• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제20권12호
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• pp.1630-1636
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• 2010

During the fermentation process of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, yeast cells must rapidly respond to a wide variety of external stresses in order to survive the constantly changing environment, including ethanol stress. The accumulation of ethanol can severely inhibit cell growth activity and productivity. Thus, the response to changing ethanol concentrations is one of the most important stress reactions in S. cerevisiae and worthy of thorough investigation. Therefore, this study examined the relationship between ethanol tolerance in S. cerevisiae and a unique protein called alcohol sensitive RING/PHD finger 1 protein (Asr1p). A real-time PCR showed that upon exposure to 8% ethanol, the expression of Asr1 was continuously enhanced, reaching a peak 2 h after stimulation. This result was confirmed by monitoring the fluorescence levels using a strain with a green fluorescent protein tagged to the C-terminal of Asr1p. The fluorescent microscopy also revealed a change in the subcellular localization before and after stimulation. Furthermore, the disruption of the Asr1 gene resulted in hypersensitivity on the medium containing ethanol, when compared with the wild-type strain. Thus, when taken together, the present results suggest that Asr1 is involved in the response to ethanol stress in the yeast S. cerevisiae.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.251-259
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• 2013

An endoxylanase gene (PoxynA) that belongs to the glycoside hydrolase (GH) family 11 was cloned from a xylanolytic strain, Penicillium oxalicum B3-11(2). PoxynA was overexpressed in Trichoderma reesei QM9414 by using a constitutive strong promoter of the encoding pyruvate decarboxylase (pdc). The high extracellular xylanase activities in the fermentation liquid of the transformants were maintained 29~35-fold higher compared with the wild strain. The recombinant POXYNA was purified to homogeneity, and its characters were analyzed. Its optimal temperature and pH value were $50^{\circ}C$ and 5.0, respectively. The enzyme was stable at a pH range of 2.0 to 7.0. Using beechwood as the substrate, POXYNA had a high specific activity of $1,856{\pm}53.5$ IU/mg. In the presence of metal ions, such as $Cu^{2+}$, and $Mg^{2+}$, the activity of the enzyme increased. However, strong inhibition of the enzyme activity was observed in the presence of $Mn^{2+}$ and $Fe^{2+}$. The recombinant POXYNA hydrolyzed birchwood xylan, beechwood xylan, and oat spelt xylan to produce short-chain xylooligosaccharides, xylopentaose, xylotriose, and xylobiose as the main products. This is the first report on the expression properties of a recombinant endoxylanase gene from Penicillium oxalicum. The properties of this endoxylanase make it promising for applications in the food and feed industries.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제19권7호
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• pp.852-858
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• 2009

호흡전자전달계의 cytochrome bc$_1$ complex 또는 cytochrome c oxidase가 기능을 하지 않는 Rhodobacter sphaeroides mutant 내에서 pyridine nucleotide[NAD(P)H와 NAD(P)$^+$]의 농도와 redox 상태는 wild type과 비교할 때 큰 변화가 없었다. 높은 산소분압 조건에서 키운 Rhodobacter sphaeroides cbb$_3$ oxidase mutant 내에서 PrrBA two-component system에 의해서 조절되는 puf 오페론의 발현은 pyridine nucleotide나 전자전달계의 ubiquinone/ubiquinol pool의 redox 상태의 변화에 의해 유도된 것이 아니다. R. sphaeroides cytochrome bc$_1$ complex mutant를 이용하여 광합성기구 합성에 대한 cbb$_3$ cytochrome c oxidase의 억제 효과는 ubiquinone/ubiquinol pool의 redox 변화에 의해 간접적으로 일어나는 것이 아님을 증명하였다.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.76-81
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• 2006

