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| − | <h2 id="designrules">Design Rules For Genome Engineering Regarding Customization of Peroxisome Properties</h2>
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| − | <p>In order to reach the ultimate goal of creating a fully controllable artificial compartment, genome engineering can be utilized for customizing the compartment's properties,.These include aspects such as membrane permeability, size/number, or decoupling of peroxisomes from the cytoskeleton, the peroxisomal proteome or metabolome. In our project we used the Crispr Cas9 system for knocking out several genes (Pex9, Pex31&Pex32, INP1, POT1) at the same time in order to engineer the previously mentioned properties. Furthermore, we designed a yeast strain with a completely replaced protein-import machinery for controlling the entire peroxisomal lumen.</p>
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| − | <p>For the future one could think of much more radical strategies for peroxisomal engineering with a final goal of a “minimal peroxisome” by redirecting metabolic pathways through changing the protein-localization-signal in the yeast genome. Additionally, endogenous metabolic pathways could be redirected to our novel artificial compartment for establishing a customized metabolism specifically tailored for the user's application.</p>
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| − | <p>In order to achieve a fully controllable artificial compartment, the first step was to design a completely orthogonal import system. Next was the knockout of endogenous import systems. However, a few proteins are imported neither by the Pex5 nor the Pex7 import machinery. Therefore, specific genome engineering designs, such as knockouts, deleting or redirecting the protein localization could be utilized for the ultimate goal of creating a synthetic organelle.</p>
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| − | <p>Additionally, knockouts or genome integrations enable customization of the peroxisomal properties, such as membrane permeability, size/number, decoupling of peroxisomes from cytoskeleton and the peroxisomal metabolism.</p>
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| − | <p>All these strategies allow a rational design of an artificial compartment, which is fully engineerable regarding the proteome, metabolome and the entire peroxisomal environment.</p>
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| − | <h4>The Crispr Cas9 System</h4>
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| − | <p>The demands on yeast engineering have significantly increased with the design of more complex systems and extensive metabolic pathways. Genetic techniques that have historically relied on marker recycling are unable to keep up with the ambitions of synthetic biologists. In recent years the Crispr Cas9 system has been used for several strain-engineering purposes, including:</p>
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| − | <li>Markerless integration of multiple genetic cassettes into selected genomic loci</li>
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| − | <li>Multiplexed and iterative gene knockouts without the need to recycle a marker</li>
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| − | <li>Precise genome editing – nucleotide substitutions, etc.</li>
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| − | <p>We utilized the Cas9 system as a tool for peroxisomal engineering and have adopted the existing toolbox from <abbr title="Lee, Michael E.; DeLoache, William C.; Cervantes, Bernardo; Dueber, John E. (2015): A Highly Characterized Yeast Toolkit for Modular, Multipart Assembly. In: ACS synthetic biology 4 (9), S. 975–986. DOI: 10.1021/sb500366v.">(Lee et al. 2015)</abbr> and the complete cloning system which also provides the possibilities for genome integration and gene editing by Cas9. For this, two oligonucleotides have to be designed for targeting the Cas protein to the gene of interest.</p>
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