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Published online 12 December 2008                                                       Nucleic Acids Research, 2009, Vol. 37, No. 2 e16
                                                                                                                   doi:10.1093/nar/gkn991


DNA assembler, an in vivo genetic method for rapid
construction of biochemical pathways
Zengyi Shao1, Hua Zhao1 and Huimin Zhao1,2,*
1
 Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and 2Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry,
and Bioengineering, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana,
IL 61801, USA

Received April 9, 2008; Revised November 24, 2008; Accepted November 25, 2008



ABSTRACT                                                                        generate new small molecules (9); whereas, in synthetic
                                                                                biology, complex combinations of genetic elements are
The assembly of large recombinant DNA encoding                                  used to create new circuits with desired properties (10).
a whole biochemical pathway or genome                                           In all these studies, the conventional multi-step, sequen-
represents a significant challenge. Here, we report                             tial-cloning method, including primer design, PCR ampli-
a new method, DNA assembler, which allows the                                   fication, restriction digestion, in vitro ligation and
assembly of an entire biochemical pathway in a                                  transformation, is typically involved and multiple plas-
single step via in vivo homologous recombination                                mids are often required (2,4). This method is not only
in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We show that                                       time consuming and inefficient but also relies on unique
DNA assembler can rapidly assemble a functional                                 restriction sites that become limited for large recombinant
D-xylose utilization pathway (~9 kb DNA consisting                              DNA molecules.
of three genes), a functional zeaxanthin biosynthe-                                To address these limitations, a new cloning method,
sis pathway (~11 kb DNA consisting of five genes)                               sequence and ligation-independent cloning (SLIC), was
                                                                                recently reported (11). Using SLIC, up to 10 DNA frag-
and a functional combined D-xylose utilization and
                                                                                ments including nine PCR-generated fragments of sizes
zeaxanthin biosynthesis pathway (~19 kb consisting
                                                                                ranging between 274 and 980 bp and a 3.1-kb vector
of eight genes) with high efficiencies (70–100%)                                were assembled into a recombinant DNA molecule using
either on a plasmid or on a yeast chromosome. As                                in vitro homologous recombination. However, the success
this new method only requires simple DNA prepara-                               rate was only 17% (7 of 42 Escherichia coli transformants
tion and one-step yeast transformation, it repre-                               were proven to be correct), and the size of the recombi-
sents a powerful tool in the construction of                                    nant DNA was only approximately 8 kb. More recently, a
biochemical pathways for synthetic biology, meta-                               protocol called the ‘domino method’ was developed to
bolic engineering and functional genomics studies.                              construct a number of DNA pieces, known as ‘domino
                                                                                clones’, in a vector through in vivo homologous recombi-
                                                                                nation in Bacillus subtilis (12). Using two selection mark-
                                                                                ers alternatively, a 16.3-kb mouse mitochondrial genome
INTRODUCTION
                                                                                and a 134.5-kb rice chloroplast genome were successfully
Methods that enable design and rapid construction of bio-                       assembled. However, each ‘domino clone’ needs to be pre-
chemical pathways will be invaluable in pathway engineer-                       pared in the vector first, and the whole assembly process is
ing, metabolic engineering, combinatorial biology and                           carried out in a sequential manner, thus requiring a great
synthetic biology. In pathway and metabolic engineering,                        amount of time and labor.
complete biosynthetic pathways are often transferred                               Here, we developed a new method, called ‘DNA assem-
from native hosts into heterologous organisms in order                          bler’, that enables design and rapid construction of
to obtain products of interest at high yields (1–5).                            large biochemical pathways in one-step fashion by exploi-
Consequently, gene expression needs to be balanced, pro-                        tation of in vivo homologous recombination mechanism in
moter strength needs to be tuned and the endogenous reg-                        S. cerevisiae. Thanks to its high efficiency and ease to work
ulatory network needs to be modified (6–8). In                                   with, in vivo homologous recombination in yeast has been
combinatorial biology, genes are rearranged in order to                         widely used for gene cloning, plasmid construction and



*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +1 217 333 2631; Fax: +1 217 333 5052; Email: zhao5@illinois.edu

The authors wish it to be known that, in their opinion, the first two authors should be regarded as joint First Authors.

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library creation (13–20). For example, Oldenburg and           B, I, Y and Z from Erwinia uredovora for zeaxanthin bio-
coworkers incorporated a linker of 30–40 bp, homologous        synthesis. The restriction enzymes and Phusion DNA
to a linearized yeast plasmid, into primers to PCR-amplify     polymerase were purchased from the New England
the target DNA. Co-transformation of the PCR products          Biolabs. Yeast YPAD medium-containing 1% yeast
and the plasmid into yeast resulted in homologous recom-       extract, 2% peptone and 2% dextrose supplied with
bination at a position directed by the PCR primers (18).       0.01% adenine hemisulphate was used to grow
Raymond and coworkers (13,19) used synthetic, double-          S. cerevisiae YSG50 strain. Synthetic complete drop-out
stranded ‘recombination linkers’ to subclone a DNA frag-       medium lacking uracil (SC-Ura) was used to select trans-
ment, and counter-selection was later used to improve the      formants or integrants containing the assembled biochem-
efficiency of plasmid construction (19,20). Manivasakam          ical pathways of interest.
et al. and Langle-Rouault et al. further extended homol-
ogous recombination into genome modification and deter-         DNA manipulation
mined the length of sequence homology required for             To prepare individual gene expression cassettes, yeast pro-
targeted gene integration and deletion (21,22). In addition,   moters (ADH1p, 1500 bp; PGK1p, 750 bp; PYK1p,
Larionov and coworkers (23–27) developed a transforma-         1000 bp, TEF1p, 412 bp; truncated HXT7p, 395 bp;
tion-associated recombination cloning method in yeast,         TEF2p, 560 bp; FBA1p, 820 bp; and PDC1p, 800 bp) and
which was used to isolate large chromosomal fragments          terminators (ADH1t, 327 bp; CYC1t, 250 bp; ADH2t,
or entire gene clusters from complex genomes and to            400 bp; PGIt, 400 bp; TPI1t, 400 bp; FBA1t, 400 bp;
assemble synthetic DNA arrays of long tandem repeats           ENO2t, 400 bp; and TDH2t, 400 bp) were PCR-amplified
up to 120 kb (28). Most recently, Gibson and coworkers         individually from the genomic DNA isolated from
described the construction of the entire Mycoplasma geni-      S. cerevisiae YSG50 using the Wizard Genomic DNA iso-
talium genome from 101 fragments. The assembly process         lation kit from Promega (Madison, WI). The structural
was partitioned to several rounds and in vitro recombina-      genes XR and XDH were amplified from Neurospora
tion followed by transformation into E. coli was used to       crassa cDNA, and the structural genes including XKS,
assemble the synthetic cassettes. In the final step, the com-   CrtE, CrtB, CrtI, CrtY and CrtZ were amplified from
plete synthetic genome was assembled by transformation-        the corresponding plasmids. HisG and d2 were amplified
associated recombination cloning in yeast when the size        from pddUB. All the primers are listed in Supplementary
of the synthetic molecule became too big to be stable in       Table 1. Each individual gene expression cassette was
E. coli (29). Despite these impressive applications, yeast     assembled by overlap extension PCR (OE-PCR) (31).
in vivo homologous recombination has not been used to          Following electrophoresis, the OE-PCR product was indi-
assemble multiple-gene biochemical pathways in a one-          vidually gel-purified from a 0.7% agarose gel using Qiagen
step fashion either on a plasmid or on a chromosome.           Gel Purification kit (Valencia, CA). Each individual gene
   As proof of concept, we used DNA assembler to rapidly       cassette (2.1–3.7 kb, 300 ng) was mixed with the linearized
assemble three distinct functional biochemical pathways        pRS426m (6.3 kb, 500 ng) or pRS416m (5.5 kb, 500 ng)
with sizes ranging from 9 to 19 kb on both a plasmid           and precipitated with ethanol. The resulting DNA pellet
and a chromosome. This method is highly efficient and            was air-dried and resuspended in 4 ml Milli-Q double deio-
circumvents the potential problems associated with the         nized water for transformation into S. cerevisiae. To per-
conventional cloning method, representing a versatile          form one-step integration targeting the d sites on yeast
approach for the construction of biochemical pathways          chromosomes, DNA mixture of individual cassettes
for synthetic biology, metabolic engineering and func-         together with the fragment, d1-hisG-ura3-hisG, digested
tional genomics studies.                                       from pddUB with BamHI and XhoI, was used to trans-
                                                               form S. cerevisiae.
MATERIALS AND METHODS                                          Yeast transformation
Microorganisms, plasmids, reagents and media
                                                               Yeast transformation was performed by electroporation.
S. cerevisiae YSG50 (MATa, ade2-1, ade3Á22, ura3-1,            YPAD medium (50 ml) was inoculated with a 0.5 ml over-
his3-11,15, trp1-1, leu2-3,112 and can1-100) was used as       night S. cerevisiae YSG50 culture and shaken at 308C and
the host for DNA assembly and integration. The pRS426          250 rpm for 4–5 h until OD600 reached 0.8–1.0. Yeast cells
and pRS416 plasmid (New England Biolabs, Beverly,              were harvested by centrifugation at 48C and 4000 rpm for
MA) were modified by incorporating the hisG and partial         5 min. The supernatant was discarded and the cell pellet
d sequence (d2) that flank the multiple cloning site and        was washed with 50 ml ice-cold Milli-Q double-deionized
serve as the vectors for assembly of various pathways          water, followed by another wash with cold 1 M sorbitol
(Supplementary Figure 1). The resulting pRS426m                and finally resuspended in 250 ml cold sorbitol. An aliquot
and pRS416m were linearized by BamHI. The d1-hisG-             of 50 ml of yeast cells together with 4 ml DNA mixture was
ura3-hisG fragment was cut from pddUB (30) with                electroporated in a 0.2 cm cuvette at 1.5 kV. The trans-
BamHI and XhoI. Plasmid containing the cDNA                    formed cells were immediately mixed with 1 ml room tem-
(psXKS1) encoding D-xylulokinase (XKS) was a gift              perature YPAD medium and shaken at 308C for 1 h.
from T.W. Jeffries, University of Wisconsin, Madison.           Following that, the cells were harvested by centrifugation,
pCAR-ÁCrtX was kindly provided by E.T. Wurtzel at              washed with room temperature 1 M sorbitol several times
the City University of New York, which contains CrtE,          to remove the remaining medium and finally resuspended
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in 1 ml sorbitol. Aliquots of 30–50 ml were spread on                    Colonies were picked into 2 ml SC-Ura liquid medium
SC-Ura plates for the selection of the transformants,                    supplemented with 2% glucose and grown for 1–2 days.
and the plates were incubated at 308C for 2–4 days until                 Cells were spun down and washed with 1 ml
colonies appeared. Colonies were randomly picked to                      SC-Ura+xylose medium three times to remove the
SC-Ura liquid medium and grown for 1 day, after                          remaining glucose and finally resuspended in 1 ml
which yeast plasmid was isolated using Zymoprep II                       SC-Ura+xylose. The resuspended cells were normalized
Yeast plasmid Miniprep kit (Zymo Research, CA), and                      to an OD600 of 0.1 in 3 ml of fresh SC-Ura+xylose
genomic DNA was prepared using Wizard Genomic                            medium. Cells were grown at 308C for 192 h and OD600
DNA isolation kit from Promega (Madison, WI).                            was measured every 24 h.
                                                                            Zeaxanthin was extracted with acetone from
PCR analysis of the assembled pathways                                   S. cerevisiae bearing either the five-gene pathway, the
For each pathway, confirmation of the correct DNA                         eight-gene pathway, or the control with an empty
assembly was performed by PCR amplification of each                       vector. Briefly, cells from 250 ml culture were collected
gene cassette from the isolated yeast plasmids and the                   by centrifugation, resuspended with 5 ml acetone and
genomic DNAs. Generally, the PCRs were carried out in                    passed through French press several times at 10 000 psi.
20 ml reaction mixture consisting of 10 ml FailSafeTM PCR                Supernatants were collected after centrifugation and
2Â PreMix G from Epicentre Biotechnologies (Madison,                     evaporated to dryness. After resuspension in 0.5–1 ml
WI), 0.5 pmol of each primer, 1 ml yeast plasmid or geno-                methanol, 100 ml of sample was loaded onto the Agilent
mic DNA and 0.4 U Phusion DNA polymerase for 35                          ZORBAX SB-C18 column and analyzed at 450 nm on an
cycles on a PTC-200 Thermal Cycler (MJ Research,                         Agilent 1100 series HPLC (Agilent Technologies,
Watertown, MA). Each cycle consisted of 10 s at 988C,                    Palo Alto, CA). The solvent program with a 0.5 ml/min
30 s at 588C and 3 min at 728C, with a final extension of                 flow rate was as follows: 0–3 min, 60% CH3OH; 3–15 min,
10 min.                                                                  linear gradient from 60% CH3OH to 100% CH3OH;
                                                                         15–17 min, 100% CH3OH; 17–20 min, linear gradient
Physical characterization of recombinant clones                          from 100% CH3OH to 60% CH3OH. Authentic
                                                                         zeaxanthin from Sigma (St Louis, MO) was used as a
Yeast plasmids were transformed to E. coli strain                        standard.
BW25141 and selected on Luria Broth (LB) agar plates
supplemented with 100 mg/ml ampicillin. Colonies were
inoculated into 3 ml LB medium supplemented with                         RESULTS
100 mg/ml ampicillin, and plasmids were isolated from
the liquid culture using the plasmid miniprep kit from                   Design of the DNA assembler method
Qiagen (Valencia, CA). Plasmids isolated from E. coli                    As proof of concept, we sought to design and construct
were then subjected to restriction digestion by BamHI                    various multiple-gene biosynthetic pathways. As shown in
and EcoRI, after which the reaction mixtures were                        Scheme 1, for each individual gene in a pathway, an
loaded to 1% agarose gels to check the correct restriction               expression cassette including a promoter, a structural
digestion pattern by DNA electrophoresis.                                gene and a terminator is PCR-amplified and assembled
                                                                         using OE-PCR (31). The 50 -end of the first gene expression
Functional analysis of the assembled pathways
                                                                         cassette is designed to overlap with a vector (or a helper
The recombinant S. cerevisiae carrying the D-xylose utili-               fragment carrying a selection marker and a sequence shar-
zation pathway was analyzed by monitoring the cell                       ing homology with a targeted locus of a chromosome for
growth in SC-Ura liquid medium supplemented with 2%                      integration), while the 30 -end is designed to overlap with
D-xylose (SC-Ura+xylose) as the sole carbon source.                      the second cassette. Each successive cassette is designed to


