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− | <p> There are currently 58 different Rhodococcus species ( | + | <p> There are currently 58 different Rhodococcus species (http://www.bacterio.net/rhodococcus.html) and based on 16S rRNA data (McMinn et al., 2000) they are classified into three main subclades: R. erythropolis, R. equi and R. rhodochrous. Of the R. erythropolis subclade, the three most characterised industrial species are R. erythropolis, R. opacus, and R. jostii (Goodfellow et al., 2012). R. erythropolis was the first characterised bacteria in this subclade while R. jostii was the first to have its genome sequenced (McLeod et al., 2006). R. opacus has the unique ability of accumulating up to 40% of its dry cell mass as triacylglycerols (Kurosawa et al., 2010). All three species catabolise a wide range of oligosaccharides and organic compounds, but R. erythropolis has two industrial advantages of tolerating a wider range of temperatures and possessing a significantly smaller genome, corresponding to faster growth rate. However, the larger genomes of R. jostii and R. opacus gives them the ability to metabolise a wider range of organic substances. |
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+ | <p><b>Current genetic tools</b></p> | ||
+ | <p>Studies in the 1990s and 2000s showed that Rhodococcus could harbor cryptic or linear plasmids. Linear plasmids tend to be relatively large and are of the inverton type (Stecker et al., 2003). Several characteristic linear plasmids were linked to catabolic gene clusters. Studies on R. erythropolis showed that pBD2 - a 210 kb linear plasmid - carries the genes responsible for the oxidation of isopropylbenzene (Stecker et al., 2003). Another replicon, IGTS8 (150 kb) carries the genes responsible for fossil fuel desulfurization (Denis-Larose et al., 1997). In R. jostii, three linear replicons - pRHL1 (1,100 kb), pRHL2 (450 kb), and pRHL3 (330 kb) – were predicted to carry the genes responsible for the catabolism of trichloroethene, naphthalene, alkylbenzene, biphenyl and choroaromatic compounds (McLeod et al., 2006). | ||
+ | Several cryptic plasmids were isolated from Rhodococci and their replication origins were used to construct plasmid-borne genetic tools. Prominent examples include pKA22 and pRE8424. pKA22 was the first sequenced cryptic plasmid from Rhodococcus (Kulakov et al., 1997). It is a 5 kb circular plasmid with theta-type replication mechanism. Its theta-type replication origin is unusual in being a broad host range replicon that replicates in Rhodococcus strains B264-1, I24 and erythropolis SQ1 (Lessard et al., 2004). A very similar variant, pB264, was modified to create pAl298, a temperature sensitive shuttle vector tool for Rhodococcus. The second cryptic plasmid, pRE8424 from R. erythropolis DSM8424 replicates through rolling-circle-type mechanism in a way that is similar to the pIJ101/pJV1 family of rolling circle plasmids (Khan 1997). It was modified and used to create one of the most widely used Rhodococcus inducible expression vector, pTip. Nakashima and Tamura (2004) cloned a thiostrepton-inducible promoter - Ptip from Streptomyces - and attached it upstream of a MCS. Then, they have cloned in a thiostrepton-resistance cassette and Ptip transcription activator genes in the same pTip vector. Afterwards, they have showed that recombinant proteins that cannot be expressed in E. coli could be inserted into this MCS and get expressed in Rhodococcus with yields up to 10 mg. This class of vectors are the subject of a patent (US patent number 7709624) that gathered interest and showed the scientific community that Rhodococcus is a good expression system for proteins that do not express in E. coli or require lower expression temperatures (Nakashima and Tamura, 2010). | ||
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+ | Based on pTip vectors, several genetic tools were developed. Sallam and colleagues (2006) created pTNR, a transposon vector for mutagenesis and random gene insertion applications. Another system is pIcl and its derivative, pCpi. pIcl is a methanol-induced expression system that is useful in industrial applications where the organic solvent is the inducer of expression. pCpi is a mutated version of pIcl that shows a strong constitutive expression through of as yet an unknown mechanism (Kagawa et al., 2012). | ||
+ | Another plasmid class is pSRK21 and its derivatives. pSRK21 is a hybrid of pSR1 and pGA1, two cryptic plasmids from Corynebacterium. Its parental plasmids replicate through a specific rolling-circle-type mechanism (Osborn et al., 2000). This construct was reported to replicate in E. coli, R. erythropolis, R. opacus (Vesely et al., 2003) and our study shows that it also replicates in R. jostii. Claudia Schmidt-Dannert modified it to be BioBrick compatible (pSRKBB) and was used as the plasmid backbone in this study. </p> | ||
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− | <p> A strong constitutive promoter from Corynebacterium (Patek et al., 1996) that works with related gram positive actinobacteria, such as Rhodococcus | + | <p> A strong constitutive promoter from Corynebacterium (Patek et al., 1996) that works with related gram positive actinobacteria, such as Rhodococcus. </p> |
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