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Table 2 Strains and plasmids used in this study

From: Understanding and exploiting the fatty acid desaturation system in Rhodotorula toruloides

Strain/plasmid

Characteristics

Source

Strains

 R. toruloides ATCC 10657

R. toruloides host

ATCC

 C3

A haploid strain isolated from Singapore

This study

 ole1Δ

OLE1::HygR in C3 background

This study

 R. toruloides Rt1ck

Δku70e, ku70Δ::loxPa, marker free, designed as wild-type strain

[47]

 OLE1GPD1

ku70Δ::loxP car2Δ::PGPD1-OLE1-HygRb

This report

 fad2Δ

ku70Δ::loxP fad2Δ::HygR

This report

 fad2e

ku70Δ::loxP fad2Δ::loxP

This report

 fad2C

ku70Δ::loxP fad4Δ::loxP car2Δ::PGPD1-FAD2-HygR (alias fad2FAD2)

This report

 fad4Δ

ku70Δ::loxP fad4Δ::HygR

This report

 fad4e

ku70Δ::loxP fad4Δ::loxP

This report

 fad4FAD4

ku70Δ::loxP fad4Δ::loxP car2Δ::PGPD1-FAD4-HygR (alias fad4FAD4)

This report

 fad4FAD4a

ku70Δ::loxP fad4Δ::loxP car2Δ::FAD4 allele-HygR

This report

 fad24Δ

ku70Δ::loxP fad4::loxP fad2Δ::HygR

This report

 fad24e

ku70Δ::loxP fad4Δ::loxP fad2Δ::loxP

This report

 fad2FAD4

ku70Δ::loxP fad2Δ::loxP car2Δ::PGPD1-FAD4-HygR

This report

 fad4FAD2

ku70Δ::loxP fad4Δ::loxP car2Δ::PGPD1-FAD2-HygR

This report

 fad24FAD2

ku70Δ::loxP fad4Δ::loxP fad2Δ::loxP car2Δ::PGPD1-FAD2-HygR

This report

 fad24FAD4

ku70Δ::loxP fad4Δ::loxP fad2Δ::loxP car2Δ::PGPD1-FAD4-HygR

This report

 fad2MF2

ku70Δ::loxP fad2Δ::loxP car2Δ::PGPD1-MaFAD2-2-HygR

This report

 fad2LF3

ku70Δ::loxP fad2Δ::loxP car2Δ::PGPD1-LuFAD3-2-HygR

This report

 fad2ML

ku70Δ::loxP fad2Δ::loxP car2Δ::PGPD1-MaFAD2-2-PGPD1-LuFAD3-2-HygR

This report

 fad2OLE1

ku70Δ::loxP fad2Δ::loxP car2Δ::PLPD1in-OLE1-HygR

This report

 fad24OLE1

ku70Δ::loxP fad4Δ::loxP fad2Δ::loxP car2Δ::PLPD1in-OLE1-HygR

This report

 fad2MF26

ku70Δ::loxP fad2Δ::loxP car2Δ::PLDP1in-MaFAD2-2-PLDP1in-MaFAD6-2-HygR

This report

 fad24MF26

ku70Δ::loxP fad2Δ::loxP fad4Δ::loxP car2Δ::PLDP1in-MaFAD2-2-PLDP1in-MaFAD6-2-HygR

This report

 A. tumefaciens AGL1

Agrobacterium host for ATMT

[71]

 E. coli XL1-Blue

recA1 endA1 gyrA96 thi-1 hsdR17 supE44 relA1 lac, E. coli host for routine DNA manipulation

Stratagene, USA

Plasmids

 pEX2

SpRc, binary vector pZP200 derivative

[69]

 pKC2

SpR, pEX2 derivative, CAR2L-PGPD1-RtGFP-HygR-CAR2Rd, for promoter analysis, gene expression and CAR2 locus integration

[68]

 pKCL2

SpR, pKCL2 derivative, CAR2L-PGPD1-RtLUC2-HygR-CAR2R, for promoter analysis, gene expression and CAR2 locus integration