         (a)                   2m                                  (b)                                               n−2
                                                                                    2
                                                                              X           X                  X        X

                                                                                                  3
                                                                     1                                                          n−1
        amp                                            ura3
                                    vector
                                                                                  helper fragment
                                                                             X     ura3 hisG d1          d2      n    X

                                                                             hisG
                   1                         n−1
                       X       X              X
                           2                       n                                                d site                 chromosome

Scheme 1. A one-step method for assembly and integration of a biochemical pathway using in vivo homologous recombination in S. cerevisiae. (a)
One-step assembly into a vector. (b) One-step integration to a d site on a S. cerevisiae chromosome. n represents the number of DNA fragments.
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              (a)                                            PGK1p
                                                      ADH1t                                             CYC1t                       ADH2t
                      HisG   ADH1p                  XR                                     XDH                  PYK1p         XKS          Delta2
                      C1-f                                   C2-f                              C3-f



                                                                    C1-r                              C2-r                          C3-r
                                           C1 (3263 bp)                                                             C3 (3876 bp)

                                                                                C2 (2477 bp)



              (b)                                                                               (c)
                      D-xylose    utilization (p)         D-xylose   utilization (c)
                      M      C1       C2      C3               C1          C2      C3


              4 kb-
              3 kb-
              2 kb-

              1 kb-




Figure 1. Construction of the D-xylose utilization pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. (a) The assembled D-xylose utilization pathway with its
corresponding verification primers; (b) PCR analysis of the assembled D-xylose utilization pathway on a plasmid [D-xylose utilization (p), using
pRS426m as a backbone] and on a chromosome [D-xylose utilization (c), integrated to the d site(s)]. M represents 1 kb DNA ladder from Invitrogen;
(c) Growth of S. cerevisiae strains carrying D-xylose utilization pathway using D-xylose as the sole carbon source. Cells carrying the empty vector
pRS426 were used as the negative control.



