Inducible promoter for gene expression and synthetic biology
12203078 ยท 2025-01-21
Assignee
- Institut National De Recherche Pour L'agriculture, L'alimentation Et L'environnement (Paris, FR)
- Universite Libre De Bruxelles (Brussels, BE)
- UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE (Liege, BE)
Inventors
- Jean-Marc Nicaud (Trappes, FR)
- Marion TRASSAERT (HAZEBROUCK, FR)
- Stephane THOMAS (BOIS D'ARCY, FR)
- Patrick FICKERS (LIEGE, BE)
- Marie VANDERMIES (OTTIGNIES, BE)
- Frederic Carly (Brussels, BE)
Cpc classification
C12N9/1205
CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
C12N2310/51
CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
International classification
Abstract
The invention is related to an inducible promoter for improved and regulated gene expression, useful in synthetic biology and metabolic engineering. In particular, the present invention relates to a nucleotide sequence comprising the regulatory regions of an erythritol- and erythrulose-inducible promoter in yeast and uses thereof in an expression system thus allowing an improved and regulated gene expression and production of gene product.
Claims
1. A method for expressing a gene or producing an encoded protein, comprising the steps of a) growing in vitro, in a culture medium, a host cell comprising an erythritol-inducible promoter sequence, an erythrulose-inducible promoter sequence or an erythritol- and erythrulose-inducible promoter sequence functional in yeast comprising a core promoter, and a nucleotide sequence comprising tandem repeats of a sequence according to formula (I) and/or tandem repeats of a sequence according to formula (II), wherein: formula (I) is TABLE-US-00016 CGGNNX.sub.1CNNNANNX.sub.2GNNAAGNCG(I) with N being any nucleotide with X.sub.1 and X.sub.2 being any nucleotide or no nucleotide, formula (II) is TABLE-US-00017 ANTTNNNTTTCCNNATNNGG(II) with N being any nucleotide, operably linked to a polynucleotide sequence encoding a gene product to be transcribed from said inducible promoter and b) adding erythritol and/or erythrulose to the culture medium.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the sequence according to formula (I) is selected in the group consisting of: TABLE-US-00018 (SEQIDNO:6) CGGVWYCYBVAWDGRRAAGSCG, (SEQIDNO:7) CGGVWCYBVAWDKGRRAAGSCG, (SEQIDNO:8) CGGVWYCYBVAWDKGRRAAGSCG, and (SEQIDNO:9) CGGVWCYBVAWDGRRAAGSCG.
3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the sequence according to formula (I) is selected in the group consisting of SEQ ID NO: 1, SEQ ID NO: 2, SEQ ID NO: 4, SEQ ID NO: 6, SEQ ID NO: 7 and SEQ ID NO: 9.
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the sequence according to formula (II) is ABTTSYRTTTCCYWATDHGG (SEQ ID NO: 10).
5. The method according to claim 1, wherein said nucleotide sequence contains from 2 to 32 copies of the sequence according to formula (I) and/or the sequence according to formula (II).
6. The method according to claim 1, wherein said nucleotide sequence comprises at least one sequence according to formula (I) and further comprises at least one sequence according to formula (III) which is TABLE-US-00019 CNTGCATNATCCGANGAC(III) with N being any nucleotide.
7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the sequence according to formula (III) is CDTGCATWATCCGAYGAC as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 12.
8. The method according to claim 1, wherein said nucleotide sequence comprises the sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 13.
9. The method according to claim 1 wherein at least one sequence according to formula (I) and/or at least one sequence according to formula (II) is/are upstream to an ATG of the polynucleotide sequence.
10. The method according to claim 9, wherein said at least one sequence according to formula (I) and/or said at least one sequence according to formula (II) is/are from 800 to 50 of the ATG.
11. The method of claim 1 wherein said core promoter is selected from the group consisting of TEF core promoter, EYK1 core promoter, EYD1 core promoter, POX2 core promoter, LEU2 core promoter and PAT1 core promoter.
12. The method of claim 1, wherein said erythritol-inducible promoter sequence, erythrulose-inducible promoter sequence, or erythritol and erythrulose-inducible promoter sequence comprises at least one promoter regulatory sequence selected from the group consisting of UAS, TATA box and URS.
13. The method of claim 1, wherein an endogenous gene encoding L-erythrulose kinase is inhibited in the host cell.
14. The method of claim 1, an endogenous gene encoding erythritol dehydrogenase is inhibited in the host cell.
15. The method of claim 12, wherein said promoter regulatory sequence is a regulatory sequence of a promoter selected from the group consisting of XPR2, TEF, POX2, LEU2, PAT1 and LIP2.
16. The method of claim 1, wherein an endogenous gene encoding L-erythrulose kinase is deleted in the host cell.
17. The method of claim 1, wherein an endogenous gene encoding erythritol dehydrogenase is deleted in the host cell.
Description
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EXAMPLESMATERIALS AND METHODS
(19) Strain and Medium Composition
(20) All the strains used in this study are listed in Table 1. The Y. lipolytica strains derived from the wild-type Y. lipolytica W29 strain (ATCC20460). The auxotrophic derivative Po1d (Leu.sup. Ura.sup.) was previously described by Barth and Gaillardin (1996). Strain JMY1212 (MatA ura3-302 xpr2-322, LEU2, zeta platform, derived from Po1d) was used as the basis for promoter study in this study, the derivative strain JMY7126 (MatA ura3-302 xpr2-322, lys5, eyk1, LEU2, zeta platform, derived from JMY1212) carrying a deletion of EYK1 was also used to see inducible expression of promoter in strain unable to use erythritol as a carbon source. Escherichia coli strain DH5 was used for hosting and amplification of recombinant plasmid DNA. The media and growth conditions for E. coli were as described in Sambrook et al. (1989). YPD and YNB medium together with growth conditions for Y. lipolytica have been previously described by Barth and Gaillardin (1996). To meet auxothrophic requirement, uracil (0.1 g/L), lysine (0.8 g/L), and leucine (0.1 g/L) were added in culture medium when necessary. Casamino acids, (0.2% Bacto Casamino Acids, Difco, Paris, France), were added for bioreactors culture for faster growth rate. Growth of Y. lipolytica were performed in baffled 250 mL flask and incubated at 28 C. at 160 rpm. YNB medium was supplemented with carbon source as follows: 10 g/L glucose (YNBD); 10 g/L glycerol (YNBG); 10 g/L erythritol (YNBOL); 10 g/L erythrulose (YNBOSE); 1 g/L glycerol, 10 g/L erythritol, 0.5 g/L yeast extract and 0.5 g/L peptone (YNBE). Growth of eyk1 strains in microplates were performed in YNB medium with 2.5 g/L glucose or 2.5 g/L glycerol as carbon source and 2.5 g/L erythritol or 2.5 g/L erythrulose as inducer. YNBDETo is an YNB medium with 10 g/L glucose, 10 g/L erythritol, 5 g/L tributyrin and 1.5% agar.
(21) Culture in Fed-Batch Bioreactor
(22) Bioreactor cultures were performed in duplicate in a 2-L Biostat B-Twin fermentor (Sartorius) containing 1 L of medium and kept at 28 C. Stirrer speed was set to 800 RPM, and the aeration rate was 1 L/min. The pH was set at 6.8 and automatically maintained by the addition of 20% (w/v) NaOH or 40% (w/v) H.sub.3PO.sub.4 when necessary. Glycerol (56.9 g/L solution) was fed for 24 h at a flow rate of 0.4 g/L.Math.h, then at a flow rate of 0.8 g/L.Math.h for an additional 24 h. Yeast cultures were inoculated at an initial optical density at 600 nm of 0.5. Cell growth was monitored by optical density at 600 nm (00600). Cell dry weight (CDW) was determined by using the relation 00600=0.29 gCDW correlation.