방선균에서 DNA 전사 억제인자로써 작용하여 이차대사산물의 생산뿐만 아니라 형태분화를 조절하는 $\gamma-butyrolactone$ autoregulator receptor를 암호화하는 유전자(scaR)를 clavulanic arid 생산 균주, Streptomyces clavuligerus로부터 클로닝하고 in vitro에서 ScaR의 특징을 연구하여 보고한 바 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 ScaR의 in vivo 기능을 분석하기위해 상동재조합방법을 이용하여 scaR이 제거된 변이주를 제작하고 야생균주와 표현형을 비교해 보았다. 그 결과, Streptomyces clavuligerus의 형태분화에서는 큰 차이를 나타내지 않았지만 clavulanic acid의 생산에 있어서는 scaR 파괴 변이주가 야생균주에 비해 생산이 증가된 경향을 보였다. 그러므로 ScaR이 S. clavuligerus의 형태분화에는 영향을 미치지 않지만 clavulanic acid 생합성에는 negative regulator로 작용한다는 것을 본 연구를 통해 명확하게 확인할 수 있었다.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.641-646
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• 2005

Salmonella typhimurium TML이 Int-407 숙주세포에 부착하는 정도는 S. typhimurium이 낮은 농도의 철이 함유된 배지에서 배양되었을 때보다 LB 액체배지 또는 높은 농도의 철이 함유된 배지에서 생육한 것에서 약 10배 정도의 높은 수준으로 관찰되었다. 고농도의 철이 포함된 배양조건이 살모넬라가 숙주세포에 부착시키는 정도를 향상시키는데 반해, 칼슘, 코발트, 구리, 인산, 마그네슘 그리고 망간과 같은 다른 양이온은 그렇지 않다. 이것은 아마도 철이 Salmonella가 부착에 필요한 요소들의 발현을 활성화하는 역할을 하는 것으로 추정된다. 철 농도에 따른 부착정도의 차이들은 type 1 fimbriae, mannose resistant hemagglutinin과 flagellum등을 생성하지 않는 다양한 S. typhimurium 돌연변이주들에서도 관찰되는 것으로 미루어보아 이들 구조체들과 상관이 없는 밝혀지지 않은 어떤 인자가 부착성 증가에 관여하는 것으로 사료된다. fur유전자가 불활성화된 S. typhimurium 돌연변이주의 부착성이 야생형 Salmonella와 유사한 방식으로 철에 의해 조절되었는데, 이는 철 농도에 따른 부착성의 변화에 관여하는 잠재적인자의 발현이 Fur 단백질과 독립적으로 이루어진다는 것을 나타낸다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.631-636
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• 1999

The thermostable endo-chitosanase gene from the isolated strain Bacillus sp. KFB-C108 was identified on the basis of a phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequence, and was cloned into plasmid pUCl8 using E. coli $DH5\alpha$ as the host strain. Positive clones carrying recombinant plasmids (pKCHO I and pKCHO II) containing chitosanase activity were selected using the direct activity staining method. Detailed physical maps showed the two plasmid inserts were identical except that the KCHO II insert (2.6 kb) was 1.8 kb smaller than that of the KCHO I. The recombinant plasmids were analyzed to determine the essential region for chitosanase activity, and a 1.3-kb fragment (KCHO-6) was subcloned into pTrc99A using the EcoRI and BamHI sites to construct pTrc99A/KCHO-6(pTrEB13). The resulting plasmid exerted high chitosanase activity upon transformation of E. coli $DH5{\alpha}cells$, overproducing about 20 times more in the cloned cells than in the wild-type cells. The cloned chitosanase protein exhibited the same molecular weight and catalytic activity similar to those of Bacillus sp. KFB-C108. The cloned enzyme was an endo-type that produced a chitosan tetramer as the major reaction product; however, it produced no monomers or dimers.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제22권12호
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• pp.1644-1652
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• 2012