overlap with the two flanking ones, and the 30 -end of the                                  containing synthetic complete drop-out medium lacking
last cassette overlaps with the vector (or the targeted locus                              uracil (SC-Ura). In parallel, a 4.7-kb integration fragment
of the chromosome for integration). All overlaps are                                       d1-hisG-ura3-hisG, carrying a ura3 selection marker and
designed to have >40 bp for efficient in vivo homolo-                                        d sequence that is homologous to the partial sequence of
gous recombination. The resulting multiple expression                                      the d sites on the chromosome of S. cerevisiae, was gener-
cassettes are co-transformed into S. cerevisiae with the                                   ated from the d-integration vector pddUB (30) via BamHI
linearized vector (or the helper fragment) through electro-                                and XhoI digestion and then co-transformed with
poration, which allows the entire pathway to be either                                     the hisG-ADH1p-XR-ADH1t, PGK1p-XDH-CYC1t and
assembled into a vector or integrated onto the                                             PYK1p-XKS-ADH2t-d2 cassettes into S. cerevisiae.
chromosome.                                                                                The two repeated hisG sequences in the d1-hisG-
                                                                                           ura3-hisG fragment could be used for excising ura3 from
Construction of a three-gene D-xylose utilization pathway                                  the chromosome and thus recycling the marker using
                                                                                           5-fluoroorotic acid counter selection (30). Typically,
We first applied the DNA assembler method to construct                                      100–150 colonies appeared after 2–3 days of incubation
the known D-xylose utilization pathway consisting of                                       at 308C and then were randomly picked for plasmid or
xylose reductase, xylitol dehydrogenase from N. crassa                                     genomic DNA isolation. In order to confirm the correct
(32) and XKS from Pichia stipitis (33). The vector                                         assembly and integration, a comprehensive set of PCR
pRS426m, which was created by incorporating a hisG                                         was performed. As shown in Figure 1a, three pairs of
sequence and a d2 sequence in the pRS426, a 2 mm multi-                                    primers annealing to the corresponding two overlap
ple copy vector (unpublished data), was used and linear-                                   regions flanking each cassette were used as verification
ized with BamHI (Supplementary Figure 1). Promoters                                        primers (Supplementary Table 2). A correct assembly
and terminators were PCR-amplified from the genomic                                         (both plasmid based and chromosome based) would gen-
DNA of S. cerevisiae. Individual cassettes, hisG-ADH1p-                                    erate all three expected PCR products (Figure 1b). In
XR-ADH1t, PGK1p-XDH-CYC1t and PYK1p-XKS-                                                   order to determine the assembly efficiency, 10 colonies
ADH2t-d2, were assembled by OE-PCR, purified by                                             were randomly picked and checked by PCR. For
agrose gel electrophoresis and mixed with the linearized                                   both plasmid-based DNA assembly and chromosome
vector. After precipitation in ethanol, the mixture was                                    based DNA assembly, high efficiencies (80–100%)
re-dissolved in ddH2O and co-transformed into                                              were obtained for all three different lengths of overlaps
S. cerevisiae by electroporation and spread onto plates                                    and use of longer overlaps (125 bp and 270–430 bp)
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Table 1. The efficiency of one-step DNA assembly (using pRS426m as          overlap regions between adjacent gene expression cassettes
a backbone) and integration of three-, five- and eight-gene pathways for   had little effect on the efficiency.
D-xylose utilization, zeaxanthin biosynthesis and the combined D-xylose
                                                                            S. cerevisiae strains containing the zeaxanthin biosyn-
utilization and zeaxanthin biosynthesis, respectively, with different
                                                                          thetic pathway (plasmid based and chromosome based)
lengths of overlap
                                                                          were grown in SC-Ura medium at 308C for 72 h for pro-
                                      Length of the overlap (bp)          duction of zeaxanthin. Following the experimental proce-
                                                                          dures reported elsewhere (38,39), the cells were collected
                                $50          $125          270–430        by centrifuge and subjected to acetone extraction several
                                                                          times before evaporation to dryness. The extracts were
Three-gene pathway
  Plasmid-based (%)             100          90             80
                                                                          then re-dissolved in methanol and analyzed by HPLC.
  Chromosome-based (%)           80          80            100            When monitored at 450 nm, a peak appeared at
Five-gene pathway                                                         19.9 min, consistent with the elution time of authentic
  Plasmid-based (%)              80          60             80            zeaxanthin, whereas no such peak was observed for the
  Chromosome-based (%)           80          70             80            cell extracts from the strains carrying the empty pRS426
Eight-gene pathway                                                        vector (Figure 2c).
  Plasmid-based (%)              20          50             40
  Chromosome-based (%)           10          60             70
                                                                          Construction of a combined eight-gene D-xylose utilization
For each pathway, 10 clones were randomly picked and analyzed.
                                                                          and zeaxanthin biosynthetic pathway
                                                                          To further demonstrate the capacity and versatility of
between the adjacent cassettes seems not to be necessary                  DNA assembler on constructing even longer biochemical
(Table 1).                                                                pathways, the two above-mentioned pathways, the
                                                                          D-xylose utilization pathway and the zeaxanthin biosyn-
  The function of the assembled D-xylose utilization path-
way was analyzed by growing the strains containing the                    thesis pathway, were combined and assembled onto one
D-xylose utilization pathway in SC-Ura medium supple-
                                                                          vector or integrated onto a d site of the chromosome as a
mented with D-xylose instead of D-glucose. Note that,                     single piece of DNA. Eight gene cassettes including
in contrast to S. cerevisiae, which is unable to ferment                  hisG-ADH1p-XR-ADH1t, PGK1p-XDH-CYC1t, PYK1p-
D-xylose directly, S. cerevisiae expressing XR, XDH and
                                                                          XKS-ADH2t, TEF1p-CrtE-PGIt, HXT7p-CrtB-TPI1t,
                                                                          TEF2p-CrtI-FBA1t, FBA1p-CrtY-ENO2t and PDC1p-
XKS can use D-xylose as the sole carbon source (34,35).
                                                                          CrtZ-TDH2t-d2 were constructed by OE-PCR and
As shown in Figure 1c, only the strains carrying the whole
                                                                          co-transformed to S. cerevisiae with the linearized vector
D-xylose utilization pathway either assembled into the
                                                                          or the d1-hisG-ura3-hisG fragment. Typically, 30–50 colo-
vector or integrated onto the chromosome were able to
                                                                          nies appeared after 2–3 days of incubation at 308C and
grow on D-xylose, while the S. cerevisiae containing the
                                                                          then were randomly picked for plasmid or genomic DNA
empty pRS426 did not grow.
                                                                          isolation. Eight PCRs were performed to confirm the cor-
                                                                          rect assembly (Figure 3a and b, and Supplementary
Construction of a five-gene zeaxanthin biosynthetic pathway               Table 2). The total size of the combined eight-gene
                                                                          pathway is around 19 kb (or 23.7 kb when the 4.7 kb
We then extended the DNA assembler method to con-                         d1-hisG-Ura3-hisG helper fragment is used). The efficiency
struct the five-gene zeaxanthin biosynthetic pathway                       of DNA assembly decreased dramatically with a shorter
from E. uredovora (36–38). The individual cassettes,                      overlap (50 bp), as indicated in Table 1 (10–20%). How-
hisG-TEF1p-CrtE-PGIt, HXT7p-CrtB-TPI1t, TEF2p-                            ever, for longer overlaps, 125 bp and 270–430 bp, a much
CrtI-FBA1t, FBA1p-CrtY-ENO2t and PDC1p-CrtZ-                              higher efficiency (40–70%) was obtained. Thus, it seems
TDH2t-d2 were prepared by OE-PCR. The total size of                       that unlike the short pathways, the dependence of the effi-
the five-gene pathway is 10.6 kb, and the entire pathway                   ciency of DNA assembly on the length of the overlap
was assembled into the pRS426m or the S. cerevisiae chro-                 becomes more significant with the increase of the
mosome in a one-step fashion within a week. Typically,                    number of the DNA fragments co-transformed into
50–80 colonies appeared after 2–3 days of incubation at                   S. cerevisiae.
308C and then were randomly picked for plasmid or geno-                      S. cerevisiae strains containing the combined D-xylose
mic DNA isolation. To confirm the correct assembly, five                    utilization and zeaxanthin biosynthesis pathway were
PCRs were performed using the verification primers                         grown in SC-Ura medium supplemented with 2%
(Figure 2a and Supplementary Table 2 online). Various                     D-xylose as the sole carbon source for D-xylose utilization.
lengths of overlap regions were tested, and 10 colonies                   As shown in Figure 3c, S. cerevisiae bearing the combined
were picked from each group to determine the assembly                     pathway either on the plasmid or integrated to the chro-
efficiency. The correct assembly exhibited all five expected                 mosome were able to grow, in contrast to the strain carry-
bands obtained from PCR on a DNA agarose gel                              ing an empty pRS426 vector. In addition, as shown by
(Figure 2b). The efficiency of one-step assembly of this                    HPLC analysis (Figure 3d), zeaxanthin was detected
five-gene pathway is summarized in Table 1. Similar to                     from the strains carrying the combined pathway, suggest-
the efficiency of assembling three-gene D-xylose utilization                ing the presence of a functional zeaxanthin biosynthesis
pathway, the efficiency is high (60–80%) and longer                         pathway.
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   (a)                          HXT7p                TPI1t                                                                 PDC1p
                      CrtE                                       TEF2p                                 CrtY      ENO2t
          TEF1p                                                                     FBA1t
                               PGIt                                                                                            Crt Z
                                              CrtB                  CrtI
         HisG                                                                               FBA1p                                   TDH2t
          B1-f                 B2-f                B3-f                      B4-f                      B5-f                                Delta2



                                      B1-r                B2-r                      B3-r                      B4-r                  B5-r

                     B1 (2210 bp)                                B3 (2838 bp)                                        B5 (2293 bp)
                                           B2 (2125 bp)                                     B4 (2769 bp)


   (b)               zeaxanthin biosynthesis (p)                   (c)

                 M    B1     B2       B3     B4      B5


      4 kb-
      3 kb-
      2 kb-
      1 kb-




                     zeaxanthin biosynthesis (c)
                 M    B1     B2       B3     B4      B5


      4 kb-
      3 kb-
      2 kb-

      1 kb-




Figure 2. Construction of the zeaxanthin biosynthesis pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. (a) The assembled zeaxanthin biosynthesis pathway with
its corresponding verification primers; (b) PCR analysis of the assembled zeaxanthin biosynthesis pathway on a plasmid [zeaxanthin biosynthesis (p),
using pRS426m as a backbone] and on a chromosome [zeaxanthin biosynthesis (c), integrated to the d site(s)]. M represents 1 kb DNA ladder from
Invitrogen; (c) HPLC analysis of the cell extracts from S. cerevisiae carrying the zeaxanthin biosynthesis pathway. Cells carrying the empty vector
pRS426 were used as the negative control.


The use of single-copy plasmid as a vehicle for                             clones on the same E. coli transformation plate all
DNA assembly                                                                showed the same restriction digestion pattern on the agar-
It was noticed that sometimes there was heterogeneity                       ose gel (data not shown), indicating a single form of plas-
                                                                            mid was maintained in each yeast transformant. The E.
in the plasmids even though single yeast colonies were
                                                                            coli plasmids were then subjected to restriction digestion
analyzed (data not shown). We reasoned that the DNA
                                                                            by BamHI and EcoRI. As shown in Figure 4, 6 of 10
fragments and the vector could be assembled in more than
                                                                            clones exhibited the expected restriction digestion pattern
one fashion and the assembled plasmids could be main-
                                                                            (five bands: 2233, 2551, 3218, 4454 and 11 386 bp) for both
tained within the cell, because pRS426 is a multiple-copy
                                                                            $125 bp and 270–430-bp overlaps, and 2 of 10 clones
plasmid.
                                                                            exhibited the expected restriction digestion pattern for
   To address this issue, we sought to use a single-copy
                                                                            $50 bp overlap, resulting in an assembly efficiency similar
vector, pRS416m, containing a centromere and an auton-
                                                                            to that when pRS426m was used.
omously replicating sequence for DNA assembly. The
eight-gene pathway with various lengths of overlaps was
chosen as a model system, and the same experiments were
performed using the linearized pRS416m as the backbone.                     DISCUSSION
Yeast plasmids were isolated and transformed into E. coli                   Unlike the conventional cloning approach that relies on
strain BW25141, after which multiple colonies were                          site-specific digestion and ligation, homologous recombi-
picked from each plate. The plasmids isolated from the                      nation aligns complementary sequences and enables the
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 (a)
                                   CYC1t PYK1p                                PGIt                    FBA1t                                     ENO2t
                                                         TEF1p         CrtE               HXT7p
                                 XDH                                                            TPI1t                        FBA1p                PDC1p
                    PGK1p                                                                  CrtB
       ADH1p       ADH1t                             ADH2t                                       TEF2p                           CrtY               Crt Z
                                                                                                                                                      TDH2t
 HisG               XR                            XKS                                                       CrtI                                          Delta2
       A1-f              A2-f            A3-f                 A4-f          A5-f              A6-f            A7-f                A8-f



                              A1-r         A2-r                      A3-r          A4-r          A5-r              A6-r                  A7-r        A8-r

                                 A2 (2477 bp)                         A4 (2303 bp)                    A6 (2838 bp)                        A8 (2293 bp)
               A1 (3263 bp)                       A3 (3705 bp)                      A5 (2125 bp)                          A7 (2769 bp)



 (b)                      combined pathway (p)                                                           combined pathway (c)
               M   A1    A2 A3 A4 A5 A6                  A7      A8                       M     A1      A2 A3 A4 A5 A6                          A7   A8