(23) TABLE-US-00008 TABLE 1 List of strains and plasmids used Strain or Genotype or other relevant plasmid* characteristics Source or reference E. coli DH5 80dlacZm15, recA1, endA1, gyrA96, thi- Promega 1, hsdR17 (r.sub.k, m.sub.k+), supE44, relA1, deoR, (lacZYA-argF)U169 pCR4Blunt- Cloning vector, kanamycin Invitrogen TOPO pJET 1.2 Cloning vector, ampiciline Thermo scientific pUC57 GeneScript Biotech donor vector GeneScript Biotech GGE020 pCR4Blunt-TOPO-T1-3Lip2 (Celiska et al., 2017) GGE077 pCR4Blunt-TOPO-G1-RedstarII (Celiska et al., 2017) GGE085 pCR4Blunt-TOPO-pTEF1 (Celiska et al., 2017) GGE104 pCR4Blunt-TOPO-pEYK1-3AB GGE114 pSB1A3-ZetaUP-URA3-RFP-ZetaDOWN (Celiska et al., 2017) GGE0130 pCR4Blunt-TOPO-pEYK1-2AB This work GGE0132 pCR4Blunt-TOPO-pEYK1-4AB This work GGE140 pCR4Blunt-TOPO-pEYD1AB This work GGE172 pCR4Blunt-TOPO-pEYD1A*B This work GGE174 pCR4Blunt-TOPO-pEYD1AB* This work GGE238 pCR4Blunt-TOPO-pEYK1 This work GGE250 pCR4Blunt-TOPO-pEYK1-5AB This work RIE132 Cre-EYK1 (2.2 kb pTEF-EYK1 fragment in This work (RIP132) pRRQ2) FCP007 pJET 1.2-pEYK300; ClaI-BamHI This work JME461 pRRQ2 (Cre ARS68 LEU2) Richard et al. (2001) JME507 JMP113 (URA3ex marker) Fickers et al. (2003) JME508 JMP114 (LEU2ex marker) Fickers et al. (2003) JME547 pUB4-CRE Fickers et al. (2003) JME803 JMP62-pPOX2-URA3ex Haddouche et al. (2010) JME1046 pTEF-URA3; JMP62 type vector with pTEF This work promoter JME1427 JMP62-pTEF-YFP-LEU2ex B Treton, unpublished JMP62-php4d-YFP-URA3ex B Treton, unpublished JME2027 pCR4Blunt-TOPO - ClaI-4UAS1xpr2-BstBI Dulermo et al., (2017) JME3265 JMP62-LYS5ex unpublished JME3267 PUT-lys5, PLYS5-UR43ex-TLYS5 This work JME3739 pTEF-CalBop-URA3ex, CalB expressed This work under the pTEF promoter (15ACCYRP_1762990_pJME1046-CalB) JME3934 JMP62-pEYK300-YFP-URA3ex This work (FCP013) JME3994 JMP62-pEYK450-YFR-UR43ex This work (JMP3994) JME3988 JMP62-pEYK300aB-YFP-URA3ex This work (JMP3988) JME3991 JMP62-pEYK300Ba-YFP-URA3ex This work (JMP3991) JME3998 JMP62-pHU4-EYK300-YFP-URA3ex This work (JMP3998) JME4056 pGEM6-easy-cre-EYK1 Vandermies et al., 2017 JME4123 PUC57-pEYK300A3B GenScript, Hong-Kong JME4124 PUC57-pEYK300A3b GenScript, Hong-Kong JME4137 JMP62-pEYK300A3B-YFP-URA3ex This work (JMP4137) JME4139 JMP62-pEYK300A3b-YFP-URA3ex This work (JMP4139) JME4265 Cre-ARS68-pTEF-EYK1 Vandermies et al. 2017 (RIE132) JME4266 pEYK3AB-URA3ex; JMP62 type vector with This work pEYK3AB promoter JME4230 pHu8-URA3ex; JMP62 type vector with This work pHu8 promoter JME4365 pEYK3AB-CalBop-URA3ex; JMP62 type This work vector with pEYK3AB promoter JME4384 pEYK3AB-CalBop-LYS5ex; JMP62 type This work vector with pEYK3AB promoter JME4417 pUC57-EYK1-4AB-coreTEF This study Y. lipolytica W29 MatA, CLIB89, ATCC20460, Wild-type Barth & Gaillardin French strain (1996) Po1d MatA ura3-302 leu2-270 xpr2-322 URA3ex Barth & Gaillardin (JMY195) LEU2 deleted for the extracellular protease (1996) AEP encoded by XPR2 gene RIY146 Po1d eyk1::LEU2, Ura.sup.+ This work RIY176 Po1d eyk1, Ura.sup.+ Leu.sup.+ This work RIY180 RIY176 + pEYK300-YFP-LEU2ex (Ura.sup.+ Leu.sup.+) This work (JMY6637) RIY201 Po1d lip2::URA3, Leu.sup.+ This work RIY203 Po1d lip2 This work RIY132 ARS68/CEN php4d-Cre pTEF-EYK1 This work RIY212 Po1d eyd1::URA3ex This work RIY225 Po1d eyd1 This work JMY330 Po1d, Ura+ Haddouche et al, (2010) JMY1212 MatA, leu2-270, ura3-LEU2-ZETA, xpr2-322, Bordes et al., (2003) lip2, lip7, lip8, deleted for the three lipases Lip2, Lip7 and Lip8 and the extracellular lipase AEP, zeta-LEU2 platform at the URA3 locus JMY2101 Po1d, Leu.sup.+ Dulermo et al. (2017) JMY2876 JMY330 + pTEF-YFP-LEU2ex (Ura+ Leu+) B. Treton unpublished JMY2900 Po1d, Ura.sup.+ Leu+ Dulermo et al. (2017) JMY5207 JMY1212 lys5::URA3ex, This work JMY6245 JMY2101 + pEYK300-YFP-URA3ex (Ura.sup.+ This work (FCY003) Leu.sup.+) JMY6369 JMY2101 + pEYK300aB-YFP-URA3ex (Ura.sup.+ This work Leu.sup.+) JMY6372 JMY2101 + pEYK300Ab-YFP-URA3ex (Ura.sup.+ This work Leu.sup.+) JMY6375 JMY2101 + pEYK450-YFP-URA3ex (Ura.sup.+ This work Leu.sup.+) JMY6380 JMY2101, + pHU4-EYK300-YFP-URA3ex This work (Ura.sup.+ Leu.sup.+) JMY6681 JMY2101 + pEYK300A3B-YFP-URA3ex This work (Ura.sup.+ Leu.sup.+) JMY6684 JMY2101 + pEYK300A3b-YFP-URA3ex This work (Ura.sup.+ Leu.sup.+) JMY7121 JMY1212 lys5 This work JMY7123 JMY1212 lys5, eyk1::URA3ex This work JMY7126 JMY1212 lys5, eyk1 This work JMY7240 JMY7126 + pEYK3AB-CalB-URA3ex + This work pEYK3AB-CalB-LYS5ex, (multicopie integration of CalB) *JME for the E. coli strain, JMP for the plasmid.
Growth in Microplate and Fluorescence Analysis
(24) Y. lipolytica precultures were grown overnight in YNBD, before being centrifuged, washed with an equal volume of YNB medium without carbon source and resuspended in 1 mL of the same medium. 96-well microplates containing 200 L of the appropriated medium (final volume) were inoculated with washed cells at an OD.sub.600 nm of 0.1. Growth was performed in a microtiter plate reader Synergy Mx (Biotek, Colmar, France), following the manufacturer's instructions at 28 C. and 110 rpm. OD.sub.600 nm and fluorescence were measured every 20 min for 72 h. YFP fluorescence was analyzed with the wavelength settings ex: 505 nm/em: 530 nm. Fluorescence was expressed as specific fluorescence unit (SFU, normalized to biomass value) or mean specific fluorescence value (mSFU, mean value of SFU for the different sampling times). In all case, the SFU value of the wild-type strain JMY2900 (i.e. cell intrinsic fluorescence) was deduced from that of the YFP reporter strain in the same experimental conditions (sampling time and medium). Cultures were performed in replicates.
(25) Growth and RedStarII Florescence Analysis
(26) YNB medium supplemented with glucose (10 g/L) or erythritol (10 g/L) was used for growth and florescence analysis. Growth of eyk1 strains were performed in YNB Lysine medium with 0.25% glucose as carbon source and 0.25% erythritol as inducer as described previously (Trassaert et al. 2017). Each Y. lipolytica clone from the plate was grown in YNBD for 24 hours. Cells were then transferred to fresh medium (final volume 200 L) in 96-well microplates. Growth was performed in a microtiter plate reader Synergy Mix (Biotek, Colmar, France) following the manufacturer's instructions at 28 C. and 110 rpm. OD600 nm and red fluorescence were measured every two hours for 60 hrs. Red fluorescence was analyzed with the wavelength settings ex: 558 nm/em: 586 nm. Fluorescence was expressed as mean specific fluorescence value per hour (SFU/h, mean value of SFU per hours). RedStarII fluorescence was expressed as specific fluorescence unit per hour. For RedStarII measurement, no intrinsic fluorescence was detected. Cultures were performed at least in duplicates.
(27) Growth in Chemostat and Monitoring of Promoter Induction by Flow Cytometry
(28) Y. lipolytica precultures were performed in YNBD for 12 h and washed cells were used for bioreactor inoculation at an OD.sub.600 nm of 0.5. Chemostat were performed in 200 ml (150 ml working volume) DASGIP DASbox Mini Bioreactors SR0250ODLS (Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany). They were first run for 7 h in batch mode before being shifted in continuous mode with dilution rates as stipulated in the text. Feeding of fresh medium was ensured by a Watson Marlow 323S peristaltic pump (Watson Marlow, Falmouth Cornwall, UK), and removal of spent medium was ensured by a Watson Marlow 120 U/DM3 peristaltic pump (Watson Marlow, Falmouth Cornwall, UK). Culture parameters were set as follows: temperature, 30 C.; agitation rate, 800 rpm; aeration rate at 1 vvm. Carbon source pulses (CSP) in the reactors were at fixed volume (4.2 ml), regardless of the pulse concentration. After each CSP, biomass, YFP fluorescence and carbon source concentrations were monitored for 8 hours with a sampling frequency of one hour. CSP were performed at steady state. Chemostat cultures were performed in duplicate.
(29) YFP fluorescence was monitored using a BD Accuri C6 Flow Cytometer (BD Biosciences, NJ, USA). Flow rate was fixed to 14 l/min, and samples were diluted with phosphate saline buffer (PBS) to reach a cell density ranging between 500 and 2500 cells/l. For each sample, 40,000 cells were analyzed using the FL1-A channel to identify fluorescence associated with the YFP (excitation was performed with a 20-mW, 488-nm solid-state blue laser; the emission wavelength was 533/30 nm). Additionally, data from the forward scatter channel (FSC-A) were collected to get information on the size dispersion among the cell population. The flow cytometry dotplots (FL1-A/FSC-A) were analyzed using CFlowPlus software (Accuri, BD Bioscience). For further processing, the raw data were exported as .fcs files and loaded in MatLab using the fca_readfsc function (downloaded from the MatLab File Exchange file server; http://www.mathworks.com). Background noise (cell intrinsic fluorescence) was fixed at 4,000 fluorescence units. This value encompasses the fluorescence level of at least 99.3% of the wild-type cells (strain JMY2900) grown in YNBG (glycerol), YNBOL (erythritol) and of JMY6245 (pEYK300-YFP) grown in YNBG (glycerol). Relative fluorescence (RFU) was defined as the sample median fluorescence value minus the intrinsic fluorescence value. Proportion of induced cells refers to the number of cells showing a fluorescence signal higher than 4,000 fluorescence units, relative to the total number of analyzed cells in the sample (i.e. 40,000). Gate Q1-UR of FSC-A/FL1-A cytograms encompasses induced cells.
(30) Sequence Analysis
(31) Genome sequences of Yarrowia species were assembled and annotated by Ccile Neuvglise, Hugo Devillers and coworkers (to be published). Homologues of EYD1 and EYK1 genes in Yarrowia species were identified by Blast on the private site of GRYC (Genome Resources for Yeast Chromosomes; http://gryc.inra.fr) using EYD1 and EYK1 genes as template as described previously (Carly et al. 2017). Promoter regions were retrieved using the download functionality developed by H. Devillers. Multiple alignment of nucleotide sequence of EYK1 and EYD1 genes promoters among the Yarrowia clade: Y. lipolytica (YALI), Yarrowia phangngensis (YAPH), Yarrowia yakushimensis (YAYA), Yarrowia alimentaria (YAAL), and Yarrowia galli (YAGA) were then performed using the program Clustal Omega (Sievers, et al. 2011) available at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/msa/clustalo/. From those alignments, the motifs conserved through evolution and thus, more likely to carry a regulatory function, were identified. The conserved motifs were named Box A and Box B. To test their function as Upstream Activating Sequence or Upstream Activation Sequence (UAS), Region containing these conserved motifs+5 to 17 bases encompassing the conserved motifs were selected.
