Figure 2.
Physiological characterization of the CRISPR-Hxt0 strain IMX1812 and its ancestors. (A) Growth in aerobic shake-flasks with chemically defined medium using maltose as sole carbon source. CEN.PK2-1C: control strain without SpCas9, IMX672: control strain constitutively expressing SpCas9 from its genomic DNA, IMX1812: CRISPR-Hxt0 strain and EBY.VW4000: Hxt0 strain from Wieczorke et al. (1999). All strains are quadruple auxotrophs and were supplied with uracil, leucine, histidine and tryptophan. Data represent the average and mean deviation of biological duplicates for each strain and growth condition. The asterisk indicates a P value below 0.05 (Student t-test) as compared to the control strain CEN.PK2-1C. (B) Growth on chemically defined medium with various carbon sources. IMX1521 and IMX1541 were obtained after the first and second transformation round, respectively. The pictures were taken after 2 days of incubation at 30°C.