Iron plays a key role in host-pathogen interactions. Microbial pathogens require iron for survival and virulence, whereas mammalian hosts sequester and withhold iron as a means of nutritional immunity. We previously identified two paralogous genes, CFT1 and CFT2, which encode homologs of a fungal iron permease, Cft1 and Cft2, respectively, in the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans. Cft1 was shown to play a role in the high-affinity reductive iron uptake system, and was required for transferrin utilization and full virulence in mammalian hosts. However, no role of Cft2 has been suggested yet. Here, we identified the third gene, CFT3, that produces an additional fungal iron permease homolog in C. neoformans, and we also generated the cft3 mutant for functional characterization. We aimed to reveal distinct functions of Cft1, Cft2 and Cft3 by analyzing phenotypes of the mutants lacking CFT1, CFT2 and CFT3, respectively. The endogenous promoter of CFT1, CFT2 and CFT3 was replaced with the inducible GAL7 promoter in the wild-type strain or in the cft1 mutant for gain-of-function analysis. Using these strains, we were able to find that CFT2 is required for growth in low-iron conditions in the absence of CFT1 and that overexpression of CFT2 compensates for deficiency of the cft1 mutant in iron uptake and various cellular stress conditions. However, unlike CFT2, no clear phenotypic characteristic of the cft3 mutant and the strain overexpressing CFT3 was observed. Overall, our data suggested a redundant role of Cft2 in the high-affinity iron uptake and stress responses in C. neoformans.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.337-345
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• 2014

Pichia pastoris is one of the most widely used expression systems for the secretory expression of recombinant proteins. The secretory expression in P. pastoris usually makes use of the prepro $MAT{\alpha}$ sequence from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which has a dibasic amino acid cleavage site at the end of the signal sequence. This is efficiently processed by Kex2 protease, resulting in the secretion of high levels of proteins to the medium. However, the proteins that are having the internal accessible dibasic amino acids such as KR and RR in the coding region cannot be expressed using this signal sequence, as the protein will be fragmented. We have identified a new signal sequence of 18 amino acids from a P. pastoris protein that can secrete proteins to the medium efficiently. The PMT1-gene-inactivated P. pastoris strain secretes a ~30 kDa protein into the extracellular medium. We have identified this protein by determining its N-terminal amino acid sequence. The protein secreted has four DDDK concatameric internal repeats. This protein was not secreted in the wild-type P. pastoris under normal culture conditions. We show that the 18-amino-acid signal peptide at the N-terminal of this protein is useful for secretion of heterologous proteins in Pichia.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.7-11
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• 2004

eIF5B는 단백질합성의 개시 인자로서 Met-$tRNA^{Met}$을 AUG 개시코돈에 전달하고, 리보솜의 두 소단위체 결합을 유도한다. 이 인자의 기능을 연구할 목적으로 eIF5B를 코딩하는 FUN12 유전자의 5'말단 부위를 삭제하는 연구를 수행하였다. 프로모터의 대부분을 삭제한 FUN12를 함유한 pRS효모벡터를 FUN12가 삭제되어 천천히 자라는 돌연변이주 ($fun12{\Delta}g$)에 전달하였을 때 그 표현형을 부분적으로 상보하였다. 위와 같이 제조된 벡터에서 N-말단이 상실된 eIF5B 단백질이 발현되었고, 그 양이 정상 균주에서 발현되는 eIF5B 양의 약 5%에 불과하였다. 이와 같이 부분적으로 성장을 상보한 균주에서 발현된 적은 양의 단백질합성개시 인자 eIF5B는 직접적으로 그 성장을 제한하는 요소로 작용한다. 이러한 균주에서 성장의 제한인자인 eIF5B는 in vitro 에서도 역시 전체 단백질 합성의 활성을 조절하였다.

• 한국식품과학회지
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.424-430
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• 2000

김치발효에 관여하는 균종들에 대해 항균작용이 있는 것으로 알려진 adipic acid를 김치제조시 첨가하고, 동시에 adipic acid 저항성 변이균주인 Leuconostoc mesenteroides와 Leu. paramesenteroides 두 균주를 김치에 starter로서 첨가하여 발효시키므로써 김치의 저장기간 연장과 풍미증진 효과를 조사하였다. 또한 이를 위한 변이균주의 최적의 첨가량을 조사하였다. 김치발효의 주요 숙성균주로서 산에 약한 Leu. mesenteroides와 Leu. paramesenteroides 두 균주를 adipic acid에 대한 저항성을 갖도록 변이시킨 후 adipic acid 0.16%와 함께 두 변이주를 각각 단독으로 또는 두 변이균주의 혼합균주(1 : 10)로서 김치제조시 starter로 첨가한 경우. 단독첨가 보다는 혼합균주인 경우가 산패지연 효과와 관능특성 면에서 우수하였으며 혼합균주의 최적 첨가량은 0.005%로 조사되었다.