(32) Plasmid and Yeast Strain Construction
(33) Plasmid Construction
(34) Restriction enzymes, DNA polymerases, and ligases were used in accordance with the manufacturer's recommendations. Restriction enzymes were obtained from OZYME (Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France) except I-SceI that was obtained from New Englands Biolab. PCR amplifications were performed using an Eppendorf 2720 thermal cycler with PyroBest DNA polymerase (Takara) for cloning purpose and with GoTaq DNA polymerase (Promega) for deletion/overexpression verification. PCR fragments were purified using a QIAgen Purification Kit (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany), and DNA fragments were recovered from agarose gels using a QIAquick Gel Extraction Kit (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany). DNA sequencing was performed by GATC Biotech and primers were synthetized by Eurogentec (Seraing, Belgium). The Clone Manager software package (Sci-Ed Software) was used for gene sequence analysis and primer design. Disruption and expression cassettes were transformed with the lithium acetate method (Le Dall et al., 1994). Transformants were selected on YNBcasa, YNBura, or YNB depending on their genotype (Barth and Gaillardin, 1996). The genomic DNA from yeast transformants was prepared as described by Querol et al. (1992). The plasmids used in this study are summarized in Table 1 and primers are listed in Table 2. Primers MT-URA3-for, MT-YFP-rev, pTEF-start, 61stop were used to verify successful insertion of the expression cassette and the promoter sequences. For each transformation, at least three independent transformants carrying the correct integration were analysed. The representative clones were used for this study. The vectors carrying the yellow fluorescent protein (YFP) under the control of the pTEF and php4d have been previously described (Table 1). The pEYK1 promoters and its derivatives (mutated and hybrid promoters) were introduced by exchange of the ClaI-BamH1 region or the ClaI-SpeI region of YFP encoding plasmid as described below. Y. lipolytica strains were transformed by the lithium acetate method as described previously (Le Dall et al., 1994). Expression vectors (400 ng) were digested with NotI and subjected to electrophoresis. The bands corresponding to the expression cassettes were extracted from the gel and used for transformation. Cre-mediated marker rescue and curing of the replicative cre expression plasmid were performed as described previously (Fickers et al., 2003).
(35) Plasmid Construction by Golden Gate Assembly
(36) Most amplicons of promoters were cloned in the donor vectors (pCR Blunt II TOPO vectors; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Villebon sur Yvette, France), verified by BsaI digestions and sequencing. Some of the promoters were synthesized and cloned in the donor vector (pUC57) by GeneScript Biotech (New Jersey, US) (See Table 1). All the primers used to amplify the promoter were designed to have the upstream overhang ACGG and the downstream overhang AATG (See Table 3) to be applied to Golden Gate assembly. Other building blocks of Golden Gate assembly (destination vector, RedStarII, and Lip2 terminator) were prepared by purification of plasmids from our own GGE collection (Golden Gate E. coli collection). The destination vector GGE114, pSB1A3-ZetaUP-URA3-RFP-ZetaDOWN (Table 1) contains the following part: zeta UP, URA3, RFP (Red fluorescent protein giving red E. coli colony), and zeta DOWN. Promoter name, primer pairs, and template used for PCR are described in Table 4. The Golden Gate Assembly Strategy (GGAS) is presented in
(37) TABLE-US-00009 TABLE2 Listofprimersused SEQ ID Gene/ NO: name Primers Sequences* 14 EYK1 EYK-P-L GTTGTGTGATGAGACCTTGG DeletionofEYK1 TGC verificationofEYK1 15 EYK1 EYK-P-R-SfiI AAAGGCCATTTAGGCCGCAG deletion CTCCTCCGACAATCTTG 16 EYK1 EYK-T-L-SfiI TAAGGCCTTGATGGCCACAA GTAGAGGGAGGAGAAGC 17 EYK1 EYK-T-R GTTTAGGTGCCTGAAGACGG TG 18 EYK1 EYK-V1 CGTACCCGAGATTGTACTGT VerificationofEYK1 TGTC deletion 19 EYK1 EYK-V2 CATAACCGCCTACCCTTGTA GC 20 EYK1 EYK1-AF TTCTTGGGCCCGGCCTAAAT CatabolicmarkerEYK1. GGCCCTGTTATCCCTAGATC Sites GATATAGAG Sfi1;Apa1and 21 EYK1 EYK1-KR AATAAGGTACCGGCCATCAA Sfi1*;Kpn1 GGCCATTCGATTTGTCTTAG AGGAACGC 22 EYD1 EYD-P-Fo AAGCGTCCGAGACTGTCGGA DeletionofEYD1and 23 EYD1 EYD-P-sfi- AAAGGCCATTTAGGCCACTG verificationofEYD1 Rev ACGTCTGTCTTGACGC deletion 24 EYD1 EYD-T-Sfi- TATGGCCTTGATGGCCCAGC Fo ATTGAGTCCAACGAGC 25 EYD1 EYD-T-Rev AGATCGAAGTTGGAATGAGA 26 EYD1 EYD-V CGAGTTTCTAAGATGTACAT 27 EYD1 URA3-P-R1 GTTGCCAATATCTGCGAACT TTCTG 28 LPR-F ATAGGCCTAAATGGCCTGCA Markersamplification TCGATCTAGGGATAACAGG withSfi1andSfi1* 29 LPR-R ATAGGCCATCAAGGCCGCTA GATAGAGTCGAGAATTACCC TG 30 LIP2 LIP2-PF CGGTCGGAATAATTACTGTG LIP2deletion: GACC amplificationofpromoter 31 LIP2 LIP2-PR AAAGGCCATTTAGGCCACTT andterminatorregions, GGGTATCAATTGAGGGCTTT Sfi1andSfi1*and C verificationofLIP2 32 LIP2 LIP2-TF TATGGCCTTGATGGCCTGTC disruption TCGGAGGAGCTGCAGCCC 33 LIP2 LIP2-TR TTGCTTAACACCAGTATCAG AACACAGAC 34 LIP2 LIP2-V ACGGAAGCGAAGTACCTGTC AC 35 ACT1 ACT-F GGCCAGCCATATCGAGTCG forRT-qPCRofACT1 CA gene 36 ACT1 ACT-R TCCAGGCCGTCCTCTCCC 37 EYK1 EYKq-F CTTCTGCTGGACCCTCTGTC forRT-qPCRofEYK1 38 EYK1 EYKq-R ACTGCACGTAGGGGATCAAC gene 39 EYD1 EYDqperFo CATGACCTTTCGGAACCAGT forRT-qPCRofEYD1 40 EYD1 EYDqper AACGCCTCTCTGGTCTTCAA gene Rev 41 P300 pEYK300F GACATCGATGCATCTACTTT Promoterampli, TCTCTATACTGT ClaI 42 P300 pEYKR GACGGATCCAGTAGATGTGT Promoterampli,BamHI AAGTGTGTAGAAG 43 P450 MT- ACGATCGATTTTGTGCAAGT Promoterampli,ClaI TATAampli- GTGTGTGTGTG F 44 P450 MT- ACGACTAGTCAGGTCATCGG Promoterampli,SpeI TATAampli- ATTATGCAAGG R 45 ST043 pEYK-mut1 CGATGCATCTACTTTTCTCTA WTnativeBoxA TACTGTACGTTTCAATCTGG GGAAGCGGAATCCCAAAAG GGAAAGCCGCCGCATTAAG CTCCACAGCC 46 ST044 pEYK- CGATGCATCTACTTTICTCTA MutatedBoxA mut1BIS TACTGTACGTTTCAATCTGG GGAAGCGGAATCCCAAAAG GACGCGTCGCCGCATTAAG CTCCACAGCC 47 ST045 pEYK-mut2 TTGCATAATCCGATGACCTG WTnativeBoxB A 48 ST046 pEYK- TTGTACGCGTAGATGACCTG MutatedBoxB mut2BIS A 49 ST047 pEYK-mutA GGCGTAATTCGAGGTGTCG WTnativeBoxA GAACGTATTAGGCTACTGGA complementarystrand CTGATC 50 ST048 pEYK- GGCGTAATTCGAGGTGTCG MutatedBoxA mutABIS GAACATGCGCATCTACTGGA complementarystrand CTGATC 51 ST049 pEYK-mutB TACGTAGATGAAAAGAGATA WTnativeBoxB TGACATGCAAAGTTAGACCC complementarystrand CTTCGCCTTAGGGTTTTCCC TTTCGCG 52 ST050 pEYK- TACGTAGATGAAAAGAGATA MutatedBoxB mutBbis TGACATGCAAAGTTAGACCC cornplementarystrand CTTCGCCTTAGGGTTTTCCT GCGCACG 53 MT-URA3- GCGTAGGTGAAGTCGTCAAT Forpromotersequence for verification(forward) 54 MT-YFP-rev CAGATGAACTTCAGGGTCAG Forpromotersequence C verification(reverse) 55 pTEF-start GGGTATAAAAGACCACCGTC Forgeneverification C (forward) 56 61stop GTAGATAGTTGAGGTAGAAG Forgeneverification TTG (reverse) 57 Sfi1 GGCCTAAATGGCC 58 Sfi1* GGCCATCAAGGCC * Modified sequences are in bold, restriction sites introduced are underlined.
Construction of PEYK300
(38) The promoter region of EYK1 gene (pEYK300) was amplified from genomic DNA of Y. lipolytica strain W29 with primer pair pEYK300 F/pEYK R, designed to introduce a ClaI and BamHI restriction sites, respectively, in the amplified fragment. The resulting amplicon was purified and cloned into pJET1.2, to yield plasmid FCP007. The pEYK300 fragment was then released from FCP007 and cloned at the corresponding site of JMP1427, yielding the plasmid JMP3934.
(39) Construction of PEYK450, PEYK300Ab and PEYK300aB Promoters
(40) Plasmid containing pEYK450 was obtained by PCR amplification of the intergenic region between genes YALI0F01628g and YALI0F01606g with primer pair MT-TATAampli-F/MT-TATAampli-R. This resulted in a 252 bp fragment carrying T, A and B boxes within a ClaI-SpeI fragment at the 5 and 3 ends, respectively. This fragment was ligated into FCP013 digested by ClaI-SpeI, to yield the plasmid JMP3994 (pEYK450). Plasmids containing pEYK300Ab and pEYK300aB were obtained by exchange of the ClaI-SpeI fragment of JMP3934 (pEYK300) by two ClaI-SpeI DNA fragments carrying the A (aB) or B (Ab) mutated regions, respectively. They were obtained by annealing oligonucleotides ST044/ST045/ST050/ST047 (fragment aB) and ST043/ST046/ST049/ST048 (fragment Ab) (Table 2). The oligonucleotides ST044 and ST046 contains a MluI site for the verification of the insertion of the mutation. The resulting plasmids were designated as JMP3988 (pEYK300aB) and JMP3991 (pEYK300Ab), respectively.
(41) Construction of Hybrid PHU4EYK300 Promoter
(42) The fragment carrying four tandem repeats of the UAS1.sub.XPR2 (HU4 deriving from pHp4d) was obtained by ClaI-BstBI digestion from the JMP2027 vector (Dulermo et al., 2017). After gel purification, it was then ligated at the ClaI site of JMP3934 (previously digested by ClaI and dephosphorylated). Correct orientation of the HU4 region was verified by ClaI-BamHI restriction and DNA sequencing. The resulting plasmid was named JMP3998 (pHU4EYK300).
