The cosmid shuttle vector AN26 for the transformation of some filamentous fungi to hygromycin B resistance was constructed from the plasmid vector AN7-1. The features of the cosmid are: (1) a BamHI cloning site, (2) NotI and SfiI restriction sites surrounding the BamHI site for easy removal of the cloned DNA insert, (3) T3 and SP6 RNA polymerase promoters outside the NotI and SfiI sites for generation of end specific probes, and (4) dual cos sites separated by a unique ClaI site to facilitate cloning of non-size-selected DNA.
The addition of bacteriophage RNA polymerase promoters for probe synthesis, rare restriction enzyme sites for insert removal and dual l packaging sites for cloning non- size-selected DNA have simplified the manipulation and analysis of cosmid clones and led to an increase in their use for genome analysis. We have incorporated these features into a cosmid shuttle vector for transformation of some filamentous fungi to hygromycin B resistance.
The cosmid AN26 (see Figure 1) is derived from the plasmid vector AN7-1 ( Punt et al. 1987 Gene 56:117-124). The plasmid was digested with Bgl II and Hind III and a 4.1 kb DNA fragment was cloned into phagemid TZ19R. The fragment contained the promoter of the glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (gpdA) gene from Aspergillus nidulans (Punt et al. 1988 Gene 69:49-57) fused to the Escherichia coli hygromycin B phosphotransferase (hph) coding sequence (Gritz and Davies 1983 Gene 25:179-188) followed by the A. nidulans trpC gene terminator (Mullaney et al. 1985 Mol. Gen. Genet. 199:37-45). Site-directed mutagenesis was performed to remove a BamHI site and 154 bps of trpC coding sequence that was part of the terminator fusion. Complementary oligonucleotides containing KpnI adapters, T3 and SP6 RNA polymerase promoters (Basu et al. 1984 J. Biol. Chem. 259:1993-1998, Brown et al. 1986 Nucl. Acids Res. 14:3521-3526) and SfiI, BamHI and NotI restriction enzyme sites were annealed and ligated into the KpnI site proximal to the hph gene fusion. The fragments COS 1 and COS 2 which contain the l packaging sites (Miwa and Matsubara 1982 Gene 20:267-279) were products of polymerase chain reaction amplification of l DNA. COS 1 was blunt-end ligated to a filled-in HindIII site distal to the trpC terminator. COS 2 was ligated to an XbaI site in the trpC terminator and a reconstructed HindIII site proximal to COS 1. This operation removed 45 bps of trpC terminator and 19 bps of pUC18 sequence carried over from pAN7-1. The two packaging sites were now separated by a unique ClaI restriction enzyme site. This site is easily digested after propagation in a dam- E. coli strain.
The sequence of AN26 was assembled from the published sequences of its components and from the results of construct verification. It is deposited in GenBank as accession U09715. The modifications that were made in constructing AN26 from AN7-1 had no effect on transformation frequency, as judged by transformation of Leptosphaeria maculans. The cosmid is available to interested researchers upon request from the Fungal Genetics Stock Center and this
laboratory.
Figure 1. Cosmid AN26. The abbreviations denote the following: T3, SP6, bacteriophage RNA
polymerase promoters; Pgpd, promoter of the A. nidulans gpdA gene; hph, E. coli hph gene coding sequence; TtrpC, terminator sequence from the A. nidulans trpC gene; COS1, COS2, sequences specifying l phage packaging. The thin black line denotes the phagemid TZ19R.
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