Patent Application: US-31430994-A

Abstract:
the present invention provides a process for producing 7 - aminocephem compounds or salts thereof . 7 - aminocephem compounds are produced via microorganisms transformed with a vector containing a gene capable of converting a cephalosporin compound of the formula : ## str1 ## to a 7 - aminocephem compound of the formula : ## str2 ##

Description:
the vector for producing 7 - aminocephem compound ( i ) in accordance with this invention contains a dna fragment prepared by ligating at least one or more promoter ( s ) for acremonium chrysogenum ( when the host cells are cells of acremonium chrysogenum , for instance ) to gene ( s ) for enzyme ( s ) capable of converting the cephalosporin compound ( ii ) to the corresponding 7 - aminocephem compound ( i ) to each other in that order from the upstream side to the downstream side by a conventional method . a5 appropriate selective marker , autonomously replicating sequence ( ars ) for acremonium chrysogenum , terminator , translation activating sequence and so forth may be inserted into said vector at respective desired sites by a conventional method . it is convenient for vector amplification in escherichia coli if the autonomously replicating sequence for escherichia coli ( ori ) and a selective marker are inserted in the vector . such vector may be constructed , for example by the methods described later herein in the examples or modifications thereof . the &# 34 ; promoter for acremonium chrysogenum &# 34 ; means a promoter capable of enabling expression , in acremonium chrysogenum , of the gene coding for a desired polypeptide and includes those hitherto known , such as the promoter for the acremonium chrysogenum isopenicillin synthetase gene and the promoter for the acremonium chrysogenum β - isopropyl malate dehydrogenase gene , as well as the dna fragment having promoter activity for alkaline protease gene which was newly isolated from the acremonium chrysogenum chromosome by the present inventors . these promoters may contain an enhancer sequence . as the gene for an enzyme capable of converting cephalosporin compound ( ii ) to 7 - aminocephem compound ( i ) may include cephalosporin c acylase gents which are genes for enzymes catalyzing one - step conversion e . g . pseudomonas sp . se83 - derived cephalosporin c acylase gene cf . a . matsuda et al ., j . bacteriol ., 169 , 5815 - 5826 ( 1987 )! as well as the cephalosporin c acylase gene newly isolated from pseudomonas diminuta v22 by the present inventors !. as the gene ( s ) for enzyme ( s ) catalyzing two - step conversion , there may be mentioned the combination of a d - amino acid oxidase ( hereinafter , &# 34 ; dao &# 34 ;) gene and a gl - 7aca - acylase gene and the combination of a cephalosporin c acylase gene and a dao gene ( cephalosporin c acylases in general being also capable of converting gl - 7aca and gl - 7adca , and keto - ad - 7aca and keto - ad - 7adca , to 7aca and 7adca , respectively ). in cases where the cephalosporin compound ( ii ) producer used as the host produces gl - 7aca , gl - 7adca , keto - ad - 7aca and / or keto - ad - 7adca , a cephalosporin c acylase gene or a gl - 7aca acylase gene may be used alone . as the d - amino acid oxidase gene , there may be mentioned , for example , the trigonopsis variabilis - derived dao gene ( cf . japanese kokai tokkyo koho no . 62 - 262994 ) and the dao gene newly isolated from fusarium solani m - 0718 . ferm - p 2688 by the present inventors ( cf . european laid - open patent publication no . 364 , 275 ). as the gl - 7aca acylase gene , there may be mentioned , for example , the gene for the pseudomonas putida atcc 950 - derived gl - 7aca acylase cf . agric . biol . chem ., 45 , 1561 ( 1981 )! as well as the cephalosporin c acylase genes specifically mentioned above ( cephalosporin c acylases serving also as gl - 7aca acylases ). the enzyme gene ( s ) is preferably inserted each singly into the vector at a site downstream from the promoter for acremonium chrysogenum . the vector for producing 7 - aminocephem compound ( i ) in accordance with the invention may contain one or more genes for an enzyme or enzymes capable of converting the cephalosporin compound ( ii ) to the 7 - aminocephem compound as inserted therein . the selective marker my be any marker utilizable in screening transformants following transformation of acremonium chrysogenum with the vector . the marker ( hm r ) which provides the hygromycin resistance phenotype , for instance , is widely used . the autonomously replicating sequence ( ars ) for acremonium chrysogenum is , for example , the ars of acremonium chrysogenum ( cf . japanese kokai tokkyo koho no . 61 - 209593 ). since , however , transformation of acremonium chrysogenum with the vector for 7 - aminocephem compound production mainly results in incorporation of said vector into the genomic dna of acremonium chrysogenum and the subsequent replication , it is not necessary , in such a case , that the vector for 7 - aminocephem compound production should contain an ars insert . the presence of an . ars is required only when the vector for 7 - aminocephem compound production is multiplied as an extrachromosomal component in acremonium chrysogenum . the terminator , which may contain a polyadenylation site , is , for example , the acremonium chrysogenum genomic dna - derived terminator used in the examples to be mentioned later herein . cephalosporin compound ( ii )- producing strains belonging to the species acremonium chrysogenum may be transformed with the vector for 7 - aminocephem compound production by a conventional method , for example by the protoplast transformation method cf . s . w . queener et al . : microbiology 1985 , american society of microbiology , page 468 ( 1985 )!. the cephalosporin compound ( ii ) producer includes , among others , a . chrysogenum atcc 11550 , atcc 36225 , etc . as cephalosporin c producers , a . chrysogenum atcc 20371 etc . as deacetylcephalosporin c producers , a . chrysogenum atcc 11550 , atcc 20416 , etc . as deacetoxycephalosporin c producers and a . chrysogenum atcc 20416 , atcc 20427 , etc . as gl - 7aca and keto - ad - 7aca producers . a number of microorganisms other than acremonium chrysogenum are also known to be cephalosporin compound ( ii ) producers . it is also possible to prepare 7 - aminocephem compound producers by using such microorganisms as host cells and transform them with an appropriate vector for 7 - aminocephem compound production by a method conventional in the field of genetic engineering referring to the above - mentioned method , for instance . the thus - obtained 7 - aminocephem compound ( i )- producing microorganism cephalosporin compound ( ii ) producer microorganism transformed with the vector for the production of 7 - aminocephem compound ! is cultivated in a nutrient medium . in principle , this cultivation can be carried out in the same manner as in cultivating microorganisms in general . generally , however , submerged culture using an aqueous medium is advantageous . the medium to be used in the cultivation may be a synthetic one , a semisynthetic one or a natural one . as the carbon source to be included in the medium composition , there may be mentioned , for example , glucose , sucrose , maltose , glycerin , starch , liquefied starch and the like . as the nitrogen source there may be mentioned , for example , meat extract , caseine hydrolyzate , peptone , gluten meal , corn meal , cottonseed flour , soybean meal , corn steep liquor , dried yeast , yeast extract , urea , ammonium phosphate and the like . inorganic salts , such as disodium hydrogen phosphate , potassium dihydrogen phosphate , magnesium chloride , magnesium sulfate and calcium carbonate , may be added to the medium , if desired . in case the medium foams severely during cultivation , an antifoam such as a vegetable oil ( e . g . soybean oil or castor oil ), a higher alcohol ( e . g . octadecanol , tetradecanol or heptanol ), or a silicone compound , may be added in an appropriate amount . the cultivation is suitably carried out at a temperature of about 30 ° c . when the culture volume is large , the employment of appropriate seed culture will give good results in many instances . the period of the cultivation is suitable about 100 to 170 hours and may be prolonged when a high concentration medium is used . the cultivation conditions mentioned above may be modified depending on the characteristics of the producing strain employed so that optimum conditions can be seleced and applied . the 7 - aminocephem compound ( i ) formed during cultivation is generally accumulated extracellularly in the culture in most cases . therefore the desired 7 - aminocephem compound ( i ) can generally be isolated and purified from the filtrate ( or supernatant ) separated from microbial cells by centrifugation , filtration or the like means , by applying to the filtrate ( supernatant ) combinedly ( in an appropriate order ) and / or repeatedly such means as concentration under reduced pressure , solvent extraction , ph adjustment , treatment with a resin ( e . g . anion exchange resin , cation exchange resin , nonionic adsorbent resin , etc . ), treatment with an adsorbent ( e . g . activated carbon , silicic acid , silica gel , alumina , cellulose , etc . ), high - performance liquid chromatography , crystallization , recrystallization , and the like means used in producing antibiotic substances in general . the 7 - aminocephem compound ( i ) obtained in the free form can be converted to desired salts by reacting it with a base such as sodium hydroxide and the like . the following examples are further illustrative of this - invention . in the examples , the following abbreviations are used . the compositions of the main buffers and media used in the examples are as follows : 1 . 5 g cacl 2 · 2h 2 o ( final concentration 10 mm ) an aqueous solution ( 900 ml ) of components a ! and an aqueous solution ( 100 ml ) of components b ! are respectively sterilized by autoclaving and then mixed up , and the mixture is used for preparing plates and so on . unless otherwise specified , the gene manipulation techniques used in the examples are those described in t . maniatis et al . : molecular cloning -- a laboratory manual , published 1982 by cold spring harbor laboratory . the whole procedure followed in this example is outlined in fig1 a . ( 1 - i ) purification of alkaline protease derived from a . chrysogenum atcc 11550 and antibody preparation : following the method of yagi et al . j . yagi et al ., j . ferment . technol ., 50 , 5 . 92 ( 1972 )!, a . chrysogenum atcc 11550 was cultivated and alkaline protease was recovered from the culture filtrate by precipitation with 70 % saturated ammonium sulfate , followed by purification using cm ( carboxymethyl )- cellulose and sephadex g75 . a molecular size of about 30 , 000 dalton was revealed by analysis by 11 % sds - page ( sds polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis ). this alkaline protease was mixed with complete freund adjuvant ( difco ) and the mixture was injected into male new zealand white rabbits three times at a dose of 2 mg per injection in order to cause antibody production . then whole blood collection and serum separation were made , and the serum was treated at 56 ° c . for 30 minutes and then with 35 % saturated ammonium sulfate . the resultant precipitate was subjected to treatment with protein a - sepharose cl - 4b ( pharmacia ) for antibody purification . the whole volume of the antibody solution was made 16 ml . ouchterlony &# 39 ; s test confirmed that the protease protein and the antibody reacted with each other to give an immunoprecipitate . the igg ( immunoglobulin g ) fraction obtained from a control rabbit ( no protease injection ) did not show any immunoprecipitation reaction with the protease . ( 1 - ii ) formation of a genomic dna library from a . chrysogenum atcc 11550 : the genomic dna was extracted from a . chrysogenum atcc 11550 by the method described in japanese kokai tokkyo koho no . 