A fully decompressed synthetic bacteriophage øX174 genome assembled and archived in yeast

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The 5386 nucleotide bacteriophage øX174 genome has a complicated architecture that encodes 11 gene products via overlapping protein coding sequences spanning multiple reading frames. We designed a 6302 nucleotide synthetic surrogate, øX174.1, that fully separates all primary phage protein coding sequences along with cognate translation control elements. To specify øX174.1f, a decompressed genome the same length as wild type, we truncated the gene F coding sequence. We synthesized DNA encoding fragments of øX174.1f and used a combination of in vitro- and yeast-based assembly to produce yeast vectors encoding natural or designer bacteriophage genomes. We isolated clonal preparations of yeast plasmid DNA and transfected E. coli C strains. We recovered viable øX174 particles containing the øX174.1f genome from E. coli C strains that independently express full-length gene F. We expect that yeast can serve as a genomic 'drydock' within which to maintain and manipulate clonal lineages of other obligate lytic phage. © 2012 Elsevier Inc.

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Jaschke, P. R., Lieberman, E. K., Rodriguez, J., Sierra, A., & Endy, D. (2012). A fully decompressed synthetic bacteriophage øX174 genome assembled and archived in yeast. Virology, 434(2), 278–284. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.virol.2012.09.020

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