Autor: |
Michael Pigula, Yen-Chung Lai, Minseob Koh, Christian S. Diercks, Thomas F. Rogers, David A. Dik, Peter G. Schultz |
Jazyk: |
angličtina |
Rok vydání: |
2024 |
Předmět: |
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Zdroj: |
Nature Communications, Vol 15, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2024) |
Druh dokumentu: |
article |
ISSN: |
2041-1723 |
DOI: |
10.1038/s41467-024-50843-7 |
Popis: |
Abstract Live vaccines are ideal for inducing immunity but suffer from the need to attenuate their pathogenicity or replication to preclude the possibility of escape. Unnatural amino acids (UAAs) provide a strategy to engineer stringent auxotrophies, yielding conditionally replication incompetent live bacteria with excellent safety profiles. Here, we engineer Pseudomonas aeruginosa to maintain auxotrophy for the UAA p-benzoyl-l-phenylalanine (BzF) through its incorporation into the essential protein DnaN. In vivo evolution using an Escherichia coli-based two-hybrid selection system enabled engineering of a mutant DnaN homodimeric interface completely dependent on a BzF-specific interaction. This engineered strain, Pa Vaccine, exhibits undetectable escape frequency ( |
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