61 - 209593 ( isogai et al . ; laid open sep . 17 , 1986 ). this dna ( about 25 μg ) was treated with the restriction enzyme ecori ( 100 units .) at 37 ° c . for 3 hours for partial cleavage and the digest was subjected to sucrose density gradient centrifugation ( 5 to 20 % sucrose ; hitachi ultracentrifuge rotor rps 55t - 2 , 50 krpm , 4 hours ) to give a purified dna fraction ( about 3 kbp or more in size ). the size - fractionated dna was finally dissolved in 100 μl of te buffer . separately , the λgtwes • λb dna bethesda research laboratories ( brl )! ( about 40 μg ) was completely cleaved with ecoei and the digest was subjected to sucrose density gradient centrifugation ( under the same conditions as mentioned above ), whereby a 4 . 85 - kbp dna was removed and a 21 . 7 - kbp left arm and a 13 . 8 - kbp right arm were purified . the dna fragment obtained by partial cleavage with ecoei (& gt ; 3 kbp , about 5 μg ) and the λgtwes • λb - derived ecori arms ( about 15 μg ) were mixed up and subjected to ligation using t4 dna ligase . the ligation mixture was subjected to in vitro packaging using packergene λ phage in vitro packaging system ; promega biotec ( imported and distributed by seikagaku kogyo )!. plaque formation using e . coli dp50 supf ( included in the packergene kit ) as a host gave about 2 × 10 6 plaques . thus a genomic dna library consisting of about 2 × 10 6 clones could be constructed . ( 1 - iii ) extraction and purification of mrna from a . chrysogenum atcc 11550 : a . chrysogenum atcc 11550 was cultured in 100 μl of an aqueous medium containing 4 . 5 % soluble starch , 3 % corn steep liquor ( csl ), 1 . 5 % soybean meal and 0 . 35 % caco 3 at 25 ° c . for 4 days . the cells obtained were distrupted in a mortar cooled to a low temperature with liquefied nitrogen , then suspended in 40 ml of a guanidine isothiocyanate solution 4m guanidine isothiocyanate , 50 mm tris - hcl ( ph 7 . 5 )., 20 mm edta , 2 % n - lauroylsarcosine sodium , 0 . 17m 2 - mercaptoethanol ! and heated at 60 ° c . for 5 minutes . the suspension was then centrifuged at 10 , 800 x g for 10 minutes and 13 mg of whole rna was recovered from the supernatant by the guanidine - cesium chloride method ( cf . molecular cloning , page 196 , cold spring harbor laboratory , 1982 ). two purifications of the whole rna ( 13 mg ) using 1 g of oligo ( dt )- cellulose ( brl ) cf . molecular cloning ( 1982 ), page 197 ! gave 460 μg of poly ( a )- rna ( mrna ). for obtaining a nearly full - length cdna , a cdna library was constructed by the okayama - berg method cf . h . okayama and p . berg , mol . cell . biol ., 2 , 161 1982 )!. the mrna ( 4 μg ) obtained in ( 1 - iii ) and 0 . 9 μg of a primer 3 &# 39 ;- oligo ( dt )- tailed psv7186 - derived plasmid primer ( pharmacia )! were treated with reverse transcriptase ( seikagaku kogyo ) for synthesizing 0 . 64 μg of ss - cdna ( single - stranded cdna ). this was treated with terminal transferase for c - tailing ( 18 c &# 39 ; s on the average ) and then cleaved with the restriction enzyme hindiii , followed by annealing with 0 . 25 μg of a linker 3 &# 39 ;- oligo ( dg )- tailed psv1932 - derived hindiii linker ( pharmacia )! and treatment with e . coli dna ligase . then ds - cdna ( double - stranded cdna ) was synthesized by treatment of the ligase - treated mixture with rnase h ( brl ), dna polymerase i ( pharmacia ) and e . coli dna ligase ( pharmacia ). this cdna was used to transform e . coli dh1 ( atcc 33849 ) by the method of d . handban d . handhan , j . mol . biol ., 166 , 557 ( 1983 )! to give 3 . 6 × 10 4 ampicillin - resistant clones . thus a cdna library comprising 3 . 6 × 10 4 clones could be constructed . plasmid dna was isolated from the cdna library . consisting of 3 . 6 × 10 4 clones and recloned into λgt11 ( atcc 37194 ), and the protease gene was searched for by express - blot assay using the protease antibody prepared in ( 1 - i ). the cdna - derived dna mixture ( 20 μg ) was cleaved with psti , then treated with 1 . 2 units of bal31 ( brl ) ( final volume 600 μl ) at 37 ° c . for 5 minutes for rendering the ends blunt and subjected to phenol extraction . the dna recovered by ethanol precipitation was treated with the klenow fragment ( large fragment e . coli dna polymerase i ) in the presence of dntp , followed by phenol extraction and ethanol precipitation . the dna recovered was treated with . ecori methylase ( new england biolabs ) in the presence of s - adenosylmethionine for methylation of the ecori site to render said site unclearable with ecori . about 10 μg of this dna and 5 μg of a pecori linker d ( pg - g - a - a - t - t - c - c ); takara shuzo ! were mixed up and ligated to each other using t4 dna ligase . after inactivation of the enzyme by treating at 65 ° c . for 15 minutes , the ligation mixture was cleaved with ecori . the pecori linker was removed by 5 % acrylamide gel electrophoresis . dna was eluted from the acrylamide gel with an eluting buffer ( 0 . 5m ch 3 coonh 4 , 10 mm magnesium acetate , 1 mm edta , 1 % sds ) and purified on de52 ( pharmacia ) in 10 mm tris - hcl ( ph 7 . 5 ), 5 mm edta ; adsorption with 0 . 1m macl ; desorption with 1m nacl ; a spun column used !. protoclone gt11 dna ( promega biotec , distributed by seikagaku kogyo ; 2 μg ) ( prepared from purified λgt11 dna by treatment with dna ligase , cleavage with ecori and treatment with alkaline phosphatase ) and the cdna mixture treated as described above were mixed up and ligated to each other using t4 dna ligase . the resultant dna mixture was subjected to in vitro packaging using packergene ( λ phage in vitro packaging system , promega biotec ), followed by plaque formation with e . coli y1090 ( r - m + ) ( atcc 37197 ) as a host . about 3 × 10 5 plaques were obtained . upon observation of the plaques in the presence of x - gal and iptg , about 75 % were white plaques and the remaining ( about 25 %) were blue plaques . a mixture of a culture ( 0 . 1 ml ) of e . coli y1090 ( r - m + ), the above - mentioned λgt11 - derived cdna library ( about 1 × 10 4 clones ) and a top layer agar ( the same as lb agar except for the agar concentration which was 0 . 8 %) ( 3 ml ) was spread over 20 ml of lb agar containing 50 μg / ml ampicillin as placed in a dish ( about 8 . 5 cm in diameter ) and the dish contests were allowed to stand at room temperature for 1 hour for agar solidification and then incubated at 42 ° c . for 4 hours . a nitrocellulose filter ( 82 . 5 mm in diameter ; bio - rad laboratories ) was immersed in 10 mm iptg solution for 1 hour and then dried at room temperature for about 1 hour . this filter was placed on the above - mentioned dish culture and incubation was further conducted at 37 ° c . for 2 . 5 hours for allowing gene expression and blotting onto the filter . from among about 7 × 10 4 plaques resulting from such blotting , six positive clones were isolated by using an express - blot assay kit ( bio - rad ) and the antibody produced in ( 1 - i ). the express - blot assay ( cf . t . v . huynh et al ., dna cloning , volume i , pages 73 - 75 , irl press , 1985 ) was performed as described in the manual attached to the kit . following fused protein expression and blocking of the plaque - lifted filter with gelatin , the filter was reacted with a rabbit - derived protease antibody neutralized with e . coli lysate ( included in the kit ) neutralized by adding 0 . 2 ml of e . coli lysate and 4 μl of protease antibody to 20 ml of antibody incubation buffer ( cf . the manual attached to the kit )! and then with hrp ( horseraddish peroxidase )- labeled anti - rabbit igg ( included in the kit ). upon the subsequent color development , positive clones gave blue - violet spots , while negative clones and rabbit - derived control antibodies gave no such spots . dna was isolated from each of the above six positive clones and cleaved with restriction enzymes for comparison of cdna inserts with respect to length . the clone having the longest insert was named . λgt - protease2 ( cf . fig1 b ). the remaining five clones each gave a similar restriction enzyme cleavage map . the λgt - protease2 dna was cleaved with ecori and two dnas ( about 0 . 5 kbp and about 2 . 6 kbp ) were isolated by agarose gel ( 0 . 8 %) electrophoresis followed by electrophoretic elution ( cf . molecular cloning , pages 150 and 164 , cold spring . harbor laboratory , 1982 ). separately , the pbr325 ( brl ) dna was cleaved with ecori and mixed with one of the above - mentioned two dna fargments about 0 . 5 kbp and about 2 . 6 kbp ) and ligation was carried out using t4 dna ligase . each ligation mixture was used to transform e . coli dh1 . from among colonies grown on an lb agar plate containing 50 μg / ml ampicillin , transformants incapable of growing on an lb agar plate containing 50 μg / ml chloramphenicol were recovered . plasmid dna was isolated from each of these transformant strains and subjected to restriction enzyme cleavage for insert confirmation . one of the plasmids containing the 0 . 5 kbp dna was named pbr - pro2 - e2 ( containing a protease cdna fragment corresponding to the neighborhood of the n terminus ) and one of the plasmids with % he 5 . 6 kbp dna insert was named pbr - pro2 - e3 ( containing a protease cdna fragment corresponding to the c terminus side ). from about 5 × 10 4 clones of the a . chrysogenum atcc 11550 - derived genomic dna library constructed in ( 1 - ii ), two genomic protease dna clones , λ - g - protease - 1413 and λ - g - protease - 0112 ( cf . fig1 - 2 ), were cloned using pbr - pro2 - e2 and pbr - pro2 - e3 as probes . a mixture of a culture of e . coli dp50supf ( promega biotec ) ( 0 . 1 ml ), the genomic dna library prepared in ( 1 - ii ) ( about 1 × 10 4 clones ) and a top agar ( the same as lb agar except for the agar concentration which was 0 . 8 %) ( 3 ml ) was spread over 20 ml of lb agar containing 10 mm mgcl 2 as placed in a dish ( about 8 . 5 cm in diameter ) and the dish was incubated overnight at 37 ° c . phage transfer to a nitrocellulose filter ( 85 mm in diameter ; biorad ) was performed by the method described in advanced bacterial genetics , pages 162 and 174 ( cold spring harbor laboratory , 1980 ), followed by denaturation and neutralization and by southern hybridization using a 32 p - labeled dna mixture of pbr322 - pro2 - e2 and pbr - pro2 - e3 . for recovering positive clones . dna labeling with 32 p was performed by the nick translation method ( molecular cloning , page 109 , cold spring harbor laboratory , 1982 ) using α - 32 p - dctp . from about 5 × 10 4 plaques , nine positive clones were isolated . from these were obtained 8 clones by monoplaque isolation in the same manner as mentioned above . dna was recovered from each of these clones , cleaved with ecori and subjected to agarose gel ( 0 . 