Harnessing Bacterial Toxins for Allelic Exchange
Type
Blog Post
Published
Aug. 15, 2019, 12:30 p.m.
...counterselection vector is the pDS132 sacB-based allelic exchange vector. This vector contains sacB, an...Tight control of toxin expression is absolutely necessary, because leaky expression of toxin could select...introduce a mutation in the chromosome is to disrupt expression of a gene with an antibiotic resistance cassette...in the chromosome, sometimes interfering with expression of surrounding genes. However, there are ways...(Thomason et al., 2014). In recent years, CRISPR-Cas9 technology has also aided in the creation of scarless...selecting for an antibiotic resistance marker from the vector (abR, Figure 1).
The resolution step (“double crossover...leads to the desired mutation and excision of the vector backbone. This step requires “counter-selection...