Patent Application: US-84618192-A

Abstract:
the invention discloses the application of genetic engineering techniques to create novel strains of a . niger which produce high levels of catalase while generating minimal sodium gluconate waste material .

Description:
the details of the catr expression vector construction and genetic modifications used to derive improved catalase production strains are described . one skilled in the art will understand that various changes in the following examples could be made . accordingly , the examples are not intended to be limiting . the techniques used in cloning the a . niger catr gene and construction of the catr expression cassette are conventional techniques described in sambrook , et al ., 1989 molecular cloning , a laboratory manual , cold spring harbor press , cold spring harbor , n . y . purified catalase - r was obtained from a commercial preparation of a . niger catalase ( fermcolase 1000 , genencor international , inc .) and a series of proteolytic fragments were generated . these peptide fragments were subjected to amino acid sequence analysis . the amino acid sequence information was employed to design synthetic dna probes for identification of catr - specific cdna sequences contained within a λgt11 library . briefly , the peptide fragment met - phe - trp - asn - ser - leu - ile - pro - ala - glu - gln - gln - met was used to design a pool of three synthetic oligonucleotides having the following sequences : 5 &# 39 ; atg ttc tgg aac agc ctg atc ccc gcc gag cag cag atg 3 &# 39 ; ( seq id no : 7 ) 5 &# 39 ; atg ttc tgg aac tcc ctg atc ccc gcc gag cag cag atg 3 &# 39 ; ( seq id no : 8 ) 5 &# 39 ; atg ttc tgg aac agc ttg atc ccc gcc gag cag cag atg 3 &# 39 ; ( seq id no : 9 ) this peptide was chosen because the amino acids give minimally degenerate codon choices , i . e ., the differences among the three synthetic oligonucleotides represent alternate codon choices where there was no strong bias in the known codon usage pattern for a . niger . this position of this proteolytic fragment corresponds to peptide 3 shown in fig2 ( amino acid nos . 487 - 499 of seq id nos : 4 and 5 ). a clone containing a partial cdna fragment was positively identified by hybridization with the synthetic dna probe and nucleotide sequence analysis of this clone confirmed that it encoded catalase - r . this cloned cdna segment was used to probe a library of a . niger genomic dna . subsequently , the entire catr gene , plus upstream and downstream transcriptional control elements , was assembled as a 9 . 0 kb hindiii - xhoi restriction fragment . the nucleotide sequence of the catr coding region has been determined and is given in fig3 ( seq id no : 6 ). 2 . construction of a catalase expression vector - cassette ( ec2 ) used for transformation of a . niger the catr expression vector used for these studies utilizes transcriptional and translational control signals from the well - characterized a . niger glucoamylase ( glaa ) gene . unlike the catr promoter , the strong glaa promoter does not require h 2 o 2 for induction . instead , the glaa promoter responds to the presence of starch , maltose or other malto - oligosaccharides ( nunberg , et al ., 1984 mol . cell . biol . 4 : 2306 - 2316 ; barton , et al ., 1972 j . bacteriol . 111 : 771 - 777 ; fowler , et al ., 1990 curr . genet . 18 : 537 - 545 ). thus , use of the glaa promoter allows construction of catalase production strains which are not dependent on the generation of hydrogen peroxide for induction of catalase synthesis . construction of the vector - cassette for expression of catalase under transcriptional control of the glaa promoter is outlined in fig1 . the essential feature of this construct is that the glucoamylase - catalase expression unit ( i . e ., glaa promoter + catr coding region + glaa terminator ) and the adjacent selectable marker ( the a . niger pyrg gene ) can be excised on a single noti - pmei restriction fragment ( fig1 ). the catr coding region was joined to the glaa promoter utilizing a synthetic oligonucleotide linker ( 13 base pairs ) designed to couple these two dna segments via a bglii site in the glaa promoter to a unique sspi site four base pairs after the catr start codon ( introduced by site - directed mutagenesis ). insertion of this linker restores the nucleotide sequence of catr to that which existed prior to the site - directed mutagenesis and precisely fuses the catr coding region to the glaa promoter . in a description of the glaa promoter region given by fowler , et al ., ( 1990 curr . genet . 18 : 537 - 545 ) it was noted that there are dna sequences far upstream of the start codon which are required for high level expression . these sequences , which presumably represent transcriptional enhancer elements , are included on the 1 . 9 kb glaa promoter segment included in construction of the catr expression cassette . similarly , the glaa terminator region was linked to the 3 &# 39 ;- end of catr via a naturally - occurring clai site downstream of the catalase - r gene stop codon . an xbai site adjacent to clai was incorporated using a synthetic dna linker and was then used to complete the terminator fusion . this terminator segment , which encodes information necessary for proper polyadenylation and termination of transcription , is the same segment as that which was used for genencor &# 39 ; s chymosin expression vector ( cullen , et al ., 1987 bio / technol . 