8 %) electrohoresis , followed by southern hybridization by the method of southern e . m . southern , j . mol . biol ., 98 , 116 ( 1975 )! using as a dna probe pbr - pro2 - e2 or pbr - pro2 - e3 labeled with 32 p by the method mentioned above . one of the four clones found positive with the pbr - pro2 - e3 probe was named λ - g - protease - 0112 ( cf . fig1 b ), while one of the four clones found positive with the pbr - pro2 - e3 was named λ - g - protease - 1413 ( cf . fig1 b ). pgpr2 - eh1 was constructed by subcloning the λ - g - protease - 0112 dna into pbr322 ( brl ) ( cf . fig1 b ), and pgrb - eh1 by subcloning the λ - g - protease - 1413 dna into pbr322 . thus , the λ - g - protease - 0112 dna was cleaved with ecori and hindiii and a dna fragment of about 3 . 5 kbp was isolated by agarose gel ( 0 . 8 %) electrophoresis followed by electrophoretic elution . separately , the pbr322 dna was cleaved with ecori and hindiii and the cleavage mixture was mixed with the above - mentioned dna fragment ( about 3 . 5 kbp ). ligation was effected using t4 dna ligase . the ligation mixture was used to transform e . coli dh1 . from the colonies grown on an lb agar plate containing 50 μg / ml of ampicillin , those transformants that could not grow on an lb agar plate containing 10 μg / ml of tetracycline were recovered . the plasmid dna was isolated from one of these transformant strains and named . pgpr2 - eh1 ( cf . fig1 b ). similarly , the λ - g - protease - 1413 dna was cleaved with ecori and hindiii , a dna fragment of about 3 . 7 kbp was isolated by agarose gel electrophoresis followed by electrophoretic elution and cloned into the ecori - hindiii fragment of pbr322 . in this way , pgpr3 - eh1 ( cf . fig1 b ) was constructed . southern hybridization carried out in the same manner as performed in ( 1 - vii ) for λ - g - protease - 0112 or λ - g - protease - 1413 revealed that the above plasmids pgpr2 - eh1 and pgpr3 - eh1 were the desired ones . ( in this case , the dnas were subjected to double digestion with ecori and hindiii and 32 p probes corresponding to the respective inserts were used .) ( 1 - ix ) determination of the nucleotide sequences of the protease gene cdna and genomic dna derived from a . chrysogenum atcc 11550 : the nucleotide sequences of the cdna portion ( about 1 . 5 kbp ) of λgt - protease2 , the xhoi - ecori fragment ( about 1 . 4 kbp ) of pgpr2 - eh1 and the ecori - psti fragment ( about 1 . 5 kbp ) of pgpr3 - eh1 were determined by the dideoxynucleotide synthetic chain termination method f . sanger et al ., proc . natl . acad . sci . usa , 74 , 5463 ( 1977 )! using the m13mp10 and m13mp11 vectors ( amersham ) together with α - 32 p - dctp . the results obtained are shown in fig1 d - 1f and fig1 g and 1h . the long open reading frame of λgt - protease2 is shown in fig1 k . since this cdna was obtained based on expression of a protein fused with λgt11 β - galactosidase followed by screening with the antibody mentioned above , the cdna and β - galactosidase gene were supposed to be in the same translational reading frame and the result of translation was estimated . the result is shown in fig1 i and 1j . it is evident that the two frames are just in phase . furthermore it was found that the cdna was joined to λgt11 via a 21 - bp gc tailing portion . considering the fact that the okayama - berg method was used for cdna preparation and that the gc tailing formed in said cdna preparation was found attaching , it was estimated that the cdna in λgt - protease2 was almost full - length . the result of analysis of the nucleotide sequence of this cdna is shown in fig1 c a . comparison in nucleotide sequence between the cdna and genomic dna indicated that portion of the genomic dna which is transcribed into mdna ( cf . fig1 c b ). the estimated locations of the promoter and terminator upstream and downstream respectively , from said portion are shown in fig1 c b . comparison in amino acid sequence between the preproprotein to a . chrysogenum - derived alkaline protease and the known preproprotein to aspergillus oryzae - derived alkaline protease molecular and general genetics , 219 , 33 - 38 ( 1989 )! revealed that 230 out of the 402 amino acid residues in the former are identical to the corresponding ones in the latter with 57 . 2 % homology and that the former is a serine protease . based on this data and other - results obtained in a separate study , the primary structure of a . chrysogenum - derived mature alkaline protease was estimated to be represented by the amino acid sequence comprising the residues nos . 1 to 285 as shown in fig1 k . ( 2 - i ) introduction of ecori and bamhi synthetic dna linkers into the a . chrysogenum atcc 115 . 50 - derived protease gene genomic dna : the pgpr2 - eh1 ( cf . fig1 b ) dna was cleaved with smai , a synthetic ecori liner d ( ccgaattcgg ); takara shuzo ! was added , and ligation was effected using t4 dna ligase , followed by cleavage with ecori and bglii . an ecori - bglii fragment ( about 1 . 02kbp ) was isolated by agorose gel ( 0 . 8 %) electrophoresis followed by electrophoretic elution . this dna fragment ( about 1 . 02 kbp ) was mixed with an ecori - bamhi dna fragment ( 4 . 0 kbp ) of the vector plasmid pbr322 and ligation was carried out using t4 dna ligase to give the plasmid pgpr - pa3 . the pgpr - pa3 dna was cleaved with alui , a synthetic pbamhi linker d ( pcggatccg ); takara shuzo ! was added , and ligation was conducted in the presence of t4 dna ligase . the ligation product was then cleaved with ecori and bamhi and an ecori - bamhi fragment ( about 0 . 59 kbp ) was isolated by polyacrylamide gel ( 8 %) electrophoresis followed by electrophoretic elution . this dna fragment ( about 0 . 59 kbp ) was mixed with an ecori - bamhi fragment ( 4 . 0 kbp ) of the vector plasmid pbr322 and ligation was performed using t4 dna ligase to give the plasmid pgpr - pa3q2 . the sites of introduction of the ecori and bamhi linkers into the promoter region of the protease gene dna are shown in fig1 l . the nucleotide sequence of the 0 . 59 kbp dna is shown in fig1 m . ( 2 - ii ) introduction of a bamhi synthetic dna linker into the a . chrysogenum atcc 11550 - derived protease genomic dna : the pgpr3 - eh1 ( cf . fig1 b ) dna was cleaved with bali , a synthetic bamhi linker d ( ccggatccgg ); takara shuzo ! was added , and ligation was conducted using dna ligase , followed by cleavage with bamhi , psti and xhoi . a bamhi - psti dna fragment ( about 0 . 92 kbp ) was isolated by agarose gel ( 0 . 8 %) electrophoresis followed by electrophoretic elution . this dna fragment ( about 0 . 92 kbp ) was mixed with a bamhi - psti dna fragment ( 2 . 7 kbp ) of the vector plasmid puc18 and ligation was effected using t4 dna ligase to give the plasmid pgpr - tb1 . the site of introduction of the bamhi linker into the terminator region of the protease gene dna is shown in fig1 l . the nucleotide sequence comprising the 0 . 92 - kbp dna is shown in fig1 n . ( 2 - iii ) cloning of a promoter and a terminator into pcep97 ( construction of pcyg - b2 ): ( cf . fig1 o ) the vector plasmid pcep97 cf . isogai et al ., japanese kokai tokkyo koho no . 61 - 209593 ; isolable from escherichia coli c600 r - m - ( pcep97 ) atcc 39971 by a conventional method ! ( ap r cm r ) ( cf . fig1 - 11 ) was cleaved with ecori and hindiii . separately , pgpr - pa3q2 cf . ( 2 - i ); containing a procter ( about 0 . 59 kbp )! ( ap r cm s ) was cleaved with ecori and bamhi and , further , pgpr - tb1 cf . ( 2 - ii ); containing a terminator ( about 0 . 92 kbp )! ( ap r cm s ) was cleaved with bamhi and hindiii . an ecori - hindiii dna fragment ( about 6 . 1 kbp ) of pcep97 and a bamhi - hindiii dna fragment ( about 0 . 93 kbp ) of pgpr - tb1 were respectively isolated by agarose gel ( 0 . 8 %) electrophoresis followed by electrophoretic elution . an ecori - bamhi dna fragment ( about 0 . 59 kbp ) of pgpr - pa3q2 was isolated by acrylamide get ( 8 %) electrophoresis followed by electrophoretic elution . these three dna fragments were mixed up and ligated to one another using t4 dna ligase , and the ligation mixture was used to transform e . coli de1 . transformant strains capable of growing on an . lb agar plate containing 50 μg / ml of ampicillin but incapable of growing on an lb agar plate containing 50 μg / ml of chloramphenicol were recovered . the plasmid dna was isolated from one of these strains and named pcyg - b2 ( cf . fig1 o ). that said dna was the desired one which was confirmed using restriction enzymes . ( 3 - i ) extraction and purification of the genomic dna from a . chrysogenum 3112 : a . chrysogenum 3112 was grown on a medium ( 100 ml ) containing 1 % glucose , 3 % soluble starch , 3 % corn steep liquor ( csl ), 1 . 5 % soybean meal and 0 . 5 % coco 3 ( re 6 . 5 ) at 30 ° c . for 5 days . the cells were disrupted in a mortar under cooling with liquefied nitrogen and a buffer was added to give the following composition : 50 mm tris - hcl ( ph 7 . 5 ), 10 mm edta and 1 % sds . the resultant mixture was - heated at 65 ° c . for 10 minutes . after phenol extractions ( twice ), ethanol precipitation was performed . the precipitate was treated with 5 μg / ml rnase a ( sigma .) and then with 100 μg / ml protease k ( merck ). phenol extractions , ethanol precipitation and sucrose density gradient centrifugation ( 5 to 20 % sucrose ; hitachi ultracentrifuge rotor srp28 ; 22 krpm , 13 hours ) gave a purified genomic dna . ( 3 - ii ) size identification of the genomic isopenicillin n synthetase ( ipns ) dna : based on the dna nucleotide sequence of the a . chrysogenum - derived ipns gene cloned by s . m . samson et al . s . m . samson et al ., nature , 318 , 191 ( 1985 )!, the following three dna probes ( two 15 - meric dnas and one 12 - meric dna ) were synthesized by the method described in eiko otsuka : bunshi idengaku jikkenho ( experiments in molecular genetics ), pages 298 - 307 , kyoritsu shuppan , 1983 . probe 1 ! and probe 2 ! were respectively labeled by the method of inglia et al . inglia et al ., nucleic acids - res ., 9 , 1627 ( 1982 )! using t4 polynucleotide . kinase ( brl ) and γ 32 p - atp . then a mixed dna solution containing the probes 1 !, 2 ! and 3 ! was prepared , heated at 95 ° c . for 2 minutes and cooled gradually to room temperature for effecting annealing . the annealing product was purfied using nensorb 20 ( du pont ; imported and distributed by daiichi kagaku .) ( according to the attached manual ). separately , the a . chrysogenum 3112 - derived genomic dna ( about 5 prepared in ( 3 - i ) was cleaved with bamhi and the cleavage mixture was subjected to agarose gel ( 0 . 8 %) electrophoresis , followed by transfer to a nitrocellulose filter and southern hybridization by the method of southern e . m . southern , j . mol . biol ., 98 , 503 ( 1975 )!. the hybridization was performed overnight at 42 ° c . using 6 x ssc ( 0 . 9m nacl , 0 . 09m sodium citrate , ph 7 . 0 ), 5 x bfp 1 x bfp : 0 . 02 % bovine serum albumin , 0 . 02 % ficoll ( mw : 408 , 000 ), 0 . 02 % polyvinylpyrrolidone !, 0 . 5 % sds , 100 μg / ml carrier dna ( calf thymus dna ) and the labeled dna mentioned above . the filter was then washed once with 6 x ssc at 55 ° c . and then twice with 2 x ssc ( 2 x ssc being a three - fold dilution of 6 x ssc ). as a result a dna fragment of about 3 . 1 kbp was found hybridization - positive . about 20 μg of the a . chrysogenum 3112 - derived genomic dna prepared in ( 3 - i ) was cleaved with bamhi and a dna mixture ( about 2 . 5 to 4 . 4 kbp ) was separated by agarose gel ( 0 . 