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http://dx.doi.org/10.7845/kjm.2016.6032

Analysis of an acid-responsive element in a promoter of laccase gene in the inky cap, Coprinellus congregatus  

Kim, Su Yeon (Department of Biochemistry, Kangwon National University)
Nguyen, Linh (Department of Biochemistry, Kangwon National University)
Choi, Hyoung T. (Department of Biochemistry, Kangwon National University)
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Korean Journal of Microbiology / v.52, no.3, 2016 , pp. 249-253 More about this Journal
Abstract
The inky cap, Coprinellus congregatus, produces several laccase isozymes during its life cycle: both hyphal tip laccase and sclerotial laccase are involved in the fungal development. When this fungus was transferred to an acid liquid medium (pH 4.0-4.5), a new laccase was synthesized and secreted into the culture supernatant. In order to examine its regulation by external pH, green fluorescent protein gene was ligated at the downstream of the promoters having different lengths. These expression vectors having different promoter lengths were inserted into the fungal transformation vector, pBARGEM7-1. These expression vectors were introduced to the mating type a1 and a2 monokaryons, and the transformants were selected by the phosphinothricin resistance. Transformant a1 (a1TF) and transformant a2 (a2TF) were mated with each other to generate homozygotic dikaryon transformants. All these transformants were grown in neutral liquid medium for 5 days, and then the whole cell homogenates were transferred to the acidic liquid medium (pH 4.1). After 36 h incubation at $25^{\circ}C$, cells were harvested for the analysis of GFP expression. GFP expression was detected in the transformant having full-length promoter (2.0 kb), but other transformants having shorter length promoter (shorter than 1.29 kb) failed to show the fluorescence. Therefore, the acid-responsive element in the laccase promoter should be localized between -2.0 kb ~ -1.29 kb region.
Keywords
Coprinellus congregatus; acid stress; laccase; promoter analysis;
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