5 : 369 - 376 ). a restriction fragment containing the a . niger pyrg gene ( wilson , et al ., 1988 nucl . acids res . 16 : 2339 ) was subcloned adjacent to the glaa terminator such that the entire glucoamylase - catalase - selectable marker cassette was encoded on a single restriction fragment ( the nucleotide sequence of this fragment ( ec2l ) is given in fig3 ( seq . id no : 6 )). 3 . development of a . niger strains to be used in the production of catalase features of the a . niger strain used as a host for expression of the glucoamylase - catalase cassette include a ) uridine - requiring auxotrophy , specifically a pyrg auxotrophic mutation , b ) deletion of the gene encoding glucose oxidase , goxa , and ( c ) a methionine - requiring auxotrophy , specifically mutation which renders the cells deficient in cystathionase ( metc ) activity . while the metc marker is not required for high level expression of catalase - r , it was included as a feature of the host strain to satisfy limited survivability regulation of government regulatory agencies . the catalase expression cassette described above was used to transform the a . niger δgoxa pyrg metc strain and the resulting transformants were screened in shake flask cultures for their ability to produce high levels of catalase . from these transformants , the highest catalase producers were selected for further study . shake flask cultures were grown for two days at 33 ° c . in 50 ml of a liquid medium that was made according to the following recipe : for each liter of medium add maltodextrin [ staley 200 , a . e . staley co ., ( 100 g )], ammonium sulfate ( 4 g ), calcium chloride ( 0 . 4 g ), magnesium sulfate ( 0 . 6 g ), corn steep liquor [ archer daniels midland co ., ( 10 g )], and potassium phosphate ( 3 g ); the volume is brought to 500 ml with distilled water , the ph is adjusted to 7 . 0 , and the solution is autoclaved ; separately a 500 ml solution of 12 % calcium carbonate is made in distilled water , the ph is adjusted to 7 . 0 , and the solution autoclaved . the two sterile mixtures were combined aseptically to give one liter of catalase production medium . after two days growth , the mycelia were harvested by filtration ( miracloth , calbiochem , inc . ), and the cells were rapidly frozen in liquid nitrogen . the cells were disrupted by grinding the frozen pellet in an electric coffee grinder for approximately 60 sec or until a fine powder was obtained . the disrupted cells were resuspended in an extraction buffer that contained 100 mm sodium formate , ph 7 , 0 . 01 % sodium dodecylsulfate , and 1 mm each of phenylmethyl sulfonyl fluoride and pepstatin . insoluble debris was removed by centrifugation at approximately 1500 g , and the activity of soluble catalase in the extract was measured by previously described methods ( patti and bonet - maury 1953 bull soc . biol . 35 : 1177 ; teranishi , et al ., 1974 agric . biol . chem . 38 : 1213 ). specific methods for generation of the catalase production organisms are outlined below . the parental strain for all studies described herein was a . niger fs - 1 ( nrrl3 ). 5 - fluoro - orotic acid ( foa ), a toxic analog of orotic acid , has been used to select uridine - requiring auxotrophs in filamentous fungi and yeasts ( vanhartingveldt , et al ., 1987 mol . gen . genet . 206 : 71 - 75 ). fungal strains deficient in orotidine - 5 &# 39 ;- monophosphate decarboxylase ( pyrg gene product ), are resistant to foa and require exogenous uridine for growth . the a . niger pyrg gene was cloned ( wilson , et al ., 1988 nucl . acids res . 16 : 2339 ) and used as a selectable marker for the transformation of pyrg mutant strains . an advantage of using foa as a positive selection for pyrg auxotrophs is that spontaneous mutants can be selected without need for excessive mutagenesis and screening . the method of selecting a . niger fs - 1 pyrg mutants is as follows : spores of a . niger fs - 1 were spread onto the surface of minimal medium plates containing 2 mg / ml uridine and 1 . 2 mg / ml foa . resistant colonies ( foa r ) were evident after 2 - 3 days growth at 37 ° c . spores from six foa r colonies were streaked onto fresh medium containing foa , and isolated colonies were picked for further analysis . three of the six foa r strains were shown to require uridine for growth . to determine which of the uridine - requiring strains had a non - functional pyrg gene , each of the strains was tested for its ability to be transformed ( i . e ., complemented ) with a plasmid containing the a . nidulans pyrg gene . only one strain , fs - 1 pyrg1 , gave transformants ( an approximate frequency of 10 transformants per μg dna ) indicating that it carried a pyrg mutation . this strain was used for all subsequent experimentation . to generate a chromosomal deletion in the goxa gene , a vector was constructed which contained 5 &# 39 ;- and 3 &# 39 ;- flanking dna sequences from the goxa gene and a selectable pyrg gene inserted in place of a portion of the goxa coding region ( see fig4 ). for complete information regarding the nucleotide sequence of the goxa gene , consult frederick , et al ., 1990 j . biol . chem . 265 : 3793 - 3802 989 and kriechbaum , et al ., 1989 febs lett . 255 : 63 - 66 . briefly , a 4 . 