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Kern A, Shanahan D, Buesen R, Geiger D. Safety evaluation of a β-mannanase enzyme preparation produced with Thermothelomyces thermophilus expressing a protein-engineered β-mannanase gene. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0243647. [PMID: 33301505 PMCID: PMC7728267 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0243647] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2020] [Accepted: 11/20/2020] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Mannanase 19287 enzyme is an engineered β-mannanase that can be added to diets for animals raised for human consumption to hydrolyze β-mannans. Established toxicological analyses were conducted with the enzyme preparation to ensure the safety of this product for the intended use. The mannanase 19287 preparation was produced with Thermothelomyces thermophilus strain DSM 33149. In vitro toxicity studies presented here used dosages of the mannanase 19287 test articles up to 5000 μg/plate. For in vivo toxicity studies in Wistar rats, test articles were administered at 5.1 mg/L for inhalation toxicity and up to 15,000 mg/kg rat feed for oral toxicity, based on the Total Organic Solids (TOS) content in each test article. No treatment related adverse effects were reported in any study. The No Observed Adverse Effect Levels in the high dose group of the subchronic oral toxicity study were calculated as 1117–1298 mg TOS/kg bw/day in rats. Comparing these values to an Estimated Daily Intake for poultry demonstrated safety factors larger than 5000. Our results confirm that T. thermophilus fulfills the recognized safety criteria for the manufacture of food enzyme preparations and represent the first peer-reviewed safety evaluation of an enzyme preparation by T. thermophilus. The results of the toxicity studies presented herein attest to the safety of the mannanase 19287 enzyme for its intended use.
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- Andreas Kern
- BASF Corporation, San Diego, California, United States of America
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- BASF Corporation, San Diego, California, United States of America
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- Experimental Toxicology and Ecology, BASF SE, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany
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- Global Service Cluster Safety, BASF SE, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany
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Gabriel R, Prinz J, Jecmenica M, Romero-Vazquez C, Chou P, Harth S, Floerl L, Curran L, Oostlander A, Matz L, Fritsche S, Gorman J, Schuerg T, Fleißner A, Singer SW. Development of genetic tools for the thermophilic filamentous fungus Thermoascus aurantiacus. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS 2020; 13:167. [PMID: 33062053 PMCID: PMC7547499 DOI: 10.1186/s13068-020-01804-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2020] [Accepted: 09/20/2020] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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BACKGROUND Fungal enzymes are vital for industrial biotechnology, including the conversion of plant biomass to biofuels and bio-based chemicals. In recent years, there is increasing interest in using enzymes from thermophilic fungi, which often have higher reaction rates and thermal tolerance compared to currently used fungal enzymes. The thermophilic filamentous fungus Thermoascus aurantiacus produces large amounts of highly thermostable plant cell wall-degrading enzymes. However, no genetic tools have yet been developed for this fungus, which prevents strain engineering efforts. The goal of this study was to develop strain engineering tools such as a transformation system, a CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing system and a sexual crossing protocol to improve the enzyme production. RESULTS Here, we report Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation (ATMT) of T. aurantiacus using the hph marker gene, conferring resistance to hygromycin B. The newly developed transformation protocol was optimized and used to integrate an expression cassette of the transcriptional xylanase regulator xlnR, which led to up to 500% increased xylanase activity. Furthermore, a CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing system was established in this fungus, and two different gRNAs were tested to delete the pyrG orthologue with 10% and 35% deletion efficiency, respectively. Lastly, a sexual crossing protocol was established using a hygromycin B- and a 5-fluoroorotic acid-resistant parent strain. Crossing and isolation of progeny on selective media were completed in a week. CONCLUSION The genetic tools developed for T. aurantiacus can now be used individually or in combination to further improve thermostable enzyme production by this fungus.
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- Raphael Gabriel
- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
- Joint BioEnergy Institute, 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville, California 94608 United States
- Institut für Genetik, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Brunswick, Germany
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- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
- Joint BioEnergy Institute, 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville, California 94608 United States
- Department of Applied Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria
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- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
- Joint BioEnergy Institute, 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville, California 94608 United States
- Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (ACIB), Muthgasse 11, 1190 Vienna, Austria
- Department of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria
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- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
- Joint BioEnergy Institute, 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville, California 94608 United States
- College of Natural Sciences, University of Puerto-Rico, Rio Pedras, 17 Ave. Universidad STE 1701, San Juan, 00925 Puerto Rico USA
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- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
- Joint BioEnergy Institute, 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville, California 94608 United States
- American High School, 36300 Fremont Blvd, Fremont, CA 94536 USA
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- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
- Joint BioEnergy Institute, 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville, California 94608 United States
- Frankfurt Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt Am Main, Germany
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- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
- Joint BioEnergy Institute, 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville, California 94608 United States
- Department of Applied Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria
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- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
- Joint BioEnergy Institute, 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville, California 94608 United States
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Vaud 1015 Switzerland
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- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
- Joint BioEnergy Institute, 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville, California 94608 United States
- Institut für Genetik, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Brunswick, Germany
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- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
- Joint BioEnergy Institute, 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville, California 94608 United States
- Institut für Genetik, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Brunswick, Germany
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- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
- Joint BioEnergy Institute, 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville, California 94608 United States
- Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria
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- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
- Joint BioEnergy Institute, 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville, California 94608 United States
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- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
- Joint BioEnergy Institute, 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville, California 94608 United States
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- Institut für Genetik, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Brunswick, Germany
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- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
- Joint BioEnergy Institute, 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville, California 94608 United States
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amdS as a dominant recyclable marker in Cryptococcus neoformans. Fungal Genet Biol 2019; 131:103241. [PMID: 31220607 DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2019.103241] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2019] [Revised: 06/13/2019] [Accepted: 06/13/2019] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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While the fungal pathogen Cryptoccocus neoformans is a leading cause of death in immunocompromised individuals, the molecular toolkit currently available to study this important pathogen is extremely limited. To enable an unprecedented level of control over manipulation of the genome, we have developed a dominant recyclable marker by expanding on the classic studies of the amdS gene by Michael J. Hynes and John Pateman. The ascomycete Aspergillus nidulans employs the acetamidase AmdS to hydrolyse acetamide to ammonium and acetate, which serve as a nitrogen and carbon source, respectively. Acetamidase activity has never been reported in the Basidiomycota. Here we have successfully demonstrated that acetamide can be utilized as a good nitrogen source in C. neoformans heterologously expressing amdS and that this activity does not influence virulence, enabling it to be used as a basic dominant selectable marker. The expression of this gene in C. neoformans also causes sensitivity to fluoroacetamide, permitting counterselection. Taking advantage of this toxicity we have modified our basic marker to create a comprehensive series of powerful and reliable tools to successfully delete multiple genes in the one strain, generate markerless strains with modifications such as fluorescent protein fusions at native genomic loci, and establish whether a gene is essential in C. neoformans.
