Obtenção e caracterização de linhagens recombinantes de Penicillium griseoroseum com alta produção de pectina liase e poligalacturonase / Obtainment and characterizing of recombinant strains of Penicillium griseoroseum with pectin lyase and polygalacturonase overproduction

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

Penicillium griseoroseum has been described as a promising species for polygalacturonase (PG) and pectin lyase (PL) production. However, the genes encoding these enzymes in this organism require induction by pectin and are repressed by glucose. One strategy to increase the expression of these genes is the replacement of original promoter by a strong constitutive one. Thus, in order to obtain PG and PL overproducing strains with no need of pectin induction, we performed the co-transformation of previously described recombinant T105, a strain that contains additional copies of plg1 gene under the control of gpdA promoter from Aspergillus nidulans, using the plasmids pAN52pgg2 and pAN7.1. The resulting strains showed at least one copy of pAN52pgg2 into the genome. A genetically stable strain, named recombinant R20 was chosen for further characterization because of its high levels of PG and PL activity compared to the other recombinant strains obtained. This strain exhibited elevated production of both enzymes when cultivated in presence of glucose, sucrose or sugar cane juice. Increases of up to 11 times in PG activity and 45 times in PL activity were detected when the recombinant R20 was cultivated in sugar cane juice, in comparison with the wild type strain grown in optimized production conditions. The maximum production of PG, PL, and dry mycelium mass by recombinant strain was observed in the following conditions: inoculum of 106 conidia.mL-1, 1% glucose, 200 mL of culture medium in 500 mL Erlenmeyer flasks, and incubation time of 72 to 96 hours under agitation of 150 RPM at 25oC. Denaturing SDS-PAGE of the recombinant R20 culture filtrate revealed the presence of two protein bands of about 38 and 36 KDa corresponding to PG and PL, respectively. In addition, this strain secreted 18 mg of total protein per liter of culture medium in 120 hours of incubation, being PG and PL the main protein secreted. These results will be valuable for the setting of enzyme production experiments in large scale and ultimately in the application of R20 strain for industrial production of pectinases.

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penicillium sp. pectin liase penicillium sp. poligalacturonase pectina liase genetica molecular e de microorganismos polygalacturonase

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