A Toolkit for Heterologous Expression of Metabolic Pathways in Aspergillus oryzae
Author:
A K Pahirulzaman K, Williams K, Lazarus CM
Date: 20 November 2012
Abstract:
Much has been learned about the activities of the key enzymes involved in eukaryotic natural product synthesis by isolating the relevant genes and expressing them in a suitable foreign host. Aspergillus oryzae has proved to be an amenable host for the functional analysis of megasynthases from other fungi, but secondary metabolites are often the products of suites of enzymes, and understanding their biosynthesis requires simultaneous expression of several genes. This chapter describes the development and use of a molecular toolkit that facilitates the rapid assembly of the genes constituting whole biosynthetic pathways in one or a few multiple gene expression plasmids designed to provide high-level expression in A. oryzae. Conventional DNA manipulation by restriction/ligation is replaced by homologous recombination in yeast and Gatewayà‚®-mediated site-specific recombination in vitro. The toolkit comprises an assembly vector used for the simple construction and modification of large genes from overlapping DNA fragments and three multigene expression vectors. Insertion of three tailoring enzyme genes by homologous recombination and one megasynthase gene by Gatewayà‚® transfer into each of the expression vectors can be achieved in a little more than 1 week, and alternative selection markers in the expression plasmids permit cotransformation of A. oryzae with up to 12 genes.Copyright à‚© 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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