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Nichols NN, Hector RE, Frazer SE. Genetic transformation of Coniochaeta sp. 2T2.1, key fungal member of a lignocellulose-degrading microbial consortium. Biol Methods Protoc 2019; 4:bpz001. [PMID: 32395621 DOI: 10.1093/biomethods/bpz001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2018] [Revised: 12/15/2018] [Accepted: 02/04/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Coniochaeta sp. strain 2T2.1 is a key member of a microbial consortium that degrades lignocellulosic biomass. Due to its ecological niche and ability to also grow in pure culture on wheat straw, protocols for transformation and antibiotic selection of the strain were established. Hygromycin was found to be a reliable selectable transformation marker, and the mammalian codon-optimized green fluorescent protein was expressed and used to visualize fluorescence in transformed cells of strain 2T2.1.
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- Nancy N Nichols
- National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bioenergy Research Unit, Peoria, IL, USA
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- National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bioenergy Research Unit, Peoria, IL, USA
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- National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bioenergy Research Unit, Peoria, IL, USA
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- John F. Leslie
- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506
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Takeda AK, Udagawa H, Uemura Y, Takagi S. Identifying the inserted locus of randomly integrated expression plasmids by whole-genome sequencing of Aspergillus strains. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 2018; 82:1880-1888. [PMID: 30096024 DOI: 10.1080/09168451.2018.1506312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Whole-genome sequencing was conducted on two Aspergillus oryzae strains used for the manufacturing of food enzymes, Acrylaway® and Shearzyme®, with the aim of identifying the inserted locus of randomly integrated expression plasmid and obtaining flanking sequences for safety assessment. Illumina paired-end sequencing was employed, and the obtained reads were mapped to two references: the public genome sequence of Aspergillus oryzae RIB40 and the in-house sequence of the used expression plasmid. Introducing the concept of linking-reads, one locus for each was successfully identified as the integrated site. In the case of Acrylaway®, the obtained sequences suggested that the expression plasmid had been integrated as multiple copies in tandem form. In the case of Shearzyme®, however, information on one edge of the insert was missing, which required extra polymerase chain reaction (PCR) cloning for safety assessment. A 4-kb deletion was detected at the integrated site. There was also evidence of rearrangement occurring in Shearzyme® strain.
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- b Research and Development , Novozymes Japan Ltd ., Chiba , Japan
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- b Research and Development , Novozymes Japan Ltd ., Chiba , Japan
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Hirasawa H, Shioya K, Furukawa T, Tani S, Sumitani JI, Kawaguchi T, Morikawa Y, Shida Y, Ogasawara W. Engineering of the Trichoderma reesei xylanase3 promoter for efficient enzyme expression. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2018; 102:2737-2752. [DOI: 10.1007/s00253-018-8763-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2017] [Revised: 12/21/2017] [Accepted: 01/09/2018] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Alazi E, Knetsch T, Di Falco M, Reid ID, Arentshorst M, Visser J, Tsang A, Ram AFJ. Inducer-independent production of pectinases in Aspergillus niger by overexpression of the D-galacturonic acid-responsive transcription factor gaaR. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2018; 102:2723-2736. [PMID: 29368217 PMCID: PMC5847190 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-018-8753-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2017] [Revised: 12/13/2017] [Accepted: 12/17/2017] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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The transcription factor GaaR is needed for the expression of genes required for pectin degradation and transport and catabolism of the main degradation product, D-galacturonic acid (GA) in Aspergillus niger. In this study, we used the strong constitutive gpdA promoter of Aspergillus nidulans to overexpress gaaR in A. niger. Overexpression of gaaR resulted in an increased transcription of the genes encoding pectinases, (putative) GA transporters, and catabolic pathway enzymes even under non-inducing conditions, i.e., in the absence of GA. Exoproteome analysis of a strain overexpressing gaaR showed that this strain secretes highly elevated levels of pectinases when grown in fructose. The genes encoding exo-polygalacturonases were found to be subjected to CreA-mediated carbon catabolite repression, even in the presence of fructose. Deletion of creA in the strain overexpressing gaaR resulted in a further increase in pectinase production in fructose. We showed that GaaR localizes mainly in the nucleus regardless of the presence of an inducer, and that overexpression of gaaR leads to an increased concentration of GaaR in the nucleus.
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- Ebru Alazi
- Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Institute of Biology Leiden, Leiden University, Sylviusweg 72, 2333 BE, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Institute of Biology Leiden, Leiden University, Sylviusweg 72, 2333 BE, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics, Concordia University, Québec, Canada
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- Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics, Concordia University, Québec, Canada
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- Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Institute of Biology Leiden, Leiden University, Sylviusweg 72, 2333 BE, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Institute of Biology Leiden, Leiden University, Sylviusweg 72, 2333 BE, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics, Concordia University, Québec, Canada
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- Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Institute of Biology Leiden, Leiden University, Sylviusweg 72, 2333 BE, Leiden, The Netherlands.
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Reyes-Sosa FM, López Morales M, Platero Gómez AI, Valbuena Crespo N, Sánchez Zamorano L, Rocha-Martín J, Molina-Heredia FP, Díez García B. Management of enzyme diversity in high-performance cellulolytic cocktails. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS 2017; 10:156. [PMID: 28649275 PMCID: PMC5477296 DOI: 10.1186/s13068-017-0845-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2017] [Accepted: 06/12/2017] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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BACKGROUND Modern biorefineries require enzymatic cocktails of improved efficiency to generate fermentable sugars from lignocellulosic biomass. Cellulolytic fungi, among other microorganisms, have demonstrated the highest potential in terms of enzymatic productivity, complexity and efficiency. On the other hand, under cellulolytic-inducing conditions, they often produce a considerable diversity of carbohydrate-active enzymes which allow them to adapt to changing environmental conditions. However, industrial conditions are fixed and adjusted to the optimum of the whole cocktail, resulting in underperformance of individual enzymes. RESULTS One of these cellulolytic cocktails from Myceliophthora thermophila has been analyzed here by means of LC-MS/MS. Pure GH6 family members detected have been characterized, confirming previous studies, and added to whole cocktails to compare their contribution in the hydrolysis of industrial substrates. Finally, independent deletions of two GH6 family members, as an example of the enzymatic diversity management, led to the development of a strain producing a more efficient cellulolytic cocktail. CONCLUSIONS These data indicate that the deletion of noncontributive cellulases (here EG VI) can increase the cellulolytic efficiency of the cocktail, validating the management of cellulase diversity as a strategy to obtain improved fungal cellulolytic cocktails.
