scholarly journals Erratum: Efficient site-specific integration in Plasmodium falciparum chromosomes mediated by mycobacteriophage Bxb1 integrase

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (9) ◽  
pp. 763-763
Author(s):  
Louis J Nkrumah ◽  
Rebecca A Muhle ◽  
Pedro A Moura ◽  
Pallavi Ghosh ◽  
Graham F Hatfull ◽  
...  
2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
pp. 615-621 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis J Nkrumah ◽  
Rebecca A Muhle ◽  
Pedro A Moura ◽  
Pallavi Ghosh ◽  
Graham F Hatfull ◽  
...  

2009 ◽  
Vol 83 (23) ◽  
pp. 12512-12525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathalie Dutheil ◽  
Els Henckaerts ◽  
Erik Kohlbrenner ◽  
R. Michael Linden

ABSTRACT The nonpathogenic human adeno-associated virus type 2 (AAV-2) has adopted a unique mechanism to site-specifically integrate its genome into the human MBS85 gene, which is embedded in AAVS1 on chromosome 19. The fact that AAV has evolved to integrate into this ubiquitously transcribed region and that the chromosomal motifs required for integration are located a few nucleotides upstream of the translation initiation start codon of MBS85 suggests that the transcriptional activity of MBS85 might influence site-specific integration and thus might be involved in the evolution of this mechanism. In order to begin addressing this question, we initiated the characterization of the human MBS85 promoter region and compared its transcriptional activity to that of the AAV-2 p5 promoter. Our results clearly indicate that AAVS1 is defined by a complex transcriptional environment and that the MBS85 promoter shares key regulatory elements with the viral p5 promoter. Furthermore, we provide evidence for bidirectional MBS85 promoter activity and demonstrate that the minimal motifs required for AAV site-specific integration are present in the 5′ untranslated region of the gene and play a posttranscriptional role in the regulation of MBS85 expression. These findings should provide a framework to further elucidate the complex interactions between the virus and its cellular host in this unique pathway to latency.


2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (8) ◽  
pp. 586-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongli Li ◽  
Zhipeng Li ◽  
Ning Xiao ◽  
Xiaoping Su ◽  
Shanshan Zhao ◽  
...  

1994 ◽  
Vol 60 (12) ◽  
pp. 4279-4283 ◽  
Author(s):  
M T Alegre ◽  
B Cournoyer ◽  
J M Mesas ◽  
M Guérineau ◽  
P Normand ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bhuvan Pathak ◽  
Vibha Srivastava

SummaryEfficient methods for multigene transformation are important for developing novel crop varieties. Methods based on random integrations of multiple genes have been successfully used for metabolic engineering in plants. However, efficiency of co-integration and co-expression of the genes could present a bottleneck. Recombinase-mediated integration into the engineered target sites is arguably a more efficient method of targeted integration that leads to the generation of stable transgenic lines at a high rate. This method has the potential to streamline multigene transformation for metabolic engineering and trait stacking in plants. Therefore, empirical testing of transgene(s) stability from the multigene site-specific integration locus is needed. Here, the recombinase technology based on Cre-lox recombination was evaluated for developing multigenic lines harboring constitutively-expressed and inducible genes. Targeted integration of a 5 genes cassette in the rice genome generated a precise full-length integration of the cassette at a high rate, and the resulting multigenic lines expressed each gene reliably as defined by their promoter activity. The stable constitutive or inducible expression was faithfully transmitted to the progeny, indicating inheritance-stability of the multigene locus. Co-localization of two distinctly inducible genes by heat or cold with the strongly constitutive genes did not appear to interfere with each other’s expression pattern. In summary, high rate of co-integration and co-expression of the multigene cassette installed by the recombinase technology in rice shows that this approach is appropriate for multigene transformation and introduction of co-segregating traits.Significance StatementRecombinase-mediated site-specific integration approach was found to be highly efficacious in multigene transformation of rice showing proper regulation of each gene driven by constitutive or inducible promoter. This approach holds promise for streamlining gene stacking in crops and expressing complex multigenic traits.


2002 ◽  
Vol 76 (11) ◽  
pp. 5411-5421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola J. Philpott ◽  
Catherine Giraud-Wali ◽  
Carolyn Dupuis ◽  
Janette Gomos ◽  
Henry Hamilton ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT The initial aim of this study was to combine attributes of adeno-associated virus (AAV) and adenovirus (Ad) gene therapy vectors to generate an Ad-AAV hybrid vector allowing efficient site-specific integration with Ad vectors. In executing our experimental strategy, we found that, in addition to the known incompatibility of Rep expression and Ad growth, an equally large obstacle was presented by the inefficiency of the integration event when using traditional recombinant AAV (rAAV) vectors. This study has addressed both of these problems. We have shown that a first-generation Ad can be generated that expresses Rep proteins at levels consistent with those found in wild-type AAV (wtAAV) infections and that Rep-mediated AAV persistence can occur in the presence of first-generation Ad vectors. Our finding that traditional rAAV plasmid vectors lack integration potency compared to wtAAV plasmid constructs (10- to 100-fold differences) was unexpected but led to the discovery of a previously unidentified AAV integration enhancer sequence element which functions in cis to an AAV inverted terminal repeat-flanked target gene. rAAV constructs containing left-end AAV sequence, including the p5-rep promoter sequence, integrate efficiently in a site-specific manner. The identification of this novel AAV integration enhancer element is consistent with previous studies, which have indicated that a high frequency of wtAAV recombinant junction formation occurs in the vicinity of the p5 promoter, and recent studies have demonstrated a role for this region in AAV DNA replication. Understanding the contribution of this element to the mechanism of AAV integration will be critical to the use of AAV vectors for targeted gene transfer applications.


2002 ◽  
Vol 184 (7) ◽  
pp. 1859-1864 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hee-Youn Yang ◽  
Young-Woo Kim ◽  
Hyo-Ihl Chang

ABSTRACT The genome of temperate phage φFC1 integrates into the chromosome of Enterococcus faecalis KBL 703 via site-specific recombination. In this study, an integration vector containing the attP site and putative integrase gene mj1 of phage φFC1 was constructed. A 2,744-bp fragment which included the attP site and mj1 was inserted into a pUC19 derivative containing the cat gene to construct pEMJ1-1. E. faecalis KBL 707, which does not contain the bacteriophage but which has a putative attB site within its genome, could be transformed by pEMJ1-1. Southern hybridization, PCR amplification, and DNA sequencing revealed that pEMJ1-1 was integrated specifically at the putative attB site within the E. faecalis KBL 707 chromosome. This observation suggested that the 2,744-bp fragment carrying mj1 and the attP site of phage φFC1 was sufficient for site-specific recombination and that pEMJ1-1 could be used as a site-specific integration vector. The transformation efficiency of pEMJ1-1 was as high as 6 × 103 transformants/μg of DNA. In addition, a vector (pATTB1) containing the 290-bp attB region was constructed. pATTB1 was transformed into Escherichia coli containing a derivative of the pET14b vector carrying attP and mj1. This resulted in the formation of chimeric plasmids by site-specific recombination between the cloned attB and attP sequences. The results indicate that the integration vector system based on the site-specific recombination mechanism of phage φFC1 can be used for genetic engineering in E. faecalis and in other hosts.


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