破坏细胞壁蛋白CWP2基因提高重组酿酒酵母β-葡萄糖苷酶胞外酶活

【背景】重组酿酒酵母广泛应用于生产工业酶和药用蛋白,但是目前仍旧存在异源蛋白产量低、分泌效率差的问题,限制了生产应用。【目的】提高重组酿酒酵母异源分泌蛋白的能力,构建高效的异源蛋白生产细胞工厂。【方法】采用基于CRISPR/Cas9的基因组编辑技术,以生产β-葡萄糖苷酶的重组酿酒酵母Y294-BGL为出发菌株,构建细胞壁蛋白基因CWP2破坏菌株。【结果】与出发菌株相比,破坏CWP2的破坏菌株在发酵96 h时胞外β-葡萄糖苷酶酶活可提高53%,胞内酶活提高了208%。此外,破坏菌生长未受到影响,对弱酸等环境胁迫的耐性没有下降,未造成过多内质网胁迫。进一步检测发现,破坏菌株胞内活性氧水平下降,同时蛋白胞内运输和分泌途径相关的关键基因表达转录及多个细胞壁生物合成相关基因表达下降。【结论】破坏细胞壁蛋白基因CWP2能够提高异源蛋白β-葡萄糖苷酶的胞外酶活,可作为促进酿酒酵母生产异源蛋白的靶点基因。     

YPS1/YPS2失活改进酿酒酵母An-α菌株β-葡萄糖苷酶分泌表达

[背景] 工业酵母菌株的蛋白质表达通常存在表达量低、分泌效率低的问题。[目的] 考察失活Yapsin蛋白酶Yps1p和Yps2p对β-葡萄糖苷酶在酿酒酵母An-α菌株中表达的影响。[方法] 利用CRISPR/Cas9基因组编辑技术,首先构建得到未折叠蛋白响应（Unfolded Protein Response,UPR）指示菌株An-α（leu2：：UPRE-lacZ）即An-αL,然后分别失活其YPS1和YPS2基因,导入以YEplac195为载体的β-葡萄糖苷酶表达质粒（简称BG）,进行生长和酶活分析评价。[结果] 菌株An-αL的YPS1和YPS2基因失活对其在酵母浸出粉胨葡萄糖（Yeast Extract Peptone Dextrose,YPD）培养基中的生长未造成明显的不利影响;导入质粒BG后将在酵母浸出粉胨纤维二糖（Yeast Extract Peptone Cellobiose,YPC）培养基中生长的最大OD₆₀₀分别提高了21.9%和7.4%;最大总酶活值为0.087 5和0.068 6 U/（mL·OD₆₀₀）,是对照菌株相应值的2.268倍和1.778倍;分泌比例提高了19.4%和22.2%;β-葡萄糖苷酶表达水平与β-半乳糖苷酶酶活水平所代表的UPR信号响应值之间呈现良好的相关性。[结论] YPS1和YPS2基因失活有助于改进酿酒酵母An-α菌株中β-葡萄糖苷酶的分泌表达。     

交联壳聚糖微球固定化β-葡萄糖苷酶工艺研究

目的:以戊二醛交联壳聚糖微球为载体,通过共价连接反应固定化β-葡萄糖苷酶.方法:以固定化酶比活和酶活回收率为目标,采用单因素方法优化固定化工艺、微球制备条件.结果:微球最佳制备条件:2.5%壳聚糖,2%乙酸,7.5%氢氧化钠,氢氧化钠:乙醇(v/v)=1:1.最佳固定化工艺为:0.1g壳聚糖微球在20mL 3%戊二醛溶液中50℃交联2h.加酶量为7 388mU/g干球,25℃吸附24h.固定化酶比活为6 188mU/g干球,酶活回收率为95.4%.结论:交联壳聚糖微球共价连接法可有效固定化β-葡萄糖苷酶.     

葡枝根霉TP-02cDNA文库中两种新的β-葡萄糖苷酶基因的克隆及其在毕赤酵母中的表达

从具有良好降解纤维素能力的葡枝根霉TP-02的cDNA文库中筛选获得两个新的β-葡萄糖苷酶基因bgl1和bgl2,并在毕赤酵母中高效表达.阳性克隆在MM培养基中发酵84 h和1%的甲醇的诱导的情况下,产生的β-葡萄糖苷酶酶活达到峰值分别为8.2 IU/mL 和9.9 IU/mL,分别较原菌株葡枝根霉的β-葡萄糖苷酶酶活...     