       4 kb-                                                                  4 kb-
       3 kb-                                                                  3 kb-
       2 kb-                                                                  2 kb-

       1 kb-                                                                  1 kb-




 (c)                                                                           (d)




Figure 3. Construction of the combined D-xylose utilization and zeaxanthin biosynthesis pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. (a) The assembled
combined D-xylose utilization and zeaxanthin biosynthesis pathway with its corresponding verification primers; (b) PCR analysis of the assembled
combined D-xylose utilization and zeaxanthin biosynthesis pathway on a plasmid [combined pathway (p), using pRS426m as a backbone] and on a
chromosome [combined pathway (c), integrated to the d site(s)]. M represents 1 kb DNA ladder from Invitrogen; (c) Growth of S. cerevisiae strains
carrying the combined pathway using D-xylose as the sole carbon source; (d) HPLC analysis of the cell extracts from S. cerevisiae carrying the
combined pathway. Cells carrying the empty vector pRS426 were used as the negative control.



exchange between homologous fragments. Homologous                                    (b) compared to the two related methods including the
recombination is much more efficient in yeast than in bac-                             SLIC method and the domino method, DNA assembler
teria and other higher eukaryotes. Therefore, it has been                            is the most rapid and efficient approach to construct large
exploited as one of the most important tools in gene clon-                           recombinant DNA molecules; (c) unlike the SLIC method
ing, site-specific mutagenesis, plasmid construction and                              and the domino method, DNA assembler can be used to
target gene disruption and deletion (13,18–22). In this                              construct custom-designed DNA molecules not only on a
report, we further extended its application to assemble                              plasmid but also on a chromosome. The latter enables the
biochemical pathways in a single step.                                               exogenous DNA stably maintained in the cell and has
   The novelty of this DNA assembler method lies on the                              the potential to assemble a very large biochemical path-
following aspects: (a) it is the first demonstration of yeast                         way or even a whole genome.
in vivo homologous recombination in assembling multiple-                                Similar to E. coli, because of its well-characterized phys-
gene biochemical pathways in a single step, which distin-                            iology and genetics and ample genetic tools, S. cerevisiae
guishes it from routine single-gene plasmid construction;                            has been widely used as a platform organism for
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                          M   1   2   3    4   5    M        M    1     2    3    4     5    M     M    1     2   3    4     5   M
                12.0 kb
                 4.0 kb
                 3.0 kb
                 2.0 kb




                                                                                                  M    6     7    8    9 10 M
                          M   6   7   8    9   10   M         M    6     7    8   9     10   M    M    6      7    8    9 10 M




                              270–430 bp overlap                      ~125 bp overlap                       ~50 bp overlap

Figure 4. Physical characterization of the recombinant clones using pRS416m as a backbone through restriction digestion. Plasmids corresponding to
the clones from the eight-gene pathway with $50 bp, $125 bp and 270–430 bp overlaps were digested by BamHI and EcoRI. The correct clones
should exhibit five bands with sizes of 2233, 2551, 3218, 4454 and 11 386 bp.



heterologous expression of biochemical pathways in the                       pRS426m-xylose-zeaxanthin. We found that short repeats
fields of pathway engineering and metabolic engineering                       are very common in such a 24.6-kb DNA molecule. As
(1–5). In contrast to the conventional techniques for path-                  shown in Supplementary Table 3, 7 sequences with a
way cloning, DNA assembler avoids repeated cycles of                         length of 14 bp appeared twice, which were widely distrib-
multiple-step cloning, does not rely on the restriction                      uted among promoters, terminators and structural genes.
digestion and in vitro ligation and takes only 1–2 weeks                     In addition, 29 sequences (13 bp), 76 sequences (12 bp),
to assemble multiple DNA fragments into S. cerevisiae                        197 sequences (11 bp) and 527 sequences (10 bp) were
either on a plasmid or on a chromosome. It simply takes                      found to occur at least twice in the same molecule.
the advantage of the pre-existing homologous recombina-                      These abundant repeats up to 14 bp did not appear to
tion machinery in yeast and thus does not require any                        be problematic in our experiment considering that assem-
exogenous recombinase.                                                       bling efficiencies of 40–70%, 50–60% and 10–20% were
   In addition, unlike the recently reported in vitro SLIC                   obtained with 270–430-bp, $125-bp and $50-bp overlaps,
recombination method that requires T4 DNA polymerase                         respectively. Previous homologous recombination-based
and RecA recombinase to treat the DNA substrates before                      gene-cloning experiments by other groups indicated the
transformation (11), DNA assembler only requires simple                      length of overlap required for efficient recombination
DNA preparation via PCR and one-step yeast transfor-                         between two DNA fragments: 40-bp overlaps yielded an
mation and yet yields a much higher assembly efficiency                        efficiency of greater than 90% (18,19,40). The efficiency
than the SLIC method. As shown in our report, for a                          was slightly reduced using 30-bp overlaps ($80%) and
shorter pathway (3–5 genes, $10 kb), a very high efficiency                    rapidly dropped to 3.4% when 20-bp overlaps were used
of 80–100% was obtained with a $50-bp overlap, while                         (40). Similarly, in terms of deletions, Manivasakam and
for a longer pathway (8 genes, $19 kb), a relatively high                    coworkers (22) studied the length of a repeat required for
efficiency of 40–70% was achieved with a slightly longer                       targeted deletion. A repeat of a 45 bp, a 30 bp and a 25 bp
overlap ($125–430 bp). In addition, for a long pathway,                      resulted in efficiencies of 84%, 54% and 4%, respectively
increasing the ratio between the inserts and the backbone                    (22). In addition, Langle-Rouault and Jacobs reported
could further improve the assembly efficiency. For exam-                       that selection of marker excision failed using 25-bp
ple, the eight-gene pathway was reassembled with a                           direct repeats (21). All these studies suggest that the effi-
$50-bp overlap. The amount of the inserts was doubled                        ciency of recombination-based deletions is fairly low when
while the amount of the linearized vector was maintained                     repeats of shorter than 25 bp are involved. It should also
(i.e. 600 ng of each insert was combined with 500 ng of                      be noted that in all these mentioned experiments, a select-
the linearized vector). As a result, more colonies on the                    able marker was used to specifically select the deletion
SC-Ura plates were observed, and an assembly efficiency                        event, and the efficiency was calculated based on the per-
of as high as 70% was obtained, compared with the effi-                        centage of the correct deletions among all the transfor-
ciency of 20% when lower amount of the inserts was used.                     mants. Therefore, short repeats (<25 bp) in a long DNA
This indicates that DNA assembler could efficiently                            molecule should not cause too much trouble, especially
assemble a large DNA molecule even with a short overlap                      because such a deletion event is not specifically selected,
by manipulating the ratio between the inserts and the                        making the chance even much lower. When the repeats
vector backbone.                                                             become longer (>25 bp, but not too long), the recombina-
   It is possible that deletions may be caused by a repeat                   tion between the repeats will likely compete with the
or repeats in the DNA fragments. To address this                             recombination between the overlaps at the ends of each
concern, we examined the existence of repeats in                             fragment in the assembling process. In this case, a longer
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overlap (>100 bp) will benefit the recombination between        their native hosts to S. cerevisiae will be no longer limited
the ends. The deletion between repeats could happen, but       by the size of the pathways. For example, a biochemical
the chance will be several orders of magnitude lower than      pathway composed of 30–50 genes (around 100–200 kb)
the above efficiency considering that no selection is used in    could be integrated to the chromosome of S. cerevisiae
such a deletion process. Of special note, we recently devel-   within several weeks. Of course, when a biochemical path-
oped an efficient method for gene deletions in yeast, and        way is very long, PCR-introduced mutations may become
we studied the length of the repeats required to yield         a concern even though high-fidelity DNA polymerases are
decent deletion efficiencies (41). Our results showed that       used. Note that this concern is also common to other
25-bp repeats are not sufficient to generate deletions. It       reported DNA assembly methods using high-fidelity poly-
should be noted that when the repeats become very long         merases such as the Phusion polymerase (with a very low
(>100 bp), the deletion event may occur with a higher          error rate, 4.4 Â 10À7) should greatly reduce the mutation
efficiency. However, such long repeats are not common            frequency. Fortunately, with the development of new
in a typical biochemical pathway. If long repeats exist in     powerful DNA sequencing technologies, validation of
structural genes, silent mutations may be incorporated         the correctly assembled long biochemical pathway by
during the fragment preparation process in order to            DNA sequencing is no longer a burden in terms of time
reduce the length of the repeated regions.                     and cost. For example, the recently developed 454
   In our studies, S. cerevisiae YSG50 was used as a host      sequencing technology (Roche, Branford, CT) supports
for DNA assembly and integration. This strain carries a        the sequencing of samples from a wide variety of starting
ura3-1 point mutation on its genome, which may be con-         materials including genomic DNA, PCR products, BACs
verted to wild type by the ura3 gene in the pRS626m            and cDNA (http://www.454.com/). And it costs less than
vector (or in the helper fragment). To address this con-       $15K to sequence the entire genome of a microorganism
cern, we also tested a strain HZ848 with a complete dele-      of typical size ($6 Mb) within a few days.
tion of ura3 (the strain HZ848 was obtained by deleting           In principle, this method may be even used to assemble
the ura3 gene in YSG50). The same amount of DNA mix-           a DNA molecule as large as an entire chromosome or
ture (eight DNA fragments plus the digested vector) was        genome. As a matter of fact, Gibson and coworkers’ suc-
transformed to YSG50 and HZ848, and in parallel, the           cess in the construction of the entire M. genitalium genome
same amount of the linearized vector was transformed to        from 101 fragments (29) indicates that it is possible to
both strains as controls.                                      assemble a DNA molecule as large as a genome from
   Similar numbers of colonies were obtained in the two        short DNA fragments using DNA assembler. Also, in
samples (42 for YSG50 versus 38 for HZ848), whereas            addition to assembling biochemical pathways and gen-
only two colonies appeared in both controls. That the          omes, DNA assembler has many other applications
same number of colonies appeared in both controls sug-         such as library creation in combinatorial biology and con-
gested that the vector had not been completely digested.       struction of complicated DNA molecules in the field of
Although it is possible that the chromosomal gene ura3-1       synthetic biology.
may be converted to wild type, it should occur at a very
low frequency (<10À6). In comparison, the frequency of
DNA assembly was estimated to be 5.7 Â 10À6 ($40 colo-         SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
nies appearing on the Sc-Ura plates from 7 Â 106 cells),       Supplementary Data are available at NAR Online.
which is relatively high. Ten clones from both of YSG50
transformants and HZ88 transformants were selected for
further analysis. Of 10, 5 YSG50 transformants and 4 of        ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
10 HZ848 transformants were correct, indicating that for       We thank N. U. Nair, R. P. Sullivan, M. McLachlan
a biochemical pathway consisting of up to eight genes,         and T. Johannes for valuable discussion. We thank
there is no advantage to use a strain with a complete dele-    F. H. Arnold, P. Orlean, T. W. Jeffries, E. T. Wurtzel
tion of ura3. However, when the assembly efficiency drops        and N. A. Da Silva for providing plasmids and yeast
to a similar level with that of the reversion rate of ura3-1   strains.
back to wild type, using a strain with ura3 completely
deleted might become advantageous. Such scenario may
occur when a much longer biochemical pathway is                FUNDING
assembled.
   It should be noted that DNA assembler has the poten-        This work was supported by National Institutes of Health
tial to assemble much longer biochemical pathways in           (GM077596). Funding for open access charge: National
S. cerevisiae. Conceptually, a long biochemical pathway        Institutes of Health (GM077596).
can be split into several segments (8–10 genes each) that      Conflict of interest statement. None declared.
will be sequentially integrated into the yeast chromosome
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Dna assembly 2