(43) Construction of Hybrid EYK Promoter
(44) Synthetic promoters carrying three repeated of UAS1-eyk1 upstream of the wild-type Box B (A3B, JMP4123) and the mutated Box B (A3b, JMP4124) were synthesised by GenScript (www.genscript.com/) with ClaI and SpeI sites at the 5 and 3 ends, respectively. The ClaI-SpeI fragment from JMP4123 and JMP4124 were ligated into JMP918 digested by ClaI-SpeI, yielding the plasmid JMP4137 (pEYK300A3B) and JMP4139 (pEYK300A3b), respectively.
(45) Deletion of the EYK1 Gene
(46) The EYK1 disruption cassette was generated by PCR amplification. First, the upstream (Up) and downstream (Dn) regions of the EYK1 gene were amplified using Y. lipolytica W29 genomic DNA as the template with the EYK-P-L/EYK-P-R-SfiI and EYK-T-L-SfiI/EYK-T-R as primer pairs. URA3ex marker was amplified from JMP113 with the primer pair LPR-L-SfiI/LPR-R-SfiI (Table 2). Amplicons were digested with SfiI before being purified and ligated, using T4 DNA ligase. The ligation product was amplified by PCR using the primer pair EYK-P-L/EYK-T-R. The eyk1::URA3ex disruption cassette was finally used to transform Y. lipolytica strain Po1d. The resulting strain was designated RIY147 (eyk1::URA3ex, Leu.sup.). The auxotrophic derivative RIY176 was isolated after transformation with the replicative plasmid pRRQ2 according to Fickers et al. (2003) for marker rescue (Table 1). The primers EYK-V1 and EYK-V2 (Table 2) were used for gene disruption verification.
(47) Deletion of the EYD1 Gene
(48) The EYD1 disruption cassette was generated by PCR amplification. First, the upstream (Up) and downstream (Dn) regions of the EYD1 gene were amplified using Y. lipolytica W29 genomic DNA as the template with the EYD-P-Fo/EYD-P-sfi-Rev and EYD-T-Sfi-Fo/EYD-T-Rev as primer pairs. URA3ex marker was amplified from JMP113 with the primer pair LPR-F/LPR-R (Table 2). Amplicons were digested with SfiI before being purified and ligated, using T4 DNA ligase. The ligation product was amplified by PCR using the primer pair P1-EYD/T2-EYD. The eyd1::URA3ex disruption cassette was finally used to transform Y. lipolytica strain Po1d. The resulting strain was designated RIY212 (eyd1::URA3ex). The auxotrophic derivative RIY225 was isolated. The primers EYD-V and URA3-P-R1 (Table 2) were used for gene disruption verification.
(49) Construction of Plasmid JMP3739
(50) Y. lipolytica Lip2prepro-CalB protein was codon optimized using in house codon optimization software (Biocatalysts LTD), synthesized by Geneart (15ACCYPP_1762989_LIP2-CalB-YI-Opt) and cloned into JMP1046 giving rise to JMP3739 (15ACCYRP_1762990_pJME1046-CalB). The Lip2prepro-CalB sequence is provided as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 59:
(51) TABLE-US-00010 ATGAAGCTGCTGTCTCTGACCGGTGTGGCTGGTGTTCTGGCCACCTGTGT CGCTGCCACCCCTCTGGTGAAGCGACTGCCTTCTGGATCTGACCCTGCCT TCTCTCAGCCCAAGTCTGTTCTGGACGCTGGTCTGACCTGTCAGGGAGCT TCTCCTTCTTCTGTGTCTAAGCCCATTCTCCTGGTGCCTGGAACCGGAAC CACCGGTCCTCAGTCTTTCGACTCGAACTGGATTCCTCTGTCTACCCAGC TGGGATACACCCCCTGTTGGATTTCTCCTCCTCCTTTCATGCTGAACGAC ACCCAGGTGAACACCGAGTACATGGTGAACGCCATTACCGCTCTGTACGC TGGCTCTGGAAACAACAAGCTGCCCGTTCTGACCTGGTCTCAGGGAGGTC TGGTGGCTCAGTGGGGTCTGACCTTCTTCCCTTCTATTCGATCTAAGGTG GACCGACTGATGGCCTTCGCTCCCGACTACAAGGGAACCGTTCTGGCTGG TCCTCTGGACGCTCTGGCTGTCTCTGCTCCTTCTGTGTGGCAGCAGACCA CCGGCTCTGCTCTGACCACCGCTCTGCGAAACGCTGGAGGTCTGACCCAG ATTGTCCCCACCACCAACCTGTACTCTGCCACCGACGAGATTGTCCAGCC TCAGGTGTCTAACTCTCCTCTGGACTCTTCGTACCTGTTCAACGGAAAGA ACATTCAGGCTCAGGCTGTCTGTGGACCTCTGTTCGACATTGACCACGCT GGCTCTCTGACCTCTCAGTTCTCCTACGTGGTTGGACGATCTGCTCTGCG ATCTACCACCGGTCAGGCTCGATCTGCTGACTACGGTATCACCGACTGTA ACCCTCTGCCTGCCAACGACCTGACCCCTGAGCAGAAGGTGGCTGCTGCT GCTCTGCTGGCTCCCGAGGCTGCTGCCATTGTCGCTGGTCCCAAGCAGAA CTGCGAGCCCGACCTGATGCCTTACGCTCGACCCTTCGCTGTTGGAAAGC GAACCTGTTCTGGTATTGTCACCCCTTAA (Lip2preprosequenceisinboldandunderlined).
(52) Plasmid JMP1046 containing the pTEF promoter present the typical structure of the expression vector JMP62 (Nicaud et al., 2002) carrying an excisable marker (I-scel fragment flanked by LoxP/LoxR, a promoter as a ClaI-BamHI fragment, BamHI and AvrII sites for cloning a gene of interest and zeta region for random or zeta platform expression cassette integration, flanked by NotI site for the release of the expression cassette prior transformation.
(53) Construction of JMP4266.
(54) Promoter exchange was performed by digestion of JMP1046 plasmid by ClaI-BamHI for insertion of the inducible promoter pEYK3AB ClaI-BamHI fragment from JMP4123 resulting in plasmid JMP4266.
(55) Construction of CalB Expression Vectors
(56) First, the BamHI-AvrII fragment carrying preproLip2-CalBop was isolated from BamHI-AvrII digested JMP3739 and cloned at the corresponding site into JMP4266, giving rise to JMP4365. In a second step, the derivative plasmid JMP4384 was constructed by exchange of the IScel-URA3ex fragment with the corresponding I-SceI-LYS5ex fragment carrying the LYS5ex marker from JMP3265.
(57) Construction of JMY7126.
(58) The construction has been realized by successive gene deletion and marker rescue according to Fickers et al. (2003) as described in
(59) Construction JMY7240
(60) Strain JMY7126 was co-transformed with the two expression cassettes URA3ex-pEYK3AB-CalB (JMP4365) and LYS5ex-pEYK3AB-ClaB (JMP4384) (Table 1). Transformants were selected on YNBD agar plate.
(61) Construction of JMY7126
(62) Strain JMY7126, deriving from JMY1212, has been obtained after successive gene deletion (LYS5 and EYK1) and marker rescue (
(63) Construction of Strain for Promoter Studies
(64) Strains for promoter studies are described in Table 1. Plasmids for promoter analysis, assembled by Golden Gate assembly, were digested by NotI to allow the release of the expression cassette prior Y. lipolytica JMY1212 and JMY7126 transformation. After transformation with 100 ng DNA via the lithium acetate method (Le Dall et al., 1994), transformants were selected utilizing YNB or YNB Lysine medium depending on their genotype. After florescence test of twelve transformants of each construct, representative clone was selected (Table 1, Example 12).
(65) Analytical Methods
(66) Erythritol, erythrulose, glucose and glycerol concentrations in the culture supernatant were measured by HPLC (Agilent Technologies 1200 series) using a Aminex HPX-87H ion exclusion column, (Biorad 3007.8 mm). Elution was performed using 15 mM trifluoroacetic acid as the mobile phase at a flow rate of 0.5 mL/min and a temperature of 65 C. Erythritol, glucose and glycerol were detected using a refractive index detector (RID, Agilent Technologies), while erythrulose was measured at 210 nm with a UV detector (Agilent Technologies).
(67) Protein Analysis.
(68) Protein concentration was determined as described by Bradford (Bradford, M. M. 1976). The standard curve was obtained by serial dilutions of Pierce Bovine Serum Albumin Standard Ampules (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA). Proteins were subjected to sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) on a Novex 12% Tris-Glycine Mini Gel (Thermo Fisher Scientific) as described by Laemmli (Laemmli, U. K. 1970). Four l of pre-stained Protein Marker IV (AppliChem GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany) were used as molecular mass standards. Cell culture protein amounts equivalent to 5 l of cell supernatant were loaded per lane.
(69) Lipase Activity.
(70) Lipase activity on solid media was monitored on tributyrin plates (YNBDETo medium) after 120 h of incubation as previously described (Pignede et al., 2000). Lipase activity in culture supernatants was determined by monitoring the hydrolysis of para-nitrophenyl butyrate (p-NPB), according to Fickers et al. 2003. Briefly, p-NPB dissolved in acetonitrile (20% v/v) was added dropwise into vigorously stirred 100 mM phosphate buffer, pH 7.2, containing 100 mM NaCl to a final concentration of 1 mM. The resulting solution was sonicated for 2 min on ice. The reaction was initiated by addition of 20 l of culture supernatant (pure or diluted) to 1 mL of p-NPB solution. The release of para-nitrophenol (PNP=0.0148 M1 cm1) was monitored for three min at 405 nm (A405). Supernatant samples were diluted to obtain initial velocities below A405 of 0.3 U/min. All lipase activity assays were performed at least in duplicate from two independent cultures. One unit of lipase activity was defined as the amount of enzyme releasing 1 mol p-NPB per minute at 25 C. and pH 7.2 (U/ml). Specific lipase activity was defined as lipase activity per gram of CDW (U/gCDW). Lipase volumetric production rate was defined as lipase activity per hour of culture (U/mL.Math.h). Lipase specific production rate was defined as lipase activity per gram of CDW per hour of culture (U/gCDW.Math.h).
