MIG1基因和葡萄糖对扣囊复膜孢酵母细胞形态变化的影响及机理探究

【目的】研究MIG1基因和葡萄糖对扣囊复膜孢酵母细胞形态变化的影响及其机理探究。【方法】扣囊复膜孢酵母在不同浓度葡萄糖的YPD培养基中培养,敲除MIG1基因菌株在常规YPD培养基中培养,研究细胞内葡聚糖酶和几丁质酶活性以及细胞壁β-葡聚糖和几丁质含量与细胞形态变化之间的关系。【结果】培养基中葡萄糖浓度越低,扣囊复膜孢酵母菌丝体越少,单细胞酵母越多,且葡聚糖酶和几丁质酶活性越高,β-葡聚糖和几丁质含量越低;葡萄糖浓度对敲除MIG1基因菌株没有显著影响,葡聚糖酶和几丁质酶活性始终保持在较高水平,β-葡聚糖和几丁质含量也较低,菌体多以单细胞酵母形式存在。【结论】MIG1基因和葡萄糖通过葡萄糖阻遏作用调节葡聚糖酶和几丁质酶活性,进而影响细胞壁的葡聚糖和几丁质含量,最终影响扣囊复膜孢酵母细胞的形态变化。     

Trehalose accumulation in a high-trehalose-accumulating mutant of Saccharomycopsis fibuligera sdu does not respond to stress treatments

The isolation of high-trehalose-accumulating mutant A11 from Saccharomycopsis fibuligera sdu has been previously described. In this paper, accumulation of trehalose under various stress conditions in S. fibuligera A11 was investigated. Neither activation of trehalose-6-phosphate synthase (SfTps1) nor change in trehalose content was observed under stress exposure of S. fibuligera A11 cells. A fragment of the Sftps1 gene in this strain was also cloned by degenerate PCR using the CoDeHOP strategy and multiply-aligned Tps1 sequences. This sequence allowed us to investigate the expression of the Sftps1 gene, which was also kept constant under the various stress conditions. Altogether, these results indicate that trehalose metabolism in S. fibuligera A11 in response to stress conditions clearly differs from that of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and most other fungi. The expression of the Sftps1 gene was not responsive to different stress treatments.     

敲除MIG1和SNF1基因对酿酒酵母共利用葡萄糖和木糖的影响

Mig1和Snf1是酿酒酵母葡萄糖阻遏效应的两个关键调控因子。为了提高酿酒酵母工程菌同时利用葡萄糖和木糖的能力,分别对MIG1和SNF1基因进行了单敲除和双敲除,并通过摇瓶发酵实验和RNA-Seq转录组分析,初步揭示了Mig1和Snf1可能影响葡萄糖和木糖共利用表达差异基因的层级调控机制。研究结果表明,MIG1单敲除对混合糖的共利用影响不大;SNF1单敲除会加快混合糖中木糖的利用而且葡萄糖和木糖可以被同时利用,这可能归因于SNF1单敲除会解除对一些氮分解代谢阻遏基因表达的抑制,从而促进了细胞对氮源营养的利用;进一步敲除MIG1,会解除更多氮分解代谢阻遏基因表达的抑制,以及一些碳中心代谢途径基因表达上调。虽然MIG1和SNF1双敲除菌株利用葡萄糖加快而利用木糖变慢,但是葡萄糖和木糖可以被同时利用,进而加快乙醇的积累。综上所述,MIG1和SNF1的敲除导致氮分解阻遏基因表达上调,有助于促进葡萄糖和木糖的共利用;解析Mig1和Snf1对氮分解阻遏基因的层级调控作用,为进一步提高葡萄糖和木糖的共利用提供新的靶点。     

Investigation of the impact of MIG1 and MIG2 on the physiology of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

The gene functions of MIG1 and MIG2 are well known for their role in glucose control in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. A prototrophic mig1 disruptant (T468) and mig1mig2 double disruptant (T475) as well as their congenic wild-type strain (CEN.PK 113-7D) were analysed for changes in their peripheral metabolism (batch cultivations on sugar mixtures) and central metabolism (batch and continuous cultivations as well as acceleratostats). Sucrose metabolism was alleviated of glucose control in the mig1 disruptant, and even more so in the mig1mig2 disruptant compared with their wild-type strain. The lag phase in a batch cultivation grown on a glucose-galactose mixture was reduced by 50% in either disruptant, i.e. additional disruption of MIG2 in a mig1 background did not further alleviate galactose metabolism from glucose control. In contrast, both disruptants exhibited a more stringent glucose control of maltose metabolism compared with the wild-type strain. Growing on glucose, the mig1mig2 double disruptant exhibited a 12% higher specific growth rate than the wild-type strain, as well as a significantly higher respiratory capacity.     

