Dusek J., Plchova H., Cerovska N., Poborilova Z., Navratil O., Kratochvilova K., Gunter C., Jacobs R., Hitzeroth I.I., Rybicki E.P., Moravec T.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 11: 522059, 2020

Keywords: Agrobacterium tumefaciens, cloning, Nicotiana benthamiana, plant virus vector, synthetic biology, transient expression
Abstract: Methods for simple and fast assembly of exchangeable standard DNA parts using Type II S restriction enzymes are becoming more and more popular in plant synthetic and molecular biology. These methods enable routine construction of large and complex multigene DNA structures. Two available frameworks emphasize either high cloning capacity (Modular Cloning, MoClo) or simplicity (GoldenBraid, GB). Here we present a set of novel a-level plasmids compatible with the GB convention that extend the ability of GB to rapidly assemble more complex genetic constructs, while maintaining compatibility with all existing GB parts as well as most MoClo parts and GB modules. With the use of our new plasmids, standard GB parts can be assembled into complex assemblies containing 1, 5, 10 and up to theoretically 50 units in each successive level of infinite loop assembly. Assembled DNA constructs can be also combined with conventional binary GB-assemblies (1, 2, 4, 8... units). We demonstrate the usefulness of our framework on single tube assembly of replicating plant expression constructs based on the geminivirus Bean yellow dwarf virus (BeYDV).
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.522059
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IEB authors: Noemi Čeřovská, Jakub Dušek, Kateřina Kratochv..., Tomáš Moravec, Oldřich Navrátil, Helena Plchová, Zuzana Pobořilová