In-depth analysis of the Aspergillus niger glucoamylase (glaA) promoter performance using high-throughput screening and controlled bioreactor cultivation techniques.
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2008-06-30
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An in-depth characterization of the Aspergillus niger glucoamylase (glaA) promoter performance was carried out on defined medium employing multi-well high-throughput screening as well as controlled batch and fed-batch bioreactor culture techniques with GFP as a fluorescent reporter protein. A variety of metabolizable carbon substrates and non-metabolizable analogs were screened with regard to their effect on the glaA expression system. The results clearly demonstrate that only starch and its hydrolytic products, including glucose, act as inducers. However, induction of the glaA expression system through the monosaccharide glucose is significantly lower compared to starch and the higher molecular weight starch degradation products. All other 26 carbon substrates tested do not induce, or even, as in the case of the easily metabolizable monosaccharide xylose, repress glaA-promoter controlled gene expression in the presence of the inducing disaccharide maltose with an increase of repression strength by increasing xylose concentrations. The complex effect of glucose on glaA-promoter controlled expression was also analyzed using non-metabolizable glucose analogs, namely 5-thio-glucose and 2-deoxyglucose, which were identified as novel and potent inducers of the glaA expression system. The results show that the induction strength depends on the inducer concentration with a maximum at defined concentrations and lower induction or even repression at concentrations above. Moreover, controlled fed-batch cultivations using a high maltose feed rate with concomitant extracellular accumulation of glucose resulted in lower levels of the reporter protein compared to cultures with a low-maltose feed rate without extracellular glucose accumulation, thus supporting the conclusion that increasing the glucose concentration beyond a critical point reduces the induction strength or may even cause repression. This way, the speed of polymer hydrolysis, glucose uptake and intracellular breakdown can be fine-tuned for optimal fungal growth and the metabolic burden for glucoamylase synthesis can be limited adequately in response to nutrient availability.Citation
In-depth analysis of the Aspergillus niger glucoamylase (glaA) promoter performance using high-throughput screening and controlled bioreactor cultivation techniques. 2008, 135 (3):266-71 J. Biotechnol.Affiliation
Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, (Former German Research Centre for Biotechnology, GBF), Inhoffenstrasse 7, Braunschweig, Germany.Journal
Journal of biotechnologyPubMed ID
18501461Type
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enISSN
0168-1656ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1016/j.jbiotec.2008.04.005
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