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High-level intracellular expression of heterologous proteins in Brevibacillus choshinensis SP3 under the control of a xylose inducible promoter.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: In past years research has focused on the development of alternative Gram positive bacterial expression systems to produce industrially relevant proteins. Brevibacillus choshinensis is an easy to handle non-sporulating bacterium, lacking extracellular proteases, that has been already shown to provide a high level of recombinant protein expression. One major drawback, limiting the applicability of the Brevibacillus expression system, is the absence of expression vectors based on inducible promoters. Here we used the PxylA inducible promoter, commonly employed in other Bacillae expression systems, in Brevibacillus. RESULTS: Using GFP, ?-amylase and TcdA-GT as model proteins, high level of intracellular protein expression (up to 250 mg/L for the GFP) was achieved in Brevibacillus, using the pHis1522 vector carrying the B. megaterium xylose-inducible promoter (PxylA). The GFP expression yields were more than 25 fold higher than those reported for B. megaterium carrying the same vector. All the tested proteins show significant increment in their expression levels (2-10 folds) than those obtained using the available plasmids based on the P2 constitutive promoter. CONCLUSION: Combining the components of two different commercially available Gram positive expression systems, such as Brevibacillus (from Takara Bio) and B. megaterium (from Mobitec), we demonstrate that vectors based on the B. megaterium PxylA xylose inducible promoter can be successfully used to induce high level of intracellular expression of heterologous proteins in Brevibacillus.

SUBMITTER: D'Urzo N

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3582527 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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High-level intracellular expression of heterologous proteins in Brevibacillus choshinensis SP3 under the control of a xylose inducible promoter.

D'Urzo Nunzia N Martinelli Manuele M Nenci Chiara C Brettoni Cecilia C Telford John L JL Maione Domenico D

Microbial cell factories 20130201

<h4>Background</h4>In past years research has focused on the development of alternative Gram positive bacterial expression systems to produce industrially relevant proteins. Brevibacillus choshinensis is an easy to handle non-sporulating bacterium, lacking extracellular proteases, that has been already shown to provide a high level of recombinant protein expression. One major drawback, limiting the applicability of the Brevibacillus expression system, is the absence of expression vectors based o ...[more]

PMID: 23374160

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Project description:Conditional promoters allowing both induction and silencing of gene expression are indispensable for basic and applied research. The xylP promoter (pxylP) from Penicillium chrysogenum was demonstrated to function in various mold species including Aspergillus fumigatus. pxylP allows high induction by xylan or its degradation product xylose with low basal activity in the absence of an inducer. Here we structurally characterized and engineered pxylP in A. fumigatus to optimize its application. Mutational analysis demonstrated the importance of the putative TATA-box and a pyrimidine-rich region in the core promoter, both copies of a largely duplicated 91-bp sequence (91bpDS), as well as putative binding sites for the transcription factor XlnR and a GATA motif within the 91bpDS. In agreement, pxylP activity was found to depend on XlnR, while glucose repression appeared to be indirect. Truncation of the originally used 1643-bp promoter fragment to 725 bp largely preserved the promoter activity and the regulatory pattern. Integration of a third 91bpDS significantly increased promoter activity particularly under low inducer concentrations. Truncation of pxylP to 199 bp demonstrated that the upstream region including the 91bpDSs mediates not only inducer-dependent activation but also repression in the absence of inducer. Remarkably, the 1579-bp pxylP was found to act bi-bidirectionally with a similar regulatory pattern by driving expression of the upstream-located arabinofuranosidase gene. The latter opens the possibility of dual bidirectional use of pxylP. Comparison with a doxycycline-inducible TetOn system revealed a significantly higher dynamic range of pxylP. Taken together, this study identified functional elements of pxylP and opened new methodological opportunities for its application. Highlights • Mutational analysis identified activating and repressing xylP promoter (pxylP) elements.• Reporter analysis revealed bidirectional activity of pxylP.• Promoter engineering improved inducer responsiveness of pxylP.• Comparison with the TetOn promoter indicated superior dynamic range of pxylP.

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High-level intracellular expression of heterologous proteins in Brevibacillus choshinensis SP3 under the control of a xylose inducible promoter.

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High-level intracellular expression of heterologous proteins in Brevibacillus choshinensis SP3 under the control of a xylose inducible promoter.

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