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. 2023:2588:201-216.
doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2780-8_13.

Markerless Genome Editing in Competent Streptococci

Roger Junges  1 , Rabia Khan  1 , Yanina Tovpeko  2 , Heidi A Åmdal  1 , Fernanda C Petersen  1 , Donald A Morrison  3
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Markerless Genome Editing in Competent Streptococci

Roger Junges et al. Methods Mol Biol. 2023.

Abstract

Selective markers employed in classical mutagenesis methods using natural genetic transformation can affect gene expression, risk phenotypic effects, and accumulate as unwanted genes during successive mutagenesis cycles. In this chapter, we present a protocol for markerless genome editing in Streptococcus mutans and Streptococcus pneumoniae achieved with an efficient method for natural transformation. High yields of transformants are obtained by combining the unimodal state of competence developed after treatment of S. mutans with sigX-inducing peptide pheromone (XIP) in a chemically defined medium (CDM) or of S. pneumoniae with the competence-stimulating peptide (CSP) together with use of a donor amplicon carrying extensive flanking homology. This combination ensures efficient and precise integration of a new allele by the recombination machinery present in competent cells.

Keywords: CSP; Competence; Markerless mutagenesis; Natural transformation; Pheromone; Streptococcus; Streptococcus mutans; Streptococcus pneumoniae; XIP.

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