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- Department of Biotechnology, Abengoa Research, Campus Palmas Altas, C/Energía Solar 1, 41014 Seville, Spain
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- Department of Biotechnology, Abengoa Research, Campus Palmas Altas, C/Energía Solar 1, 41014 Seville, Spain
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- Department of Biotechnology, Abengoa Research, Campus Palmas Altas, C/Energía Solar 1, 41014 Seville, Spain
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- Department of Biotechnology, Abengoa Research, Campus Palmas Altas, C/Energía Solar 1, 41014 Seville, Spain
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- Department of Biotechnology, Abengoa Research, Campus Palmas Altas, C/Energía Solar 1, 41014 Seville, Spain
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- Instituto de Bioquímica Vegetal y Fotosíntesis, Universidad de Sevilla y CSIC, Américo Vespucio 49, 41092 Seville, Spain
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- Department of Biotechnology, Abengoa Research, Campus Palmas Altas, C/Energía Solar 1, 41014 Seville, Spain
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Mello-de-Sousa TM, Rassinger A, Pucher ME, dos Santos Castro L, Persinoti GF, Silva-Rocha R, Poças-Fonseca MJ, Mach RL, Nascimento Silva R, Mach-Aigner AR. The impact of chromatin remodelling on cellulase expression in Trichoderma reesei. BMC Genomics 2015; 16:588. [PMID: 26248555 PMCID: PMC4528718 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-1807-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2015] [Accepted: 08/03/2015] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Background Trichoderma reesei is used for industry-scale production of plant cell wall-degrading enzymes, in particular cellulases, but also xylanases. The expression of the encoding genes was so far primarily investigated on the level of transcriptional regulation by regulatory proteins. Otherwise, the impact of chromatin remodelling on gene expression received hardly any attention. In this study we aimed to learn if the chromatin status changes in context to the applied conditions (repressing/inducing), and if the presence or absence of the essential transactivator, the Xylanase regulator 1 (Xyr1), influences the chromatin packaging. Results Comparing the results of chromatin accessibility real-time PCR analyses and gene expression studies of the two prominent cellulase-encoding genes, cbh1 and cbh2, we found that the chromatin opens during sophorose-mediated induction compared to D-glucose-conferred repression. In the strain bearing a xyr1 deletion the sophorose mediated induction of gene expression is lost and the chromatin opening is strongly reduced. In all conditions the chromatin got denser when Xyr1 is absent. In the case of the xylanase-encoding genes, xyn1 and xyn2, the result was similar concerning the condition-specific response of the chromatin compaction. However, the difference in chromatin status provoked by the absence of Xyr1 is less pronounced. A more detailed investigation of the DNA accessibility in the cbh1 promoter showed that the deletion of xyr1 changed the in vivo footprinting pattern. In particular, we detected increased hypersensitivity on Xyr1-sites and stronger protection of Cre1-sites. Looking for the players directly causing the observed chromatin remodelling, a whole transcriptome shotgun sequencing revealed that 15 genes encoding putative chromatin remodelers are differentially expressed in response to the applied condition and two amongst them are differentially expressed in the absence of Xyr1. Conclusions The regulation of xylanase and cellulase expression in T. reesei is not only restricted to the action of transcription factors but is clearly related to changes in the chromatin packaging. Both the applied condition and the presence of Xyr1 influence chromatin status.
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- Thiago M Mello-de-Sousa
- Department for Biotechnology and Microbiology, Institute of Chemical Engineering, TU Wien, Gumpendorfer Str. 1a, A-1060, Wien, Austria.
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- Department for Biotechnology and Microbiology, Institute of Chemical Engineering, TU Wien, Gumpendorfer Str. 1a, A-1060, Wien, Austria.
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- Department for Biotechnology and Microbiology, Institute of Chemical Engineering, TU Wien, Gumpendorfer Str. 1a, A-1060, Wien, Austria.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Immunology, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo 14049-900, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
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- Laboratório Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia do Bioetanol (CTBE), Centro Nacional de Pesquisa em Energia e Materiais (CNPEM), Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Immunology, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo 14049-900, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
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- Department of Genetics and Morphology, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Brasilia, Brasília, DF, Brazil.
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- Department for Biotechnology and Microbiology, Institute of Chemical Engineering, TU Wien, Gumpendorfer Str. 1a, A-1060, Wien, Austria.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Immunology, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo 14049-900, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
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- Department for Biotechnology and Microbiology, Institute of Chemical Engineering, TU Wien, Gumpendorfer Str. 1a, A-1060, Wien, Austria.
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Protoplasting, regeneration and transformation of medicinal mushroom Ganoderma multipileum using succinate dehydrogenase mutation gene as a selection marker. ANN MICROBIOL 2015. [DOI: 10.1007/s13213-015-1087-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Visser H, Joosten V, Punt PJ, Gusakov AV, Olson PT, Joosten R, Bartels J, Visser J, Sinitsyn AP, Emalfarb MA, Verdoes JC, Wery J. RESEARCH: Development of a mature fungal technology and production platform for industrial enzymes based on a Myceliophthora thermophila isolate, previously known as Chrysosporium lucknowense C1. Ind Biotechnol (New Rochelle N Y) 2011. [DOI: 10.1089/ind.2011.7.214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- Hans Visser
- Dyadic Netherlands, Nieuwe Kanaal 7-S, 6709 PA Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Dyadic Netherlands, Nieuwe Kanaal 7-S, 6709 PA Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- TNO Microbiology and Systems Biology, PO Box 360, 3700 AJ Zeist, The Netherlands
- University Leiden, Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology. Sylviusweg 72, 2333 BE Leiden. The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemistry, M.V Lomonosov Moscow State University, Vorobyovy Gory 1/11, Moscow 119991, Russia
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- Bio-Technical Resources, 1035 S. Seventh St., Manitowoc, Wisconsin 54220, USA
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- Dyadic Netherlands, Nieuwe Kanaal 7-S, 6709 PA Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Dyadic Netherlands, Nieuwe Kanaal 7-S, 6709 PA Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Fungal Genetics and Technology Consultancy, PO Box 396, 6700 AJ Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- A.N. Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky Prospect, 33-2, Moscow 119071, Russia
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- Dyadic International, Inc., 140 Intracoastal Pointe Drive, Jupiter, Florida 33477-5094, USA
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- Dyadic Netherlands, Nieuwe Kanaal 7-S, 6709 PA Wageningen, The Netherlands
- This manuscript is dedicated to the memory of Jan C. Verdoes, who passed away too early on November 26, 2007, and whom we thank for many of the results described herein
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- Dyadic Netherlands, Nieuwe Kanaal 7-S, 6709 PA Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Zhang J, Mao Z, Xue W, Li Y, Tang G, Wang A, Zhang Y, Wang H. Ku80 gene is related to non-homologous end-joining and genome stability in Aspergillus niger. Curr Microbiol 2011; 62:1342-6. [PMID: 21225265 DOI: 10.1007/s00284-010-9853-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2010] [Accepted: 12/13/2010] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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In this study, the ku70 and ku80 homologs from the Aspergillus niger genome were identified and their function was analyzed using targeted mutagenesis. The role of the ku80 gene in non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ) was investigated by calculating the frequency of homologous recombination. The transformation test verified that the frequency of homologous recombination significantly increased, from 1.78 to 65.6% in ku80 single deletion strains and to 100% in ku70/ku80 double deletion strains. These results suggest that the ku80 gene is important for non-homologous end-joining. Although the morphology of the ku deletion strains colonies was similar to that of the wildtype strain, mutants were more sensitive to the mutagen phleomycin. Furthermore, the purified ku80 deletion strain produced some sectored colonies on hygromycin B-containing plates. This result suggests that the ku80 gene deletion leads to genomic instability in A. niger.