  • 1. Published online 12 December 2008 Nucleic Acids Research, 2009, Vol. 37, No. 2 e16 doi:10.1093/nar/gkn991 DNA assembler, an in vivo genetic method for rapid construction of biochemical pathways Zengyi Shao1, Hua Zhao1 and Huimin Zhao1,2,* 1 Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and 2Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Bioengineering, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA Received April 9, 2008; Revised November 24, 2008; Accepted November 25, 2008 ABSTRACT generate new small molecules (9); whereas, in synthetic biology, complex combinations of genetic elements are The assembly of large recombinant DNA encoding used to create new circuits with desired properties (10). a whole biochemical pathway or genome In all these studies, the conventional multi-step, sequen- represents a significant challenge. Here, we report tial-cloning method, including primer design, PCR ampli- a new method, DNA assembler, which allows the fication, restriction digestion, in vitro ligation and assembly of an entire biochemical pathway in a transformation, is typically involved and multiple plas- single step via in vivo homologous recombination mids are often required (2,4). This method is not only in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We show that time consuming and inefficient but also relies on unique DNA assembler can rapidly assemble a functional restriction sites that become limited for large recombinant D-xylose utilization pathway (~9 kb DNA consisting DNA molecules. of three genes), a functional zeaxanthin biosynthe- To address these limitations, a new cloning method, sis pathway (~11 kb DNA consisting of five genes) sequence and ligation-independent cloning (SLIC), was recently reported (11). Using SLIC, up to 10 DNA frag- and a functional combined D-xylose utilization and ments including nine PCR-generated fragments of sizes zeaxanthin biosynthesis pathway (~19 kb consisting ranging between 274 and 980 bp and a 3.1-kb vector of eight genes) with high efficiencies (70–100%) were assembled into a recombinant DNA molecule using either on a plasmid or on a yeast chromosome. As in vitro homologous recombination. However, the success this new method only requires simple DNA prepara- rate was only 17% (7 of 42 Escherichia coli transformants tion and one-step yeast transformation, it repre- were proven to be correct), and the size of the recombi- sents a powerful tool in the construction of nant DNA was only approximately 8 kb. More recently, a biochemical pathways for synthetic biology, meta- protocol called the ‘domino method’ was developed to bolic engineering and functional genomics studies. construct a number of DNA pieces, known as ‘domino clones’, in a vector through in vivo homologous recombi- nation in Bacillus subtilis (12). Using two selection mark- ers alternatively, a 16.3-kb mouse mitochondrial genome INTRODUCTION and a 134.5-kb rice chloroplast genome were successfully Methods that enable design and rapid construction of bio- assembled. However, each ‘domino clone’ needs to be pre- chemical pathways will be invaluable in pathway engineer- pared in the vector first, and the whole assembly process is ing, metabolic engineering, combinatorial biology and carried out in a sequential manner, thus requiring a great synthetic biology. In pathway and metabolic engineering, amount of time and labor. complete biosynthetic pathways are often transferred Here, we developed a new method, called ‘DNA assem- from native hosts into heterologous organisms in order bler’, that enables design and rapid construction of to obtain products of interest at high yields (1–5). large biochemical pathways in one-step fashion by exploi- Consequently, gene expression needs to be balanced, pro- tation of in vivo homologous recombination mechanism in moter strength needs to be tuned and the endogenous reg- S. cerevisiae. Thanks to its high efficiency and ease to work ulatory network needs to be modified (6–8). In with, in vivo homologous recombination in yeast has been combinatorial biology, genes are rearranged in order to widely used for gene cloning, plasmid construction and *To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +1 217 333 2631; Fax: +1 217 333 5052; Email: zhao5@illinois.edu The authors wish it to be known that, in their opinion, the first two authors should be regarded as joint First Authors. ß 2008 The Author(s) This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/2.0/uk/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
  • 2. e16 Nucleic Acids Research, 2009, Vol. 37, No. 2 PAGE 2 OF 10 library creation (13–20). For example, Oldenburg and B, I, Y and Z from Erwinia uredovora for zeaxanthin bio- coworkers incorporated a linker of 30–40 bp, homologous synthesis. The restriction enzymes and Phusion DNA to a linearized yeast plasmid, into primers to PCR-amplify polymerase were purchased from the New England the target DNA. Co-transformation of the PCR products Biolabs. Yeast YPAD medium-containing 1% yeast and the plasmid into yeast resulted in homologous recom- extract, 2% peptone and 2% dextrose supplied with bination at a position directed by the PCR primers (18). 0.01% adenine hemisulphate was used to grow Raymond and coworkers (13,19) used synthetic, double- S. cerevisiae YSG50 strain. Synthetic complete drop-out stranded ‘recombination linkers’ to subclone a DNA frag- medium lacking uracil (SC-Ura) was used to select trans- ment, and counter-selection was later used to improve the formants or integrants containing the assembled biochem- efficiency of plasmid construction (19,20). Manivasakam ical pathways of interest. et al. and Langle-Rouault et al. further extended homol- ogous recombination into genome modification and deter- DNA manipulation mined the length of sequence homology required for To prepare individual gene expression cassettes, yeast pro- targeted gene integration and deletion (21,22). In addition, moters (ADH1p, 1500 bp; PGK1p, 750 bp; PYK1p, Larionov and coworkers (23–27) developed a transforma- 1000 bp, TEF1p, 412 bp; truncated HXT7p, 395 bp; tion-associated recombination cloning method in yeast, TEF2p, 560 bp; FBA1p, 820 bp; and PDC1p, 800 bp) and which was used to isolate large chromosomal fragments terminators (ADH1t, 327 bp; CYC1t, 250 bp; ADH2t, or entire gene clusters from complex genomes and to 400 bp; PGIt, 400 bp; TPI1t, 400 bp; FBA1t, 400 bp; assemble synthetic DNA arrays of long tandem repeats ENO2t, 400 bp; and TDH2t, 400 bp) were PCR-amplified up to 120 kb (28). Most recently, Gibson and coworkers individually from the genomic DNA isolated from described the construction of the entire Mycoplasma geni- S. cerevisiae YSG50 using the Wizard Genomic DNA iso- talium genome from 101 fragments. The assembly process lation kit from Promega (Madison, WI). The structural was partitioned to several rounds and in vitro recombina- genes XR and XDH were amplified from Neurospora tion followed by transformation into E. coli was used to crassa cDNA, and the structural genes including XKS, assemble the synthetic cassettes. In the final step, the com- CrtE, CrtB, CrtI, CrtY and CrtZ were amplified from plete synthetic genome was assembled by transformation- the corresponding plasmids. HisG and d2 were amplified associated recombination cloning in yeast when the size from pddUB. All the primers are listed in Supplementary of the synthetic molecule became too big to be stable in Table 1. Each individual gene expression cassette was E. coli (29). Despite these impressive applications, yeast assembled by overlap extension PCR (OE-PCR) (31). in vivo homologous recombination has not been used to Following electrophoresis, the OE-PCR product was indi- assemble multiple-gene biochemical pathways in a one- vidually gel-purified from a 0.7% agarose gel using Qiagen step fashion either on a plasmid or on a chromosome. Gel Purification kit (Valencia, CA). Each individual gene As proof of concept, we used DNA assembler to rapidly cassette (2.1–3.7 kb, 300 ng) was mixed with the linearized assemble three distinct functional biochemical pathways pRS426m (6.3 kb, 500 ng) or pRS416m (5.5 kb, 500 ng) with sizes ranging from 9 to 19 kb on both a plasmid and precipitated with ethanol. The resulting DNA pellet and a chromosome. This method is highly efficient and was air-dried and resuspended in 4 ml Milli-Q double deio- circumvents the potential problems associated with the nized water for transformation into S. cerevisiae. To per- conventional cloning method, representing a versatile form one-step integration targeting the d sites on yeast approach for the construction of biochemical pathways chromosomes, DNA mixture of individual cassettes for synthetic biology, metabolic engineering and func- together with the fragment, d1-hisG-ura3-hisG, digested tional genomics studies. from pddUB with BamHI and XhoI, was used to trans- form S. cerevisiae. MATERIALS AND METHODS Yeast transformation Microorganisms, plasmids, reagents and media Yeast transformation was performed by electroporation. S. cerevisiae YSG50 (MATa, ade2-1, ade3Á22, ura3-1, YPAD medium (50 ml) was inoculated with a 0.5 ml over- his3-11,15, trp1-1, leu2-3,112 and can1-100) was used as night S. cerevisiae YSG50 culture and shaken at 308C and the host for DNA assembly and integration. The pRS426 250 rpm for 4–5 h until OD600 reached 0.8–1.0. Yeast cells and pRS416 plasmid (New England Biolabs, Beverly, were harvested by centrifugation at 48C and 4000 rpm for MA) were modified by incorporating the hisG and partial 5 min. The supernatant was discarded and the cell pellet d sequence (d2) that flank the multiple cloning site and was washed with 50 ml ice-cold Milli-Q double-deionized serve as the vectors for assembly of various pathways water, followed by another wash with cold 1 M sorbitol (Supplementary Figure 1). The resulting pRS426m and finally resuspended in 250 ml cold sorbitol. An aliquot and pRS416m were linearized by BamHI. The d1-hisG- of 50 ml of yeast cells together with 4 ml DNA mixture was ura3-hisG fragment was cut from pddUB (30) with electroporated in a 0.2 cm cuvette at 1.5 kV. The trans- BamHI and XhoI. Plasmid containing the cDNA formed cells were immediately mixed with 1 ml room tem- (psXKS1) encoding D-xylulokinase (XKS) was a gift perature YPAD medium and shaken at 308C for 1 h. from T.W. Jeffries, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Following that, the cells were harvested by centrifugation, pCAR-ÁCrtX was kindly provided by E.T. Wurtzel at washed with room temperature 1 M sorbitol several times the City University of New York, which contains CrtE, to remove the remaining medium and finally resuspended