8 %) electrophoresis followed by electrophoretic elution . separately , the vector plasmid pbr322 was cleaved with bamhi , the digest was mixed with the above - mentioned dna mixture ( about 2 . 5 to 4 . 4 kbp ), then ligation was conducted using t4 dna ligase , and the ligation mixture was used to transform e . coli dh1 . about 2 . 4 × 10 5 colonies appeared on an lb agar plate containing 50 μg / ml ampicillin . about 5 % of the colonies could not grow on an lb agar plate containing 10 μg / ml tetracycline . thus , about 1 . 2 × 10 4 colonies contained the a . chrysogenum 3112 - derived dna . the plasmid dna was isolated from each of about 2 . 4 × 10 5 transformants and cleaved with ecori . for exclusion of the original vector plasmid free of the a . chrysogenum 3112 - derived dna , the ecori digest was subjected to agarose gel ( 0 . 8 %) electrophoresis and a mixture of dnas about 6 . 5 to 9 . 5 kbp in size was separated by electrophoretic elution . this dna mixture was subjected to ligation using t4 dna ligase and the ligation mixture was used to transform e . coli dh1 . in this way , about 2 . 6 × 10 4 transformants resistant to 50 μg / ml ampicillin were obtained . the above - mentioned about 2 . 6 × 10 4 genomic dna - containing e . coli transformants were grown on an lb agar plate containing 50 μg / ml ampicillin at 37 ° c . for 9 hours to give colonies , which were transferred to a nitrocellulose filter and further incubated on an lb agar plate containing 250 μg / ml chloramphenicol at 37 ° c . for 12 hours . the filter was then treated with 0 . 5n naoh - 1 . 5m . nacl at room temperature for 4 minutes for bacteriolysis and dna denaturation , then neutralized by treatment with two portions of 0 . 5m tris = hcl ( ph 7 . 0 )- 1 . 5m macl at room temperature for 5 minutes per portion and subjected to hybridization , which was performed by the method described in ( 3 - ii ) using the 32 p - labeled 30 - meric dna resulting from joining of probes 1 ! and 2 !. five hybridization - positive strains were obtained . the plasmid dnas isolated from these strains were found quite identical to one another when compared by restriction enzyme cleavage analysis . one of the plasmids was named pips105 ( cf . fig1 p ). amersham &# 39 ; s m13 cloning kit was used and the procedure described in the manual attached to the kit was followed . thus , the pips105 dna was cleaved with sali and a dna fragment of about 0 . 63 kbp was isolated by agarose gel ( 1 . 5 %) electrophoresis followed by electrophoretic elution . this . dna fragment was mixed with the sali digest of the m13mp10 dna and ligation was carried out using t4 dna ligase . the ligation mixture was used to transform e . coli jm105 ( amersham ) as a host . white plaques which formed in the presence of x - gal and iptg were collected and phage multiplication was conducted using e . coli jm105 as a host . the rf ( replicating form ) dna was isolated from the host cells and named m13mp10 - ips4 - 2 . similary , the pips105 dna was cleaved with psti and bamhi and a dna fragment of about 1 . 0 kbp was isolated by agarose gel ( 0 . 8 %) electrophoresis followed by electrophoretic elution . this dna fragment ( about 1 . 0 kbp ) was ligated to psti - bamhi dna fragments of m13mp10 using t4 dna ligase . cloning was carried out in the same manner as above . the phage obtained was multiplicated using e . coli jm 105 as a host and the rf dna was isolated and named m13mp10 - ips3 . the dna nucleotide sequence of a sali region of about 0 . 63 kbp of the ss - dna ( single - stranded dna ) of m13mp10 - ips4 - 2 was determined by the dideoxynucleotide synthetic chain termination method ( using amersham &# 39 ; s sequencing kit ). the 478 bp sali - ncoi dna fragment out of said region is illustrated in fig1 q . in this way , the presence of the ipns gene could be confirmed and the promoter region could be identified . the restriction enzyme map of the ipns terminator of m13mp10 - ips3 and the multicloning site portion of m13mp10 is shown in fig1 r . the ipns gene promoter and terminator can be readily synthesized by means of a dna synthesizer on the basis of the dna nucleotide sequences shown in fig1 q and fig1 t , respectively . ( 4 - i ) deletion of the bamhi site from m13mp10 - ips3 ( cf . fig1 p ): the rf dna of m13mp10 - ips3 was cleaved with bamhi , then repaired using the klenow fragment ( large fragment e . coli dna polymerase i ; amersham ) in the presence of dntp , subjected to ligation using t4 dna ligase and again cleaved with bamhi . the cleavage mixture was used to transform e . coli jm105 and phage plaques were collected . the phage was multiplied using e . coli jm105 as a host and the rf dna was separated from the host cells . this dna was named m13mp10 - ips3 - ds and it was confirmed that said dna could not be cleaved with bamhi . the dna nucleotide sequence of the terminator - containing bcli - ecori region . ( about 1 . 0 kbp ) of m13mp10 - ips3 - d8 was determined by the dideoxynucleotide synthetic chain termination method using α - 32 p - datp and sequenase . the sequence is shown in fig1 t . the g418 resistance gene of tn903 a . oka et al ., j . mol . biol ., 147 , 217 ( 1987 )! ( pvuii 1696 bp fragment ) was purified from the pvuii - cleaved dna of pcyg97 cf . japanese kokai tokkyo koho no . 61 - 209593 ; isolable from escherichia coli c600 r - m - ( pcyg97 ) atcc 399770 by a conventional method !. to this 1696 bp dna fragment was added a synthetic bamhi linker d ( ccggatccgg ; takara shuzo ! was added , and ligation was carried out using t4 dna ligase . the ligation mixture was subjected to cleavage with bamhi and ethanol precipitations ( three times ) to thereby remove the linker dna remaining unbound . separately , the puc18 dna ( takara shuzo ) was cleaved with bamhi , the digest was mixed with the above - mentioned bamhi linker - bound 1 . 7 kbp dna fragment , and ligation was performed using t4 dna ligase . the resulting dna solution was used to transform e . coli jm109 ( takara shuzo ) and transformants grown on an lb agar plate containing 20 μg / ml kanamycin were obtained . the plasmid dna was isolated from one of these transformants and named puc - tn903 - f1 . its structure was confirmed using restriction enzymes . the puc - tn903 - f1 dna was cleaved with xhoi and bamhi and a dna fragment of about 1 . 21 kbp was isolated by agarose gel ( 0 . 8 %). electrophoresis followed by electrophoretic elution . separately , the ipns gene promoter was isolated from the m13mp10 = ips4 - 2 rf dna by cleavage with hindiii and ncoi followed by acrylamide gel ( 8 %) electrophoresis and electrophoretic elution as a dna fragment ( hingiii . psti • sali - ncoi ) of about 0 . 49 kbp . atg occurs in this ncoi site . therefore , for allowing expression of the g4 . 18 resistance ( kanamycin resistance ) gene , the ncoi site was linked to the xhoi site by means of a synthetic dna . thus , two 31 - meric synthetic dnas ( shown below ) were synthesized using an applied biosystems model 381a dna synthesizer . the two synthetic dnas ( 10 μg each ) were mixed up in 100 μl of te buffer , heated at 95 ° c . for 2 minutes and then gradually cooled to room temperature for annealing . the 4 . 0 kbp hindiii - bamhi fragment derived from the vector plasmid pbr322 , the m13mp10 - ips4 - 2 - derived hindiii - ncoi fragment ( about 0 . 49 kbp ), the annealed synthetic dna ( 31 bp ) and the puc - tn903 - f1 - derived xhoi - bamhi fragment ( about 1 . 21 kbp ) were mixed up and ligation was carried out using t4 dna ligase . the ligation mixture was used to transform e . coli by the method of d . hanahan d . hanahan , j . mol . biol ., 166 , 557 ( 1983 )! and ampicillin - resistant , tetracycline - sensitive transformants were obtained . the plasmid dna was isolated from each of these transformants and subjected to restriction enzyme analysis for structure confirmation . one of the plasmids was named pbcg - d3 . the rf dna of m13mp10 - ips3 - ds as prepared in ( 4 - i ) was cleaved with pvuii and bcli and a dna fragment of about 1 . 1 kbp was isolated by agarose gel ( 0 . 8 %) electrophoresis followed by electrophoretic elution . separately , the pbcg - d3 dna prepared in ( 4 - ii ) was cleaved with bamhi and pvuii and a bamhi - pvuii dna fragment of about 4 . 05 kbp was isolated by agarose gel ( 0 . 8 %) electrophoresis followed by electrophoretic elution . the bcli - pvuii dna fragment ( bcli - saci - smai . saci - ecori - pvuii ) ( about 1 . 1 kbp ) and the bamhi - pvuii dna fragment ( about 4 . 05 kbp ) were mixed up and ligation was carried out using t4 dna ligase . the ligation mixture was used to transform e . coli dh1 . the plasmid dna was isolated from each of the ampicillin - resistant transformants thus obtained and the structure thereof was confirmed by analysis with restriction enzymes . one of the plasmids was named pbcg - dt1 . ( 4 - iv ) cloning of the g418 resistance expression unit into pcep97 ( cf . fig1 s ): about 10 μg of the pcep97 dna ( cf . fig1 s ) was treated with 30 units of pvuii at 37 ° c . for 1 hour ( final volume : 200 μl ) for partial cleavage of the dna . following phenol extraction and ether extraction , dna was precipitated with ethanol . this dna was then completely cleaved with sali and a dna of about 6 . 0 kbp was isolated by agarose gel ( 0 . 8 %) electrophoresis followed by electrophoretic elution . separately , about 10 μg of the pbcg - dt1 dna prepared is ( 4 - iii ) was treated with 20 units of smai at 37 ° c . for 30 minutes ( final volume : 100 μl ). for partial cleavage . following phenol extraction . and ether extraction , dna was precipitated with ethanol . this dna was then completely cleaved with sali and a dna fragment of about 2 . 7 kbp was isolated by agarose gel ( 0 . 8 %) electrophoresis followed by electrophoretic elution . the pvuii - pvuii - sali dna fragment ( about 6 . 0 kbp ) and the sali - smai - smai dna fragment ( about 5 . 7 kbp ) were mixed up and ligation was carried out using t4 dna ligase . the ligation mixture was used to transform e . coli dh1 . out of the colonies grown on an lb agar plate containing 50 μg / ml ampicillin , 64 transformants capable of growing on an lb agar plate containing 35 μg / ml chloramphenicol were obtained . the plasmid dna was isolated from each of them and examined for plasmid size by agarose gel ( 0 . 8 %) electrophoresis , whereupon 13 transformants were found to be the desired ones . one of them was called pcyg - e15 ( cf . fig1 s ) and the structure thereof was confirmed by analysis using restriction enzymes . ( 4 - v ) cloning of a protease expression unit into pcyg - e15 ( construction of pcyg - eb2 ) ( cf . fig1 s ): about 20 μg of the pcyg - e15 dna prepared in ( 4 - iv ) was treated with 8 units of hindiii at 37 ° c . for 30 minutes ( final volume : 200 μl ) for partial cleavage of the dna . after phenol extraction and ether extraction , dna was precipitated with ethanol . this dna was then completely cleaved with ecori and a dna fragment of about 7 . 4 kbp was isolated by agarose gel ( 0 . 8 %) electrophoresis followed by electrophoretic elution . separately , pcyg - b2 ( cf . fig1 o ) was cleaved with ecori and hindiii and a dna fragment of about 1 . 5 kbp was isolated by agarose gel ( 0 . 8 %) electrophoresis followed by electrophoretic elution . the hindiii - hindiii - ecori dna fragment ( about 7 . 4 kbp ) and the ecori - hindiii dna fragment ( about 1 . 