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- Jinxiang Zhang
- CAS Key Laboratory of Systematic Mycology and Lichenology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, People's Republic of China
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Nichols NN, Szynkarek MP, Skory CD, Gorsich SW, López MJ, Guisado GM, Nichols WA. Transformation and electrophoretic karyotyping of Coniochaeta ligniaria NRRL30616. Curr Genet 2011; 57:169-75. [DOI: 10.1007/s00294-010-0332-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2010] [Revised: 12/22/2010] [Accepted: 12/24/2010] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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- Rolf Geisen
- a Bundesanstalt für Fleischforschung , Institut für Mikroblologie, Toxikologie und Histologle , E.C. Baumannstr. 20, Kulmbach , 8650 , FRG
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- a Bundesanstalt für Fleischforschung , Institut für Mikroblologie, Toxikologie und Histologle , E.C. Baumannstr. 20, Kulmbach , 8650 , FRG
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- a Bundesanstalt für Fleischforschung , Institut für Mikroblologie, Toxikologie und Histologle , E.C. Baumannstr. 20, Kulmbach , 8650 , FRG
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Rahman Z, Shida Y, Furukawa T, Suzuki Y, Okada H, Ogasawara W, Morikawa Y. Evaluation and characterization of Trichoderma reesei cellulase and xylanase promoters. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2009; 82:899-908. [DOI: 10.1007/s00253-008-1841-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2008] [Revised: 12/18/2008] [Accepted: 12/19/2008] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Brody H, Maiyuran S. RNAi-mediated gene silencing of highly expressed genes in the industrial fungiTrichoderma reeseiandAspergillus niger. Ind Biotechnol (New Rochelle N Y) 2009. [DOI: 10.1089/ind.2009.5.53] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Furukawa T, Shida Y, Kitagami N, Ota Y, Adachi M, Nakagawa S, Shimada R, Kato M, Kobayashi T, Okada H, Ogasawara W, Morikawa Y. Identification of the cis-acting elements involved in regulation of xylanase III gene expression in Trichoderma reesei PC-3-7. Fungal Genet Biol 2008; 45:1094-102. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2008.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2008] [Revised: 03/19/2008] [Accepted: 03/19/2008] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Stricker AR, Trefflinger P, Aro N, Penttilä M, Mach RL. Role of Ace2 (Activator of Cellulases 2) within the xyn2 transcriptosome of Hypocrea jecorina. Fungal Genet Biol 2008; 45:436-45. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2007.08.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2007] [Revised: 08/21/2007] [Accepted: 08/22/2007] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Rosado IV, Rey M, Codón AC, Govantes J, Moreno-Mateos MA, Benítez T. QID74 Cell wall protein of Trichoderma harzianum is involved in cell protection and adherence to hydrophobic surfaces. Fungal Genet Biol 2007; 44:950-64. [PMID: 17300969 DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2007.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2006] [Revised: 12/27/2006] [Accepted: 01/01/2007] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Trichoderma is widely used as biocontrol agent against phytopathogenic fungi, and as biofertilizer because of its ability to establish mycorriza-like association with plants. The key factor to the ecological success of this genus is the combination of very active mycoparasitic mechanisms plus effective defense strategies induced in plants. This work, different from most of the studies carried out that address the attacking mechanisms, focuses on elucidating how Trichoderma is able to tolerate hostile conditions. A gene from Trichoderma harzianum CECT 2413, qid74, was strongly expressed during starvation of carbon or nitrogen sources; it encoded a cell wall protein of 74kDa that plays a significant role in mycelium protection. qid74 was originally isolated and characterized, in a previous work, by a differential hybridization approach under simulated mycoparasitism conditions. Heterologous expression of Qid74 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae indicated that the protein, located in the cell wall, interfered with mating and sporulation but not with cell integrity. The qid74 gene was disrupted by homologous recombination and it was overexpressed by isolating transformants selected for the amdS gene that carried several copies of qid74 gene under the control of the pki promoter. Disruptants and transformants showed similar growth rate and viability when they were cultivated in different media, temperatures and osmolarities, or were subjected to different abiotic stress conditions. However, disruptants produced about 70% mass yield under any condition and were substantially more sensitive than the wild type to cell wall degradation by different lytic preparations. Transformants had similar mass yield and were more resistant to lytic enzymes but more sensitive to copper sulfate than the wild type. When experiments of adherence to hydrophobic surfaces were carried out, the disruptants had a reduced capacity to adhere, whereas that capacity in the overproducer transformants was slightly higher than that of the wild type. Results point to a significant role for Qid74 both in cell wall protection and adhesion to hydrophobic surfaces.
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- Iván V Rosado
- Departamento de Genética, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, Apartado 1095, E-41080, Sevilla, Spain
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Verdoes JC, Punt PJ, Burlingame R, Bartels J, Dijk RV, Slump E, Meens M, Joosten R, Emalfarb M. ORIGINAL RESEARCH: A dedicated vector for efficient library construction and high throughput screening in the hyphal fungus Chrysosporium lucknowense. Ind Biotechnol (New Rochelle N Y) 2007. [DOI: 10.1089/ind.2007.3.048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Heale JB, Isaac JE, Chandler D. Prospects for strain improvement in entomopathogenic fungi. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006. [DOI: 10.1002/ps.2780260108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Ogasawara W, Shida Y, Furukawa T, Shimada R, Nakagawa S, Kawamura M, Yagyu T, Kosuge A, Xu J, Nogawa M, Okada H, Morikawa Y. Cloning, functional expression and promoter analysis of xylanase III gene from Trichoderma reesei. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2006; 72:995-1003. [PMID: 16520923 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-006-0365-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2005] [Revised: 01/25/2006] [Accepted: 02/05/2006] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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In this study, the xyn3 gene from the filamentous mesophilic fungus Trichoderma reesei (Hypocrea jecorina) PC-3-7 was cloned and sequenced. Analysis of the deduced amino acid sequence of XYN III revealed considerable homology with xylanases belonging to glycoside hydrolase family 10. These results show that XYN III is distinguishable from XYN I and XYN II, two other T. reesei xylanases that belong to the glycosidase family 11. When xyn3 was expressed in Escherichia coli, significant activity was observed in the cell-free extract, and higher activity (13.2 U/ml medium) was recovered from the inclusion bodies in the cell debris. The sequence of the 5'-upstream region of the gene in the parent strain QM9414 is identical to that of PC-3-7, although the expression level of xyn3 in PC-3-7 has been reported to be at least 1,000 times greater than in QM9414. These results suggest that xyn3 expression in T. reesei QM9414 is silenced. The consensus sequences for ACEI, ACEII, CREI, and the Hap2/3/5 protein complex are all present in the upstream region of xyn3. Deletion analysis of the upstream region revealed that two regions containing consensus sequences for the known regulatory elements play important roles for xyn3 expression.
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- W Ogasawara
- Department of Bioengineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, 1603-1 Kamitomioka, Nagaoka, Niigata, 940-2188, Japan
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Joosten V, Roelofs MS, van den Dries N, Goosen T, Verrips CT, van den Hondel CAMJJ, Lokman BC. Production of bifunctional proteins by Aspergillus awamori: Llama variable heavy chain antibody fragment (VHH) R9 coupled to Arthromyces ramosus peroxidase (ARP). J Biotechnol 2005; 120:347-59. [PMID: 16169108 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2005.06.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2005] [Revised: 06/02/2005] [Accepted: 06/21/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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The Arthromyces ramosus peroxidase gene (arp) was genetically fused to either the 5'- or 3'-terminal ends of the gene encoding llama variable heavy chain antibody fragment V(HH) R9, resulting in the fusion expression cassettes ARP-R9 or R9-ARP. Aspergillus awamori transformants were obtained which produced up to 30 mgl(-1) fusion protein in the culture medium. Both fusion proteins showed peroxidase activity in an ABTS activity test. Considerable amounts of fusion protein were detected intracellularly, suggesting that the fungus encounters problems in secreting these kind of proteins. ELISA experiments showed that ARP-R9 was less able to bind its antigen, the azo-dye RR6, as compared to R9-ARP. Furthermore, in contrast to R9-ARP, ARP-R9 bound to RR6 did not show peroxidase activity anymore. These results indicate that fusion of ARP to the C-terminus of the antibody fragment V(HH) R9 (R9-ARP) is the preferred orientation.