  • 3. PAGE 3 OF 10 Nucleic Acids Research, 2009, Vol. 37, No. 2 e16 in 1 ml sorbitol. Aliquots of 30–50 ml were spread on Colonies were picked into 2 ml SC-Ura liquid medium SC-Ura plates for the selection of the transformants, supplemented with 2% glucose and grown for 1–2 days. and the plates were incubated at 308C for 2–4 days until Cells were spun down and washed with 1 ml colonies appeared. Colonies were randomly picked to SC-Ura+xylose medium three times to remove the SC-Ura liquid medium and grown for 1 day, after remaining glucose and finally resuspended in 1 ml which yeast plasmid was isolated using Zymoprep II SC-Ura+xylose. The resuspended cells were normalized Yeast plasmid Miniprep kit (Zymo Research, CA), and to an OD600 of 0.1 in 3 ml of fresh SC-Ura+xylose genomic DNA was prepared using Wizard Genomic medium. Cells were grown at 308C for 192 h and OD600 DNA isolation kit from Promega (Madison, WI). was measured every 24 h. Zeaxanthin was extracted with acetone from PCR analysis of the assembled pathways S. cerevisiae bearing either the five-gene pathway, the For each pathway, confirmation of the correct DNA eight-gene pathway, or the control with an empty assembly was performed by PCR amplification of each vector. Briefly, cells from 250 ml culture were collected gene cassette from the isolated yeast plasmids and the by centrifugation, resuspended with 5 ml acetone and genomic DNAs. Generally, the PCRs were carried out in passed through French press several times at 10 000 psi. 20 ml reaction mixture consisting of 10 ml FailSafeTM PCR Supernatants were collected after centrifugation and 2Â PreMix G from Epicentre Biotechnologies (Madison, evaporated to dryness. After resuspension in 0.5–1 ml WI), 0.5 pmol of each primer, 1 ml yeast plasmid or geno- methanol, 100 ml of sample was loaded onto the Agilent mic DNA and 0.4 U Phusion DNA polymerase for 35 ZORBAX SB-C18 column and analyzed at 450 nm on an cycles on a PTC-200 Thermal Cycler (MJ Research, Agilent 1100 series HPLC (Agilent Technologies, Watertown, MA). Each cycle consisted of 10 s at 988C, Palo Alto, CA). The solvent program with a 0.5 ml/min 30 s at 588C and 3 min at 728C, with a final extension of flow rate was as follows: 0–3 min, 60% CH3OH; 3–15 min, 10 min. linear gradient from 60% CH3OH to 100% CH3OH; 15–17 min, 100% CH3OH; 17–20 min, linear gradient Physical characterization of recombinant clones from 100% CH3OH to 60% CH3OH. Authentic zeaxanthin from Sigma (St Louis, MO) was used as a Yeast plasmids were transformed to E. coli strain standard. BW25141 and selected on Luria Broth (LB) agar plates supplemented with 100 mg/ml ampicillin. Colonies were inoculated into 3 ml LB medium supplemented with RESULTS 100 mg/ml ampicillin, and plasmids were isolated from the liquid culture using the plasmid miniprep kit from Design of the DNA assembler method Qiagen (Valencia, CA). Plasmids isolated from E. coli As proof of concept, we sought to design and construct were then subjected to restriction digestion by BamHI various multiple-gene biosynthetic pathways. As shown in and EcoRI, after which the reaction mixtures were Scheme 1, for each individual gene in a pathway, an loaded to 1% agarose gels to check the correct restriction expression cassette including a promoter, a structural digestion pattern by DNA electrophoresis. gene and a terminator is PCR-amplified and assembled using OE-PCR (31). The 50 -end of the first gene expression Functional analysis of the assembled pathways cassette is designed to overlap with a vector (or a helper The recombinant S. cerevisiae carrying the D-xylose utili- fragment carrying a selection marker and a sequence shar- zation pathway was analyzed by monitoring the cell ing homology with a targeted locus of a chromosome for growth in SC-Ura liquid medium supplemented with 2% integration), while the 30 -end is designed to overlap with D-xylose (SC-Ura+xylose) as the sole carbon source. the second cassette. Each successive cassette is designed to (a) 2m (b) n−2 2 X X X X 3 1 n−1 amp ura3 vector helper fragment X ura3 hisG d1 d2 n X hisG 1 n−1 X X X 2 n d site chromosome Scheme 1. A one-step method for assembly and integration of a biochemical pathway using in vivo homologous recombination in S. cerevisiae. (a) One-step assembly into a vector. (b) One-step integration to a d site on a S. cerevisiae chromosome. n represents the number of DNA fragments.
  • 4. e16 Nucleic Acids Research, 2009, Vol. 37, No. 2 PAGE 4 OF 10 (a) PGK1p ADH1t CYC1t ADH2t HisG ADH1p XR XDH PYK1p XKS Delta2 C1-f C2-f C3-f C1-r C2-r C3-r C1 (3263 bp) C3 (3876 bp) C2 (2477 bp) (b) (c) D-xylose utilization (p) D-xylose utilization (c) M C1 C2 C3 C1 C2 C3 4 kb- 3 kb- 2 kb- 1 kb- Figure 1. Construction of the D-xylose utilization pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. (a) The assembled D-xylose utilization pathway with its corresponding verification primers; (b) PCR analysis of the assembled D-xylose utilization pathway on a plasmid [D-xylose utilization (p), using pRS426m as a backbone] and on a chromosome [D-xylose utilization (c), integrated to the d site(s)]. M represents 1 kb DNA ladder from Invitrogen; (c) Growth of S. cerevisiae strains carrying D-xylose utilization pathway using D-xylose as the sole carbon source. Cells carrying the empty vector pRS426 were used as the negative control. overlap with the two flanking ones, and the 30 -end of the containing synthetic complete drop-out medium lacking last cassette overlaps with the vector (or the targeted locus uracil (SC-Ura). In parallel, a 4.7-kb integration fragment of the chromosome for integration). All overlaps are d1-hisG-ura3-hisG, carrying a ura3 selection marker and designed to have >40 bp for efficient in vivo homolo- d sequence that is homologous to the partial sequence of gous recombination. The resulting multiple expression the d sites on the chromosome of S. cerevisiae, was gener- cassettes are co-transformed into S. cerevisiae with the ated from the d-integration vector pddUB (30) via BamHI linearized vector (or the helper fragment) through electro- and XhoI digestion and then co-transformed with poration, which allows the entire pathway to be either the hisG-ADH1p-XR-ADH1t, PGK1p-XDH-CYC1t and assembled into a vector or integrated onto the PYK1p-XKS-ADH2t-d2 cassettes into S. cerevisiae. chromosome. The two repeated hisG sequences in the d1-hisG- ura3-hisG fragment could be used for excising ura3 from Construction of a three-gene D-xylose utilization pathway the chromosome and thus recycling the marker using 5-fluoroorotic acid counter selection (30). Typically, We first applied the DNA assembler method to construct 100–150 colonies appeared after 2–3 days of incubation the known D-xylose utilization pathway consisting of at 308C and then were randomly picked for plasmid or xylose reductase, xylitol dehydrogenase from N. crassa genomic DNA isolation. In order to confirm the correct (32) and XKS from Pichia stipitis (33). The vector assembly and integration, a comprehensive set of PCR pRS426m, which was created by incorporating a hisG was performed. As shown in Figure 1a, three pairs of sequence and a d2 sequence in the pRS426, a 2 mm multi- primers annealing to the corresponding two overlap ple copy vector (unpublished data), was used and linear- regions flanking each cassette were used as verification ized with BamHI (Supplementary Figure 1). Promoters primers (Supplementary Table 2). A correct assembly and terminators were PCR-amplified from the genomic (both plasmid based and chromosome based) would gen- DNA of S. cerevisiae. Individual cassettes, hisG-ADH1p- erate all three expected PCR products (Figure 1b). In XR-ADH1t, PGK1p-XDH-CYC1t and PYK1p-XKS- order to determine the assembly efficiency, 10 colonies ADH2t-d2, were assembled by OE-PCR, purified by were randomly picked and checked by PCR. For agrose gel electrophoresis and mixed with the linearized both plasmid-based DNA assembly and chromosome vector. After precipitation in ethanol, the mixture was based DNA assembly, high efficiencies (80–100%) re-dissolved in ddH2O and co-transformed into were obtained for all three different lengths of overlaps S. cerevisiae by electroporation and spread onto plates and use of longer overlaps (125 bp and 270–430 bp)