UTH1基因破坏提高重组酿酒酵母分泌β-葡萄糖苷酶

异源蛋白质分泌效率低限制了重组酿酒酵母的多种药用蛋白和工业酶生产。挖掘促进蛋白质生物合成和分泌的关键基因,是提高异源蛋白质生产效率的重要手段。酿酒酵母细胞壁完整性影响异源蛋白质分泌,本研究利用基于CRISPR/Cas9的基因组编辑技术,破坏了重组酿酒酵母Y294-BGL1中参与细胞壁合成的未知功能基因UTH1,发现所获得的突变体胞外β-葡萄糖苷酶酶活比出发菌株提高112.9%,而细胞壁完整性下降。对促进产酶的分子机理进行探索,发现突变体产酶条件下与细胞壁完整性相关的关键基因和与蛋白质分泌途径相关的基因转录出现明显差异,提示UTH1基因破坏不仅影响细胞壁完整性关键基因的表达,也影响蛋白质分泌途径。本文的研究结果有助于深入理解UTH1的基因功能,并为构建异源蛋白质高分泌酵母菌株提供了借鉴。     

灵芝β-葡萄糖苷酶基因的克隆与功能分析

灵芝是我国著名的药用真菌,具有抗癌、抗肿瘤等功效。灵芝酸属于三萜类化合物,是灵芝的主要活性成分,并已成为评价灵芝品质的重要指标之一。β-葡萄糖苷酶(β-glucosidase,BG)是次生代谢产物合成途径中的关键限速酶,能够调节次生代谢产物的生物合成。本研究通过同源序列比对,注释获得了灵芝β-葡萄糖苷酶基因(GlBG),并通过RNAi技术对灵芝β-葡萄糖苷酶进行功能分析。序列分析结果显示GlBG基因的DNA全长为2 759 bp,包含7个外显子和6个内含子,编码793个氨基酸,其编码的蛋白序列中含有β-糖苷水解酶的2个保守结构域。灵芝β-葡萄糖苷酶基因的沉默转化子中灵芝酸含量比野生型菌株的灵芝酸含量平均降低了38%,并且灵芝酸生物合成途径中的关键酶基因(hmgs、hmgr、fps、sqs和osc)的表达量也显著下降,实验结果表明灵芝β-葡萄糖苷酶在灵芝酸生物合成过程中具有重要作用,并为灵芝次生代谢途径及其调控机制提供了参考。     

重组毕赤酵母生产β-葡萄糖苷酶发酵条件初步研究

为提高重组毕赤酵母(P.pastoris KM71/pPIC9K-bgl)生产β-葡萄糖苷酶的产量,在摇瓶条件下对重组P.pastoris产β-葡萄糖苷酶的发酵过程进行了优化,得到最佳的条件:生长阶段甘油浓度为30 g/L,接种量为10%,诱导阶段甲醇的初浓度为4%,过程补加甲醇0.5%,诱导温度30℃,pH7.5,诱导周期120 h,酶活可达到245 U/mL。在此基础上,在3 L发酵罐上进行初步放大,流加甘油提高细胞密度至OD_(600)为170,开始流加甲醇诱导,最终BGL酶活达到1 175 U/mL。比摇瓶提高了4.8倍,为β-葡萄糖苷酶工业化生产打下了坚实的基础。     

pH值对绿色木霉(Trichoderma viride)产纤维素酶的影响

采用微晶纤维素为唯一诱导性碳源,对绿色木霉(Trichoderma viride)在摇瓶发酵过程中控制与不控制pH产纤维素酶进行比较.控制pH时胞外蛋白浓度为0.72 mg/mL比不控制pH时提高43%;FPA、EG、GB和CBH酶活为15.0U/mL,120.0U/mL,1.75U/mL,0.85U/mL分别是不控制pH时的2.1、2.3、11.7和1.7倍.在不同pH下测定纤维素酶液各酶活,表明pH值显著影响纤维素酶各单酶酶活.在pH2.7时,β-葡萄糖苷酶酶活仅为pH4.8时酶活的4%;pH回调试验结果表明β-葡萄糖苷酶对pH敏感,并在催化功能上发生不可逆变化.对纤维素酶液添加分离得到的各单酶,当添加β-葡萄糖苷酶时最多可以提高FPA酶活20%.因此β-葡萄糖苷酶是影响综合酶活的关键酶.通过拉曼光谱检测出β-葡萄糖苷酶在pH5.0有活性状态下,酶蛋白主链结构主要为a-螺旋和无规则卷曲;在pH2.0没有活性状态下,酶蛋白主链结构的无规则卷曲发生较大变化,a-螺旋也受到一定影响.这说明pH对β-葡萄糖苷酶构象的改变是造成其活性变化的主要原因.     

