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ArticleScientific reports2020

A Penicillium rubens platform strain for secondary metabolite production.

Carsten Pohl, Fabiola Polli, Tabea Schütze, Annarita Viggiano, László Mózsik, Sascha Jung, Maaike de Vries, Roel A L Bovenberg, Vera Meyer, Arnold J M Driessen

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Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29 citing papers in PubMed, 82 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Carsten Pohl *Molecular Microbiology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Fabiola Polli *Molecular Microbiology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Tabea SchützeApplied and Molecular Microbiology, Institute of Biotechnology, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Annarita ViggianoMolecular Microbiology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
László MózsikMolecular Microbiology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Sascha JungApplied and Molecular Microbiology, Institute of Biotechnology, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Maaike de VriesMolecular Microbiology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Roel A L BovenbergDSM Biotechnology Centre, Delft, The Netherlands.
Vera MeyerApplied and Molecular Microbiology, Institute of Biotechnology, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Arnold J M DriessenMolecular Microbiology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands. a.j.m.driessen@rug.nl.
University of Groningen · NLTechnische Universität Berlin · DEDSM (Netherlands) · NL

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present a Penicillium rubens strain with an industrial background in which the four highly expressed biosynthetic gene clusters (BGC) required to produce penicillin, roquefortine, chrysogine and fungisporin were removed. This resulted in a minimal secondary metabolite background. Amino acid pools under steady-state growth conditions showed reduced levels of methionine and increased intracellular aromatic amino acids. Expression profiling of remaining BGC core genes and untargeted mass spectrometry did not identify products from uncharacterized BGCs. This platform strain was repurposed for expression of the recently identified polyketide calbistrin gene cluster and achieved high yields of decumbenone A, B and C. The penicillin BGC could be restored through in vivo assembly with eight DNA segments with short overlaps. Our study paves the way for fast combinatorial assembly and expression of biosynthetic pathways in a fungal strain with low endogenous secondary metabolite burden.

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Metabolic EngineeringSecondary MetabolismBiosynthetic PathwaysGene Expression Regulation, EnzymologicGene Expression Regulation, FungalGenome, FungalGenomicsMultigene FamilyPenicilliumPeptide SynthasesTranscriptomePeptide Synthases

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PMID32376967
PMCPMC7203126
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