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CRISPRi‐mediated programming essential gene can as a Direct Enzymatic Performance Evaluation & Determination (DEPEND) system
Author(s) -
Tan ShihI,
Yu PengJui,
Ng ISon
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
biotechnology and bioengineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.136
H-Index - 189
eISSN - 1097-0290
pISSN - 0006-3592
DOI - 10.1002/bit.27443
Subject(s) - enzyme , biochemistry , carbonic anhydrase , chemistry , gene , biology , computational biology
Harnessing enzyme expression for production of target chemicals is a critical and multifarious process, where screening of different genes by inspection of enzymatic activity plays an imperative role. Here, we conceived an idea to improve the time‐consuming and labor‐intensive process of enzyme screening. Controlling cell growth was achieved by the Cluster Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat (CRISPRi) system with different single guide RNA targeting the essential gene can (CRISPRi::CA) that encodes a carbonic anhydrase for CO 2 uptake. CRISPRi::CA comprises a whole‐cell biosensor to monitor CO 2 concentration, ranging from 1% to 5%. On the basis of CRISPRi::CA, an effective and simple Direct Enzymatic Performance Evaluation & Determination (DEPEND) system was developed by a single step of plasmid transformation for targeted enzymes. As a result, the activity of different carbonic anhydrases corresponded to the colony‐forming units. Furthermore, the enzymatic performance of 5‐aminolevulinic acid synthetase (ALAS), which converts glycine and succinate‐CoA to release a molecule of CO 2 , has also been distinguished, and the effect of the chaperone GroELS on ALAS enzyme folding was successfully identified in the DEPEND system. We provide a highly feasible, time‐saving, and flexible technology for the screening and inspection of high‐performance enzymes, which may accelerate protein engineering in the future.