Breeding of Aspergillus oryzae for the Alkaline Pretense Overproducing Strain.

재조합 Alkaline Protease를 대량 생산하는 Aspergillus oryzae 균주개발

Aspergillus oryzae M-2-3 strain (argB$\^$-/) was transformed with pTAalp plasmid which was constructed for expression of the alkaline pretense gene, alpA, and 16 transformants were selected on arginine minus medium. When these transformants were tested for productivity of alkaline proteases using agar plate containing skim milk, the halo was observed around each colony of transformants, but not observed around the host strain in this condition. Southern analysis showed that the pTAalp plasmid having alpA gene was integrated into the chromosome of the host strain. The highest level of alkaline protease production was obtained in the culture filtrate of the transformant No. 14, which was estimated to 80-90% of total secreted proteins, and the enzyme activity was 64-450 times higher than those of host strain and industrial strain. Total nitrogen content and the digestion rate in soybean Koji extracts were also increased to 1.5 times in Aspergillus oryzae transformant No. 14.

Alkaline protease를 대량생산하는 Aspergillus oryzae를 만들기 위하여 A. oryzae의 alkaline pretense 유전자 alpA를 고발현시키는 plasmid pTAalp를 제조하고 이 plasmid로 A. oryzae M-2-3 균주를 형질전환시켰다. 16개의 형질전환체를 얻어 이들의 protease생산성을 skim milk 분해에 의한 halo 형성능에 의하여 확인하였다. 또한 protease 생산성이 증가한 형질전환체는 pTAalp가 multi-copy로 염색체 안에 integration되어 있음을 Southern blot에 의하여 확인하였고, 이들의 배양액을 polyacrylamide gel전기영동에 의하여 분석한 결과, 형질전환체 No. 14에서는 전체 분비단백질의 80-90%가 alkaline protease 임을 알 수 있었다. 간장원료 분해실험의 결과 No. 14에 의한 원료분해액은 간장 양조용 대조균에 의한 분해액보다 TN이 증가하였으며 원료분해율도 1.4-1.5배로 증가되었다.