  • 5. PAGE 5 OF 10 Nucleic Acids Research, 2009, Vol. 37, No. 2 e16 Table 1. The efficiency of one-step DNA assembly (using pRS426m as overlap regions between adjacent gene expression cassettes a backbone) and integration of three-, five- and eight-gene pathways for had little effect on the efficiency. D-xylose utilization, zeaxanthin biosynthesis and the combined D-xylose S. cerevisiae strains containing the zeaxanthin biosyn- utilization and zeaxanthin biosynthesis, respectively, with different thetic pathway (plasmid based and chromosome based) lengths of overlap were grown in SC-Ura medium at 308C for 72 h for pro- Length of the overlap (bp) duction of zeaxanthin. Following the experimental proce- dures reported elsewhere (38,39), the cells were collected $50 $125 270–430 by centrifuge and subjected to acetone extraction several times before evaporation to dryness. The extracts were Three-gene pathway Plasmid-based (%) 100 90 80 then re-dissolved in methanol and analyzed by HPLC. Chromosome-based (%) 80 80 100 When monitored at 450 nm, a peak appeared at Five-gene pathway 19.9 min, consistent with the elution time of authentic Plasmid-based (%) 80 60 80 zeaxanthin, whereas no such peak was observed for the Chromosome-based (%) 80 70 80 cell extracts from the strains carrying the empty pRS426 Eight-gene pathway vector (Figure 2c). Plasmid-based (%) 20 50 40 Chromosome-based (%) 10 60 70 Construction of a combined eight-gene D-xylose utilization For each pathway, 10 clones were randomly picked and analyzed. and zeaxanthin biosynthetic pathway To further demonstrate the capacity and versatility of between the adjacent cassettes seems not to be necessary DNA assembler on constructing even longer biochemical (Table 1). pathways, the two above-mentioned pathways, the D-xylose utilization pathway and the zeaxanthin biosyn- The function of the assembled D-xylose utilization path- way was analyzed by growing the strains containing the thesis pathway, were combined and assembled onto one D-xylose utilization pathway in SC-Ura medium supple- vector or integrated onto a d site of the chromosome as a mented with D-xylose instead of D-glucose. Note that, single piece of DNA. Eight gene cassettes including in contrast to S. cerevisiae, which is unable to ferment hisG-ADH1p-XR-ADH1t, PGK1p-XDH-CYC1t, PYK1p- D-xylose directly, S. cerevisiae expressing XR, XDH and XKS-ADH2t, TEF1p-CrtE-PGIt, HXT7p-CrtB-TPI1t, TEF2p-CrtI-FBA1t, FBA1p-CrtY-ENO2t and PDC1p- XKS can use D-xylose as the sole carbon source (34,35). CrtZ-TDH2t-d2 were constructed by OE-PCR and As shown in Figure 1c, only the strains carrying the whole co-transformed to S. cerevisiae with the linearized vector D-xylose utilization pathway either assembled into the or the d1-hisG-ura3-hisG fragment. Typically, 30–50 colo- vector or integrated onto the chromosome were able to nies appeared after 2–3 days of incubation at 308C and grow on D-xylose, while the S. cerevisiae containing the then were randomly picked for plasmid or genomic DNA empty pRS426 did not grow. isolation. Eight PCRs were performed to confirm the cor- rect assembly (Figure 3a and b, and Supplementary Construction of a five-gene zeaxanthin biosynthetic pathway Table 2). The total size of the combined eight-gene pathway is around 19 kb (or 23.7 kb when the 4.7 kb We then extended the DNA assembler method to con- d1-hisG-Ura3-hisG helper fragment is used). The efficiency struct the five-gene zeaxanthin biosynthetic pathway of DNA assembly decreased dramatically with a shorter from E. uredovora (36–38). The individual cassettes, overlap (50 bp), as indicated in Table 1 (10–20%). How- hisG-TEF1p-CrtE-PGIt, HXT7p-CrtB-TPI1t, TEF2p- ever, for longer overlaps, 125 bp and 270–430 bp, a much CrtI-FBA1t, FBA1p-CrtY-ENO2t and PDC1p-CrtZ- higher efficiency (40–70%) was obtained. Thus, it seems TDH2t-d2 were prepared by OE-PCR. The total size of that unlike the short pathways, the dependence of the effi- the five-gene pathway is 10.6 kb, and the entire pathway ciency of DNA assembly on the length of the overlap was assembled into the pRS426m or the S. cerevisiae chro- becomes more significant with the increase of the mosome in a one-step fashion within a week. Typically, number of the DNA fragments co-transformed into 50–80 colonies appeared after 2–3 days of incubation at S. cerevisiae. 308C and then were randomly picked for plasmid or geno- S. cerevisiae strains containing the combined D-xylose mic DNA isolation. To confirm the correct assembly, five utilization and zeaxanthin biosynthesis pathway were PCRs were performed using the verification primers grown in SC-Ura medium supplemented with 2% (Figure 2a and Supplementary Table 2 online). Various D-xylose as the sole carbon source for D-xylose utilization. lengths of overlap regions were tested, and 10 colonies As shown in Figure 3c, S. cerevisiae bearing the combined were picked from each group to determine the assembly pathway either on the plasmid or integrated to the chro- efficiency. The correct assembly exhibited all five expected mosome were able to grow, in contrast to the strain carry- bands obtained from PCR on a DNA agarose gel ing an empty pRS426 vector. In addition, as shown by (Figure 2b). The efficiency of one-step assembly of this HPLC analysis (Figure 3d), zeaxanthin was detected five-gene pathway is summarized in Table 1. Similar to from the strains carrying the combined pathway, suggest- the efficiency of assembling three-gene D-xylose utilization ing the presence of a functional zeaxanthin biosynthesis pathway, the efficiency is high (60–80%) and longer pathway.
  • 6. e16 Nucleic Acids Research, 2009, Vol. 37, No. 2 PAGE 6 OF 10 (a) HXT7p TPI1t PDC1p CrtE TEF2p CrtY ENO2t TEF1p FBA1t PGIt Crt Z CrtB CrtI HisG FBA1p TDH2t B1-f B2-f B3-f B4-f B5-f Delta2 B1-r B2-r B3-r B4-r B5-r B1 (2210 bp) B3 (2838 bp) B5 (2293 bp) B2 (2125 bp) B4 (2769 bp) (b) zeaxanthin biosynthesis (p) (c) M B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 4 kb- 3 kb- 2 kb- 1 kb- zeaxanthin biosynthesis (c) M B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 4 kb- 3 kb- 2 kb- 1 kb- Figure 2. Construction of the zeaxanthin biosynthesis pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. (a) The assembled zeaxanthin biosynthesis pathway with its corresponding verification primers; (b) PCR analysis of the assembled zeaxanthin biosynthesis pathway on a plasmid [zeaxanthin biosynthesis (p), using pRS426m as a backbone] and on a chromosome [zeaxanthin biosynthesis (c), integrated to the d site(s)]. M represents 1 kb DNA ladder from Invitrogen; (c) HPLC analysis of the cell extracts from S. cerevisiae carrying the zeaxanthin biosynthesis pathway. Cells carrying the empty vector pRS426 were used as the negative control. The use of single-copy plasmid as a vehicle for clones on the same E. coli transformation plate all DNA assembly showed the same restriction digestion pattern on the agar- It was noticed that sometimes there was heterogeneity ose gel (data not shown), indicating a single form of plas- mid was maintained in each yeast transformant. The E. in the plasmids even though single yeast colonies were coli plasmids were then subjected to restriction digestion analyzed (data not shown). We reasoned that the DNA by BamHI and EcoRI. As shown in Figure 4, 6 of 10 fragments and the vector could be assembled in more than clones exhibited the expected restriction digestion pattern one fashion and the assembled plasmids could be main- (five bands: 2233, 2551, 3218, 4454 and 11 386 bp) for both tained within the cell, because pRS426 is a multiple-copy $125 bp and 270–430-bp overlaps, and 2 of 10 clones plasmid. exhibited the expected restriction digestion pattern for To address this issue, we sought to use a single-copy $50 bp overlap, resulting in an assembly efficiency similar vector, pRS416m, containing a centromere and an auton- to that when pRS426m was used. omously replicating sequence for DNA assembly. The eight-gene pathway with various lengths of overlaps was chosen as a model system, and the same experiments were performed using the linearized pRS416m as the backbone. DISCUSSION Yeast plasmids were isolated and transformed into E. coli Unlike the conventional cloning approach that relies on strain BW25141, after which multiple colonies were site-specific digestion and ligation, homologous recombi- picked from each plate. The plasmids isolated from the nation aligns complementary sequences and enables the
  • 7. PAGE 7 OF 10 Nucleic Acids Research, 2009, Vol. 37, No. 2 e16 (a) CYC1t PYK1p PGIt FBA1t ENO2t TEF1p CrtE HXT7p XDH TPI1t FBA1p PDC1p PGK1p CrtB ADH1p ADH1t ADH2t TEF2p CrtY Crt Z TDH2t HisG XR XKS CrtI Delta2 A1-f A2-f A3-f A4-f A5-f A6-f A7-f A8-f A1-r A2-r A3-r A4-r A5-r A6-r A7-r A8-r A2 (2477 bp) A4 (2303 bp) A6 (2838 bp) A8 (2293 bp) A1 (3263 bp) A3 (3705 bp) A5 (2125 bp) A7 (2769 bp) (b) combined pathway (p) combined pathway (c) M A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8 M A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8 4 kb- 4 kb- 3 kb- 3 kb- 2 kb- 2 kb- 1 kb- 1 kb- (c) (d) Figure 3. Construction of the combined D-xylose utilization and zeaxanthin biosynthesis pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. (a) The assembled combined D-xylose utilization and zeaxanthin biosynthesis pathway with its corresponding verification primers; (b) PCR analysis of the assembled combined D-xylose utilization and zeaxanthin biosynthesis pathway on a plasmid [combined pathway (p), using pRS426m as a backbone] and on a chromosome [combined pathway (c), integrated to the d site(s)]. M represents 1 kb DNA ladder from Invitrogen; (c) Growth of S. cerevisiae strains carrying the combined pathway using D-xylose as the sole carbon source; (d) HPLC analysis of the cell extracts from S. cerevisiae carrying the combined pathway. Cells carrying the empty vector pRS426 were used as the negative control. exchange between homologous fragments. Homologous (b) compared to the two related methods including the recombination is much more efficient in yeast than in bac- SLIC method and the domino method, DNA assembler teria and other higher eukaryotes. Therefore, it has been is the most rapid and efficient approach to construct large exploited as one of the most important tools in gene clon- recombinant DNA molecules; (c) unlike the SLIC method ing, site-specific mutagenesis, plasmid construction and and the domino method, DNA assembler can be used to target gene disruption and deletion (13,18–22). In this construct custom-designed DNA molecules not only on a report, we further extended its application to assemble plasmid but also on a chromosome. The latter enables the biochemical pathways in a single step. exogenous DNA stably maintained in the cell and has The novelty of this DNA assembler method lies on the the potential to assemble a very large biochemical path- following aspects: (a) it is the first demonstration of yeast way or even a whole genome. in vivo homologous recombination in assembling multiple- Similar to E. coli, because of its well-characterized phys- gene biochemical pathways in a single step, which distin- iology and genetics and ample genetic tools, S. cerevisiae guishes it from routine single-gene plasmid construction; has been widely used as a platform organism for
