Abstract
Objectives
To build a stronger Pichia pastoris PCAT1 promoter and to identify putative transcriptional factor binding sites (TFBSs) on PCAT1 that affect the activity of the promoter.
Result
A synthetic library of PCAT1 was generated by deleting or duplicating putative TFBS motifs in the promoter sequence. CSRE, MIG1, RAP1 and HAP2/3/4 were found to have important effects on PCAT1 activity. The PCAT1 variant P4 with a putative binding site of RAP1 on the promoter sequence showed a stronger activity compared with that of the wild-type PCAT1 and PAOX1, which is the strongest natural P. pastoris promoter that has been reported. This inference was confirmed with EGFP (enhanced green fluorescent protein) and Candida Antarctica lipase B as the reporters.
Conclusion
The role of the transcriptional regulator RAP1 may be important in PCAT1 methanol induction. A stronger PCAT1 variant can be constructed by the duplication of the putative binding site of RAP1 on the PCAT1 promoter sequence. This PCAT1 variant has potential value for heterologous protein production, metabolic engineering, and synthetic biology.
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This work was supported by Guangdong Key Area Research and Development Program (Grant No. NO. 2019B020210003).
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Supplementary Figure 1−Plasmid used in this study.
Supplementary Table S1−Primers used in this study.
Supplementary Table S2−The putative TFBSs searching result on PCAT1 by MatInspector.
Supplementary Table S3−Frequency of putative TFBSs matrix family occurrence within 16 kinds of methanol-inducible promoters.
Supplementary Table S4−Frequency of putative TFBSs matrix occurrence within 16 kinds of methanol-inducible promoters.
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Nong, L., Zhang, Y., Duan, Y. et al. Engineering the regulatory site of the catalase promoter for improved heterologous protein production in Pichia pastoris. Biotechnol Lett 42, 2703–2709 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10529-020-02979-x
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