The invention discloses a construction method of genetic engineering fungi of filamentous fungi. Through the genetic engineering method, the filamentous fungi overexpress the positive regulation genes of ethanol synthesis, and/or down regulate the negative regulation genes of endogenous ethanol synthesis to obtain genetic engineering strains. Or overexpression of acetaldehyde dehydrogenase and ethanol dehydrogenase containing mitochondrial localization signal sequence, or overexpression of pyruvate decarboxylase and ethanol dehydrogenase containing mitochondrial localization signal sequence, or overexpression of acetaldehyde dehydrogenase, ethanol dehydrogenase and pyruvate decarboxylase containing mitochondrial localization signal sequence in filamentous fungal cells. Compared with the original strain, the ethanol synthesis ability of the obtained genetically engineered strains are improved.

The invention discloses a construction method of genetic engineering fungi of filamentous fungi. Through the genetic engineering method, the filamentous fungi overexpress the positive regulation genes of ethanol synthesis, and/or down regulate the negative regulation genes of endogenous ethanol synthesis to obtain genetic engineering strains. Or overexpression of acetaldehyde dehydrogenase and ethanol dehydrogenase containing mitochondrial localization signal sequence, or overexpression of pyruvate decarboxylase and ethanol dehydrogenase containing mitochondrial localization signal sequence, or overexpression of acetaldehyde dehydrogenase, ethanol dehydrogenase and pyruvate decarboxylase containing mitochondrial localization signal sequence in filamentous fungal cells. Compared with the original strain, the ethanol synthesis ability of the obtained genetically engineered strains are improved.

An object of the present invention is to provide enhancers useful in enhancing the transcription activity of promoters.

(i) A polynucleotide comprising a sequence of at least 20 consecutive nucleotides in the region of nucleotides 201 to 300 in SEQ ID NO: 1; or (ii) a polynucleotide that consists of a nucleotide sequence having at least 90% sequence identify to that of the polynucleotide (i), and has an effect to enhance promoter transcription activity, is used as an enhancer.

The invention is directed to a patchoulol synthase, to a nucleic acid encoding said patchoulol synthase, to an expression vector comprising said nucleic acid, to a host cell comprising said expression vector, to a method of preparing patchoulol and elemol, and preferably also pogostol, and to a method of preparing a patchoulol synthase.

The invention is directed to a patchoulol synthase, to a nucleic acid encoding said patchoulol synthase, to an expression vector comprising said nucleic acid, to a host cell comprising said expression vector, to a method of preparing patchoulol and elemol, and preferably also pogostol, and to a method of preparing a patchoulol synthase.

The invention generally relates to methods of producing loline alkaloids or precursors thereof, expression constructs, and host cells useful for producing loline alkaloids or precursors thereof, and methods for producing loline alkaloids or precursors thereof in a host cell.

The invention generally relates to methods of producing loline alkaloids or precursors thereof, expression constructs, and host cells useful for producing loline alkaloids or precursors thereof, and methods for producing loline alkaloids or precursors thereof in a host cell.

The present invention provides an endoglucanase having excellent heat resistance. Specifically, the present invention provides an endoglucanase satisfying characteristics (A) and (B) below: (A) having an amino acid sequence that is at least 80% identical to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1; and (B) having at least one amino acid substitution selected from the group consisting of K214E, D254E, and S309P.

The present invention relates to a recombinant OxDC expressed in a filamentous fungal host cell, methods for constructing a recombinant filamentous fungal host cell, methods for producing recombinant OxDC and the application thereof. The recombinant filamentous fungal host cell comprises one or more copies of OxDC expression cassette integrated in its genome; the expression cassette comprises a promoter, a signal peptide coding sequence, an OxDC coding sequence and a transcription terminator. The host cell can be constructed by random integration or site-specific integration. In addition, the present invention also optimizes the medium formulation for different recombinant filamentous fungal host cells. In the production of the recombinant OxDC, the final yield and enzyme activity were greatly improved. The invention effectively solves the problem that the production of OxDC in the prior art cannot be industrialized on a large scale.

The present invention relates to a recombinant OxDC expressed in a filamentous fungal host cell, methods for constructing a recombinant filamentous fungal host cell, methods for producing recombinant OxDC and the application thereof. The recombinant filamentous fungal host cell comprises one or more copies of OxDC expression cassette integrated in its genome; the expression cassette comprises a promoter, a signal peptide coding sequence, an OxDC coding sequence and a transcription terminator. The host cell can be constructed by random integration or site-specific integration. In addition, the present invention also optimizes the medium formulation for different recombinant filamentous fungal host cells. In the production of the recombinant OxDC, the final yield and enzyme activity were greatly improved. The invention effectively solves the problem that the production of OxDC in the prior art cannot be industrialized on a large scale.