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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2008

Synthesis and accumulation of cyanophycin in transgenic strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Anna Steinle, Fred Bernd Oppermann-Sanio, Rudolf Reichelt, Alexander Steinbüchel

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Anna SteinleInstitut für Molekulare Mikrobiologie und Biotechnologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany.
Fred Bernd Oppermann-Sanio
Rudolf Reichelt
Alexander Steinbüchel
Institute of Molecular Biotechnology · ATUniversity of Münster · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cyanophycin [multi-L-arginyl-poly(L-aspartic acid) (CGP)] was, for the first time, produced in yeast. As yeasts are very important production organisms in biotechnology, it was determined if CGP can be produced in two different strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The episomal vector systems pESC (with the galactose-inducible promoter GAL1) and pYEX-BX (with the copper ion-inducible promoter CUP1) were chosen to express the cyanophycin synthetase gene from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6308 (cphA(6308)) in yeast. Expression experiments with transgenic yeasts revealed that the use of the CUP1 promoter is much more efficient for CGP production than the GAL1 promoter. As observed by electrophoresis of isolated CGP in sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels, the yeast strains produced two different types of polymer: the water-soluble and the water-insoluble CGP were observed as major and minor forms of the polymer, respectively. A maximum CGP content of 6.9% (wt/wt) was detected in the cells. High-performance liquid chromatography analysis showed that the isolated polymers consisted mainly of the two amino acids aspartic acid and arginine and that, in addition, a minor amount (2 mol%) of lysine was present. Growth of transgenic yeasts in the presence of 15 mM lysine resulted in an incorporation of up to 10 mol% of lysine into CGP. Anti-CGP antibodies generated against CGP isolated from Escherichia coli TOP10 harboring cphA(6308) reacted with insoluble CGP but not with soluble CGP, if applied in Western or dot blots.

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Amino AcidsBacterial ProteinsChromatography, High Pressure LiquidCloning, MolecularElectrophoresis, Polyacrylamide GelGene ExpressionGenetic VectorsMicroscopy, Electron, TransmissionPlant ProteinsRecombinant ProteinsSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSynechocystisAmino AcidsBacterial ProteinscyanophycinPlant ProteinsRecombinant Proteins

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PMID18408064
PMCPMC2423037
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