NDLI: Use of a ura5 +–lys7 + cassette to construct unmarked gene knock-ins in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

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Author	Mudge, Dayna K. Hoffman, Catherine A. Lubinski, Tristan J. Hoffman, Charles S.
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	While the counterselectable Schizosaccharomyces pombe ura4 + gene can be used to prepare a site in the S. pombe genome to receive an unmarked mutant allele (loss of ura4 + confers 5FOA-resistant (5FOAR) growth), the desired unmarked knock-in strains are generally outnumbered by spontaneously arising 5FOAR mutants. Relative to the same approach using the homologous URA3 + gene in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, knock-ins in S. pombe are harder to identify due to a lower efficiency of homologous recombination and a relatively high background of spontaneous 5FOAR colonies. To develop an improved method for identifying cells receiving unmarked mutant alleles, we first determined that 5FOAR strains carry mutations in either of two genes; ura4 + and ura5 +. We then cloned the S. pombe ura5 + orotate phosphoribosyltransferase gene and constructed a 2.1 kb cassette containing ura5 + together with the S. pombe lys7 + gene. Using this doubly marked cassette to disrupt the sck1 + kinase gene, we can distinguish between strains created by homologous knock-in of unmarked wild-type or kinase-dead alleles and spontaneously arising ura4 − and ura5 − mutants by screening 5FOAR colonies for the loss of the lys7 + marker. The utility of this system, especially when the phenotype for the strain carrying the knock-in allele is indistinguishable from that of the disruption strain, is borne out by the fact that ~95% of 5FOAR colonies in our studies arose from background ura4 − and ura5 − mutations.
Starting Page	59
Ending Page	64
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01728083
Journal	Current Genetics
Volume Number	58
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	14320983
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2011-12-25
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Schizosaccharomyces pombe Fission yeast ura5 + lys7 + Selectable marker Gene knock-in Proteomics Biochemistry Microbial Genetics and Genomics Cell Biology Plant Sciences Microbiology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Genetics Medicine

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