酿酒酵母异源表达纤维二糖转运蛋白LacY与纤维二糖利用菌株的构建北大核心

【目的】在酿酒酵母体内设计代谢通路,使酿酒酵母能利用纤维素水解产物纤维二糖生产乙醇。【方法】首先,用大肠杆菌DH5α总DNA为模板克隆编码大肠杆菌乳糖透过酶的LacY基因。为过表达LacY基因,以质粒YEplac181作为载体,将酿酒酵母PGK1p强启动子加到LacY基因之前,CYC1t终止子加到LacY基因之后,构建质粒YEplac181-PGK1p-LacY-CYC1t。之后,将纤维二糖转运蛋白LacY表达质粒和β-葡萄糖苷酶(β-glucosidase,BGL)表达质粒pRS316-PGK1p-gh1-1-CYC1t依次转入野生型酿酒酵母W303-1A中,使野生型酿酒酵母W303-1A异源表达可转运纤维二糖的LacY蛋白和β-葡萄糖苷酶GH1-1,构建可利用纤维二糖的酿酒酵母工程菌W303-1A GL。最后,通过发酵测定酿酒酵母工程菌W303-1A GL的纤维二糖利用情况和乙醇产量,并对纤维二糖代谢通路中纤维二糖酶活力进行测定。【结果】本研究构建了纤维二糖转运蛋白LacY和β-葡萄糖苷酶GH1-1协同表达的酿酒酵母工程菌W303-1AGL。W303-1AGL可以有效利用纤维二糖发酵生产乙醇,W303-1A GL发酵24 h时乙醇产量达到3.25 g/L,得率为0.325 g乙醇/g纤维二糖,利用葡萄糖产乙醇理论得率为0.511 g乙醇/g纤维二糖,达到葡萄糖产乙醇理论得率的64%,细胞密度最高在第54 h达到OD600=10.84,胞内β-葡萄糖苷酶的酶活在72 h最高,可达到0.51 U/mg。【结论】本研究成功构建了能有效利用纤维二糖的重组酿酒酵母工程菌W303-1A GL,为提高纤维素乙醇生产效率、降低纤维素乙醇生产成本提供了新思路。     

三菌混合固态发酵产纤维素酶

以稻草粉和麸皮为主要原料,对白腐菌(White-rot fungi) NS75、黑曲霉(Aspergillus niger)NS83和絮凝酵母(Saccharomyces cerevisiae)SP5混合菌固态发酵产纤维素酶进行研究.实验结果显示,在白腐菌和黑曲霉双菌混合培养2d后接入絮凝酵母,培养到第7d产酶达到峰值;三菌混合发酵产纤维素酶酶活明显高于白腐菌和黑曲霉双菌混合培养,其β-葡萄糖苷酶(β-G)和羧甲基纤维素酶(CMCase)酶活比白腐菌(White-rot fungi) NS75和黑曲霉(Aspergillus niger)NS83双菌发酵产酶分别提高了143.3％和68.2％.单因素实验和正交实验结果表明,当稻草粉麸皮质量比为8∶2,料水比为1∶2,白腐菌NS75、黑曲霉NS83和絮凝酵母SP5的接种比例为1:2∶1.5 (v/v/v)时,于30℃培养7d,固态发酵基中β-G和CMCase酶活分别达到62305 U/g和30241 U/g.     

Industrial yeast strain engineered to ferment ethanol from lignocellulosic biomass

In this study an industrial Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast strain capable of fermenting ethanol from pretreated lignocellulosic material was engineered. Genes encoding cellulases (endoglucanase, exoglucanase and β-glucosidase) were integrated into the chromosomal ribosomal DNA and delta regions of a derivative of the K1-V1116 wine yeast strain. The engineered cellulolytic yeast produces ethanol in one step through simultaneous saccharification and fermentation of pretreated biomass without the addition of exogenously produced enzymes. When ethanol fermentation was performed with 10% dry weight of pretreated corn stover, the recombinant strain fermented 63% of the cellulose in 96 h and the ethanol titer reached 2.6% v/v. These results demonstrate that cellulolytic S. cerevisiae strains can be used as a platform for developing an economical advanced biofuel process.     

