Maximillian P M Soltysiak, Audrey L H Ory, Andrew D Lee, Caroline E Christophersen, Amogh P Jalihal, Michael Springer
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Abstract
Interest in Xanthobacter species is increasing due to their unique metabolic capabilities. They can grow in both heterotrophic and fully autotrophic environments, including carbon dioxide, dinitrogen gas, and hydrogen as the sole carbon, nitrogen, and energy sources, respectively. Academic and industrial groups looking to leverage these metabolic properties are already using Xanthobacter strains for the sustainable production of food and commodities. However, only a handful of genetic parts and protocols exist in scattered genetic backgrounds, and there is an unmet need for reliable genetic engineering tools to manipulate Xanthobacter species. Here, we developed XanthoMoClo, a robust modular cloning genetic toolkit for Xanthobacter and Roseixanthobacter species and strains, providing extensive tools to transform them, manipulate their metabolism, and express genes of interest. The toolkit contains plasmid parts, such as replication origins, antibiotic selection markers, fluorescent proteins, constitutive and inducible promoters, a standardized framework to incorporate novel components into the toolkit, and a conjugation donor to transform Xanthobacter and Roseixanthobacter strains easily with no or minimal optimization. We validated these plasmid components in depth in three of the most commonly studied Xanthobacter strains: X. versatilis Py2, X. autotrophicus GZ29, and X. flavus GJ10, as well as in R. finlandensis VTT E-85241. Finally, we demonstrate robust toolkit functionality across 21 different species of Xanthobacter and Roseixanthobacter, comprising 23 strains in total. The XanthoMoClo genetic toolkit is available to the research community (through AddGene) and will help accelerate the genetic engineering of Xanthobacter to further their applications in sustainability and bioremediation efforts.
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The journal is particularly interested in studies on the design and synthesis of new genetic circuits and gene products; computational methods in the design of systems; and integrative applied approaches to understanding disease and metabolism.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Design and optimization of genetic systems
Genetic circuit design and their principles for their organization into programs
Computational methods to aid the design of genetic systems
Experimental methods to quantify genetic parts, circuits, and metabolic fluxes
Genetic parts libraries: their creation, analysis, and ontological representation
Protein engineering including computational design
Metabolic engineering and cellular manufacturing, including biomass conversion
Natural product access, engineering, and production
Creative and innovative applications of cellular programming
Medical applications, tissue engineering, and the programming of therapeutic cells
Minimal cell design and construction
Genomics and genome replacement strategies
Viral engineering
Automated and robotic assembly platforms for synthetic biology
DNA synthesis methodologies
Metagenomics and synthetic metagenomic analysis
Bioinformatics applied to gene discovery, chemoinformatics, and pathway construction
Gene optimization
Methods for genome-scale measurements of transcription and metabolomics
Systems biology and methods to integrate multiple data sources
in vitro and cell-free synthetic biology and molecular programming
Nucleic acid engineering.