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(bacterial genomics / FLP recombinase / FRT sites / Red
recombinase)
Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West
Lafayette, IN 47907
Communicated by Jonathan Beckwith, Harvard Medical School,
Boston, MA, April 11, 2000 (received for review February 13, 2000)
We have developed a simple and highly efficient method to disrupt
chromosomal genes in Escherichia coli in which PCR
primers provide the homology to the targeted gene(s). In this
procedure, recombination requires the phage
Genetics
One-step inactivation of chromosomal genes in Escherichia
coli K-12 using PCR products
Red recombinase, which
is synthesized under the control of an inducible promoter on an easily
curable, low copy number plasmid. To demonstrate the utility of this
approach, we generated PCR products by using primers with 36- to 50-nt
extensions that are homologous to regions adjacent to the gene to be
inactivated and template plasmids carrying antibiotic resistance genes
that are flanked by FRT (FLP recognition target) sites. By using the respective PCR products, we made 13 different disruptions of
chromosomal genes. Mutants of the arcB,
cyaA, lacZYA,
ompR-envZ, phnR,
pstB, pstCA, pstS,
pstSCAB-phoU, recA, and
torSTRCAD genes or operons were isolated as
antibiotic-resistant colonies after the introduction into bacteria
carrying a Red expression plasmid of synthetic (PCR-generated) DNA. The
resistance genes were then eliminated by using a helper plasmid
encoding the FLP recombinase which is also easily curable. This
procedure should be widely useful, especially in genome analysis of
E. coli and other bacteria because the procedure can be
done in wild-type cells.
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