Improvement of robustness and ethanol production of ethanologenic Saccharomyces cerevisiae under co-stress of heat and inhibitors

Bioethanol is an attractive alternative to fossil fuels. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the most important ethanol producer. However, yeast cells are challenged by various environmental stresses during the industrial process of ethanol production. The robustness under heat, acetic acid, and furfural stresses was improved for ethanologenic S. cerevisiae in this work using genome shuffling. Recombinant yeast strain R32 could grow at 45°C, and resist 0.55% (v/v) acetic acid and 0.3% (v/v) furfural at 40°C. When ethanol fermentation was conducted at temperatures ranging from 30 to 42°C, recombinant strain R32 always gave high ethanol production. After 42 h of fermentation at 42°C, 187.6 ± 1.4 g/l glucose was utilized by recombinant strain R32 to produce 81.4 ± 2.7 g/l ethanol, which were respectively 3.4 and 4.1 times those of CE25. After 36 h of fermentation at 40°C with 0.5% (v/v) acetic acid, 194.4 ± 1.2 g/l glucose in the medium was utilized by recombinant strain R32 to produce 84.2 ± 4.6 g/l of ethanol. The extent of glucose utilization and ethanol concentration of recombinant strain R32 were 6.3 and 7.9 times those of strain CE25. The ethanol concentration produced by recombinant strain R32 was 8.9 times that of strain CE25 after fermentation for 48 h under 0.2% (v/v) furfural stress at 40°C. The strong physiological robustness and fitness of yeast strain R32 support its potential application for industrial production of bioethanol from renewable resources such as lignocelluloses.     

Ethanol production from acid- and alkali-pretreated corncob by endoglucanase and β-glucosidase co-expressing <Emphasis Type="Italic">Saccharomyces cerevisiae</Emphasis> subject to the expression of heterologous genes and nutrition added

Low-cost technologies to overcome the recalcitrance of cellulose are the key to widespread utilization of lignocellulosic biomass for ethanol production. Efficient enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose requires the synergism of various cellulases, and the ratios of each cellulase are required to be regulated to achieve the maximum hydrolysis. On the other hand, engineering of cellulolytic Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains is a promising strategy for lignocellulosic ethanol production. The expression of cellulase-encoding genes in yeast would affect the synergism of cellulases and thus the fermentation ability of strains with exogenous enzyme addition. However, such researches are rarely reported. In this study, ten endoglucanase and β-glucosidase co-expressing S. cerevisiae strains were constructed and evaluated by enzyme assay and fermentation performance measurement. The results showed that: (1) maximum ethanol titers of recombinant strains exhibited high variability in YPSC medium (20 g/l peptone, 10 g/l yeast extract, 100 g/l acid- and alkali-pretreated corncob) within 10 days. However, they had relatively little difference in USC medium (100 g/l acid- and alkali-pretreated corncob, 0.33 g/l urea, pH 5.0). (2) Strains 17# and 19#, with ratio (CMCase to β-glucosidase) of 7.04 ± 0.61 and 7.40 ± 0.71 respectively, had the highest fermentation performance in YPSC. However, strains 11# and 3# with the highest titers in USC medium had a higher ratio of CMCase to β-glucosidase, and CMCase activities. These results indicated that nutrition, enzyme activities and the ratio of heterologous enzymes had notable influence on the fermentation ability of cellulase-expressing yeast.     

絮凝基因FLO1及FLO1c高表达提高工业酿酒酵母乙酸耐受性及发酵性能

乙酸是生物质乙醇发酵过程中酵母细胞面临的重要抑制剂之一,对细胞生长及发酵性能有强烈的抑制作用。增强酵母菌对乙酸胁迫的耐受性对提高乙醇产率具有重要意义。用分别带有完整絮凝基因FLO1及其重复序列单元C发生缺失的衍生基因FLO1c的重组表达质粒分别转化非絮凝型工业酿酒酵母CE6,获得絮凝型重组酵母菌株6-AF1和6-AF1c。同时以空载体p YCPGA1转化CE6的菌株CE6-V为对照菌株。与CE6-V相比,絮凝酵母明显提高了对乙酸胁迫的耐受性。在0.6%(V/V)乙酸胁迫下,6-AF1和6-AF1c的乙醇产率分别为对照菌株CE6-V的1.56倍和1.62倍;在1.0%(V/V)乙酸胁迫下,6-AF1和6-AF1c的乙醇产率分别为对照菌株CE6-V的1.21倍和1.78倍。可见絮凝能力改造能明显提高工业酿酒酵母的乙酸胁迫耐受性及发酵性能,而且FLO1内重复序列单元C缺失具有更加明显的效果。     

Fermentation of cellobiose to ethanol by industrial Saccharomyces strains carrying the β-glucosidase gene (BGL1) from Saccharomycopsis fibuligera

Constructs carrying the Saccharomycopsis fibuligera β-glucosidase gene (BGL1) under the control of a constitutive actin or a galactose-inducible promoter were introduced into eleven Saccharomyces strains. In ten of these recombinant strains, BGL1 expression driven by the actin promoter was between 1.6- and 18-fold higher than that obtained with the galactose-inducible promoter. Strains carrying the actin promoter yielded ethanol concentrations from cellobiose of between 0.5% and 14%, depending on their ability to accumulate Bgl1 (between 30 and 250 mU/mL) but also on their genetic background. Comparative analysis of a S. cerevisiae strain and its corresponding petite version showed similar ethanol yields, despite a 3-fold lower β-glucosidase production of the latter, suggesting that respiratory activity could be one of the factors influencing ethanol production when using carbon sources other than glucose. This study provides a selection of strains that may be good candidates as hosts for ethanol biosynthesis from cellulosic substrates.     

