Weiwang Dou1, Quanchao Zhu1, Meihua Zhang2, Zuyuan Jia1, Wenjun Guan3. 1. Institute of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and The Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310058, China. 2. Department of Pharmacy, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310003, China. 3. Institute of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and The Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310058, China. guanwj@zju.edu.cn.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Due to its ability to perform fast and high-density fermentation, Pichia pastoris is not only used as an excellent host for heterologous protein expression but also exhibits good potential for efficient biosynthesis of small-molecule compounds. However, basic research on P. pastoris lags far behind Saccharomyces cerevisiae, resulting in a lack of available biological elements. Especially, fewer strong endogenous promoter elements available for foreign protein expression or construction of biosynthetic pathways were carefully evaluated in P. pastoris. Thus, it will be necessary to identify more available endogenous promoters from P. pastoris. RESULTS: Based on RNA-seq and LacZ reporter system, eight strong endogenous promoters contributing to higher transcriptional expression levels and β-galactosidase activities in three frequently-used media were screened out. Among them, the transcriptional expression level contributed by P0019, P0107, P0230, P0392, or P0785 was basically unchanged during the logarithmic phase and stationary phase of growth. And the transcriptional level contributed by P0208 or P0627 exhibited a growth-dependent characteristic (a lower expression level during the logarithmic phase and a higher expression level during the stationary phase). After 60 h growth, the β-galactosidase activity contributed by P0208, P0627, P0019, P0407, P0392, P0230, P0785, or P0107 was relatively lower than PGAP but higher than PACT1. To evaluate the availability of these promoters, several of them were randomly applied to a heterogenous β-carotene biosynthetic pathway in P. pastoris, and the highest yield of β-carotene from these mutants was up to 1.07 mg/g. In addition, simultaneously using the same promoter multiple times could result in a notable competitive effect, which might significantly lower the transcriptional expression level of the target gene. CONCLUSIONS: The novel strong endogenous promoter identified in this study adds to the number of promoter elements available in P. pastoris. And the competitive effect observed here suggests that a careful pre-evaluation is needed when simultaneously and multiply using the same promoter in one yeast strain. This work also provides an effective strategy to identify more novel biological elements for engineering applications in P. pastoris.
BACKGROUND: Due to its ability to perform fast and high-density fermentation, Pichia pastoris is not only used as an excellent host for heterologous protein expression but also exhibits good potential for efficient biosynthesis of small-molecule compounds. However, basic research on P. pastoris lags far behind Saccharomyces cerevisiae, resulting in a lack of available biological elements. Especially, fewer strong endogenous promoter elements available for foreign protein expression or construction of biosynthetic pathways were carefully evaluated in P. pastoris. Thus, it will be necessary to identify more available endogenous promoters from P. pastoris. RESULTS: Based on RNA-seq and LacZ reporter system, eight strong endogenous promoters contributing to higher transcriptional expression levels and β-galactosidase activities in three frequently-used media were screened out. Among them, the transcriptional expression level contributed by P0019, P0107, P0230, P0392, or P0785 was basically unchanged during the logarithmic phase and stationary phase of growth. And the transcriptional level contributed by P0208 or P0627 exhibited a growth-dependent characteristic (a lower expression level during the logarithmic phase and a higher expression level during the stationary phase). After 60 h growth, the β-galactosidase activity contributed by P0208, P0627, P0019, P0407, P0392, P0230, P0785, or P0107 was relatively lower than PGAP but higher than PACT1. To evaluate the availability of these promoters, several of them were randomly applied to a heterogenous β-carotene biosynthetic pathway in P. pastoris, and the highest yield of β-carotene from these mutants was up to 1.07 mg/g. In addition, simultaneously using the same promoter multiple times could result in a notable competitive effect, which might significantly lower the transcriptional expression level of the target gene. CONCLUSIONS: The novel strong endogenous promoter identified in this study adds to the number of promoter elements available in P. pastoris. And the competitive effect observed here suggests that a careful pre-evaluation is needed when simultaneously and multiply using the same promoter in one yeast strain. This work also provides an effective strategy to identify more novel biological elements for engineering applications in P. pastoris.
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