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- Vivi Joosten
- TNO Quality of Life, Department of Microbiology, Utrechtseweg 48, P.O.Box 360, 3700 AJ Zeist, The Netherlands.
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Askolin S, Penttilä M, Wösten HAB, Nakari-Setälä T. TheTrichoderma reeseihydrophobin geneshfb1andhfb2have diverse functions in fungal development. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2005; 253:281-8. [PMID: 16243453 DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2005.09.047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2005] [Revised: 09/26/2005] [Accepted: 09/28/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
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Hydrophobins are fungal self-assembling proteins. Here, the hydrophobin genes hfb1 and hfb2 were deleted in Trichoderma reesei and their biological roles studied. Our results suggest that HFBI has a role in hyphal development and HFBII in sporulation. Sporulating colonies of the Deltahfb2 strain were wettable and sporulation was only 50% of the parent strain. Colonies of Deltahfb1 showed wettable and fluffy phenotype. In shaken liquid cultures, the hyphae of Deltahfb1 were thinner and biomass formation was slower compared to the parent strain while in static liquid cultures no aerial hyphae were formed. Expressing the Schizophyllum commune hydrophobin SC3 in the Deltahfb1 strain restored the formation of aerial hyphae.
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Yokoigawa K, Okubo Y, Kawai H. A new sterility test for cow's milk using alanine racemase gene as the index. J Biosci Bioeng 2005; 88:26-9. [PMID: 16232568 DOI: 10.1016/s1389-1723(99)80170-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/1999] [Accepted: 04/16/1999] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Oligonucleotide primers designed from consensus sequences of alanine racemase genes were used for a sterility test of cow's milk by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Commercial cow's milk in two 250 ml packages was separately centrifuged at 5000 x g for 10 min, bacterial cells in each precipitate were cultivated at 30 and 55 degrees C for 5 h in Luria-Bertani medium, and the cells from each culture were mixed and used for the PCR after being treated with 0.1 N NaOH at 60 degrees C for 10 min. When we performed the PCR using DNAs from various bacteria and eukaryotes as the templates, a unique PCR product of about 390 bp was amplified only from the bacteria. The sensitivity of the PCR method was such that an initial inoculum of 1 CFU of Bacillus stearothermophilus, Escherichia coli, and Pseudomonas fluorescens per 250 ml of cow's milk could be detected. When we analyzed 14 types of commercial cow's milk, all samples which were positive by the standard sterility test at 30 or 55 degrees C were also found positive by the PCR method.
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- K Yokoigawa
- Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Nara Women's University, Nara 630-8263 Japan
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Joosten V, Gouka RJ, van den Hondel CAMJJ, Verrips CT, Lokman BC. Expression and production of llama variable heavy-chain antibody fragments (VHHs) by Aspergillus awamori. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2004; 66:384-92. [PMID: 15378291 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-004-1689-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2004] [Revised: 06/11/2004] [Accepted: 06/11/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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We report the expression and production of llama variable heavy-chain antibody fragments (V(HH)s) by Aspergillus awamori. Fragments encoding V(HH)s were cloned in a suitable Aspergillus expression vector and transformants secreting V(HH) fragments were analysed for integrated gene copy-numbers, mRNA levels and protein production. Functional V(HH)s were detected in the culture medium, indicating the feasibility of producing this type of protein in a fungal expression system. Secreted V(HH)s were subjected to (extracellular) degradation, which could be partially prevented by the addition of BSA to the culture medium.
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- Vivi Joosten
- Department of Microbiology, TNO Nutrition and Food Research, P.O. Box 360, 3700 AJ, Zeist, The Netherlands
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Filamentous fungi have been used for decades in the commercial production of enzymes, antibiotics, and specialty chemicals. Traditionally, improving the yields of these products has involved either mutagenesis and screening or modification of fermentation conditions. Generally, selective breeding of strains has not been successful, because most of the commercially important fungal species lack a sexual cycle. For a few species, strain improvements have been made possible by employing the parasexual cycle for genetic crosses (30). The recent development of DNA-mediated transformation systems for several industrially important fungal species has spawned a flurry of research activity directed toward the development of gene expression systems for these microorganisms. This technology is now a viable means for novel and more directed approaches to improving existing fungal strains which produce enzymes or antibiotics. In addition, fungal expression systems are now being tested for the production of heterologous gene products such as mammalian pharmaceutical proteins. The goal of this review is to present a summary of the gene expression systems which have recently been developed for some filamentous fungi of commercial importance. To insure that the most recent developments are presented we have included data from not only scientific papers, but also from personal communications, abstracts, symposia, and our own laboratory.
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- R M Berka
- Genencor, Inc., South San Francisco, California 94080, USA
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Lokman BC, Joosten V, Hovenkamp J, Gouka RJ, Verrips CT, van den Hondel CAMJJ. Efficient production of Arthromyces ramosus peroxidase by Aspergillus awamori. J Biotechnol 2003; 103:183-90. [PMID: 12814876 DOI: 10.1016/s0168-1656(03)00109-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The heterologous production of Arthromyces ramosus peroxidase (ARP) was analysed in the filamentous fungus Aspergillus awamori under control of the inducible endoxylanase promoter. Secretion of active ARP was achieved up to 800 mg l(-1) in shake flask cultures. Western blot analysis showed that an rARP product of the correct molecular weight was produced. In contrast to several other studies about heterologous production of heme containing peroxidases, our results suggest that in A. awamori no heme limitation exists during overproduction of ARP.
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- B Christien Lokman
- TNO Nutrition and Food Research, Department of Applied Microbiology and Gene Technology, P.O. Box 360, 3700 AJ, Zeist, The Netherlands.
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- B Ruiz-Díez
- Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain.
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Ahn JH, Sposato P, Kim SI, Walton JD. Molecular cloning and characterization of cel2 from the fungus Cochlibolus carbonum. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 2001; 65:1406-11. [PMID: 11471744 DOI: 10.1271/bbb.65.1406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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A new cellulase gene, cel2, from the filamentous fungus Cochliobolus carbonum was cloned by using egl-1 of Trichoderma reesei as a heterologous probe. DNA blot analysis of cel2 showed that this gene is present as a single copy. The gene contains one 49-bp- intron. cel2 encodes a predicted protein (Cel2p) of 423 amino acids with a molecular mass of 45.8 kDa. The predicted pI is 4.96. It shows similarity to other endoglucanases from various fungi. From the comparison with other cellulase genes, cel2 belongs to family 7 of glucohydrolases. cel2 is located on a 2.5-Mb chromosome in C. carbonum and its expression is repressed by sucrose. A cel2 mutant of C. carbonum was created by transformation-mediated gene disruption. The pathogenicity of the mutant was indistinguishable from the wild type, indicating that cel2 by itself is not important for pathogenicity.