[68]

 pKCL25

SpR, pKCL2 derivative, CAR2L-PGPD1-176-RtLUC2-HygR-CAR2R, for promoter analysis and CAR2 locus integration

This report

 pKCL254

SpR, pKCL2 derivative, CAR2L-ORE1-PGPD1-176-RtLUC2-35T-HygR-CAR2R, for promoter reporter assay and CAR2 locus integration

This report

 pKCL255

SpR, pKCL2 derivative, CAR2L-ORE2-PGPD1-176-RtLUC2-35T-HygR-CAR2R, for promoter reporter assay and CAR2 locus integration

This report

 pKCL256

SpR, pKCL2 derivative, CAR2L-ORE1m-PGPD1-176-RtLUC2-35T-HygR-CAR2R, for promoter reporter assay and CAR2 locus integration

This report

 pKCLF66

SpR, pKCL2 derivative, CAR2L-POLE1-641-RtLUC2-35T-HygR-CAR2R, for promoter reporter assay and CAR2 locus integration

This report

 pKCLF661

SpR, pKCL2 derivative, CAR2L-POLE1-641-RtLUC2-TOLE1-HygR-CAR2R, for promoter reporter assay and CAR2 locus integration

This report

 pKCLP4

SpR, pKCL2 derivative, CAR2L-PLDP1in-RtLUC2-HygR-CAR2R, for LDP1in promoter driving gene overexpression and CAR2 locus integration

[26]

 pKOFAD2

SpR, pEX2 derivative, FAD2L-HygR-FAD2R, for deletion of FAD2

This report

 pKOFAD4

SpR, pEX2 derivative, FAD4L-HygR-FAD4R, for deletion of FAD4

This report

 pNE1OLE1ca

SpR, CAR2L-OLE1 allele-HygR-CAR2R, for complementation of ole1Δ

This report

 pKC2FAD4

SpR, CAR2L-PGPD1-FAD4-HygR-CAR2R, for overexpression of FAD4

This report

 pKC2FAD4a

SpR, pKC2 derivative, HygR-FAD4 allele, for complementation

This report

 pKC2MF2

SpR, pKC2 derivative, CAR2L-PGPD1-MaFAD2-2-HygR-CAR2R, for overexpression of MaFAD2-2

This report

 pKC2LF3

SpR, pKC2 derivative, CAR2L-PGPD1-LuFAD3-2-HygR-CAR2R, for overexpression of LuFAD3-2

This report

 pKC2ML

SpR, pKC2 derivative, CAR2L-PGPD1-MaFAD2-2-PGPD1-LuFAD3-2-HygR-CAR2R, for overexpression of MaFAD2-2 and LuFAD3-2

This report

 pKP4OLE1

SpR, pKCLP4 derivative, PLDP1in-RtLUC2-HygR, for overexpression of OLE1

This report

 pKP4MF2

SpR, pKCLP4derivative, CAR2L-PLDP1in-MaFAD2-2-HygR-CAR2R, for overexpression of MaFAD2-2

This report

 pKP4MF6

SpR, pKCLP4 derivative, CAR2L-PLDP1in-MaFAD6-2-HygR-CAR2R, for overexpression of MaFAD6-2

This report

 pKP4MF26

SpR, pKCLP4 derivative, PLDP1in-MaFAD2-2-PLDP1in- MaFAD6-2-HygR, for overexpression of MfFAD2-2 and MfFAD6-2

This report

  1. aloxP (locus of X-over P1) used are the 34-bp lox77 and lox66 mutant Cre recombinase sites [72]
  2. bHygR represents the hygromycin resistance gene cassette PGPD1-3-HPT-3-TSV40, where PGPD1–3, HPT-3 and TSV40 is the glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase promoter of Rhodotorula graminis WP1 (JQ806386) [25], codon-optimized E. coli hygromycin phosphotransferase gene (JQ806387) [25] and the terminator of Simian virus 40 [73], respectively
  3. cSpR represents the spectinomycin resistant gene
  4. dT-DNA regions of the binary plasmids