(71) TABLE-US-00011 TABLE3 Listofprimersusedforpromoteranalysisusing RedStarIIreportergene SEQ ID NO: Primers Sequences* Use 60 P1TEFFW GGTCTCTACGGGGGTTGGCGGCG Amplification 61 P1TEFRV GGTCTCTCATTCTTCGGGTGTGAGTTAC forbuilding 62 P1EYKFW GGTCTCTACGGCCCATCGATGGAAACCTTAA block TAGGAGACTACTTCC construction 63 P1EYKRV GGTCTCTCATTGGATCCAGTAGATGTGTAAG TG 64 P1EYDFW GGGGGGTCTCTACGGCCCATCGATGGAAAC CTTAATAGGAGACTACTTCC 65 P1EYDRV CCCGGTCTCTCATTTGTGTATGTGTGTGTGT GTGTGTG 66 EYDUAS1MluI CCTTAATAGGAGACTACTTCCGACGCGTAAT Additionof Fw TAGG MluIsitefor 67 EYDUAS1MluI CCTAATTACGCGTCGGAAGTAGTCTCCTATT EYD1UAS RV AAGG mutation 68 EYDUAS2MluI GAACTCGATACGCGTGCCGTACTCTGGAAA Fw 69 EYDUAS2MluI TTTCCAGAGTACGGCACGCGTATCGAGTTC RV 70 ZetaUp-internal- TATCTTCTGACGCATTGACCAC Verificationof FW GoldenGate 71 URA3-internal-FW CATCCAGAGAAGCACACAGG assembly 72 URA3-internal-RV CAACTAACTCGTAACTATTACC 73 Redstar-internal- AAGACGGTGGCGTTGTTACT FW 74 RedStar-internal- GACTTGCTTCTTGGCCTTGT RV 75 Tlip2-internal-FW TGCGTTCCTCTAAGACAAATC 76 Tlip2-internal-RV GATTTGTCTTAGAGGAACGCATA 77 ZetaDown-internal- GGTAACGCCGATTCTCTCTG RV *Bold-underlined correspond to the Bsal site with the overhang in italic.
Example 1. EYK1 Promoter is Induced by Erythritol and Erythrulose
(72) To date, two different pathways have been reported for erythritol catabolism. In a first one, erythritol is phosphorylated into erythritol-phosphate and then oxidized in erythrulose-phosphate (Barbier et al 2014). In a second one, erythritol is first converted into erythrulose before being phosphorylated into erythrulose-phosphate (Paradowska and Nikta, 2009). We have recently identified and characterized EYK1 gene (YALI0F1606g) in Y. lipolytica. Disruption of the latter abolished yeast growth on erythritol medium, showing that EYK1 gene is involved in erythritol catabolism. In addition, a eyk1 mutant was found to accumulate L-erythrulose. From this, it has been concluded that EYK1 encode an erythrulose kinase and that erythritol catabolism in Y. lipolytica follows the pathway depicted in
Example 2. Expression Levels of EYK1 and EYD1 in Erythritol or Glucose Medium
(73) In order to evaluate the expression level of genes EYK1 and EYD1 in erythritol or glucose medium, qPCR experiments were performed in the W29 wild-type strain. Shake-flask cultures were grown for 12 hours in YNB medium supplemented with either glucose or erythritol. Cells were then collected at an OD600 of 1.0 and stored at 80 C. RNA extraction and cDNA synthesis were performed as previously described (Sassi et al., 2016). Amplification was performed using primer couples ACT-F/ACT-R, EYKq-F/EYKq-R and EYDq-F/EYDq-R for actin, EYK1 and EYD1 respectively (Table 2). Gene expression levels were standardized using the expression level of actin as the reference (CT method). The fold difference in EYK1 or EYD1 expression between YNB+glucose and YNB+erythritol medium was calculated as 2.sup.CT (Livak and Schmittgen, 2001). Samples were analyzed in duplicate. Results are on
Example 3. Identification and Study of EYK1 and EYD1 Regulatory Elements
(74) Gene EYK1
(75) In order to identify the regulatory element (i.e. UAS) the EYK1 promoter region, we analysed the nucleotide sequence using the intergenic region between YALI0F01628g and YALI0F01606g (
(76) Gene EYD1
(77) In order to identify the regulatory element (i.e. UAS) within the EYD1 promoter region, we analysed the intergenic region between YALI0F01650g and YALI0F01672g. Since that this intergenic region was greater than 5500 bp (5591 bp), we analysed the upstream region using the 800 bp nucleic acid sequence upstream of YALI0F01650g. Blast analysis of the EYD1 promoter did not evidenced any conserved hit within Yarrowia lipolytica genome (data not shown). Therefore, we compared the promoter region of the EYD1 gene to those present in other species of the Yarrowia clade (namely, Yarrowia phangngensis, Yarrowia yakushimensis, Yarrowia alimentaria and Yarrowia galli) that have been recently sequenced and annotated in our laboratory. Boxed ATG correspond to the start codon of the YALI0F01650g. Sequence are from Y. lipolytica E150 (YALI; YALI0F01606g (SEQ ID NO: 83)), Yarrowia galli (YAGA, gene YAGA0A02014g (SEQ ID NO: 84)), Yarrowia phangngensis (YAPH-pEYD1, (SEQ ID NO: 85)), Yarrowia yakushimensis (YAYA-pEYD1 (SEQ ID NO: 86) and Yarrowia alimentaria (YAAL-pEYD1 (SEQ ID NO: 87)). Alignment of the EYD1 promoter sequences highlighted conserved motifs observed only within the 300 bp upstream region (
(78) In order to assess the regulation of the EYK1 promoter, two fragments of 450 bp and 300 bp, (EYK450 and EYK300, respectively), corresponding to the intergenic region of genes YALI0F01606g and YALI0F01628g were used to construct a reporter gene system based on a yellow fluorescent reporter protein (YFP) and the YFP fluorescence was used to quantify the promoter induction level (
(79) Fragments EYK450 and EYK300 that span over 438 bp and 291 bp upstream of the EYK1 start codon (
(80) Cell growth and YFP fluorescence were quantified over time during culture of strain JMY6245 in YNB minimal media supplemented with glucose (YNBD), glycerol (YNBG), erythritol (YNBOL) and erythrulose (YNBOSE).
(81) In medium containing erythritol (YNBOL) and erythrulose (YNBOSE), YFP fluorescence, and therefore pEYK300 induction levels were significantly higher than in the presence of glucose (YNBD) and glycerol (YNBG) (3157 and 4844 mSFU as compared to 344 and 357 mSFU, respectively) (
(82) In order to assess the strength of pEYK300 induction by erythritol and erythrulose, it was compared to that of the strong constitutive pTEF promoter. YFP fluorescence of strain JMY2876 (pTEF-YFP) was measured in the same experimental conditions and compared to that of strain JMY6245. As shown in Figure. 7b, pTEF expression was similar in the four media tested, with fluorescence values being 1192, 1369, 1485 and 1016 mSFU in YNBOL, YNBOSE, YNBDD and YNBG, respectively. Expression level for pEYK300 in YNBOL and YNBOSE were in average 2.6- and 3.5-fold higher than the expression level of pTEF, respectively.
(83) The comparison of YFP fluorescence under pEYK450 and pEYK300 indicates that the TATA box may be involved in the expression of gene YALIPF01628g rather than gene YALI0F01606g. Thus, in order to determine the role of Box A and Box B in pEYK regulation, two mutated promoters, namely pEYK300aB and pEYL300Ab, were constructed as described in material and method by exchange of the ClaI-SpeI fragment. Mutation of the conserved Box A and Box B were performed by introducing a MulI site. The sequence [GGAAAGCCGCC] was replaced by [GGAACGCGTCC] and named a. The sequence [CTTGCATAATCCGATGAC] was replaced by [CTTGTACGCGTAGATGAC] and named b. This yielded to pEYK300aB and pEYK300Ab, respectively (
(84) On the opposite, the mean relative YFP fluorescence measured for strain JMY6372 carrying the pEYK300Ab mutated promoter (
Example 4. Tandem Repeats of UAS1.SUB.EYK1 .Increase Promoter Strength
(85) Multicopy repeats of UAS elements upstream of a promoter have been shown to increase promoter strength (Madzak et al. 2000; Blazeck et al. 2011; Blazeck et al. 2013; three repeats of the 48 bp UAS1.sub.EYK1 fragment
(86) TABLE-US-00012 (GGGAAGCGGAATCCCAAAAGGGAAAGCCGCCGCATTAAGCTCCACAG C;SEQIDNO:13)
encompassing the Box A (in bold and underlined), upstream of the wild-type pEYK300 promoter (
(87) Promoter strength was monitored in the presence of glucose (YNBD), glycerol (YNBG), erythritol (YNBOL) and erythrulose (YNBOSE) and compared to that of pEYK300 (strain JMY6245). As shown in
(88) Since the insertion of several copies of the 48 bp UAS1.sub.EYK1 encompassing the Box A resulted in a stronger promoter induction level, it could be assumed that increasing the copy number of UAS1.sub.EYK1 would allow to fine tune the strength of promoter induction. Indeed, several strong synthetic hybrid promoters have been created by fusing tandem repeats of upstream activation sequence (UAS) upstream to a core promoter region. The first one (hp4d) was based on four tandem repeats of the 108 bp UAS1.sub.XPR2 of the XPR2 gene upstream on the minimal LEU2 core promoter (Madzak et al, 2000). Later Blazek and coworker's constructed hybrid promoter containing up to 32 copies of UAS1.sub.XPR2 of the XPR2 gene upstream on the minimal LEU2 core promoter and 16 copies of UAS1.sub.XPR2 of the XPR2 gene upstream of TEF core promoters of different length (Blazek et al, 2011). Promoter strength increase with copy number of the UAS, and the best one showed a 10-fold increase expression compared to the pTEF promoter. Similar expression levels were obtained by inserting three tandem copies of the 230 bp UAS1.sub.TEF upstream of the pTEF promoter (Blazek et al, 2013) and its expression did not vary significantly with carbon source (glucose, sucrose, glycerol and oleic acid). The only strong inducible promoter is the POX2 one (Juretzek et al. 2000). Oleic acid inducible hybrid synthetic promoters were obtained comprising eight copies of UAS1.sub.xpr2 upstream of the 100 bp proximal core POX2 promoter. This UAS-core promoter chimera showed a 4.2-fold higher expression level in oleic acid media than in glucose in contrast to a 2-fold higher expression level for the 8 copies of UAS1.sub.xpr2 upstream of the 136 bp proximal core TEF promoter (Hussain et al. 2016). Here we showed that an hybrid promoter containing two additional tandem copies of the short 48 bp UAS1.sub.EYK1 upstream of the EYK1 promoter results in a 3.3-fold stronger promoter, thus stronger erythritol/erythrulose inducible promoter may be constructed by introducing additional tandem repeats of the UAS1.sub.EYK1.
Example 5. UAS1B from XPR2 Enhanced Promoter Strength without Affecting Erythritol and Erythrulose Induction
(89) Madzak and colleagues reported that the fusion of four tandems repeats of UAS1B of XPR2 gene upstream of a minimal promoter of the LEU2 gene (yielding the so-called hp4d hybrid promoter) allowed a significant transcriptional activity (Madzak et al. 2000). In the same line, we combined four copies of UAS1.sub.XPR2 (UAS1B) with the pEYK300 promoter leading to promoters HU4EYK300 (JME3998) (
Example 6. Hybrid Promoter HU4EYK300 is Inducible by Erythritol and Erythrulose
(90) The regulation of the hybrid promoter pHU4EYK300 was characterized in the presence of a mixture of glycerol/erythritol or glycerol/erythrulose. These experiments were performed at steady state in chemostat culture in YNBG medium with CSP of erythritol or erythrulose. The regulation of pHU4EYK300 was investigated in regards to the growth rate of strain JMY6380 and the composition of the culture medium, more specifically in the presence of a mixture of glycerol/erythritol or glycerol/erythrulose.