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- J H Ahn
- Department of Forest Resource, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea.
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Molecular transformation, gene cloning, and gene expression systems for filamentous fungi. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2001. [DOI: 10.1016/s1874-5334(01)80010-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Delgado-Jarana J, Pintor-Toro JA, Benítez T. Overproduction of beta-1,6-glucanase in Trichoderma harzianum is controlled by extracellular acidic proteases and pH. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2000; 1481:289-96. [PMID: 11018720 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4838(00)00172-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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To produce high amounts of extracellular endo-beta-1,6-glucanase, we overexpressed the gene bgn16.2 from Trichoderma harzianum under the control of the pyruvate kinase gene promoter (pki) of T. reesei. Transcription of bgn16.2 gene increased under most conditions but not extracellular beta-1,6-glucanase levels. Relationship of extracellular BGN16.2 protein and presence of proteases was studied in order to maximize production. After changing the carbon and nitrogen sources and buffering the culture media at different pHs, four major proteases, the acidic ones being pH-regulated, were detected. Overexpression of BGN16.2 at low pH resulted in BGN16.2 degradation, due to the induction of aspartyl proteases and to instability at pH below 3. Maximal overproduction of BGN16.2 albeit pure was achieved in buffered medium, where pH-induced aspartyl proteases were absent or when some nitrogen sources, such as yeast extract, peptone or casein were substrate for these proteases.
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- J Delgado-Jarana
- Departamento de Genética, Facultad de Biologica, Universidad de Sevilla, Apartado 1095, Sevilla, Spain
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Wagner F, Kusserow H, Schäfer W. Cloning and targeted disruption of two polygalacturonase genes in Penicillium olsonii. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2000; 186:293-9. [PMID: 10802187 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2000.tb09120.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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The filamentous fungus Penicillium olsonii secretes several polygalacturonases (PGs) with molecular masses of about 47 kDa. These enzymes consist of several basic and acidic isoforms, with dominant activities at pI 4.5 and pI 7.9. Two polygalacturonase genes, pg1 and pg2, have been cloned. The corresponding enzymes, PG1 and PG2, consist of 370 and 380 amino acids, respectively, and show significant similarities to endo-polygalacturonases from other filamentous fungi. Targeted disruption of pg1 resulted in the elimination of all basic PG isoforms. In contrast, disruption of pg2 reduced, but did not eliminate the acidic PG activities. The PGs of P. olsonii must therefore be encoded by a gene family of at least three genes. Induction studies with various carbon sources revealed that the acidic and basic isoforms are differentially regulated. Pectin is the best inducer of the acidic PG isoforms. The basic isoforms, however, are best induced by monosaccharides like glucose, alpha-L-rhamnose and alpha-L-arabinose.
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- F Wagner
- Institut für Allgemeine Botanik der Universität Hamburg, Ohnhorststrasse 18, 22609, Hamburg, Germany.
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Cheng YQ, Ahn JH, Walton JD. A putative branched-chain-amino-acid transaminase gene required for HC-toxin biosynthesis and pathogenicity in Cochliobolus carbonum. MICROBIOLOGY (READING, ENGLAND) 1999; 145 ( Pt 12):3539-3546. [PMID: 10627051 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-145-12-3539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The cyclic tetrapeptide HC-toxin is required for pathogenicity of the filamentous fungus Cochliobolus carbonum on maize. HC-toxin production is controlled by a complex locus, TOX2. The isolation and characterization of a new gene of the TOX2 locus, TOXF, is reported. It is shown that TOXF is specifically required for HC-toxin production and pathogenicity. It is present as two or three copies in all HC-toxin-producing (Tox2+) isolates and is absent in toxin-non-producing strains. The deduced amino acid sequence of TOXF has moderate homology to many known or putative branched-chain-amino-acid transaminases from various species. A strain of C. carbonum with all copies of TOXF disrupted grew normally but lost HC-toxin production and pathogenicity. It is proposed that TOXF has a biosynthetic role in HC-toxin synthesis, perhaps to aminate a precursor of Aeo (2-amino-9,10-epoxi-8-oxodecanoic acid).
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- Yi-Qiang Cheng
- Department of Energy - Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 , USA1
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- Department of Energy - Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 , USA1
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- Department of Energy - Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 , USA1
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Limón MC, Pintor-Toro JA, Benítez T. Increased Antifungal Activity of Trichoderma harzianum Transformants That Overexpress a 33-kDa Chitinase. PHYTOPATHOLOGY 1999; 89:254-261. [PMID: 18944767 DOI: 10.1094/phyto.1999.89.3.254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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ABSTRACT Transformants of the biocontrol agent Trichoderma harzianum strain CECT 2413 that overexpressed a 33-kDa chitinase (Chit33) were obtained and characterized. Strain CECT 2413 was cotransformed with the amdS gene and its own chit33 gene under the control of the pki constitutive promoter from T. reesei. Southern blotting indicated that the chit33 gene was integrated ectopically, mostly in tandem. Some transformants showed the same restriction pattern, indicating preferable sites of integration. There was no correlation between the number of integrated copies and the level of expression of the chit33 gene in the transformants. When grown in glucose, the extracellular chitinase activity of the transformants was up to 200-fold greater than that of the wild type, whereas in chitin, the activity of both the transformants and the wild type was similar. Under both conditions, the transformants were more effective in inhibiting the growth of Rhizoctonia solani as compared with the wild type. Similar results were obtained when culture supernatants from the transformants and the wild type were tested against R. solani.
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Perkins DD. Chromosome rearrangements in Neurospora and other filamentous fungi. ADVANCES IN GENETICS 1998; 36:239-398. [PMID: 9348657 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2660(08)60311-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Knowledge of fungal chromosome rearrangements comes primarily from N. crassa, but important information has also been obtained from A. nidulans and S. macrospora. Rearrangements have been identified in other Sordaria species and in Cochliobolus, Coprinus, Magnaporthe, Podospora, and Ustilago. In Neurospora, heterozygosity for most chromosome rearrangements is signaled by the appearance of unpigmented deficiency ascospores, with frequencies and ascus types that are characteristic of the type of rearrangement. Summary information is provided on each of 355 rearrangements analyzed in N. crassa. These include 262 reciprocal translocations, 31 insertional translocations, 27 quasiterminal translocations, 6 pericentric inversions, 1 intrachromosomal transposition, and numerous complex or cryptic rearrangements. Breakpoints are distributed more or less randomly among the seven chromosomes. Sixty of the rearrangements have readily detected mutant phenotypes, of which half are allelic with known genes. Constitutive mutations at certain positively regulated loci involve rearrangements having one breakpoint in an upstream regulatory region. Of 11 rearrangements that have one breakpoint in or near the NOR, most appear genetically to be terminal but are in fact physically reciprocal. Partial diploid strains can be obtained as recombinant progeny from crosses heterozygous for insertional or quasiterminal rearrangements. Duplications produced in this way precisely define segments that cover more than two thirds of the genome. Duplication-producing rearrangements have many uses, including precise genetic mapping by duplication coverage and alignment of physical and genetic maps. Typically, fertility is greatly reduced in crosses parented by a duplication strain. The finding that genes within the duplicated segment have undergone RIP mutation in some of the surviving progeny suggests that RIP may be responsible for the infertility. Meiotically generated recessive-lethal segmental deficiencies can be rescued in heterokaryons. New rearrangements are found in 10% or more of strains in which transforming DNA has been stably integrated. Electrophoretic separation of rearranged chromosomal DNAs has found useful applications. Synaptic adjustment occurs in inversion heterozygotes, leading progressively to nonhomologous association of synaptonemal complex lateral elements, transforming loop pairing into linear pairing. Transvection has been demonstrated in Neurospora. Beginnings have been made in constructing effective balancers. Experience has increased our understanding of several phenomena that may complicate analysis. With some rearrangements, nondisjunction of centromeres from reciprocal translocation quadrivalents results in 3:1 segregation and produces asci with four deficiency ascospores that occupy diagnostic positions in linear asci. Three-to-one segregation is most frequent when breakpoints are near centromeres. With some rearrangements, inviable deficiency ascospores become pigmented. Diagnosis must then depend on ascospore viability. In crosses between highly inbred strains, analysis may be handicapped by random ascospore abortion. This is minimized by using noninbred strains as testers.
