Amplification of an MFS Transporter Encoding Gene penT Significantly Stimulates Penicillin Production and Enhances the Sensitivity of Penicillium chrysogenum to Phenylacetic Acid

Jing Yang; Xinxin Xu; Gang Liu

doi:10.1016/j.jgg.2012.08.004

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Amplification of an MFS Transporter Encoding Gene penT Significantly Stimulates Penicillin Production and Enhances the Sensitivity of Penicillium chrysogenum to Phenylacetic Acid

doi: 10.1016/j.jgg.2012.08.004

Jing Yang^{a, b},
Xinxin Xu^{a, b},
Gang Liu^a

a
State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
b
Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China

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Corresponding author: E-mail address: liug@im.ac.cn (Gang Liu)
Received Date: 2012-06-18
Accepted Date: 2012-08-27
Rev Recd Date: 2012-08-09

Available Online: 2012-09-07

Publish Date: 2012-11-20

Abstract

Abstract

Penicillin is historically important as the first discovered drug against bacterial infections in human. Although the penicillin biosynthetic pathway and regulatory mechanism have been well studied in Penicillium chrysogenum, the compartmentation and molecular transport of penicillin or its precursors are still poorly understood. In search of the genomic database, more than 830 open reading frames (ORFs) were found to encode transmembrane proteins of P. chrysogenum. In order to investigate their roles on penicillin production, one of them (penT) was selected and cloned. The deduced protein of penT belongs to the major facilitator superfamily (MFS) and contains 12 transmembrane spanning domains (TMS). During fermentation, the transcription of penT was greatly induced by penicillin precursors phenylacetic acid (PAA) and phenoxyacetic acid (POA). Knock-down of penT resulted in significant decrease of penicillin production, while over-expression of penT under the promoter of trpC enhanced the penicillin production. Introduction of an additional penT in the wild-type strain of P. chrysogenum doubled the penicillin production and enhanced the sensitivity ofP. chrysogenum to the penicillin precursors PAA or POA. These results indicate that penT stimulates penicillin production probably through enhancing the translocation of penicillin precursors across fungal cellular membrane.
- Penicillin production,
- Phenylacetic acid,
- MFS transporter

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