1 kb clai - smai fragment comprising the a . niger fs - 1 goxa gene was subcloned into a puc218 - derivative ( from which the ecori site had previously been removed ) to give puc218goxa . the a . niger pyrg gene was isolated from puc4xl as an ecori fragment having 27 bp and 16 bp of puc4xl polylinker dna at either end . the goxa coding region was subsequently removed by digestion with ecori and the remaining plasmid fragment was ligated with the ecori fragment containing the a . niger pyrg gene to create puc218δgoxa . from this plasmid a 4 . 75 kb smai - xbai restriction fragment which contains 5 &# 39 ;- and 3 &# 39 ;- flanking regions of the goxa gene with part of the goxa coding sequence removed and replaced with a functional pyrg gene was isolated . use of this fragment to transform a . niger fs - 1 pyrg1 with selection for uridine prototrophy resulted in the isolation of several strains which failed to give a blue color on glucose oxidase indicator plates ( witteveen , et al ., 1990 appl . microbiol . biotechnol . 33 : 683 - 686 ). southern blotting analysis of genomic dna extracted from these goxa - deficient transformants indicated that the δgoxa :: pyrg cassette had integrated via a homologous recombination event at the goxa locus ( as diagramed in fig4 b ). in other words , the selectable pyrg gene had replaced the goxa coding region . as shown in fig5 catalase production in δgoxa mutants was approximately three - to six - fold lower than the parental strain fs - 1 . we interpret these data to indicate that in the absence of glucose oxidase little hydrogen peroxide is generated , and this in turn has an adverse effect on catalase induction . spontaneous uridine - requiring mutants of a . niger fs - 1 δgoxa were selected using foa as described above . this step was necessary for subsequent transformation of the strain with the pyrg - based ec2 cassette . in order to limit the survivability of a recombinant catalase production organism in the environment , a methionine - requiring auxotrophy was introduced in the following manner . spores of a . niger fs - 1 δgoxa pyrg were mutagenized with uv light ( 95 % killing ) and survivors were subjected to filtration enrichment in aspergillus minimal medium . with this technique , unwanted prototrophs germinate and grow to form mycelia which can be removed by filtration . auxotrophic cells cannot germinate or grow in minimal medium , and therefore pass through porous filters ( e . g ., miracloth , calbiochem , inc .). after several rounds of filtration and growth , the remaining spores were plated onto complete medium . colonies were patched from these plates onto minimal medium agar and to fresh complete medium plates . those which grew on complete medium but not on minimal agar were auxotrophic . from the population of auxotrophs , one colony was identified which grew on minimal medium supplemented with methionine . upon further testing , it was discovered that the strain was defective in a specific step of the methionine biosynthetic pathway . growth was supported by the addition of either homocysteine or methionine , but not by either homoserine or cystathionine . based on the known biosynthetic pathway for methionine , it appears that this methionine - requiring auxotroph was deficient in cystathionase activity , and thus , it was given the designation of metc by convention with other organisms . 4 . transformation of the a . niger fs - 1 δgoxa pyrg metc strain and characterization of catalase overproducing strains the catalase expression cassette ( in linear form ) was isolated following digestion of the puc - ec2 plasmid with pmei and noti and purification of the ec2 fragment by preparative gel electrophoresis . the purified dna fragment was then used to transform the a . niger δgoxa pyrg metc strain , and prototrophic transformants were screened in shake flask culture for their ability to produce catalase . from approximately fifty transformants screened in shake flasks , ten were identified that produced significantly higher catalase levels than control strains . these ten strains were re - evaluated in duplicate shake flask cultures , and the results of catalase activity assays are shown in fig5 . nine of the ten strains produced significantly higher levels of catalase - r than the parent strain fs - 1 . two of the transformants ( ec2l - 19 , ec2l - 23 ) produced catalase yields in shake flask cultures that were roughly ten to fifteen times the level produced by a . niger fs - 1 , and these strains were chosen for testing under large scale production conditions . fermentation experiments at the 10 liter and 50 , 000 liter scale have shown that catalase - r production from transformant ec2l - 23 corresponds to the level of catalase - r expression seen in shake flask studies . furthermore , hplc analyses of organic acids produced during fermentations of a . niger ec2l - 23 and the parental strain fs - 1 gave the following yields of sodium gluconate : ______________________________________strain sodium gluconate ( mg / l ) ______________________________________fs - 1 & gt ; 200 , 000ec2l - 23 ( run 27 ) 48ec2l - 23 ( run 28 ) 123______________________________________ these data show a dramatic decrease in the production of sodium gluconate waste material by transformant ec2l - 23 . __________________________________________________________________________sequence listing ( 1 ) general information 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