The impact of MIG1 and/or MIG2 disruption on aerobic metabolism of succinate dehydrogenase negative Saccharomyces cerevisiae

The zinc finger proteins Mig1 and Mig2 play important roles in glucose repression of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. To investigate whether the alleviation of glucose effect would result in an increase in aerobic succinate production, MIG1 and/or MIG2 were disrupted in a succinate dehydrogenase (SDH)-negative S. cerevisiae strain. Moreover, their impacts on physiology of the SDH-negative S. cerevisiae strain were studied under fully aerobic conditions when glucose was the sole carbon source. Our results showed that the succinate production for the SDH-negative S. cerevisiae was very low even under fully aerobic conditions. Furthermore, deletion of MIG1 and/or MIG2 did not result in an increase in succinate production in the SDH-negative S. cerevisiae strain. However, the synthesis of acetate was significantly affected by MIG1 deletion or in combination with MIG2 deletion. The acetate production for the mig1/mig2 double mutant BS2M was reduced by 69.72% compared to the parent strain B2S. In addition, the amount of ethanol produced by BS2M was slightly decreased. With the mig2 mutant BSM2, the concentrations of pyruvate and glycerol were increased by 26.23% and 15.28%, respectively, compared to the parent strain B2S.     

Identification and characterization of a very long-chain fatty acid elongase gene in the methylotrophic yeast, Hansenula polymorpha

To understand the biosynthetic network of fatty acids in the methylotrophic yeast Hansenula polymorpha, which is able to produce poly-unsaturated fatty acids, we have attempted to identify genes encoding fatty acid elongase. Here we have characterized HpELO1, a fatty acid elongase gene encoding a 319-amino-acid protein containing five predicted membrane-spanning regions that is conserved throughout the yeast Elo protein family. Phylogenetic analysis of the deduced amino acid sequence suggests that HpELO1 is an ortholog of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae ELO3 gene that is involved in the elongation of very long-chain fatty acids (VLCFAs). In the fatty acid profile of the Hpelo1Delta disruptant by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry, the amount of C24:0 and C26:0 decreased to undetectable levels, whereas there was a large accumulation of C22:0, suggesting that the HpELO1 is involved in the elongation of VLCFAs and is essential for the production of C24:0. Expression of HpELO1 suppressed the lethality of the S. cerevisiae elo2Delta elo3Delta double disruptant and recovered the synthesis of VLCFAs. Similar to the S. cerevisiae elo3Delta strain, the Hpelo1Delta disruptant exhibited the extraordinary growth sensitivity to fumonisin B(1), a ceramide synthase inhibitor. Furthermore, cells of the Hpelo1Delta disruptant were more sensitive to Zymolyase and more flocculent than the wild-type cells, clumping together and falling rapidly out of suspension, suggesting that the Hpelo1Delta mutation causes changes in cell wall composition and structure.     

The Cryptococcus neoformans STE11alpha gene is similar to other fungal mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase (MAPKKK) genes but is mating type specific

Partial sequence analysis of the Cryptococcus neoformans MATalpha mating type locus revealed the presence of a gene with substantial sequence similarity to other fungal mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase kinase kinase (MAPKKK) genes. The C. neoformans gene, designated STE11alpha, showed the highest degree of similarity to the Neurospora crassa nrc-1, Schizosaccharomyces pombe byr2 and Saccharomyces cerevisiae STE11 genes. A polymerase chain reaction-mediated sib-selection technique was successfully adapted for the purpose of disrupting STE11alpha. C. neoformans ste11alphaDelta mutants were found to be sterile, consistent with the phenotypes of ste11 and byr2 mutants in S. cerevisiae and S. pombe respectively. Haploid ste11alphaDelta mutants were also found to be unable to produce hyphae, suggesting that the C. neoformans gene is functionally conserved when compared with its S. cerevisiae MAPKKK counterpart. Comparison of the wild-type STE11alpha strain with a ste11alphaDelta disruptant for virulence using the mouse model showed that the ste11alphaDelta strain was less virulent, but the difference was only minor. In spite of some of the conserved functions of STE11alpha, linkage analysis showed that STE11alpha is only found in mating type alpha strains. These results demonstrate that, although functionally conserved, the mating pathway in C. neoformans has a unique organization.     

