Improvement of Aspergillus nidulans penicillin production by targeting AcvA to peroxisomes
Improvement of Aspergillus nidulans penicillin production by targeting AcvA to peroxisomes
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DOI:
10.1016/j.ymben.2014.07.002
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发表时间:
2014-09-01
影响因子:
8.4
通讯作者:
Fischer, Reinhard
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作者:
Herr, Andreas;Fischer, Reinhard
Aspergillus niduluns is able to synthesize penicillin and serves as a model to study the regulation of its biosynthesis. Only three enzymes are required to form the beta lactam ring tripeptide, which is comprised of t-cysteine, t-valine and t-aminoadipic acid. Whereas two enzymes. AcvA and lpnA localize to the cytoplasm, AatA resides in peroxisomes. Here, we tested a novel strategy to improve penicillin production, namely the change of the residence of the enzymes involved in the biosynthesis. We tested if targeting of AcvA or lpnA (or both) to peroxisomes would increase the penicillin yield. Indeed, AcvA peroxisomal targeting led to a 3.2-fold increase. In contrast, targeting IpnA to peroxisomes caused a complete loss of penicillin production. Overexpression of acvA, ipnA or aatA resulted in 1.4, 2.8 and 3.1-fold more penicillin, respectively in comparison to wildtype. Simultaneous overexpression of all three enzymes resulted even in 6-fold more penicillin. Combination of acvA peroxisomal targeting and overexpression of the gene led to 5-fold increase of the penicillin titer. At last, the number of peroxisomes was increased through overexpression of pexIC A strain with the double number of peroxisomes produced 2.3 times more penicillin. These results show that penicillin production can be triggered at several levels of regulation, one of which is the subcellular localization of the enzymes. (C) 2014 International Metabolic Engineering Society. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved