The invention discloses a method for knocking out a
cytidine deaminase (cdd)
gene in
escherichia coli by utilizing a
CRISPR-Cas9 technology and application. The method comprises the following steps: 1, making
escherichia coli BL21 (DE3) competence containing a Cas9
plasmid; 2, designing and synthesizing a
mutant sgRNA; 3, constructing Donor
DNA; 4, transforming the sgRNA
plasmid and the Donor DNAinto the
escherichia coli competence carrying the Cas9
plasmid by employing an electro transformation method, and knocking out the cdd
gene; and 5, introducing a target plasmid pET28a-UCK into a knock-out strain to produce cytidylic acid. The method has the advantages that operation is simple, the knockout success rate of the cdd
gene is high, and the conversion rate of the knock-out strain on a substrate is improved, and is suitable for industrial production of the
cytidine acid and the like. Compared with producing the cytidylic acid without strain knockout, producing the cytidylic acid withstrain knockout improves the conversion rate of the substrate
cytidine and
adenosine triphosphate (ATP) by 15%, and the conversion rate reaches 99%.