5 kbp ) were mixed up and ligation was carried out using t4 dna ligase . the ligation mixture was used to transform e . coli de1 . out of the colonies grown on an lb agar plate containing 50 μg / ml ampicillin , transformants incapable of growing on an lb agar plate containing 35 μg / ml chloramphenicol were separated . the plasmid dna was isolated from each of these transformants and analyzed using restriction enzymes for structure confirmation . one of the desired plasmids thus obtained was named pcyg - eb2 ( cf . fig1 s ). a plasmid , dcyg - hb51 , capable of expressing hm r in a . chrysogenum was constructed by introducing the plasmid plg9o - derived hm r gene with its 5 &# 39 ; side modified with a synthetic dna into the plasmid pcyg - b2 ( cf . fig1 - 11 ) containing a protease gene expression unit , at the bamhi site thereof ( cf . fig2 - 1 ). the plasmid plg90 and a method of constructing the same are known cf . p . j . m . van den elzen et al . plant molecular biology , 5 , 299 - 302 ( 1985 ) and l . gritz and j . davies , gene , 25 , 179 - 188 ( 1983 )!. plg90 was cleaved with the restriction enzyme hphi and then with the restriction enzyme bamhi . an hphi - bamhi fragment ( about 1 . 03 kbp ) was isolated by agarose gel ( 1 . 5 %) electrophoresis followed by electrophoretic elution cf . molecular cloning ( cited above ), pages 150 and 164 !. separately , for deleting atg occurring just upstream from the atg codon in the hm r bamhi dna fragment of plg90 the 28 - meric and 33 - meric dnas shown in fig2 a were synthesized using an applied biosystems model 381a dna synthesizer according to the operator &# 39 ; s manual therefor . the dnas synthesized were purified using an applied biosystems oligonucleotide purification cartridge ( opc cartridge ) according to the manual therefor . the dnas synthesized ( each 10 μg ) were mixed up in a final volume of 100 μl of te buffer and heated at 95 ° c . for 10 minutes . the mixture was then gradually cooled to room temperature for effecting annealing of the two dnas . a mixed solution containing three dnas , namely the annealed synthetic dna , the hphi - bamhi dna fragment ( about 1 . 03 kbp ) obtained above and an ecori - bamhi fragment ( 2 . 7 kbp ) of the plasmid puc18 ( takara shuzo ), was prepared and ligation was carried out using t4 dna ligase . the ligation mixture was used to transform e . coli jm109 ( takara shuzo ). out of the colonies grown on an lb agar plate containing 50 μg / ml ampicillin , transformants capable of growing on an lb agar plate containing 150 μg / ml hygromycin b and 0 . 5 mm iptg were separated . the plasmid isolated from one of the transformants was named phmp - e5 ( cf . fig2 a ). its structure was confirmed using restriction enzymes . nucleotide sequence of a synthetic dna region - containing portion of phmp - e5 was , determined by the dideoxynucleotide synthetic chain termination method and found to be as designed . phmp - e5 was cleaved with bamhi and a dna about 1 . 06 kbp in size was isolated by agarose gel ( 0 . 8 %) electrophoresis followed by electrophoretic elution . separately , the expression vector in a . chrysogenum pcyg - b2 ( cf . fig1 o ) was cleaved with bamhi . both bamhi dna fragments were mixed up and ligated to each other using t4 dna ligase , and the ligation mixture was used to transform e . coli jm109 . out of the colonies grown on an lb agar plate containing 50 μg / ml ampicillin , transformants capable of growing on an lb agar plate containing 150 μg / ml hygromycin b were collected . since both the a . chrysogenum atcc 11550 - derived protease gene promoter and terminator show promoter activity in e . coli , the presence of an sd sequence ( ribosome binding site sequence ) before an atg codon would induce translation in e . coli . therefore , the ap r hm r strains might include strains containing the hm r gene in one direction and strains containing said gene in the reverse direction . therefore the plasmid dna was isolated from each of these strains , and cleaved with ecori and the direction of the hm r gene was judged by agarose gel ( 0 . 8 %) electrophoresis . one of the plasmids in which said gene was in the same direction with that of the protease gene promoter was named pcyg - hb51 ( cf . fig2 a ). the nucleotide sequence of the hygromycin b resistance gene inserted in this plasmid pcyg - hb51 is shown in fig2 b and 2c , together with the amino acid sequence encoded by said nucleotide sequence . ( 1 ) construction of the plasmid pdao - eb101 ( expression vector for a d - amino acid oxidase gene ) and the plasmid pveb104 ( expression vector for a cc acylase gene ) for direct fermentative production of 7aca or 7adca using a cephalosporin c ( cc )- or deacetylcephalosporin c ( dcc )- producing microorganism belonging to the species acremonium chrysogenum , the routes shown in fig3 b were conceived . thus the routes should respectively include : ( 1 ) transformation of a cc or dcc producer with a 7aca or 7adca production vector containing a cc acylase gene ; ( 2 ) transformation of a cc or dcc producer with a 7aca or 7adca production vector containing a d - amino acid oxidase ( dao ) gene and a cc acylase gene ; and ( 3 ) transformation of a cc or dcc producer with a 7aca or 7adca production vector containing a dao gene and a gl - 7aca acylase gene . for the above purposes , an expression vector containing a cc acylase gene and an expression vector containing a dao gene were prepared . it was confirmed that each enzyme could be expressed in saccharomyces cerevisiae . the procedure followed in this example 3 is schematically shown in fig3 a . the dao expression plasmid pcfs315 ( cf . fig3 e ) was isolated from e . coli jm109 ( pcfs315 ). ( ferm bp - 1916 ) by a conventional method and cleaved with bamhi , and a 1 . 24 kbp dna was isolated by agorose gel ( 0 . 8 %) electrophoresis followed by electrophoretic elution . the nucleotide sequence of the dao cdna contained in the plasmid pcfs315 is shown in fig3 - 11 . separately , the vector pcyg - eb2 dna ( cf . fig1 - 15 ) having an expression unit in a . chrysogenum was cleaved with bamhi . both the bamhi dna fragments were mixed up and ligated to each other using t4 dna ligase . the ligation mixture was used to transform e coli de1 ( atcc 33849 ). transformants capable of growing on an lb agar plate containing 50 μg / ml ampicillin were collected . the plasmid dna was isolated from each of these transformants , cleaved with bamhi or ecori + pvuii and subjected to agorose gel ( 1 . 5 %) electropharesis . one of the plasmids that gave a 1 . 24 kbp dna fragment upon bamhi cleavage and a 1 . 33 kbp dna fragment upon ecori + pvuii cleavage was named pdao - eb101 ( cf . fig3 c ). pseudomonas diminuta v22 showing cc acylase activity was isolated from a soil sample and an acylase gene was cloned from the genomic dna thereof using e . coli as a host , with cc acylase activity as a index . the n - terminal side of this gene was excised with psti , the c - terminal side was deleted by treatment with bal31 to reduce the gene size to about 3 kbp , and pcpv22p ( cf . fig3 - 6 ) was constructed using this gene and km r phsg298 tahara shuzo ; s . takeshita et al ., gene , 61 , 63 - 74 ( 1987 )! as the vector therefor . starting with the cc acylase gene of pcpv22p and deleting the n - terminal side to the mlui site located upstream from atg , pv22b1 was constructed ( of fig3 f ). it was found that , in the vicinity of an aatii site just upstream from the atg codon of the v22 cc acylase gene , there was another atg belonging to a different frame . therefore this atg was deleted by using a synthetic dna adapter and pv22bs - a11 ( cf . fig3 i ) was constructed . by cloning the acylase gene , with said atg deleted , in the expression vector pcyg - eb2 , pveb104 ( cf . fig3 d ) was constructed . ( a ) construction of pv22b1 and determination of the n - terminal side nucleotide sequence : the pcpv22p plasmid was isolated from e . coli jm109 ( pcpv22p ) ( ferm - bp 2704 ) and 15 μg of this dna was treated with 30 units of the restriction enzyme , mlui ( toyoho ) at 37 ° c . for 15 minutes for partial cleavage of the dna . following phenol extraction and ether extraction , dna was precipitated with ethanol and treated with the klenow fragment ( large fragment e . coli dna polymerase i ) ( takara shuzo ) in the presence of dntp for rendering the cleavage site blunt - ended . following phenol extraction and ether extraction , dna was precipitated with ethanol . the dna was cleaved with ecori and a dna about 1 . 1 kbp in size was isolated by agarose gel ( 1 . 5 %) electrophoresis followed by electrophoretic elution . the above dna fragment ( about 1 . 1 kbp ) and a smai - ecori dna fragment ( 2 . 7 kbp ) of the vector plasmid puc19 ( takara shuzo ) were mixed up and ligated to each other using t4 . dna ligase to give a plasmid , pv22f2 ( cf . fig3 f ). since there was no bamhi site on the acylase c - terminus side , introduction of a bamhi site on the c terminus side was attempted by reversing the direction of the acylase gene of pcpv22p . thus , pcpv22p was cleaved with psti and selected to religation using t4 dna ligase , and the religation mixture was used to transform e . coli jm109 . white transformant colonies grown on an lb agar plate containing 50 μg / ml , 100 μg / ml x - gal and 0 . 5 mm iptg were recovered ( blue clones contained the vector phsg298 having no acylase gene insert ). the plasmid dna was isolated from each of these transformants and cleaved with sali , and pv22r6 ( cf . fig3 f ) with the acylase gene inserted therein in the reverse direction was isolated by agarose gel ( 0 . 8 %) electrophoresis . pv22f2 was cleaved with hindiii and ecori , and a hindiii - ecori fragment ( about 1 . 2 kbp ) was isolated by agarose gel ( 0 . 8 %) electrophoresis followed by electrophoretic elution . separately , pv22r6 was cleaved with ecori and bamhi and an ecori - bamhi fragment ( about 1 . 4 kbp ) was isolated by agaross gel ( 0 . 8 %) electrophoresis followed by electrophoretic , elution . the above - mentioned hindiii - ecori fragment ( about 1 . 2 kbp ) and ecori - bamhi fragment ( about 1 . 4 kbp ) and further a hindiii - bamhi fragment of the vector plasmid phsg399 takara shuzo ; plasmid containing cm r as a marker ; e . coli jm109 ( phsg399 ) can grow or an lb agar plate containing 30 μg / ml chloramphenicol ! were mixed up and ligation was carried out using t4 dna ligase to give the plasmid pv22b1 ( cf . fig3 f ). pv22b1 was cleaved with bamhi and ecori and a bamhi - ecori fragment ( about 2 . 5 kbp ) was isolated by agarose gel ( 0 . 8 %) electrophoresis followed by electrophoretic elution . this dna fragment was cloned into an ecori - bamhi fragment of m13mp18 and of m13mp19 and the dna nucleotide sequence of the open reading frame of the acylase gene inserted in pv22b1 . was determined ( cf . fig3 a and 3h ). for the nucleotide sequence determination , α - 32 p - datp and seguenase cf . s . tabor and c . c . richardson , j . biol . chem ., 264 , 6447 ( 1989 )! ( united states biochemical corporation ) were used and the dideoxynucleotide synthetic chain termination method of sanger et al . f . sanger et al ., proc . natl . acd . sci . usa , 74 , 5463 ( 1977 )! was followed . comparison of the amino acid sequences of the v22 - derived acylase and the known pseudomonas sp . se83 - derived acylase a . matsuda et al ., j . bacteriol ., 169 , 5821 ( 1983 )! revealed that 53 out of 774 amino acid residues were different . pv22b1 was cleaved with ecori and dna fragments of about 3 . 3 kbp and about 1 . 38 kbp were isolated by agarose gel ( 0 . 