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JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS
Volume 163, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2019.105655
Keywords
Aspergillus niger; CRISPR-HDR tool box; Donor DNA; Multiple-site gene edit; Gene knock-in; Exocellular protein expression
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31870024, 31871736]
- Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province [2017A030313097]
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of the Advanced Bio-fermentation Technology Enterprise in Flavoring Food [2017B0302002]
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Aspergillus niger is an important industrial producer of enzymes due to its high capacity for producing exocellular secretory proteins. The CRISPR/Cas9 system has been developed as a genetic manipulation tool in A. niger. However, only the basic functions of the CRISPR/Cas9 system, such as codon optimization of Cas9 nucleases and promoter screening of guide RNA (gRNA) expression, have been developed in A. niger. The CRISPR/Cas9 system for manipulating large genomic fragments and multiple gene knock-ins still needs to be established. Here, we improved the CRISPR/Cas9 homologous direct repair (CRISPR-HDR) tool box based on donor DNAs (dDNAs) and plasmid harboring AMA1 and the pyrG marker, allowing recycling of pyrG and Cas9 components. Furthermore, we used the CRISPR-HDR tool box to knock out the 0 kb (protospacer only), 2 kb, 10 kb and even 50 kb gene fragments. This CRISPR-HDR tool box could also be used to simultaneously knock in multiple genes at the loci of two highly expressed extracellular secreted proteins, glucoamylase A (glaA) and alpha-amylase (amyA, two copies). In our study, two or three copies of glucose oxidase (goxC) were precisely knocked in at the loci of amyA and glaA, resulting in 4-fold increased enzyme activity (869.86 U/mL). This CRISPR-HDR tool box can be easily manipulated, and the AMA1-based plasmid can be easily removed under selective pressure of 5-fluoroorotic acid and uridine.
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