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- D D Perkins
- Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, California 94305-5020, USA
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Shroff RA, O'Connor SM, Hynes MJ, Lockington RA, Kelly JM. Null alleles of creA, the regulator of carbon catabolite repression in Aspergillus nidulans. Fungal Genet Biol 1997; 22:28-38. [PMID: 9344629 DOI: 10.1006/fgbi.1997.0989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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CreA is the major regulatory protein involved in carbon catabolite repression in Aspergillus nidulans. Previously we have reported the molecular characterization of a number of in vivo selected mutant alleles and showed that they were unlikely to represent total loss of function alleles (Shroff et al., 1996) and that a deletion of the creA gene and surrounding DNA has an extremely severe effect on morphology under both carbon catabolite repressing and carbon catabolite nonrepressing conditions (Dowzer and Kelly, 1991). Here we present an analysis of in vivo selected creA mutations with an extreme morphological phenotype and show that some of these alleles would be predicted to result in no functional CreA. The most extreme of these alleles resulted in a truncation of the protein within the first zinc finger. Precise gene disruptions, leaving the flanking sequences intact, show essentially the same phenotype as this truncated allele. Thus, a strain containing a null allele is viable, and the leaky-lethal phenotype of previous deletion alleles (Dowzer and Kelly, 1991) must be due to the deletion of additional 3' genomic sequence. A strain containing an allele that results in a deletion of the final 80 amino acids shows reduced sensitivity to carbon catabolite repression for a number of systems, thus localizing a region of the protein involved in repression. Surprisingly, the phenotypically most extreme allele studied is not a null allele, but results in an amino acid substitution that would disrupt the zinc finger region and abolish binding to DNA. This is the only allele that produces a full-length protein, predicted to be nuclear localized, but which completely abolishes DNA binding. The phenotype may be more extreme than the null alleles due to the nuclear located CreA protein titrating interacting proteins.
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- R A Shroff
- Department of Genetics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 5005, Australia
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Lockington RA, Borlace GN, Kelly JM. Pyruvate decarboxylase and anaerobic survival in Aspergillus nidulans. Gene X 1997; 191:61-7. [PMID: 9210590 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1119(97)00032-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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The presence of pyruvate decarboxylase activity has been demonstrated in Aspergillus nidulans, and a gene encoding a pyruvate decarboxylase has been isolated from this organism and physically characterized. The isolation of the pdcA gene in A. nidulans confirms the existence of the alcoholic fermentation pathway in this fungus, despite it being an obligate aerobic organism. Southern analysis showed that it is most probably a single copy gene. Several potential binding sites for a GATAR-binding protein were identified in the sequence just prior to the start point of transcription, and mutant alleles of the GATAR-binding protein-encoding gene, areA, affected pdcA mRNA levels in a manner that suggested that it influences pdcA expression in nitrogen repressing conditions. Other previously reported cases of AREA action are in nitrogen-limiting conditions. Interestingly, the production of ethanol was affected in a similar way by the same areA alleles, suggesting that changes in pdcA mRNA level are reflected in the changes in the level of ethanol production. The experiments presented here confirm that PDC levels are a major determinant of ethanol production under these conditions.
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- R A Lockington
- Department of Genetics, University of Adelaide, Australia
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Ahn JH, Walton JD. A fatty acid synthase gene in Cochliobolus carbonum required for production of HC-toxin, cyclo(D-prolyl-L-alanyl-D-alanyl-L-2-amino-9, 10-epoxi-8-oxodecanoyl). MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 1997; 10:207-214. [PMID: 9057326 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi.1997.10.2.207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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The fungal maize pathogen Cochliobolus carbonum produces a phytotoxic and cytostatic cyclic peptide, HC-toxin, of structure cyclo(D-prolyl-L-alanyl-D-alanyl-L-Aeo), in which Aeo stands for 2-amino-9,10-epoxi-8-oxodecanoic acid. Here we report the isolation of a gene, TOXC, that is present only in HC-toxin-producing (Tox2+) fungal strains. TOXC is present in most Tox2+ strains in three functional copies, all of which are on the same chromosome as the gene encoding HC-toxin synthetase. When all copies of TOXC are mutated by targeted gene disruption, the fungus grows and sporulates normally in vitro but no longer makes HC-toxin and is not pathogenic, indicating that TOXC has a specific role in HC-toxin production and hence virulence. The TOXC mRNA is 6.5 kb and the predicted product has 2,080 amino acids and a molecular weight of 233,000. The primary amino acid sequence is highly similar (45 to 47% identity) to the beta subunit of fatty acid synthase from several lower eukaryotes, and contains, in the same order as in other beta subunits, domains predicted to encode acetyl transferase, enoyl reductase, dehydratase, and malonyl-palmityl transferase. The most plausible function of TOXC is to contribute to the synthesis of the decanoic acid backbone of Aeo.
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- J H Ahn
- Department of Energy-Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824, USA
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Shroff RA, Lockington RA, Kelly JM. Analysis of mutations in the creA gene involved in carbon catabolite repression in Aspergillus nidulans. Can J Microbiol 1996; 42:950-9. [PMID: 8864218 DOI: 10.1139/m96-122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The molecular nature of a number of creA mutant alleles has been determined. Three alleles analysed are missense mutations in the DNA binding domain and predicted to reduce but not abolish binding. Of the other four alleles, two result from frameshifts: one has a nonsense mutilation and the other has an inversion. All four alleles result in truncations of the protein after the zinc finger domain, such that the protein no longer contains at least the carboxy terminal 145 amino acids, so identifying a region required for repression. Transcriptional analysis of creA indicates that the transcript is autoregulated and analysis using 5' rapid amplification of cDNA ends indicates that transcriptional start points exist in clusters over a region of 200 bp located up to 595 bp 5' of the translational start point. The two major clusters have potential CREA-binding sites (SYGGRG) at appropriate positions to allow autoregulation. Autoregulation leads to the creA transcript being most abundant in carbon catabolite nonrepressing conditions, and this, together with the phenotypes of the mutant alleles, has led to the suggestion that CREA has effects under conditions generally not considered as carbon catabolite repressing, as well as in carbon catabolite repressing conditions.