8 %) electrophoresis followed by electrophoretic elution . the 1 . 38 kbp dna fragment was used in constructing pv22bs - a11 from pv22bds1 . the 3 . 3 kbp dna fragment was subjected to ligation using t4 dna ligase to give a plasmid , pv22bnd3 ( cf . fig3 i ). pv22bd3 was cleaved with aatii and bamhi and a dna of about 3 . 3 kbp was isolated by agarose gel ( 0 . 8 %) electrophoresis followed by electrophoretic elution . separately , two synthetic dnas ( 19 - met and 11 - mer ) were prepared by a conventional method . 11mer 5 &# 39 ;- ccttggtaccg - 3 &# 39 ; ( seq id no : 34 ) the synthetic dnas were designed such that a kpni site could be formed for facilitating detection of clones with the same inserted therein . the synthetic dnas ( 10 μg each ) were mixed up in a final volume of 100 μl of te buffer , heated at 90 ° c . for 2 minutes and cooled gradually to room temperature for effecting annealing of the two dnas . the above - mentioned aatii - bamhi dna fragment ( about 3 . 3 kbp ) and the annealing product dna were mixed up and ligated to each other using t4 dna ligase to give a plasmid , pv22bds1 ( cf . fig3 i ). since this dna contained the newly introduced kpni site , it was easy to determine whether the synthetic dna portion was present in a subsequent product . pv22bds1 was cleaved with ecori and then mixed with the above - mentioned . ecori - ecori dna fragment ( about 1 . 38 kbp ), and ligation was carried out using t4 dna ligase . the ligation mixture was used to transform e . coli dh1 and transformants growing - on an lb agar plate containing 30 μg / ml chloramphenicol were collected . the plasmid dna was isolated from each of these transformants and cleaved with psti . agarose gel ( 0 . 8 %) electrophoresis gave pv22bs - a11 which contained the 1 . 38 kbp ecori dna fragment in the desired direction ( cf . fig3 i ). cleavage of pv22bs - a11 with psti gave two dna fragments about 2 . 5 kbp and 2 . 2 kbp in size , hence can be readily distinguished from others . the restriction enzyme cleavage map of the acylase gene region ( bamhi , about 2 . 5 kbp ) of pv22bs - a11 is shown in fig3 k . ( c ) cloning of the acylase gene of pv22bs - a11 into a gene expression unit capable of functioning in chrysogenum : pv22bs - a11 was cleaved with bamhi and a dna of about 2 . 5 kbp was isolated by agarose gel ( 0 . 8 %) electrophoresis followed by electrophoretic elution . separately , the expression vector pcyg - eb2 ( cf . fig1 s ) for use in a . chrysogenum was cleaved with bamhi . both the bamhi dna fragments were mixed up and ligated to each other using t4 dna ligase , and the ligation mixture was used to transform e . coli de1 . transformants growing on an lb agar plate containing 50 μg / ml ampicillin were recovered . the plasmid dna was isolated from each of these transformants and cleaved with bamhi and ecori . one of the plasmids which gave a dna fragment of about 2 . 5 kbp upon cleavage with bamhi and a dna fragment of about 1 . 67 kbp ( about 1 . 96 kbp if the acylase gene was in the reverse direction ) upon cleavage with ecori was named pveb104 ( cf . fig3 d ). it was examined whether the a . chrysogenum atcc 11550 - derived protease gene expression unit f . solani m - 0718 - derived d - amino acid oxidase cdna and p . diminuta v22 - derived acylase gene could function to give enzyme activity in s . cerevisiae ynn27 d . t . stinchcomb et al ., proc . natl . acad . sci . usa , 77 , 4559 ( 1980 )!, one of lower eukaryotes . transformation of s . cerevisiae ynn7 with pdao - eb101 or pveb104 . was performed as described in japanese kokai tokkyo koho no . 61 - 209593 ( isogai et ., laid open sep . 17 , 1986 ) ( in example 2 - iii ). thus , the protoplast of s . cerevisiae ynn27 was mixed with 10 μl ( about 5 μg ) of each dna and a buffer containing 20 % peg 4000 was added to the mixture for effecting transformation . selection using about 300 μg / ml of the antibiotic 0415 gate about 1 × 10 4 transformants . each transformant was inoculated into yepd medium ( 10 g / liter yeast extract , 20 g / liter peptone , 20 g / liter glucose ) ( 5 ml ) containing 10 μg / ml uracil , 40 μg / ml tryptophan and 300 μg / ml g415 and cultivation was carried out at 30 ° c . for 3 days . cells were then collected by centifugations . the cells were reacted with ccna or gl - 7aca and the supernatant separated from cells by centrifugation was subjected to high performance liquid chromatogrphay column : inertsil ods - 2 ( gaschro kogyo ); mobile phase : solution composed of 6 . 6 mm phosphate buffer ( ph 7 . 3 ) and 3 % methanol ; detection : 254 nm ! for product quantification . in the case of pdao - eb101 - carrying transformants , 500 μl of a reactant solution containing 5 mg / ml ccna , 0 . 1m phosphate buffer ( ph 7 . 5 ) and 14 mm nan 3 and 5 μl of toluene were added to centrifuged cells and the reaction was carried out at 37 ° c . for 3 hours with shaking . nan 3 was added so that it could inhibit catalase to thereby allow dao - catalyzed conversion of ccna to gl - 7aca without stopping at the stage of keto - ad - 7aca . in this way , 840 μg / ml gl - 7aca was formed . in this case , it was also confirmed that transformants carrying pcyg - eb2 containing no dao gene , which were used as controls , did not give gl - 7aca . it was thus found that the a . chrysogenum atcc 11550 - derived protease gene expression unit can function in s . cerevisiae ynn27 , causing d - amino acid oxidase formation . it was also found that the f . solani m - 0718 - derived dao cdna cab be expressed in s . cerevisiae ynn27 . in the case of pveb104 - carrying transformants , 500 μl of a reaction solution containing 2 mg / ml gl - 7aca and 0 . 1m tris - hcl buffer ( ph . 8 . 0 ) and 5 μl of toluene were added to centrifuged cells and the reaction was allowed to proceed at 30 ° c . for 3 hours with shaking , whereby 7aca was formed in an amount of 15 μg / ml . control transformants carrying pcyg - eb2 containing no acylase gene failed to cause 7aca formation . further it was found that the p . diminuta v22 - derived acylase gene can be expressed in s . cerevisiae ynn27 , though to a lesser extent . ( 1 ) construction of the plasmids pebv1 ( vector for 7aca and 7adca production ), pedv11 ( vector for 7aca and 7apda production ) and phbd3 ( vector for gl - 7aca and gl - 7adca production ) in dna introduction into acremonium chrysogenum bc2116 ( ferm - bp 2707 ), which is a cc and dcc producer , the hygromycin b resistance was used as a marker since selection is difficult when the g418 resistance is used as a selective marker . thus the cc acylase gene - and hm r gene - containing plasmid phbv1 ( cf . fig4 a ) for 7aca and 7adca production , the d - amino acid oxidase gene -, cc acylase ( capable of functioning also as keto - ad - 7aca acylase and gl - 7aca acylase ) gene - and hm r gene - containing plasmid phdv11 ( cf . fig4 b ) for 7aca and 7adca production and the d - amino acid oxidase gene - and hm r gene - containing plasmid phbd3 ( cf . fig4 c ) for gl - 7aca and gl - 7adca production were constructed about 15 μg of pcyg - eb51 was treated with 10 units of ecori at 37 ° c . for 15 minutes ( final volume : 100 μl ) for partial cleavage of the dna . following phenol extraction and ether extraction , dna was precipitated with ethanol . this dna was then completely cleaved with smai and a dna fragment of about 3 . 1 kbp was isolated by agarose gel ( 0 . 8 %) electrophoresis followed by electrophoretic elution . separately , pveb104 was cleaved with saci and pvuii and a dna fragment of about 5 . 7 kbp was isolated by agarose gel ( 0 . 8 %) electrophoresis followed by electrophoretic elution . the above - mentioned ecori - smai fragment ( about 3 . 1 kbp ) and pvuii - saci dna fragment ( about 5 . 7 kbp ) and , further , an ecori - saci dna fragment ( 2 . 7 . kbp ) of the vector plasmid phsg298 ( tahara shuzo ) were mixed up and ligation was conducted using t4 dna ligase . the ligation mixture was used to transform e . coli jm109 by the method of d . hanahan d . hanahan , j . mol . biol ., 163 , 557 - 580 ( 1983 )! and transformants growing as white clones on an lb agar plate containing 20 μg / ml kanamycin , 0 . 5 mm iptg and 100 μg / ml x - gal were obtained . from these transformants , those capable of growing on an lb agar plate containing 150 μg / ml hygromycin but incapable of growing on an lb agar plate containing - 50 μg / ml ampicillin were recovered . the plasmid dna was isolated from each of the thus - obtained km r hm r ap s strains and analyzed by cleavage with restriction enzymes . one of the plasmids thus found to have the desired structure was named phbv1 ( cf . fig4 a ). pdao - eb101 was cleaved with clai and a dna fragment of about 7 . 5 kbp was isolated by agarose gel ( 0 . 8 %) electrophoresis followed by electrophoretic elution . further , phbv1 was cleaved with . clai ( for cleavage at one site alone ). the cleavage mixture was mixed with the above - mentioned clai fragment ( about 7 . 5 kbp ) and ligation was carried out using t4 dna ligase . the ligation mixture was used to transform e . coli jm109 and transformants growing on an lb agar plate containing 50 μg / ml ampicillin were collected . from among these transformants , strains capable of growing on an lb agar plate containing 150 μg / ml hygromycin but incapable of growing on an lb agar plate containing 30 μg / ml kanamycin were selected . the plasmid dna was isolated from each of the thus - obtained ap r hm r km s strains . based on the bamhi cleavage pattern , whether said plasmid was the desired one or not was judged and the direction of gene insertion was determined . one of the plasmids thus found to be as designed was named phdv11 ( cf . fig4 b ). about 15 μg of pcyg - hb51 was treated with 10 units of ecori at 37 ° c . for 15 minutes ( final volume : 100 μl ) for partial cleavage of the dna . following phenol extraction and ether extraction , dna was precipitated with ethanol . this dna was then completely cleaved with clai and a dna fragment fraction of about 4 . 3 kbp was isolated by agarose gel ( 0 . 8 %) electrophoresis followed by electrophoretic elution said fraction was a mixture of a fragment of about 4 . 28 kbp and a fragment of about 4 . 44 kbp . if desired , however , the necessary dna fragment ( about 4 . 28 kbp ) can be isolated by utilizing hm r ap s . separately , about 20 μg of pdao - eb101 was treated with 50 units of psti at 37 ° c . for 5 minutes ( final volume : 200 μl ). for partial cleavage of the dna . following phenol extraction and ether extraction , dna was precipitated with ethanol . this dna was then cleaved with clai and a dna fragment fraction of about 6 kbp was isolated by agarose gel ( 0 . 8 %) electrophoresis followed by electrophoretic elution . this dna fragment fraction included the following three fragments : psti dao psti -- clai ( about 5 . 63 kbp ), psti daop sti clai -- clai ( about 6 . 53 kbp ) and clai -- psti daop sti ( about 5 . 80 kbp ). if desired , however , the last fragment ( about 5 . 50 kbp ) can be removed by selecting ap s transformants . the above - mentioned first dna fragment mixture ( about 4 . 3 kbp ) and second dna fragment mixture ( about 6 kbp ) and , further , an ecori - psti fragment ( 2 . 6 kbp ) of the vector plasmid ph0298 were mixed up and subjected to ligation using t4 dna ligase . the ligation mixture was used to transform e . coli jm109 by the method of d . handhah and transformants growing as white colonies on an lb agar plate containing 20 μg / ml kanamycin , 0 . 