Combinatorial Screening for Transgenic Yeasts with High Cellulase Activities in Combination with a Tunable Expression System

PLoS One. 2015 Dec 21;10(12):e0144870. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0144870. eCollection 2015.

Abstract

Combinatorial screening used together with a broad library of gene expression cassettes is expected to produce a powerful tool for the optimization of the simultaneous expression of multiple enzymes. Recently, we proposed a highly tunable protein expression system that utilized multiple genome-integrated target genes to fine-tune enzyme expression in yeast cells. This tunable system included a library of expression cassettes each composed of three gene-expression control elements that in different combinations produced a wide range of protein expression levels. In this study, four gene expression cassettes with graded protein expression levels were applied to the expression of three cellulases: cellobiohydrolase 1, cellobiohydrolase 2, and endoglucanase 2. After combinatorial screening for transgenic yeasts simultaneously secreting these three cellulases, we obtained strains with higher cellulase expressions than a strain harboring three cellulase-expression constructs within one high-performance gene expression cassette. These results show that our method will be of broad use throughout the field of metabolic engineering.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Cellulase / biosynthesis*
  • Cellulase / genetics
  • Escherichia coli / genetics
  • Escherichia coli / metabolism*
  • Fungal Proteins / biosynthesis*
  • Fungal Proteins / genetics
  • Gene Expression*
  • Phanerochaete / enzymology
  • Phanerochaete / genetics*
  • Recombinant Proteins / biosynthesis
  • Recombinant Proteins / genetics
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae / genetics
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae / metabolism*
  • Talaromyces / enzymology
  • Talaromyces / genetics*

Substances

  • Fungal Proteins
  • Recombinant Proteins
  • Cellulase