An evaluation of cellulose saccharification and fermentation with an engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae capable of cellobiose and xylose utilization

Commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol production has been hindered by high costs associated with cellulose-to-glucose conversion and hexose and pentose co-fermentation. Simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF) with a yeast strain capable of xylose and cellobiose co-utilization has been proposed as a possible avenue to reduce these costs. The recently developed DA24-16 strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae incorporates a xylose assimilation pathway and a cellodextrin transporter (CDT) that permit rapid growth on xylose and cellobiose. In the current work, a mechanistic kinetic model of cellulase-catalyzed hydrolysis of cellulose was combined with a multi-substrate model of microbial growth to investigate the ability of DA24-16 and improved cellobiose-consuming strains to obviate the need for exogenously added β-glucosidase and to assess the impact of cellobiose utilization on SSF and separate hydrolysis and fermentation (SHF). Results indicate that improved CDT-containing strains capable of growing on cellobiose as rapidly as on glucose produced ethanol nearly as rapidly as non-CDT-containing yeast supplemented with β-glucosidase. In producing 75 g/L ethanol, SSF with any strain did not result in shorter residence times than SHF with a 12 h saccharification step. Strains with improved cellobiose utilization are therefore unlikely to allow higher titers to be reached more quickly in SSF than in SHF.     

Direct ethanol production from hemicellulosic materials of rice straw by use of an engineered yeast strain codisplaying three types of hemicellulolytic enzymes on the surface of xylose-utilizing Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells

The cost of the lignocellulose-hydrolyzing enzymes used in the saccharification process of ethanol production from biomass accounts for a relatively high proportion of total processing costs. Cell surface engineering technology has facilitated a reduction in these costs by integrating saccharification and fermentation processes into a recombinant microbe strain expressing heterologous enzymes on the cell surface. We constructed a recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae that not only hydrolyzed hemicelluloses by codisplaying endoxylanase from Trichoderma reesei, β-xylosidase from Aspergillus oryzae, and β-glucosidase from Aspergillus aculeatus but that also assimilated xylose through the expression of xylose reductase and xylitol dehydrogenase from Pichia stipitis and xylulokinase from S. cerevisiae. The recombinant strain successfully produced ethanol from rice straw hydrolysate consisting of hemicellulosic material containing xylan, xylooligosaccharides, and cellooligosaccharides without requiring the addition of sugar-hydrolyzing enzymes or detoxication. The ethanol titer of the strain was 8.2g/l after 72h fermentation, which was approximately 2.5-fold higher than that of the control strain. The yield (grams of ethanol per gram of total sugars in rice straw hydrolysate consumed) was 0.41g/g, which corresponded to 82% of the theoretical yield. The cell surface-engineered strain was thus highly effective for consolidating the process of ethanol production from hemicellulosic materials.     

High ethanol tolerance of new isolates of Clostridium thermocellum strains SS21 and SS22

Clostridium thermocellum strains SS21 and SS22, producing high yields of ethanol, were tolerant to 4.0 and 5.0% (v/v) ethanol, respectively. This is the highest ethanol tolerance so far reported by wild type strains of C. thermocellum. In the presence of added ethanol, both the strains had extended period of growth arrest. On addition of ethanol at different culture ages increase in ethanol tolerance upto 7.0 and 8.0% (v/v) by strains SS21 and SS22, respectively was observed. The optimum growth temperature for strain SS21 decreased as the concentration of ethanol in the medium increased and remained constant for strain SS22. Both the strains were tolerant to various solvents and acetic acid indicating that high ethanol tolerance of the strains is due to the general solvent tolerance of the organisms.     

Improved ethanol tolerance and production in strains of Clostridium thermocellum

Two Clostridium thermocellum strains were improved for ethanol tolerance, to 5% (v/v), by gradual adaptation and mutation. The best mutant gave an ethanol yield of 0.37 g/g substrate, with a growth yield 1.5 times more than its parent. Accumulation of acids and reducing sugars by the mutant strain with 5% (v/v) ethanol was lower than that of the parent strain with 1.5% (v/v) ethanol.