microdroplets were compared. By comparing various cell treatment methods prior to droplet sorting two things were found. Substrate encapsulation from the start, that is prior to expression of enzyme, showed no disadvantage to post-induction substrate addition by pico-injection with respect to recovery of true positive variants. Furthermore in-droplet cell growth prior to induction of enzyme production improves the total amount of cells retrieved (recovery) and proportion of true positive variants (enrichment) after droplet sorting.

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 Dates: 2022-092022-11
 Publication Status: Issued
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 Identifiers: DOI: 10.1111/1751-7915.14144
PMID: 36099491
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Title: Microbial Biotechnology
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Publ. Info: Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell
Pages: - Volume / Issue: 15 (11) Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 2845 - 2853 Identifier: ISSN: 1751-7915
CoNE: https://pure.mpg.de/cone/journals/resource/1751-7915