(91) Erythritol and Erythrulose Concentration Modulate the Strength pHU4EYK300 Induction in the Presence of Glycerol
(92) To assess the influence of inducer concentration on the regulation of pHU4EYK300, chemostat cultures of JMY6380 were performed on YNBG medium at a dilution rate of 0.2 h.sup.1. At steady state, different amount of erythritol or erythrulose were injected in the bioreactor to reach a final concentration of 0.2 and 0.6% (hereafter 0.2 CSP and 0.6 CSP, respectively) Glycerol, erythritol, erythrulose and YFP fluorescence were monitored for 8 h after inducer addition. In all experimental conditions tested, glycerol concentration remained almost constant (i.e. 3 g/I) in the bioreactor, confirming that a steady state was maintained in those experimental conditions.
(93) As shown in
Example 7. Deletion of EYK1 Enhanced pEYK Expression
(94) A disruption cassette was constructed as described in material and methods. The disruption cassette, carrying a URA3 marker, was introduced into Po1d, yielding strain RIY147 (eyk1::URA3). The marker was then excised with pRRQ2 (Fickers et al 2003), yielding an eyk1 strain (RIY176, Table 1). The expression cassette carrying pEYK300-YFP-LEU2ex was then introduced into RIY176, giving rise to strain RIY180 (JMY6637). Since eyk1 could not grow on erythritol and erythrulose as sole carbon source, strain JMY6637 was grown in the presence of glucose or glycerol, used as energy source. Therefore, JMY6245 (pEYK300-WT) and JMY6637 (pEYK300-eyk1) grown in YNBDOL (glucose, erythritol), YNBGOL (glycerol, erythritol), YNBDOSE (glucose, erythrulose), YNBGOSE (glycerol, erythrulose). Induction of the promoters was followed over time in microplates with glucose or glycerol for growth (0.25%) and with erythritol or erythrulose for induction (0.25%).
(95) As shown in
(96) For strain JMY6245 (pEYK300-WT), the rates of the increase of the YFP fluorescence in presence of erythritol were 97 FU/h and 83 FU/h in glucose and glycerol, respectively. While, in the mutant eyk, the rates of the increase of the YFP fluorescence were 10.5-fold higher (1034 FU/h and 875 FU/h in glucose and glycerol, respectively).
(97) Similarly, in the presence of erythrulose higher induction levels were obtained for the eyk mutant (pEYK300-eyk1) as compared to the non-disrupted mutant (pEYK300-EYK1) The rate of YFP production in the mutant strain was 6.1-fold higher in glucose as compared to the wild-type strain (4000 FU/h and 347 FU/h, respectively). In the presence of glycerol, this increase was equal to and was 7.3-fold (2527 FU/h and 875 FU/h, respectively).
(98) These results demonstrate that expression level could be further improved by using a strain deleted for the EYK1 gene. In such strain erythritol or erythrulose could be used as inducer and could be used independently having induction either during the growth phase or delayed from the growth phase.
(99) Similarly, a disruption cassette was constructed as described in material and methods for the deletion of EYD1 gene. The disruption cassette, carrying a URA3 marker, was introduced into JMY2101, yielding strain RIY212 (eyd1::URA3). The marker was then excised with pRRQ2 (Fickers et al 2003), yielding an eyk1 strain (RIY225, Table 1). Such strain could also be used as recipient for gene expression or metabolic engineering using either pEYK1 or pEYK1 derivative promoters and/or pEYD1 or pEYD1 derivatives promoters.
(100) Growth Rate has No Effect on PHU4EYK300 Induction.
(101) Yeast cell physiology is directly influenced by the growth rate. With the aim to evaluate the influence of cell growth rate on pHU4EYK300 induction by erythritol, chemostat cultures were performed in YNBOL medium at two distinct dilution rates (i.e. 0.16 h.sup.1 and 0.08 h.sup.1). The fluorescence levels of YFP were monitored by flow cytometry in order to assess the induction level at the single cell level. No significant difference in the promoter induction levels could be observed for the two dilution rates tested (data not shown). Indeed, the mean relative fluorescence of the cell population was equal to 8.860.62 0.104 RFU at D=0.16 h.sup.1, and to 9.470.31 0.104 RFU at D=0.08 h.sup.1. Moreover, cytograms showed that the cell population is homogenously induced in presence of erythritol (
Example 8. EYK1 Encoding Erythrulose Kinase as a Catabolic Selectable Marker for Genome Editing in the Non-Conventional Yeast Yarrowia lipolytica
(102) Selectable markers are a central component of genome edition technologies. In the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica, these markers are based on auxotrophy (leucine, uracil), antibiotic resistance (hygromycin B) or carbon source utilisation (SUC2) (Barth and Gaillardin, 1996). Multi-step genome editions imply the use of multi-auxotrophic strains, and as a drawback their final utilization requires to complement, at least partly, the culture medium accordingly or to render strains prototroph. Dominant markers, such as the E. coli hph gene, conferring resistance to hygromycin B, could also be used. However, they remain difficult to handle in practice due to a high level of spontaneous resistance in transformed cells. Genes related to the catabolism of carbon sources, hereafter catabolic selectable markers (CSM), present the advantage of not being involved in essential metabolic pathways. For instance, SUC2 from Saccharomyces cerevisiae encoding invertase and conferring the ability of the recombinant strains to grow on sucrose has been developed as a CSM (Nicaud et al., 1989). However, its utilization is impaired by residual growth on sucrose impurities.
(103) Here, EYK1 (YALI0F01606g) encoding an erythrulose kinase is reported as a novel CSM. Therefore, a eyk1 strain transformed with a DNA fragment carrying EYK1 under the control of the strong constitutive pTEF promoter could be screened for Ery.sup.+ (erythritol positive) phenotype on YNB medium supplemented with erythritol (10 g/L, YNBE medium). To assess the fidelity of this novel CSM, LIP2 encoding the extracellular lipase lip2 (Pignede et al., 2000) was disrupted using EYK1 as CSM and compared to URA3 and LEU2 selectable markers for its efficiency. The disruption cassettes (DC) were constructed using a cloning-free strategy derived from the previously reported Cre-lox method (Fickers et al., 2003). This update combines directed fragment assembly based on SfiI recognition sequence (SRS) and PCR amplification. Indeed, an appropriate design of the five inner-degenerated nucleotides of SRS (i.e. GGCCNNNNNGGCC) allows a directed assembly of the DC constitutive elements prior its final release by PCR amplification. In a first step, the 5 and 3 flanking regions of the gene to be disrupted (i.e. LIP2, P.sub.LIP2 and T.sub.LIP2 fragments, respectively) and a selectable marker (i.e. URA3, LEU2, EYK1; rescued from JMP113, JMP114, RIP131, respectively) were amplified by PCR using primers LPR-F/LPR-R in order to introduce compatible SRS as illustrated in
(104) To extend the utilisation of EYK1 as a CSM, a replicative vector, allowing transient expression of the Cre recombinase for marker excision (Fickers et al., 2003), was constructed based on that selectable marker. Briefly, pTEF-EYK1 fragment was amplified from RIP131 with primer pair EYK1-AF/EYK1-KR, digested by Apa1 and Kpn1, before being cloned at the corresponding site of pRRQ2 to yield RIP132 (hosted in strain RIE132). In strain RIY147 (Po1d eyk1::URA3), URA3 marker was excised with an efficiency of 80% and 50%, respectively, by using RIP132 (Cre-EYK1) and pRRQ2 (Cre-LEU2). In strain RIY203, correctness of URA3 excision was verified by analytical PCR (
(105) Through these results, EYK1 has been demonstrated as a suitable catabolic selectable marker for both targeted gene disruption and vector transformation. Compared to URA3 and LEU2 auxothrophic markers, transformants harboring EYK1 marker grow faster and marker excision was found to occur at a higher rate. Moreover, the cloning free method reported here for the construction of disruption cassettes renders genome edition in Y. lipolytica more straightforward.
(106) Similarly, EYD1 could be used as a catabolic marker in strain RIY225 (eyd1) or any strain bearing a deletion in EYD1 gene.
Example 9. Construction of the New Host Strain JMY7126 for Protein Expression and Secretion Carrying Deletion of EYK1 Gene
(107) The host strain JMY1212 is deleted for the main protease, the alkaline extracellular protease Aep encoded by the XPR2 gene and the main lipases encoded by the LIP2, LIP7 and LIP8 genes. It contains a single auxotrophy for uracil (deletion of URA3 gene) (see Table 1). Therefore, only a single expression cassette could be introduced using URA3 marker. To perform further modifications such as insertion of an additional expression cassette or to introduce a gene deletion to improve secretion, the URA3 marker must be rescued using a replicative cre-hph vector by select on YPD hygromycin plate (Fickers et al. 2003).
(108) The new host strain JMY7126 was constructed as described in
(109) First, in order to introduce additional auxotrophy, we deleted the LYS5 gene coding for the saccharopine dehydrogenase (Xuan et al., 1990) resulting in lysine auxotrophy. The resulting strain JMY5207 was then transformed with the pUB-cre-hph to rescue uracyl auxotrophy. Secondly, deletion of the EYK1 gene involved in the catabolism of erythritol was introduced in order to, on one hand be able to use the newly developed method of marker rescues using cre-EYK1 replicative vector (
(110) The host strain JMY7126 could be therefore used for enzyme engineering as JMY1212 taking advantage of the zeta platform or used for the construction of overproducing enzymes by construction of multiple copy strains using the two auxotrophies available uracil and lysine. This new strain contains the deletion of the EYK1 gene which allows better expression and induction upon erythritol induction.
Example 10. Expression of CalB Lipase Using Erythritol Inducible Promoter pEYK3AB (Also Named pEYK300A3B in FIG. 9 and Equivalent to pEYK1-3AB in FIG. 18)
(111) For the construction of CalB overexpressing strains, expression cassettes pEYK3AB-CalB-URA3ex and pEYK3AB-CalB-LYS5ex were co-transformed into JMY7126 and selected on minimal YNB glucose medium. The transformants were first screened for their growth and lipase production. The transformant JMY7240, having the highest specific lipase activity, was selected for fermentation studies.