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- R A Shroff
- Department of Genetics, University of Adelaide, Australia
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Nicolaisen M, Geisen R. Transformation of Penicillium freii and a rapid PCR screening procedure for cotransformation events. Microbiol Res 1996; 151:281-4. [PMID: 8817919 DOI: 10.1016/s0944-5013(96)80025-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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A strain of Penicillium freii was transformed to hygromycin B resistance using the pAN7-1 plasmid. The transformation frequency was approximately 100 transformants per microgram DNA per 1 x 10(7) protoplasts. Southern blotting revealed different types of integration into the genome of P.freii. When non-selectable plasmid DNA was added together with pAN7-1, this resulted in a cotransformation frequency of more than 60%. The cotransformation frequency was estimated using a facile DNA extraction method together with PCR.
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- M Nicolaisen
- Dept. of Biotechnology, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
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Papagiannopoulos P, Andrianopoulos A, Sharp JA, Davis MA, Hynes MJ. The hapC gene of Aspergillus nidulans is involved in the expression of CCAAT-containing promoters. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1996; 251:412-21. [PMID: 8709944 DOI: 10.1007/bf02172369] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The 5' regulatory region of the amdS gene of Aspergillus nidulans, which encodes an acetamidase required for growth on acetamide as a carbon and nitrogen source, contains a CCAAT sequence which is required for setting the basal level of amdS expression. Mobility shift studies have identified a factor in A. nidulans nuclear extracts which binds to this CCAAT sequence. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae the HAP3 gene encodes one component of a multisubunit complex that binds CCAAT sequences. A search of the EMBL and SwissProt databases has revealed an A. nidulans sequence with significant homology to the HAP3 gene adjacent to the previously cloned regulatory gene amdR. Sequencing of the remainder of this region has confirmed the presence of a gene, designated hapC, with extensive homology to HAP3. The predicted amino acid sequence of HapC shows extensive identity to HAP3 in the central conserved domain, but shows little conservation in the flanking sequences. A haploid carrying a hapC deletion has been created and is viable, but grows poorly on all media tested. This null mutant grows especially slowly on acetamide as a sole carbon and nitrogen source, indicating that hapC plays a role in amdS expression. In agreement with this notion, it has been shown that the hapC deletion results in reduced levels of expression of an amdS::lacZ reporter gene and this effect is particularly evident under conditions of carbon limitation. Nuclear extracts prepared from the hapC deletion mutant show no CCAAT binding activity to the amdS or gatA promoters, indicating that hapC may encode a component of the complex binding at this sequence.
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- P Papagiannopoulos
- Department of Genetics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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Ilmén M, Thrane C, Penttilä M. The glucose repressor gene cre1 of Trichoderma: isolation and expression of a full-length and a truncated mutant form. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1996; 251:451-60. [PMID: 8709949 DOI: 10.1007/bf02172374] [Citation(s) in RCA: 186] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The cre1 genes of the filamentous fungi Trichoderma reesei and T. harzianum were isolated and characterized. The deduced CREI proteins are 46% identical to the product of the glucose repressor gene creA of Aspergillus nidulans, encoding a DNA-binding protein with zinc fingers of the C2H2 type. The cre1 promoters contain several sequence elements that are identical to the previously identified binding sites for A. nidulans CREA. Steady-state mRNA levels for cre1 of the T. reesei strain QM9414 varied depending on the carbon source, being low on glucose-containing media. These observations suggest that cre1 expression may be autoregulated. The T. reesei strain Rut-C30, a hyper-producer of cellulolytic enzymes, was found to express a truncated form of the cre1 gene (cre1-1) with an ORF corresponding to a protein of 95 amino acids with only one zinc finger. Unlike QM9414 the strain Rut-C30 produced cellulase mRNAs on glucose-containing medium and transformation of the full-length cre1 gene into this strain caused glucose repression of cbh1 expression, demonstrating that cre1 regulates cellulase expression.
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- M Ilmén
- VTT Biotechnology and Food Research, Espoo, Finland
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Pitkin JW, Panaccione DG, Walton JD. A putative cyclic peptide efflux pump encoded by the TOXA gene of the plant-pathogenic fungus Cochliobolus carbonum. MICROBIOLOGY (READING, ENGLAND) 1996; 142 ( Pt 6):1557-1565. [PMID: 8704997 DOI: 10.1099/13500872-142-6-1557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 197] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Race 1 isolates of Cochliobolus carbonum are pathogenic on certain maize lines due to production of a host-selective cyclic tetrapeptide, HC-toxin. Flanking HTS1, which encodes the central enzyme in HC-toxin biosynthesis, a gene was identified and named TOXA. Like HTS1, TOXA occurred only in isolates of the fungus that make HC-toxin and was present as two linked copies in most toxin-producing isolates. HTS1 and TOXA were transcribed in the opposite orientation and their transcriptional start sites were 386 bp apart. The predicted product of TOXA was a 58 kDa hydrophobic protein with 10-13 membrane-spanning regions. The sequence was highly similar to several members of the major facilitator superfamily that confer resistance to tetracycline, methylenomycin, and other antibiotics. Although it was possible to mutate one copy or the other of TOXA by targeted gene disruption, numerous attempts to disrupt both copies in a single strain were unsuccessful, suggesting that TOXA is an essential gene in strains that synthesize HC-toxin. On the basis of its presence only in HC-toxin-producing strains, its proximity to HTS1 and its predicted amino acid sequence, we propose that TOXA encodes an HC-toxin efflux pump which contributes to self-protection against HC-toxin and/or the secretion of HC-toxin into the extracellular milieu.
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- John W Pitkin
- Department of Energy-Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824, USA
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- Department of Energy-Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824, USA
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- Department of Energy-Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824, USA
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Site-directed mutagenesis of the active site of pectin methylesterase from Aspergillus niger RH5344. Biotechnol Lett 1996. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00130754] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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van Gemeren IA, Musters W, van den Hondel CA, Verrips CT. Construction and heterologous expression of a synthetic copy of the cutinase cDNA from Fusarium solani pisi. J Biotechnol 1995; 40:155-62. [PMID: 7632392 DOI: 10.1016/0168-1656(95)00041-n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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A copy of the cutinase cDNA from Fusarium solani pisi was constructed starting from synthetic oligonucleotides. For this construction three separate cassettes were made, which were subsequently assembled to form the cutinase gene. Heterologous expression of the synthetic cutinase gene and the subsequent secretion of the recombinant enzyme was achieved in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Aspergillus awamori.
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- I A van Gemeren
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Rhounim L, Grégoire A, Salama S, Faugeron G. Clustering of multiple transgene integrations in highly-unstable Ascobolus immersus transformants. Curr Genet 1994; 26:344-51. [PMID: 7882429 DOI: 10.1007/bf00310499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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A large proportion of Ascobolus immersus transformants are highly unstable in crosses: the phenotype conferred by the transgene is not transmitted to the progeny, irrespective of the endogenous or foreign origin of the transgene. They all have integrated multiple transgene copies, clustered at a single chromosomal site or at tightly-linked sites. Clustered non-homologous integrations are always rearranged. Yet they never escape the "methylation induced premeiotically" (MIP) process. This always results in gene silencing, even when the transgene is partially repeated, accounting for the high instability of these transformants.
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- L Rhounim
- Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, CNRS URA 1354, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
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