5 mm iptg and 100 μg / ml x - gal were recovered . 800 strains out of these transformants were tested for growing on an lb agar plate containing 150 μg / ml hygromycin and an lb agar plate containing 50 μg / ml ampicillin . nineteen km r hm r ap s transformants were thus obtained . the plasmid dna was isolated from each of these strains and subjected to restriction enzyme cleavage analysis for confirmation that it was the desired one . one of the plasmids thus obtained was named phbd3 ( cf . fig4 c ). ( 1 ) introduction of the plasmids phbv1 , phdv11 and phbd3 into a . chrysogenum bc2116 and cultivation of the transformants a . chrysogenum bc2116 was transformed with phbv1 or phdv11 ( vector for 7aca and 7adca production in a . chrysogenum ) or phbd3 ( vector for gl - 7aca and gl - 7adca production in a . chrysogenum ). the thus - obtained hygromycin b - resistant transformants were cultivated in a cc production medium ( without addition of hygromycin b ). it was found that said transformants can produce 7aca or gl - 7aca in the medium . an ampule of a cell suspension ( 20 % glycerol ) obtained by thawing , at 37 ° c ., a stock culture of a . chrysogenum bc2116 stored in liquefied nitrogen was inoculated onto ten b3 agar plates dried in advance until the surface moisture could not be observed any longer . the agar plates thus inoculated were incubated at 30 ° c . for 6 days . the mycelial mass ( inclusive of spores ) covering each agar plate surface was scraped up while avoiding inclusion of the agar and suspended in 3 ml of 20 % glycerol . the suspension was distributed into 5 ampules and , frozen stored in a liquefied nitrogen - cooled cell storage chamber ( the ten b3 agar plates giving 50 ampules ). the frozen cell suspension ( a . chrysogenum bc2116 ) in one ampule was thawed at 37 ° c . and the whole amount was inoculated into 50 ml of ysp medium placed in a 250 - ml shaking flask and shake culture was performed at 30 ° c . for 4 days . a 5 - ml portion of this preculture was transferred to 50 ml of fresh yps medium and cultivation was conducted at 30 ° c . as mentioned above for 24 hours . cells were harvested from the thus - obtained 24 - hour culture ( 200 ml ) by centrifugation ( 3 , 000 rpm , 5 minutes ), washed twice with sterile water ( 200 ml ) by centrifugation and suspended in 80 ml of 10 mm tris hcl ( ph 7 . 5 ) containing 10 mm dtt . the suspension was shaken gently at 30 ° c . for 1 hour . cells were then collected by centrifugation ( 3 , 000 rpm , 5 minutes ) washed twice with 100 ml of 1m kcl buffer ( ph 5 . 8 ) by centrifugation and suspended in 1m kcl buffer ( ph 5 . 8 ) to a suspension volume of 20 ml . to this suspension ( 20 ml ) was added 30 ml of 1 m kcl buffer ( ph 5 . 8 .) containing 16 . 3 mg / ml novozyme 234 ( novo biolabs ). the mixture was shaken gently at 30 ° c . for 30 minutes . after completion of this procedure , the resultant protoplast suspension was placed in a disposable centrifugal tube , stirred for 2 to 3 seconds , then diluted with 50 ml of 1m kp - buffer ( ph . 7 . 5 ) and centrifuged ( 750 rpm , 2 minutes ). the protoplast sedimented by centrifugation was resuspended in 50 ml of 1m kcl buffer ( ph 7 . 5 ) and then harvested and at the same time washed by centrifugation ( 1 , 500 rpm , 5 minutes ). this washing cycle was repeated twice . the protoplast washed was suspended in 0 . 8m nap buffer to a final volume of about 5 ml . to 60 μl ( about 20 μg dna ) of each plasmid dna solution to be used for transformation was added 240 μl of 1m kp buffer ( ph 7 . 5 ). after mixing up , 400 μl of the protoplast suspension was added . after mixing up , the mixture was allowed to stand in ice for 30 minutes , then 4 ml of 10 mm tris - hcl ( ph 7 . 5 ) containing 40 % peg , 10 . 8 % sucrose and 50 mm cacl 2 was added and , after mixing up , the mixture was allowed to stand at room temperature for 15 minutes . then , 10 ml of 0 . 8m nap buffer was added to the mixture and , after mixing up , the whole mixture was centrifuges at 1 , 000 rpm for 5 minutes . the sediment was suspended in 1 . 2 ml of 0 . 8m nap buffer . the transformant suspension ( 0 . 2 ml ) was mixed with 5 ml of brm agar medium ( 48 ° c .) and the mixture was poured onto a brm agar medium plate ( 25 ml ). after incubation at 20 ° c . for 20 hours , 10 mg / ml hygromycin b ( calbiochem corporation ; imported and distributed by nakalai tesque ) was spread over the plate to a final concentration of 25 μg / ml or 50 μg / ml using a spreader ( three plates for each concentration ). after 2 to 3 weeks of incubation at 30 ° c ., each colony that had appeared was transferred to a pda - ye agar plate containing 50 μg / ml hygromycin b . incubation was further continued at 30 ° c . for 7 days . in this way , hygromycin b - resistant transformants were obtained . since abortive transformants cannot grow on fresh medium in the presence of hygromycin b in such subculture as mentioned above , stable transformants can be readily distinguished from abortive transformants . the transformants were each again spread over a pda - ye agar plate containing 40 a μg / ml hygromycin b and subcultured ( 30 ° c ., 5 to 7 days ). the above procedure generally gave 1 to 3 hygromycin b - resistant transformants per about 20 μg of dna . the number of colonies regenerated on the brm agar medium plate from the final protoplast suspension obtained as described above in section ( c ) was about 2 × 10 8 / ml ( after 2 weeks of incubation at 30 ° c . ( ii ) 7aca and gl - 7adca production by hygromycin b - resistant a . chrysogenum bc2116 transformants : hygromycin b - resistant transformants ( cf . table 1 ) were produced by transforming a . chrysogenum bc2116 with pcyg - hb51 ( hm r alone ), phbv11 ( vector for 7aca and 7adca production ), ppidv11 ( vector for 7aca and 7adca production ) or phbd3 ( vector for gl - 7aca and gl - 7adca production ) as described above in section ( i ). each transformant was inoculated into 50 ml of cs1 medium placed in a 250 - ml shaking flask . after 4 days of incubation at 30 ° c ., 1 ml of the resultant preculture was transferred to a 250 - ml shaking flask containing 20 ml of the main culture medium and shake culture ( stroke : 3 inches ; 250 rpm ) was conducted at 25 ° c . for 6 to 7 days . each main culture was filtered through a toyo filter paper no . 2 and - the filtrate was assayed by hplc ( high - performance liquid chromatography ). the hplc conditions were as follows : column : two columns connected , namely cosmosil 5c 18 column ( 4 . 6 × 150 mm ) ( nacalai - tesque ) directly followed by inertsil ods - 2 column ( 5 × 150 mm ) ( gaskuro kogyo ) mobile phase : 4 . 0 . mm ( 0 . 567 g / liter ) na 2 hpo 4 , 2 . 6 mm ( 0 . 36 g / liter ) kh 2 po 4 , 4 % methanol assaying under the above hplc conditions gave the results shown in table 1 . the positions of ( retention times for ) 7aca , gl - 7aca and ccna were 17 . 7 minutes , 24 . 3 minutes and 18 . 9 minutes , respectively . each culture filtrate was 10 - fold diluted with 0 . 5m citrate buffer ( ph 4 . 0 ) and 10 μl of the dilution was subjected to hplc .! the results indicate that while transformants obtained with the plasmid pcyg - hb51 characterized by hygromycin b resistance alone produced neither 7aca nor gl - 7aca , transformants obtained with the vector phbv1 for 7aca and 7adca production produced . 7aca in an amount of about 50 μg / ml and transformants obtained with the vector phbd3 for gl - 7aca and gl - 7adca production produced gl - 7aca in an amount of about 130 μg / ml . furthermore , transformants obtained with the 7aca and 7adca production vector pevd11 containing both the d - amino acid oxidase gene and acylase gene produced 7aca in an amount of about 150 μg / mi but did not produce gl - 7aca or keto - ad - 7aca . even gl - 7aca producers did not produce keto - ad - 7aca . this is presumably because keto - ad - 7aca was decomposed due to its instability . table 1______________________________________production of 7aca and gl - 7aca by hygromycinb - resistant transformants of a . chrysogenum bc2116 yieldstrain dna used for 7aca gl - 7aca ccno . transformation ( μg / ml ) ( μg / ml ) ( mg / ml ) ______________________________________hm144 pcyg - hb51 nd nd 8 . 7hm172 50 nd 7 . 8hm155 55 nd 7 . 3hm146 65 nd 7 . 8hm154 phbv1 40 nd 7 . 9hm156 50 nd 7 . 0hm161 45 nd 6 . 2hm178 phdv11 150 nd 4 . 9hm165 145 nd 5 . 5hm164 nd 130 6 . 5hm168 phbd3 nd 125 6 . 4hm179 nd 145 6 . 6______________________________________ nd : not detected . for reidentification of the product 7aca , assaying was further made under different , hplc conditions to give similar results . the hplc conditions used in this reassay were as follows : column : cica - merck pre - packed column for high performance liquid chromatography column ( 4 × 250 mm ) hygromycin b - resistant transformants ( a . chrysogenum hm144 , hm172 , hm155 , hm146 , hm154 , hm156 , hm161 , hm178 , hm165 , hm164 , hm168 and hm179 ) were each shake - cultured in yps medium ( 50 ml ) containing 12 . 5 μg / ml hygromycin b at 30 ° c . for 5 to 7 days . cultured cells were collected by centrifugation and stored at - 20 ° c . cells were disrupted in a mortar cooled with liquefied nitrogen , 5 ml of 50 mm tris - hcl buffer 7 . 5 ) containing 10 mm edta and 0 . 35 ml of 20 % sds were added , and the mixture was heated at 65 ° c . for 20 minutes . after phenol extractions ( twice ), dna was precipitated with ethanol . the precipitate was dissolved in 2 . 5 ml of the above - mentioned 10 mm edta - containing buffer , then rnase a ( ribonuclease ) was added to a concentration of 4 μg / ml , and the mixture was maintained at 37 ° c . for 1 hour . protease k was then added to a concentration of 100 μg / ml and the mixture was maintained at 37 ° c . for 2 hours . following phenol extraction , dna precipitation was caused with ethanol and the precipitate was dissolved in about 300 μl of te buffer . the dna solution was dialyzed against te buffer . each dna thus recovered was cleaved with the restriction enzymes bamhi and ecori and subjected to agarose gel ( 0 . 8 %) electrophoresis , which was followed by dna transcription from the electrophoretic gel to a nitrocellulose filter by the method of southern ( molecular cloning , pages 382 - 386 , cold spring harbor laboratory , 1982 ). the pcpv22p dna cf . fig3 - 6 ; derived from the vector phsg298 by insertion of the p . diminuta v22 - derived acylase gene ( about 3 - kbp )! was cleaved with the restriction enzyme psti and then 32 p - labeled using a mixed primer labeling system ( clontech ; imported and distributed by toyobo ). this labeled dna and the above - mentioned dna - bound nitrocellulose filter were subjected to southern hybridization ( advanced bacterial genetics , pages 174 - 177 , cold spring harbor laboratory , 1980 ). while no hybridization was observed between the a . chrysogenum bc2116 dna and pcpv22p , dnas from the twelve hygromycin b - resistant transformants showed distinct hybridization . furthermore , bamhi - cleaved dnas from the acylase gene - containing strains a . chrysogenum hm172 , hm155 , hm146 , hm154 , hm156 , hm161 , hm178 and hm165 gave an hybrid band corresponding to the acylase gene of about 2 . 5 kbp . these results indicate that the dna in question was successfully introduced into hygromycin b - resistant transformants . furthermore , the results of southern hybridization indicate that the dna introduced did not occur in a plasmid form but occurred integrated in the genomic dna . the 7aca producing strain acremonium chrysogenum hm178 was cultivated in the same manner as in example 5 . the thus - obtained culture ( 1 , 000 ml ) was centrifuged at 8 , 000 rpm for 5 minutes . the supernatant obtained was adjusted to ph 5 . 