Development of a Cre-loxP-based genetic system in Aspergillus niger ATCC1015 and its application to construction of efficient organic acid-producing cell factories

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
Yongxue XuHao Liu

Abstract

The filamentous fungus Aspergillus niger is widely used in the biotechnology industry for the production of chemicals and enzymes. Engineering of this valuable organism to improve its productivity is currently hampered by the lack of efficient genetic tools. Here, a Cre-loxP-based system for gene editing in A. niger was developed and its application in construction of A. niger cell factories to produce various organic acids was explored. Two established inducible systems, the xylanase A gene promoter Pxln and Tet-on system, were examined for driving cre expression and thus selection marker hyh deletion. Under inducing conditions, the efficiency of loxP site-specific recombination in the strain with cre driven by Pxln is about 2%, while cre driven by Tet-on system is about 34% which was used as the platform strain for further genetic engineering. As a proof of application of this system, strains containing different copies of oxaloacetate acetylhydrolase-encoding gene (oahA) were constructed, and the resultant strain S428 showed as high as 3.1-fold increase in oxalic acid production. Furthermore, an efficient malate-producing strain was generated through four-step genetic manipulation (oahA deletion, pyc, mdh3 and C4-dicarboxyla...Continue Reading

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Sep 26, 2020·Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology·Li SunLong Liu
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