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Promoter, an essential regulatory element, is widely used for metabolic engineering of industrial strains. Corynebacterium glutamicum is an important industrial workhorse to produce various amino acids. However, strong constitutive promoters that are applicable to C. glutamicum are rarely reported. In this study, we first performed a time-series transcriptome analysis of a glutamate hyper-producing strain C. glutamicum SL4 by using RNA-Seq. Overall, we picked 10 samples at different time during the fermentation process. By analyzing the time-series transcriptome data, we selected 10 candidate genes with the highest transcriptional level. These genes were all transcribed stably during the fermentation process. We subsequently cloned the promoter sequences and evaluated the promoters' strength in strain SL4 using a red fluorescent protein reporter system. To evaluate the universality of the promoters in different C. glutamicum strains, we further tested the performance of some promoters in wild type C. glutamicum strains, including ATCC 13869 and ATCC 13032. The strongest promoter was further characterized using LacZ as a reporter in all the three C. glutamicum strains. Finally, we successfully obtained three constitutive promoters with universality, PcysK, PgapA and PfumC. PcysK is the most efficient promoter among the three C. glutamicum strains. In strains SL4 and ATCC 13869, the strength of PcysK is 2-fold of the strong inducible promoter Ptac using the red fluorescent protein as a reporter and 4-fold of Ptac using LacZ as a reporter. Moreover, the strength of PcysK reaches 30%-40% of Ptac in strain ATCC 13032. The promoter PcysK is identified as a strong promoter for the first time, which can be used as an efficient biobrick for metabolic engineering of synthesis pathways in C. glutamicum.
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Corynebacterium glutamicum , Genetics , Gene Expression Profiling , Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial , Metabolic Engineering , Promoter Regions, Genetic , TranscriptomeABSTRACT
To express human single chain antibody to collagenase IV as soluble proteins secreted by pichia pastoris, a recombinant vector scFv-pPIC9 was constructed, and then transformed into pichia pastoris GS115 by electuoporation, The transformants were selected by DNA hybridization and cultured in the media with methanlo. Soluble scFv were secreted into culturesupernatant and characterized by SDS-PAGE and Western Blot. Our results showed that the secreting of soluble scFv in pichia pastoris was as high as 20mg/L. The soluble scFv has similar immuno-activity to its counterpart produced in bacteria, and it is more easily and efficiently purified.
ABSTRACT
To express human single chain antibody to collagenase IV as soluble proteins secreted by pichia pastoris, a recombinant vector scFv pPIC9 was constructed, and then transformed into pichia pastoris GS115 by electuoporation, The transformants were selected by DNA hybridization and cultured in the media with methanlo. Soluble scFv were secreted into culturesupernatant and characterized by SDS PAGE and Western Blot. Our results showed that the secreting of soluble scFv in pichia pastoris was as high as 20mg/L. The soluble scFv has similar immuno activity to its counterpart produced in bacteria, and it is more easily and efficiently purified.