黑曲霉pepB基因缺失菌株的构建及其功能分析

以黑曲霉(Aspergillus niger)GICC2773基因组DNA为模板,用PCR方法分别扩增pepB基因中的上游约1．4kb和下游约1．3kb两段DNA序列,将此两段序列按同一方向分别插入质粒pMW1中潮霉素抗性基因(hph)表达单元的5′和3′端,构建成重组质粒pMW1-pepB,用于通过同源重组靶向破坏基因组中的pepB基因。同源重组则采用原生质体-PEG方法,将酶切pMW1-pepB得到的线性片段转化A．niger GICC2773菌株,通过潮霉素选择平板得到62个Hgy抗性转化子,然后采用PCR方法从这些抗性转化子中筛选到1个由于同源重组产生的pepB基因缺失突变菌株pepB29。功能分析显示该突变株的酸性蛋白酶活性有明显下降,外源蛋白漆酶的分泌表达有所提高。     

Improved production of enzymes, which are expressed under the Pho regulon promoter, in the rmf gene (encoding ribosome modulation factor) disruptant of Escherichia coli

Using a DNA macroarray, we investigated the effects of rmf gene (encoding ribosome modulation factor) disruption on gene expression profiles in Escherichia coli. This strain showed a phosphate-starvation-like response in gene expression even under phosphate sufficient conditions; significant upregulation of the Pho regulon genes was observed. Further, the production of alkaline phosphatase, a product of the Pho regulon gene, phoA, increased in the rmf disruptant under a Pi sufficient condition. Furthermore, production of PhoC acid phosphatase/nucleoside pyrophosphate phosphotransferase derived from Morganella morganii also increased significantly in the rmf disruptant. We concluded that host modification by the rmf gene disruption has potential benefit in industrial enzyme production using Escherichia coli.     

Comparative analysis in three fungi reveals structurally and functionally conserved regions in the Mig1 repressor

The Mig1 repressor is a key effector in glucose repression in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. To gain further insights into structure-function relationships, we have now cloned the MIG1 homologue from the yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus. The amino acid sequence deduced from KmMIG1 differs significantly from ScMig1p outside the highly conserved zinc fingers. However, 12 discrete conserved motifs could be identified in a multiple alignment that also included the K. lactis Mig1p sequence. We further found that KmMig1p is fully functional when expressed in S. cerevisiae. First, it represses the SUC2 promoter almost as well as ScMig1p. This repression requires the Cyc8 and Tup1 proteins and is dependent on a C-terminal region comprising several conserved leucine-proline repeats. Second, KmMig1p is regulated by glucose in S. cerevisiae, and a KmMig1-VP16 hybrid activator is inhibited by the ScSnf1p kinase in the absence of glucose. This suggests that KmMig1p has retained the ability to interact with several S. cerevisiae proteins, and reinforces the notion that the conserved motifs are functionally important. Finally, we found that the physiological role of Mig1p also is conserved in K. marxianus, since KmMig1p represses INU1, the counterpart of SUC2 in this organism. Received: 16 October 1996 / Accepted: 19 February 1997     

Binding of the glucose-dependent Mig1p repressor to the GAL1 and GAL4 promoters in vivo: regulationby glucose and chromatin structure.

Binding of the MIG1 repressor to the glucose-repressible GAL1 and GAL4 promoters was analyzed in vivo by cyclobutane dimer footprinting in two yeast strains that show different glucose repression responses. Mig1p binding to the two promoters in both strains was glucose-induced. In cells subject to rapid and stringent glucose repression (S288c), long-term Mig1p binding in glucose-grown cells was inhibited by the formation of a competing chromatin structure. Under conditions where glucose repression was only partially effective (gal80 - or low glucose), the chromatin structure did not form and long-term Mig1p binding was observed The same long-term binding of Mig1p was seen in cells of a different strain (W303A) that shows only partial glucose repression of the GAL1 promoter. We conclude from these experiments that Mig1p binding to glucose-repressed promoters is glucose-dependent but transient. We suggest that Mig1p functions at an early step in repression, but is not required to maintain the repressed state.     

Molecular control of gene co-suppression in transgenic soybean via particle bombardment

Molecular co-suppression phenomena are important to consider in transgene experiments. Embryogenic cells were obtained from immature cotyledons and engineered with two different gene constructs (pHV and pHVS) through particle bombardment. Both constructs contain a gene conferring resistance to hygromycin (hpt) as a selective marker and a modified glycinin (11S globulin) gene (V3-1) as a target. sGFP(S65T) as a reporter gene was, however, inserted into the flanking region of the V3-1 gene (pHVS). Fluorescence microscopic screening after the selection of hygromycin, identified clearly the expression of sGFP(S65T) in the transformed soybean embryos bombarded with the pHVS construct. Stable integration of the transgenes was confirmed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and Southern blot analysis. Seeds of transgenic plants obtained from the pHV construct frequently lacked an accumulation of endogenous glycinin, which is encoded by homologous genes to the target gene V3-1. Most of the transgenic plants expressing sGFP(S65T) showed highly accumulation of glycinin. The expression of sGFP(S65T) and V3-1 inherits into the next generations. sGFP(S65T) as a reporter gene may be useful to increase the transformation efficiency of transgenic soybean with avoiding gene co-suppression.