(112) In a previous study, Trassaert and colleagues (2017) showed that the induction levels of pEYK1-derived promoters were dependent of the erythritol concentration in the culture medium, hence of the erythritol uptake by the cells. Recently, it was demonstrated that a high glycerol concentration negatively affects erythritol uptake by the cells (Carly et al., 2018). Fed-batch culture was tested to minimize glycerol concentration in the culture medium (in order to increase pEYK300A3B induction level), while providing sufficient energy to the cells. Strain JMY7240 was cultivated for 48 h in a 2 L fed-batch bioreactor, in YNBE liquid medium initially supplemented with 1 g/L glycerol. Based on anterior results (Carly et al., 2018), additional glycerol was added to the reactor at a feeding rate of 0.41 g/L.Math.h for 24 h of culture, and then of 0.82 g/L.Math.h for the next 24 h. These feeding values are both lower than the glycerol uptake capacity of Y. lipolytica at the considered biomass concentration. As shown in
Example 11. Tandem Repeats of UAS1 EYK1 Increase Promoter Strength Both in EYK1 Wild-Type (JMY1212) and in Mutant eyk1A Strain (JMY7126) Background
(113) Promoter Bricks Construction
(114) The first step was to construct different bio-brick for promoter analysis that will be compatible with our Golden Gate Assembly method (Celiska et al. 2017). We used different strategies to construct promoters bricks compatible with the Y. lipolytica GGAS. Firstly, the presence of internal BsaI sites within the promoter sequence was analyzed. Depending on the number of BsaI site, either they were eliminated by PCR mutagenesis, either a synthetic DNA fragment was purchased at GeneScript Biotech. Secondly, we added BsaI sites at both end of the promoter by PCR with the overhang required for a specific position of the GGAS. We designed P1 Promoters with the upstream overhang C (ACGG) and the downstream overhang D (AATG). Third, we purified the PCR product by gel extraction, cloned them into a TOPO vector (Table 1), and selected the recombinant plasmids in E. coli. Promoter cloning in TOPO was first verified by PCR on E. coli colonies followed by a migration of the PCR product on agarose gel. Finally, DNA was extracted from positive clones and verified by sequencing. Alternatively, promoters were purchased from GeneScript Biotech as DNA fragment or cloned into GeneScript Biotech vector (See Table 1).
(115) Creation of Expression Cassettes by Golden Gate Assemblies for Promoter Analysis.
(116) We decided to create assemblies with the GGAS between promoters, the fluorescent protein RedStarII and the Lip2 terminator as described in
(117) The description of promoter construction with the promoter name, the forward and reverse primer pair used for amplification, the template used for PCR amplification, the E. coli strain containing the corresponding Golden Gate assembly and the representative Y. lipolytica transformant used for promoter analysis are summarized in Table 4.
(118) TABLE-US-00013 TABLE 4 Primer Template E. coli Y. lipolytica strain Promoter Forward Reverse used strain JMY1212 JMY7126 TEF1 P1 TEF FW P1 TEF RV JME2928 GGE085 GGY037 GGY109 EYK1 P1 EYK FW P1 EYK RV JME3934 GGE238 JMY7382 JMY7384 EYK1-2AB P1 EYK FW P1 EYK RV synthesized GGE0130 GGY027 GGY056 EYK1-3AB P1 EYK FW P1 EYK RV synthesized GGE0104 JMY7345 JMY7394 EYK1-4AB P1 EYK FW P1 EYK RV synthesized GGE0132 GGY033 GGY068 EYK1-5AB P1 EYK FW P1 EYK RV Synthesized GGE250 JMY7390 JMY7392 EYK1-4AB- Synthesized JME4417 JMY7325 JMY7400 Core TEF EYD1AB P1 EYD FW P1 EYD RV Y. lipolytica GGE140 JMY7386 JMY7388 genomic DNA EYD1A*B P1 EYD FW EYD UAS1 GGE140 GGE172 JMY7398 JMY7349 EYD UAS1 Mlul RV Mlul FW P1 EYD RV EYD1AB* P1 EYD FW EYD UAS2 GGE140 GGE174 JMY7396 JMY7351 EYD UAS2 Mlul RV Mlul FW P1 EYD RV
(119) The resulting sequences of promoters are summarized in Table 5.
(120) TABLE-US-00014 TABLE5 Promotersequence SEQ ID NO: Promoter Sequence* 88 TEF GGTCTCTACGGGGGTTGGCGGCGTATTTGTGTCCCAAAAAACAGCCCCAAT TGCCCCAATTGACCCCAAATTGACCCAGTAGCGGGCCCAACCCCGGCGAG AGCCCCCTTCACCCCACATATCAAACCTCCCCCGGTTCCCACACTTGCCGT TAAGGGCGTAGGGTACTGCAGTCTGGAATCTACGCTTGTTCAGACTTTGTA CTAGTTTCTTTGTCTGGCCATCCGGGTAACCCATGCCGGACGCAAAATAGA CTACTGAAAATTTTTTTGCTTTGTGGTTGGGACTTTAGCCAAGGGTATAAAA GACCACCGTCCCCGAATTACCTTTCCTCTTCTTTTCTCTCTCTCCTTGTCAA CTCACACCCGAAGAATGAGAGACC 89 Core-TEF GGTTGGGACTTTAGCCAAGGGTATAAAAGACCACCGTCCCCGAATTACCTT TCCTCTTCTTTTCTCTCTCTCCTTGTCAACTCACACCCGAAGgatcccacaAATG AGAGACC 90 EYK1 GGTCTCTACGGatcgatTGCATCTACTTTTCTCTATACTGTACGTTTCAATCTG GGGAAGCGGAATCCCAAAAGGGAAAGCCGCCGCATTAAGCTCCACAGCCT TGCATAATCCGATGACCTGACTAGTGCGGACAAAGACTATTATTTCGAGGC AAGGCCACCACGTACCGCGGTCCCAAACTTTTGCAAAGCTGAAAACAGCGT GGGGGTCAACGTGGATCAGAAAGAGGGGCAGATCAGCTTCTATAAGAAGC TCCTTTCCCCACAATTGGCCCACACGACACTTCTACACACTTACACATCTAC TggatccATGAGAGACC 91 EYK1-2AB GGTCTCTACGGCGATACGCGTATCGATGCATCTACTTTTCTCTATACTGTAC GTTTCAATCTGGGGAAGCGGAATCCCAAAAGGGAAAGCCGCCGCATTAAG CTCCACAGCGGGAAGCGGAATCCCAAAAGGGAAAGCCGCCGCATTAAGCT CCACAGCCTTGCATAATCCGATGACCTGACTAGTGCGGACAAAGACTATTA TTTCGAGGCAAGGCCACCACGTACCGCGGTCCCAAACTTTTGCAAAGCTGA AAACAGCGTGGGGGTCAACGTGGATCAGAAAGAGGGGCAGATCAGCTTCT ATAAGAAGCTCCTTTCCCCACAATTGGCCCACACGACACTTCTACACACTTA CACATCTACTggatccATGAGAGACC 92 EYK1-3AB GGTCTCTACGGCGATACGCGTatcgatGCATCTACTTTTCTCTATACTGTACGT TTCAATCTGGGGAAGCGGAATCCCAAAAGGGAAAGCCGCCGCATTAAGCT CCACAGCGGGAAGCGGAATCCCAAAAGGGAAAGCCGCCGCATTAAGCTCC ACAGCGGGAAGCGGAATCCCAAAAGGGAAAGCCGCCGCATTAAGCTCCAC AGCCTTGCATAATCCGATGACCTGACTAGTGCGGACAAAGACTATTATTTCG AGGCAAGGCCACCACGTACCGCGGTCCCAAACTTTTGCAAAGCTGAAAACA GCGTGGGGGTCAACGTGGATCAGAAAGAGGGGCAGATCAGCTTCTATAAG AAGCTCCTTTCCCCACAATTGGCCCACACGACACTTCTACACACTTACACAT CTACTggatccATGAGAGACC 93 EYK1-4AB GGTCTCTACGGCGATACGCGTatcgatGCATCTACTTTTCTCTATACTGTACGT TTCAATCTGGGGAAGCGGAATCCCAAAAGGGAAAGCCGCCGCATTAAGCT CCACAGCGGGAAGCGGAATCCCAAAAGGGAAAGCCGCCGCATTAAGCTCC ACAGCGGGAAGCGGAATCCCAAAAGGGAAAGCCGCCGCATTAAGCTCCAC AGCGGGAAGCGGAATCCCAAAAGGGAAAGCCGCCGCATTAAGCTCCACAG CCTTGCATAATCCGATGACCTGACTAGTGCGGACAAAGACTATTATTTCGAG GCAAGGCCACCACGTACCGCGGTCCCAAACTTTTGCAAAGCTGAAAACAGC GTGGGGGTCAACGTGGATCAGAAAGAGGGGCAGATCAGCTTCTATAAGAA GCTCCTTTCCCCACAATTGGCCCACACGACACTTCTACACACTTACACATCT ACTggatccATGAGAGACC 94 EYK1-5AB GGTCTCTACGGCGATACGCGTatcgatGCATCTACTTTTCTCTATACTGTACGT TTCAATCTGGGGAAGCGGAATCCCAAAAGGGAAAGCCGCCGCATTAAGCT CCACAGCGGGAAGCGGAATCCCAAAAGGGAAAGCCGCCGCATTAAGCTCC ACAGCGGGAAGCGGAATCCCAAAAGGGAAAGCCGCCGCATTAAGCTCCAC AGCGGGAAGCGGAATCCCAAAAGGGAAAGCCGCCGCATTAAGCTCCACAG CGGGAAGCGGAATCCCAAAAGGGAAAGCCGCCGCATTAAGCTCCACAGCC TTGCATAATCCGATGACCTGACTAGTGCGGACAAAGACTATTATTTCGAGG CAAGGCCACCACGTACCGCGGTCCCAAACTTTTGCAAAGCTGAAAACAGCG TGGGGGTCAACGTGGATCAGAAAGAGGGGCAGATCAGCTTCTATAAGAAG CTCCTTTCCCCACAATTGGCCCACACGACACTTCTACACACTTACACATCTA CTggatccATGAGAGACC 95 Core-EYK1 CTGACTAGTGCGGACAAAGACTATTATTTCGAGGCAAGGCCACCACGTACC GCGGTCCCAAACTTTTGCAAAGCTGAAAACAGCGTGGGGGTCAACGTGGA TCAGAAAGAGGGGCAGATCAGCTTCTATAAGAAGCTCCTTTCCCCACAATT GGCCCACACGACACTTCTACACACTTACACATCTACTggatccATGAGAGACC 96 EYK1-4AB- GGTCTCTACGGCGATACGCGTatcgatGCATCTACTTTTCTCTATACTGTACGT CoreTEF TTCAATCTGGGGAAGCGGAATCCCAAAAGGGAAAGCCGCCGCATTAAGCT CCACAGCGGGAAGCGGAATCCCAAAAGGGAAAGCCGCCGCATTAAGCTCC ACAGCGGGAAGCGGAATCCCAAAAGGGAAAGCCGCCGCATTAAGCTCCAC AGCGGGAAGCGGAATCCCAAAAGGGAAAGCCGCCGCATTAAGCTCCACAG CCTTGCATAATCCGATGACCTGACTAGTGCGGTTGGGACTTTAGCCAAGGG TATAAAAGACCACCGTCCCCGAATTACCTTTCCTCTTCTTTTCTCTCTCTCCT TGTCAACTCACACCCGAAggatccCACAATGAGAGACC 97 EYD1AB GGTCTCTACGGCCCatcgatGGAAACCTTAATAGGAGACTACTTCCGTTTCCT AATTAGGACTTCCGCGACCCCAGACAAAGCGGCTTGGAGTAGGCCTCGTG TCCGGCCTAGGGCAGAAACAGCTCCGGAACTCGATTGAGAAGCCGTACTC TGGAAAGTCTAGAGGAAGTTCCAAGGTCGAGTCTCTTCGATATAAAAGGAC GCCATGGAAGCTCTGTAGTTCGATATCAAATACTGACAACAGTTTCCAAACA CACAAACACACACACACACACACACACACATACACACATGAGAGACC 98 EYD1A*B GGTCTCTACGGCCCatcgatGGAAACCTTAATAGGAGACTACTTCCGACGCGT TAATTAGGACTTCCGCGACCCCAGACAAAGCGGCTTGGAGTAGGCCTCGT GTCCGGCCTAGGGCAGAAACAGCTCCGGAACTCGATTGAGAAGCCGTACT CTGGAAAGTCTAGAGGAAGTTCCAAGGTCGAGTCTCTTCGATATAAAAGGA CGCCATGGAAGCTCTGTAGTTCGATATCAAATACTGACAACAGTTTCCAAAC ACACAAACACACACACACACACACACACACATACACACATGAGAGACC 99 EYD1AB* GGTCTCTACGGCCCatcgatGGAAACCTTAATAGGAGACTACTTCCGTTTCCT AATTAGGACTTCCGCGACCCCAGACAAAGCGGCTTGGAGTAGGCCTCGTG TCCGGCCTAGGGCAGAAACAGCTCCGGAACTCGATACGCGTGCCGTACTC TGGAAAGTCTAGAGGAAGTTCCAAGGTCGAGTCTCTTCGATATAAAAGGAC GCCATGGAAGCTCTGTAGTTCGATATCAAATACTGACAACAGTTTCCAAACA CACAAACACACACACACACACACACACACATACACACATGAGAGACC 100 Core-EYD1 TAGAGGAAGTTCCAAGGTCGAGTCTCTTCGATATAAAAGGACGCCATGGAA GCTCTGTAGTTCGATATCAAATACTGACAACAGTTTCCAAACACACAAACAC ACACACACACACACACACACATACACACATGAGAGACC * BsaI site are underlined with the 4 bp overhang bolded, MluI site is underlined for EYD1A*B et EYD1 AB*. The ClaI and BamHI are in lower case, introduced to be compatible for promoter exchange into JMP62 type vector.
