Construction of a Trp commercial baker?s yeast strain by using food-safe-grade dominant drug resistance cassettes
Open Access
- 1 December 2003
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in FEMS Yeast Research
- Vol. 4 (3), 329-338
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s1567-1356(03)00164-8
Abstract
We have designed a food-safe-grade module for gene disruptions in commercial baker's yeast strains, which contains the G418 resistance cassette, KanMX4, flanked by direct repeats from the MEL1 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This module was used to obtain a Trp− auxotrophic mutant of the polyploid HY strain by successive targeting to the TRP1 locus and later in vivo excision of the kanr marker. Southern blot analysis indicated that HY contains five copies of the TRP1 gene. However, after four disruption rounds, a strain named HYtrpM4, unable to grow in the absence of tryptophan, was selected. Southern and Northern analysis of HYtrpM4 cells showed that a remaining functional wild-type copy was still present, suggesting that the level of phosphoribosylanthranylate isomerase activity, resulting from a single copy of TRP1, is too low to sustain growth. Accordingly, a high reversion frequency of the Trp− phenotype, through gene conversion, was found in cells of the mutant strain. Nevertheless, this was not a drawback for its use as a recipient strain of heterologous genes. Indeed, YEpACT-X24 transformants were stable after 25 generations and expressed and secreted high levels of active recombinant xylanase. These data indicate that the new Trp− strain can be used to generate a stable recombinant yeast that fulfils all the requirements and market criteria for commercial utilisation.Keywords
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