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ORBIT forE. coli: Kilobase-scale oligonucleotide recombineering at high throughput and high efficiency
Abstract
Microbiology and synthetic biology depend on reverse genetic approaches to manipulate bacterial genomes; however, existing methods require molecular biology to generate genomic homology, suffer from low efficiency, and are not easily scaled to high throughput applications. To overcome these limitations, we developed a system for creating kilobase-scale genomic modifications that uses DNA oligonucleotides to direct the integration of a non-replicating plasmid. This method, Oligonucleotide Recombineering followed by Bxb-1 Integrase Targeting (ORBIT) was pioneered inMycobacteria, and here we adapt and expand it forE. coli. Our redesigned plasmid toolkit achieved nearly 1000x higher efficiency than λ Red recombination and enabled precise, stable knockouts (
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Oligo Pools
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