0 with 1n hcl ( about 10 ml ) and the resultant precipitate was removed by suction filtration . the filtrate ( 600 ml ; 7aca content : 136 μg / mt ) was subjected to column chromatography using diaion hp - 20 ( 600 ml ; mitsubishi kasei ). after washing with 600 ml of acidified water ( ph 3 . 5 ) and 600 ml of water ( ph 7 . 0 ), elution was carried out with 30 % aqueous isopropyl alcohol . the combined 7aca - containing eluate fractions ( 1 , 200 ml ) were concentrated at 30 ° c . under reduced pressure and the concentrate ( 60 ml ) was applied to a ymc reversed - phase column ( ods a60 200 / 60 mesh , yamamura kagaku kenkyusho ; 1 liter ). development was carried out with water . 7aca ( 39 . 8 mg ) was eluted in fractions 360 ml to 1960 ml . the combined 7aca - containing eluate fractions ( 1 , 600 ml ) were concentrated to 114 ml at 30 ° c . under reduced pressure . since this concentrate contained . cc in large excess relative to 7aca , 5 . 4 ml of dao cf . japanese patent application no . 1 - 266795 ( 266795 / 1989 ); 182 units / ml !, 2 ml of catalase c - 10 ( sigma ; 10 mg / ml ) and 13 ml of 1m phosphate buffer ( ph 7 . 3 ) were added to the concentrate ( 114 ml ) and the mixture was shaken at 25 ° c . for 1 hour for decomposing cc . the reaction mixture was adjusted to ph 1 . 5 with 1n hcl , then washed with an equal volume of ethyl acetate , and the aqueous layer obtained ( 127 ml ; 7aca : 21 . 6 mg ) was concentrated to 50 ml at 30 ° c . under reduced pressure . the concentrate was divided into two 25 - ml portions and subjected to high performance liquid chromatography using two ymc reversed - phase columns equibrated in advance with 2 % methanol - 6 . 6 mm phosphate buffer ( ph 7 . 3 ) ( ods packed column , r - 354 s - 15 / 30 μm , 50 × 300 mm × 2 columns , yamamura kagaku kenkyusho ; uv detection : 254 nm ). development was carried out using the same solvent system as used in column eguilibration at a flow rate of 100 ml / min . the eluate was fractionated . 7aca - containing fractions were combined ( 600 ml ), adjusted to ph 5 . 0 with 1n hcl and subjected to column chromatography using diaion hp - 20 ( 60 ml ), development being conducted with water ( 1 , 200 ml ). 7aca was eluted in fractions 600 ml to 1 , 600 ml . the 7aca - containing fractions were combined and concentrated to dryness at 30 ° c . under reduced pressure to give 5 . 36 mg of 7aca as a white powder . the 1 h mnr , spectrum and ir spectrum of this product were in good agreement with those of a standard . hygromycin - b - resistant transformants were prepared by transforming a . chrysogenum bc2116 with pcyg - hb51 ( hm r alone ), phbv1 ( vector for 7aca and 7adca production ), phdv11 ( vector for 7aca and 7adca production ) or phbd3 ( vector for gl - 7aca or gl - 7adca production ) in the same manner as described in example 5 ( cf . table 2 ). these transformants were each inoculated into 50 ml of csl medium placed in a 250 - ml shaking flask and cultured at 30 ° c . for 4 days . one milliliter of this preculture was transferred to each of ten 250 - ml shaking flasks containing 20 ml of the main culture medium . shake culture ( stroke : 3 inches ; 250 rpm ) was conducted at 25 ° c . for 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 or 7 days . the main culture ( two flasks for each culture period ) was filtered through a toyo no . 2 filter paper . a 100 - μl portion of the filtrate was added to 900 μl of 0 . 1m phosphate buffer ( ph 6 . 0 ) for dilution and assayed by hplc - under the following conditions : assaying under the above hplc conditions gave the results shown in table 2 . in this assay , the positions of ( retention times for ) dcc , 7adca and gl - 7adca were 5 . 5 minutes ,, 6 . 1 minutes and 26 . 9 minutes , respectively . as is evident from the results , transformants obtained with the plasmid pcyg - hb51 characterized by hygromycin b resistance alone produced neither 7adca nor . gl - 7adca whereas transformants obtained with the 7aca and 7adca production vector phbv1 produced 7adca in an amount of about 24 μg / ml and transformants obtained with the gl - 7aca and gl - 7adca production vector phbd3 produced gl - 7aca in an amount of about 375 μg / ml . furthermore , transformants obtained with the 7aca and 7adca production vector phdv11 containing both the d - amino acid oxidase and acylase genes produced 7adca in an amount of about 177 μg / ml and , in addition , the above - mentioned hplc analysis revealed the simultaneous production of 7 - amino - 3 - methyl - 3 - cephem - 4 - carboxylic acid by them ( a small peak was found at a position corresonding to a retention time of 10 minutes ). table 2__________________________________________________________________________production of 7adca and gl - 7adca by a . chrysogenumbc2116 - derived hygromycin b - resistant tranformants cultivation yieldstraindna used for period 7adca gl - 7adca dccno . transformation ( days ) ph ( μg / ml ) ( μg / ml ) ( mg / ml ) __________________________________________________________________________ 3 6 . 5 nd nd 0 . 23 4 6 . 8 nd nd 0 . 73hm144pcyg - hb51 5 7 . 2 nd nd 1 . 45 6 8 . 3 nd nd 2 . 38 7 8 . 3 nd nd 3 . 13 3 6 . 2 nd nd 0 . 11 4 7 . 1 nd nd 0 . 46hm172phbv1 5 7 . 4 nd nd 1 . 31 6 7 . 8 20 nd 2 . 07 7 8 . 1 24 nd 2 . 86 3 6 . 4 11 nd 0 . 48 4 6 . 8 70 42 1 . 08hm178phdv11 5 7 . 1 105 82 1 . 92 6 8 . 0 159 65 2 . 63 7 8 . 4 177 97 4 . 21 3 6 . 2 nd nd 0 . 18 4 6 . 9 nd 36 0 . 50hm209phbd3 5 7 . 3 nd 190 1 . 35 6 8 . 2 nd 324 2 . 11 7 8 . 3 nd 375 2 . 88__________________________________________________________________________ nd : not detected . the following microorganisms have been deposited , since dec . 25 , 1989 , with the fermentation research institute , agency of industrial science and technology , ministry of international trade and industry , japan : __________________________________________________________________________sequence listing ( 1 ) general information :( iii ) number of sequences : 34 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 1 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 3172 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : unknown ( d ) topology : unknown ( ii ) molecule type : dna ( genomic )( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 1 : 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( 2 ) information for seq id no : 6 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 402 amino acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : protein ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 6 : 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( 2 ) information for seq id no : 22 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 21 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : unknown ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : other nucleic acid ;( a ) description : synthetic dna ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 22 : ggatccggtaccaaggacgtc21 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 23 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 169 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : unknown ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : dna ( genomic )( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 23 : ggatcccccgcgtgagcttgcccagattccgacaagcaatgacgtccgacaaggaatgac60tatggctgccaacaccgatcgcgcggtcttgcaggcggcgctgccgccgctttccggcag120cctccccattcccggattgagcgcgtcggtccgtatccagcgcgatgcc169 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 24 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 1243 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : unknown ( d ) topology : unknown ( ii ) molecule type : dna ( genomic )( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : cds ( b ) location : 11 .. 1093 ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 24 : 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( 2 ) information for seq id no : 25 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 361 amino acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : protein ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 25 : 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( 2 ) information for seq id no : 26 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 15 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : other nucleic acid ;( a ) description : synthetic dna ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 26 : ctattcggcgatgac15 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 27 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 15 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : other nucleic acid ;( a ) description : synthetic dna ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 27 : aaggagaagaagctc15 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 28 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 12 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : other nucleic acid ;( a ) description : synthetic dna ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 28 : ctccttgtcatc12 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 29 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 31 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : unknown ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : other nucleic acid ;( a ) description : synthetic dna ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 29 : catgagccatattcaacgggaaacgtcttgc31 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 30 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 31 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : unknown ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : other nucleic acid ;( a ) description : synthetic dna ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 30 : tcgagcaagacgtttcccgttgaatatggct31 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 31 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 28 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : unknown ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : other nucleic acid ;( a ) description : synthetic dna ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 31 : tttttcatagctgtttcctgtggatccg28 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 32 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 33 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : unknown ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : other nucleic acid ;( a ) description : synthetic dna ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 32 : aattcggatccacaggaaacagctatgaaaaag33 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 33 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 19 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : unknown ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : other nucleic acid ;( a ) description : synthetic dna ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 33 : gatccggtaccaaggacgt19 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 34 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 11 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : unknown ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : other nucleic acid ;( a ) description : synthetic dna ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 34 : 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