A Yap

AA Holder

CM Armstrong

CR Collins

DA Fidock

DG Gibson

FJ Klinz

JC Wagner

M Ghorbal

MA Child

MC Nunes

MJ Blackman

N Jullien

PK Harris

RA O’Donnell

RW Moon

S Das

S Haase

S Kyes

TH Cheng

TS Voss

W Trager

X Zhang

Scientific Reports

AbstractConditional genome engineering in the human malaria pathogen Plasmodium falciparum remains highly challenging. Here we describe a strategy for facile and rapid functional analysis of genes using an approach based on the Cre/lox system and tailored for organisms with short and few introns. Our method allows the conditional, site-specific removal of genomic sequences of essential and non-essential genes by placing loxP sites into a short synthetic intron to produce a module (loxPint) can be placed anywhere in open reading frames without compromising protein expression. When duplicated, the loxPint module serves as an intragenic recombineering point that can be used for the fusion of gene elements to reporters or the conditional introduction of point mutations. We demonstrate the robustness and versatility of the system by targeting the P. falciparum merozoite surface protein 1 gene (msp1), which has previously proven refractory to genetic interrogation and the parasite exported kinase FIKK10.1.</jats:p

Matthew L. Jones

Sujaan Das

Hugo Belda

Christine R. Collins

Michael J. Blackman

Moritz Treeck

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A versatile strategy for rapid conditional genome engineering using loxP sites in a small synthetic intron in Plasmodium falciparum

A versatile strategy for rapid conditional genome engineering using loxP sites in a small synthetic intron in Plasmodium falciparum

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