Nature Communications (May 2018)

Precise control of SCRaMbLE in synthetic haploid and diploid yeast

  • Bin Jia,
  • Yi Wu,
  • Bing-Zhi Li,
  • Leslie A. Mitchell,
  • Hong Liu,
  • Shuo Pan,
  • Juan Wang,
  • Hao-Ran Zhang,
  • Nan Jia,
  • Bo Li,
  • Michael Shen,
  • Ze-Xiong Xie,
  • Duo Liu,
  • Ying-Xiu Cao,
  • Xia Li,
  • Xiao Zhou,
  • Hao Qi,
  • Jef D. Boeke,
  • Ying-Jin Yuan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03084-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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The SCRaMbLE system integrated into Sc2.0’s synthetic yeast chromosome project allows rapid strain evolution. Here the authors use a genetic logic gate to control induction of recombination in a haploid and diploid yeast carrying synthetic chromosomes.