A new recombineering system for Photorhabdus and Xenorhabdus

Yin, J; Zhu, H; Xia, L; Ding, X; Hoffmann, T; Hoffmann, M; Bian, X; Müller, R; Fu, J; Stewart, AF; Zhang, Y

doi:10.1093/nar/gku1336

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A new recombineering system for Photorhabdus and Xenorhabdus

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Zhu, H
Department Protein Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Max Planck Society;

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Yin, J., Zhu, H., Xia, L., Ding, X., Hoffmann, T., Hoffmann, M., et al. (2015). A new recombineering system for Photorhabdus and Xenorhabdus. Nucleic Acids Research (London), 43(6): e36. doi:10.1093/nar/gku1336.

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Precise and fluent genetic manipulation is still limited to only a few prokaryotes. Ideally the highly advanced technologies available in Escherichia coli could be broadly applied. Our efforts to apply lambda Red technology, widely termed 'recombineering', in Photorhabdus and Xenorhabdus yielded only limited success. Consequently we explored the properties of an endogenous Photorhabdus luminescens lambda Red-like operon, Plu2934/Plu2935/Plu2936. Bioinformatic and functional tests indicate that Plu2936 is a 5'-3' exonuclease equivalent to Redα and Plu2935 is a single strand annealing protein equivalent to Redβ. Plu2934 dramatically enhanced recombineering efficiency. Results from bioinformatic analysis and recombineering assays suggest that Plu2934 may be functionally equivalent to Redγ, which inhibits the major endogenous E. coli nuclease, RecBCD. The recombineering utility of Plu2934/Plu2935/Plu2936 was demonstrated by engineering Photorhabdus and Xenorhabdus genomes, including the activation of the 49-kb non-ribosomal peptide synthase (NRPS) gene cluster plu2670 by insertion of a tetracycline inducible promoter. After tetracycline induction, novel secondary metabolites were identified. Our work unlocks the potential for bioprospecting and functional genomics in the Photorhabdus, Xenorhabdus and related genomes.