Tandem Repeats of UAS1.sub.EYK1 Increase Promoter Strength in Both JMY1212 and JMY7126.
(121) We showed that promoter strength was increased with the hybrid promoter pEYK300A3B composed of three repeats of the 48 bp UAS1.sub.eyk1. Four new hybrid promoters were generated by fusing two, three, four, or five UAS1.sub.EYK1 tandem elements taken from EYK1 promoter, named EYK1-2AB, EYK1-3AB, EYK1-4AB, and EYK1-5AB, respectively (
(122) In strain JMY1212, activity increased slightly concomitantly to UAS1eyk1 copy number ranging from 0.54 to 4.42 SFU/h (Table 6). While SFU rate increased more significantly on erythritol medium, increasing from 2.28 SFU/h for EYK1 (one copy) up to 48.12 SFU/h for EYK1-5AB (5 copies). The fold induction also increased from 4.3-fold up to 19.0-fold. The optimum been observed for EYK1-4AB. In this growth condition, on glucose media EYK1 present a low expression, 0.54 SFU/h compared to TEF promoter which as an activity of 67.16 SFU/h. While in erythritol medium TEF promoter as a similar strength than on glucose, 65.42 SFU/h and EYK1-4AB is 48.12 SFU/h. Thus, the EYK hybrid promoter has a similar activity in inducible condition than the TEF promoter and has the strong advantage to be inducible.
(123) In strain JMY7126, activity also increased concomitantly to UAS1eyk1 copy number ranging from 0.76 up to 13.15 SFU/h (Table 6). While SFU rate increased more significantly on erythritol media increasing from 7.13 for EYK1 (one copy) up to 90.15 for EYK1-5AB (5 copies).
(124) The fold induction also increased from 9.4-fold up to 45.8-fold. The optimum been observed for EYK1-2AB. In this growth condition, on glucose media EYK1 present a low expression, 0.76 SFU/h compared to TEF promoter which as an activity of 24.11 SFU/h. While in erythritol medium TEF promoter as a slightly reduced strength, 17.45 SFU/h and EYK1-5AB is 90.15 SFU/h. In this condition and this strain background (strain deleted for EYK1 gene), the EYK1 hybrid promoter surpasses the TEF promoter being 5.16-fold stronger.
Example 12. Both UAS1.SUB.EYD1 .and UAS2.SUB.EYD1 .Give Rise to Inducible Promoter in Both EYK1 Wild-Type (JMY1212) and in Mutant eyk1A Strain (JMY7126) Background
(125) Two putative regulatory elements for the expression and regulation of the EYD1 gene (YALI0F01650g) by erythritol have been found by comparing the upstream DNA sequences of EYD1 homologs of the Yarrowia clade. We thus identified two-conserved consensus sequences of [ANTTNNNTTTCCNNATNNGG] (within UAS1.sub.EYD1 of sequence SEQ ID NO: 101 AAACCTTAATAGGAGACTACTTCCGTTTCCTAATTAGGACTTCCGCGACCCC) and [CGGNNCTNNATTGAGAANNC] (within UAS2.sub.EYD1 of sequence SEQ ID NO: 102=GGGCAGAAACAGCTCCGGAACTCGATTGAGAAGCCGTACTCTGGAAAGTC) within a 0.3 kb promoter region (
(126) In strain JMY1212, pEYD1 allowed similar level of expression of RedStarII on glucose medium, 0.85 SFU/h, compared with the 0.54 SFU/h for pEYK1 in the same media. This promoter is also induced by erythritol giving 11.5 SFU/h compared with the 2.28 SFU/h for EYK1 (Table 6). Mutation of Box A completely abolish the expression of RedStarII on glucose medium, while it remains slightly expressed on erythritol giving 0.16 SFU/h, thus indicating that UAS1.sub.EYD1 was important for expression and induction. On the opposite, mutation of Box B resulted only in a 2-fold reduction of RedStarII expression on glucose medium (0.43 SFU/h), while it remains more expressed on erythritol giving 2.57 SFU/h, thus indicating that UAS2.sub.EYD1 was less important for expression and induction (Table 6). In contrast, unexpected expression level and fold induction were observed in JMY7126 which contains a deletion of the EYK1 gene on glucose+erythritol medium (Table 6). While expression on glucose medium, expression level remains low, at about 0.54 SFU/h, EYD1 promoter displayed greater expression level ranging from 245.27 to 457.51 SFU/h on glucose+erythritol media showing a tremendous fold induction ranging from 357.6 to 896.1-fold. Thus, indicating that both UAS1.sub.EYD1 and UAS2.sub.EYD1 were important for expression and induction in this genetic background and growth condition.
(127) TABLE-US-00015 TABLE 6 Overall summary of promoter expression and induction level in the two strains. JMY1212 JMY7126 Fold Glucose + Fold Promoter Glucose Erythritol change Glucose Erythritol change TEF 67.16 3.87 65.42 + 0.17 1.0 24.11 1.88 17.45 0.39 0.7 EYK1 0.54 0.23 2.28 0.04 4.3 0.76 0.13 7.13 0.51 9.4 EYK1-2AB 2.63 0.38 15.55 0.55 5.9 1.41 0.57 64.48 0.49 45.8 EYK1-3AB 1.68 1.44 26.76 0.38 15.9 3.23 1.39 84.41 4.55 26.1 EYK1-4AB 2.39 0.88 45.50 2.70 19.0 8.18 0.07 84.29 5.21 10.3 EYK1-5AB 4.42 0.09 48.12 3.43 10.9 13.15 0.81 90.15 0.30 6.9 EYK1-4AB- 23.57 1.37 80.14 7.06 3.4 35.53 3.73 340.52 16.45 9.6 coreTEF EYD1AB 0.85 0.54 11.50 0.25 13.4 0.67 1.52 457.51 11.37 682.5 EYD1A*B 0.16 0.32 0.54 0.88 194.50 11.50 357.6 EYD1AB* 0.43 1.09 2.57 0.66 5.9 0.27 0.15 245.27 14.56 896.1
CONCLUSIONS
(128) Several groups have constructed hybrid promoters based on combination of tandem repeats of upstream activating sequence (UAS), TATA box and core promoter for gene expression in Yarrowia lipolytica (Madzak et al. 2000; Blazeck et al. 2011; Blazeck et al. 2013; Hussain et al. 2016). This gave rise to hybrid promoters with various strengths, up to 10-fold higher expression than the constitutive pTEF promoter (Muller et al, 1998). This later one being a constitutive strong promoter commonly used for gene expression and for promoter strength comparison. Among them they are few strong inducible promoters such as ICL1, LIP2, POX2 (Juretzek et al 2000, Pignede et al 2000, Sassi et al 2016). The LIP2 and POX2 promoters are inducible by oleic acid which has the drawback to require oil emulsion for induction. The inventors have identified a short nucleotide sequence acting as an upstream activating sequence may be conferring inducibility by erythritol or by erythrulose. The present invention provides new promoters allowing at least a 10-fold higher expression than the pTEF promoter. This open the path to the design of new synthetic promoters containing UAS.sub.EYK and/or URS.sub.EYK with higher tandem repeats number or with various core promoters to further wide the expression range and the induction profiles.
(129) The promoters of the invention are poorly induced by glucose or glycerol. They could be induced by erythritol or by erythrulose with a tremendous advantage of being dose dependent thus allowing fine tuning of induction which will permit to modulate the degrees of expression that could be obtained. The inducible promoters and the nucleotide sequence according to the invention contained therein, expand the parts available for protein synthesis and for the development of tools for genetic engineering such as additional marker for gene deletion or marker rescue and for inducible expression of genes, in particular for genome editing. The present invention could be also a powerful tool for fundamental research.
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