Hijacking Transposable Elements for Saturation Mutagenesis in Fungi

Autor: Sanne Schrevens, Dominique Sanglard
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Frontiers in Fungal Biology, Vol 2 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2673-6128
DOI: 10.3389/ffunb.2021.633876
Popis: Transposable elements are present in almost all known genomes, these endogenous transposons have recently been referred to as the mobilome. They are now increasingly used in research in order to make extensive mutant libraries in different organisms. Fungi are an essential part of our lives on earth, they influence the availability of our food and they live inside our own bodies both as commensals and pathogenic organisms. Only few fungal species have been studied extensively, mainly due to the lack of appropriate molecular genetic tools. The use of transposon insertion libraries can however help to rapidly advance our knowledge of (conditional) essential genes, compensatory mutations and drug target identification in fungi. Here we give an overview of some recent developments in the use of different transposons for saturation mutagenesis in different fungi.
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