Xianhai Cao, Xiaojuan Wang, Ruirui Chen, Lu Chen, Yang Liu, Meng Wang
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Abstract
Bacillus subtilis is the model Gram-positive and industrial chassis bacterium; it has blossomed as a robust and promising host for enzyme, biochemical, or bioflocculant production. However, synthetic biology and metabolic engineering technologies of B. subtilis have lagged behind the most widely used industrial chassis Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Escherichia coli. CRISPR (an acronym for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) enables efficient, site-specific, and programmable DNA cleavage, which has revolutionized the manner of genome editing. In 2016, CRISPR technology was first introduced into B. subtilis and has been intensely upgraded since then. In this Review, we discuss recently developed key additions to CRISPR toolkit design in B. subtilis with gene editing, transcriptional regulation, and enzyme modulation. Second, advances in the B. subtilis chassis of efficient biochemicals and proteins with CRISPR engineering are discussed. Finally, we conclude with perspectives on the challenges and opportunities of CRISPR-based biotechnology in B. subtilis, wishing that B. subtilis can be comparable to traditional industrial microorganisms such as E. coli and S. cerevisiae someday soon.
期刊介绍:
The journal is particularly interested in studies on the design and synthesis of new genetic circuits and gene products; computational methods in the design of systems; and integrative applied approaches to understanding disease and metabolism.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Design and optimization of genetic systems
Genetic circuit design and their principles for their organization into programs
Computational methods to aid the design of genetic systems
Experimental methods to quantify genetic parts, circuits, and metabolic fluxes
Genetic parts libraries: their creation, analysis, and ontological representation
Protein engineering including computational design
Metabolic engineering and cellular manufacturing, including biomass conversion
Natural product access, engineering, and production
Creative and innovative applications of cellular programming
Medical applications, tissue engineering, and the programming of therapeutic cells
Minimal cell design and construction
Genomics and genome replacement strategies
Viral engineering
Automated and robotic assembly platforms for synthetic biology
DNA synthesis methodologies
Metagenomics and synthetic metagenomic analysis
Bioinformatics applied to gene discovery, chemoinformatics, and pathway construction
Gene optimization
Methods for genome-scale measurements of transcription and metabolomics
Systems biology and methods to integrate multiple data sources
in vitro and cell-free synthetic biology and molecular programming
Nucleic acid engineering.