  • 8. e16 Nucleic Acids Research, 2009, Vol. 37, No. 2 PAGE 8 OF 10 M 1 2 3 4 5 M M 1 2 3 4 5 M M 1 2 3 4 5 M 12.0 kb 4.0 kb 3.0 kb 2.0 kb M 6 7 8 9 10 M M 6 7 8 9 10 M M 6 7 8 9 10 M M 6 7 8 9 10 M 270–430 bp overlap ~125 bp overlap ~50 bp overlap Figure 4. Physical characterization of the recombinant clones using pRS416m as a backbone through restriction digestion. Plasmids corresponding to the clones from the eight-gene pathway with $50 bp, $125 bp and 270–430 bp overlaps were digested by BamHI and EcoRI. The correct clones should exhibit five bands with sizes of 2233, 2551, 3218, 4454 and 11 386 bp. heterologous expression of biochemical pathways in the pRS426m-xylose-zeaxanthin. We found that short repeats fields of pathway engineering and metabolic engineering are very common in such a 24.6-kb DNA molecule. As (1–5). In contrast to the conventional techniques for path- shown in Supplementary Table 3, 7 sequences with a way cloning, DNA assembler avoids repeated cycles of length of 14 bp appeared twice, which were widely distrib- multiple-step cloning, does not rely on the restriction uted among promoters, terminators and structural genes. digestion and in vitro ligation and takes only 1–2 weeks In addition, 29 sequences (13 bp), 76 sequences (12 bp), to assemble multiple DNA fragments into S. cerevisiae 197 sequences (11 bp) and 527 sequences (10 bp) were either on a plasmid or on a chromosome. It simply takes found to occur at least twice in the same molecule. the advantage of the pre-existing homologous recombina- These abundant repeats up to 14 bp did not appear to tion machinery in yeast and thus does not require any be problematic in our experiment considering that assem- exogenous recombinase. bling efficiencies of 40–70%, 50–60% and 10–20% were In addition, unlike the recently reported in vitro SLIC obtained with 270–430-bp, $125-bp and $50-bp overlaps, recombination method that requires T4 DNA polymerase respectively. Previous homologous recombination-based and RecA recombinase to treat the DNA substrates before gene-cloning experiments by other groups indicated the transformation (11), DNA assembler only requires simple length of overlap required for efficient recombination DNA preparation via PCR and one-step yeast transfor- between two DNA fragments: 40-bp overlaps yielded an mation and yet yields a much higher assembly efficiency efficiency of greater than 90% (18,19,40). The efficiency than the SLIC method. As shown in our report, for a was slightly reduced using 30-bp overlaps ($80%) and shorter pathway (3–5 genes, $10 kb), a very high efficiency rapidly dropped to 3.4% when 20-bp overlaps were used of 80–100% was obtained with a $50-bp overlap, while (40). Similarly, in terms of deletions, Manivasakam and for a longer pathway (8 genes, $19 kb), a relatively high coworkers (22) studied the length of a repeat required for efficiency of 40–70% was achieved with a slightly longer targeted deletion. A repeat of a 45 bp, a 30 bp and a 25 bp overlap ($125–430 bp). In addition, for a long pathway, resulted in efficiencies of 84%, 54% and 4%, respectively increasing the ratio between the inserts and the backbone (22). In addition, Langle-Rouault and Jacobs reported could further improve the assembly efficiency. For exam- that selection of marker excision failed using 25-bp ple, the eight-gene pathway was reassembled with a direct repeats (21). All these studies suggest that the effi- $50-bp overlap. The amount of the inserts was doubled ciency of recombination-based deletions is fairly low when while the amount of the linearized vector was maintained repeats of shorter than 25 bp are involved. It should also (i.e. 600 ng of each insert was combined with 500 ng of be noted that in all these mentioned experiments, a select- the linearized vector). As a result, more colonies on the able marker was used to specifically select the deletion SC-Ura plates were observed, and an assembly efficiency event, and the efficiency was calculated based on the per- of as high as 70% was obtained, compared with the effi- centage of the correct deletions among all the transfor- ciency of 20% when lower amount of the inserts was used. mants. Therefore, short repeats (<25 bp) in a long DNA This indicates that DNA assembler could efficiently molecule should not cause too much trouble, especially assemble a large DNA molecule even with a short overlap because such a deletion event is not specifically selected, by manipulating the ratio between the inserts and the making the chance even much lower. When the repeats vector backbone. become longer (>25 bp, but not too long), the recombina- It is possible that deletions may be caused by a repeat tion between the repeats will likely compete with the or repeats in the DNA fragments. To address this recombination between the overlaps at the ends of each concern, we examined the existence of repeats in fragment in the assembling process. In this case, a longer
  • 9. PAGE 9 OF 10 Nucleic Acids Research, 2009, Vol. 37, No. 2 e16 overlap (>100 bp) will benefit the recombination between their native hosts to S. cerevisiae will be no longer limited the ends. The deletion between repeats could happen, but by the size of the pathways. For example, a biochemical the chance will be several orders of magnitude lower than pathway composed of 30–50 genes (around 100–200 kb) the above efficiency considering that no selection is used in could be integrated to the chromosome of S. cerevisiae such a deletion process. Of special note, we recently devel- within several weeks. Of course, when a biochemical path- oped an efficient method for gene deletions in yeast, and way is very long, PCR-introduced mutations may become we studied the length of the repeats required to yield a concern even though high-fidelity DNA polymerases are decent deletion efficiencies (41). Our results showed that used. Note that this concern is also common to other 25-bp repeats are not sufficient to generate deletions. It reported DNA assembly methods using high-fidelity poly- should be noted that when the repeats become very long merases such as the Phusion polymerase (with a very low (>100 bp), the deletion event may occur with a higher error rate, 4.4 Â 10À7) should greatly reduce the mutation efficiency. However, such long repeats are not common frequency. Fortunately, with the development of new in a typical biochemical pathway. If long repeats exist in powerful DNA sequencing technologies, validation of structural genes, silent mutations may be incorporated the correctly assembled long biochemical pathway by during the fragment preparation process in order to DNA sequencing is no longer a burden in terms of time reduce the length of the repeated regions. and cost. For example, the recently developed 454 In our studies, S. cerevisiae YSG50 was used as a host sequencing technology (Roche, Branford, CT) supports for DNA assembly and integration. This strain carries a the sequencing of samples from a wide variety of starting ura3-1 point mutation on its genome, which may be con- materials including genomic DNA, PCR products, BACs verted to wild type by the ura3 gene in the pRS626m and cDNA (http://www.454.com/). And it costs less than vector (or in the helper fragment). To address this con- $15K to sequence the entire genome of a microorganism cern, we also tested a strain HZ848 with a complete dele- of typical size ($6 Mb) within a few days. tion of ura3 (the strain HZ848 was obtained by deleting In principle, this method may be even used to assemble the ura3 gene in YSG50). The same amount of DNA mix- a DNA molecule as large as an entire chromosome or ture (eight DNA fragments plus the digested vector) was genome. As a matter of fact, Gibson and coworkers’ suc- transformed to YSG50 and HZ848, and in parallel, the cess in the construction of the entire M. genitalium genome same amount of the linearized vector was transformed to from 101 fragments (29) indicates that it is possible to both strains as controls. assemble a DNA molecule as large as a genome from Similar numbers of colonies were obtained in the two short DNA fragments using DNA assembler. Also, in samples (42 for YSG50 versus 38 for HZ848), whereas addition to assembling biochemical pathways and gen- only two colonies appeared in both controls. That the omes, DNA assembler has many other applications same number of colonies appeared in both controls sug- such as library creation in combinatorial biology and con- gested that the vector had not been completely digested. struction of complicated DNA molecules in the field of Although it is possible that the chromosomal gene ura3-1 synthetic biology. may be converted to wild type, it should occur at a very low frequency (<10À6). In comparison, the frequency of DNA assembly was estimated to be 5.7 Â 10À6 ($40 colo- SUPPLEMENTARY DATA nies appearing on the Sc-Ura plates from 7 Â 106 cells), Supplementary Data are available at NAR Online. which is relatively high. Ten clones from both of YSG50 transformants and HZ88 transformants were selected for further analysis. Of 10, 5 YSG50 transformants and 4 of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 10 HZ848 transformants were correct, indicating that for We thank N. U. Nair, R. P. Sullivan, M. McLachlan a biochemical pathway consisting of up to eight genes, and T. Johannes for valuable discussion. We thank there is no advantage to use a strain with a complete dele- F. H. Arnold, P. Orlean, T. W. Jeffries, E. T. Wurtzel tion of ura3. However, when the assembly efficiency drops and N. A. Da Silva for providing plasmids and yeast to a similar level with that of the reversion rate of ura3-1 strains. back to wild type, using a strain with ura3 completely deleted might become advantageous. Such scenario may occur when a much longer biochemical pathway is FUNDING assembled. It should be noted that DNA assembler has the poten- This work was supported by National Institutes of Health tial to assemble much longer biochemical pathways in (GM077596). Funding for open access charge: National S. cerevisiae. Conceptually, a long biochemical pathway Institutes of Health (GM077596). can be split into several segments (8–10 genes each) that Conflict of interest statement. 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