Characterization of an autonomously replicating sequence in Candida guilliermondii

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• 作者：Emilien Foureau ; Vincent Courdavault ; S ; ra M. Navarro Gall¨®n ; S¨¦bastien Besseau ; Andrew J. Simkin ; Jo?l Cr¨¨che ; Lucia Atehort¨´a ; Nathalie Giglioli-Guivarc¡¯h ; Marc Clastre ; Nicolas Papon
• 关键词：Autonomously replicating sequence ; LIG4 ; NHEJ ; Candida guilliermondii
• 刊名：Microbiological Research
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：7 November, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：168
• 期：9
• 页码：580-588
• 全文大小：2055 K

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Candida guilliermondii is an ascomycetous yeast widely studied due to its clinical importance, biotechnological interest, and biological control potential. During a series of preliminary experiments aiming at optimizing the electroporation procedure of C. guilliermondii cells, we observed that the efficiency of transformation of an ura5 recipient strain with the corresponding dominant marker URA5 was more than a thousand fold higher as compared with the transformation of an ura3 strain with the URA3 wild type allele. This result allowed the identification of an autonomously replicating sequence (ARS) within an A/T rich region located upstream of the URA5 open reading frame (ORF). Interestingly, linear double strand DNAs (dsDNAs) containing this putative ARS are circularized and then autonomously replicated in C. guilliermondii transformed cells. We demonstrated that the C. guilliermondii Lig4p ligase, involved in the canonical non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ) pathway, was responsible for this phenomenon since a lig4 mutant was unable to circularize and to autonomously maintain transforming dsDNAs containing the putative ARS. Finally, a functional dissection of the C. guilliermondii A/T rich region located upstream of the URA5 ORF revealed the presence of a 60 bp-length sequence essential and sufficient to confer ARS properties to shuttle plasmid and linear dsDNAs.