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Disruption of zinc finger DNA binding domain in catabolite repressor Mig1 increases growth rate, hyphal branching, and cellulase expression in hypercellulolytic fungus Penicillium funiculosum NCIM1228

BACKGROUND: There is an urgent requirement for second-generation bio-based industries for economical yet efficient enzymatic cocktail to convert diverse cellulosic biomass into fermentable sugars. In our previous study, secretome of Penicillium funiculosum NCIM1228 showed high commercial potential b...

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Autores principales: Randhawa, Anmoldeep, Ogunyewo, Olusola A., Eqbal, Danish, Gupta, Mayank, Yazdani, Syed Shams
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5784589/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29416560
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13068-018-1011-5
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author Randhawa, Anmoldeep
Ogunyewo, Olusola A.
Eqbal, Danish
Gupta, Mayank
Yazdani, Syed Shams
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description BACKGROUND: There is an urgent requirement for second-generation bio-based industries for economical yet efficient enzymatic cocktail to convert diverse cellulosic biomass into fermentable sugars. In our previous study, secretome of Penicillium funiculosum NCIM1228 showed high commercial potential by exhibiting high biomass hydrolyzing efficiency. To develop NCIM1228 further as an industrial workhorse, one of the major genetic interventions needed is global deregulation of cellulolytic genes to achieve higher enzyme production. Mig1 orthologs found in all yeast and filamentous fungi are transcriptional regulators that maintain carbon homeostasis by negatively regulating genes of secondary carbon source utilization. Their disruption has long been known to be beneficial for increasing the production of secreted enzymes for alternate carbon source utilization. RESULTS: Upon detailed genotypic and phenotypic analysis, we observed that NCIM1228 harbors a truncated yet functional allele of homolog of a well-known catabolite repressor, Mig1. Alleviation of carbon repression in NCIM1228 was attained by replacing functional Mig1(134) allele with null allele Mig1(88). P. funiculosum having Mig1(88) null allele showed better growth characteristics and 1.75-fold better glucose utilization than parent strain. We also showed that visibly small colony size, one of the major characteristics of CCR disruptant strains in filamentous fungi, was not due to retarded growth, but altered hyphal morphology. CCR-disrupted strain PfMig1(88) showed profuse branching pattern in terminal hyphae resulting in small and compact colonies with compromised filamentous proliferation. We further observed that basal level expression of two major classes of cellulases, namely, cellobiohydrolase and endoglucanase, was regulated by Mig1(134) in NCIM1228, whereas other two major classes, namely, xylanases and β-glucosidase, were only marginally regulated. Finally, CCR disruption in P. funiculosum NCIM1228 led to prolonged cellulase induction in production medium resulting in twofold increased cellulase activity than the parent strain with maximum secreted protein titer being > 14 g/l. CONCLUSIONS: CCR-disrupted P. funiculosum showed better growth, enhanced carbon source utilization, profuse branching pattern in terminal hyphae, and higher cellulase activity than parent strain. Our findings are particularly important in shedding light on important functions performed by Mig1 in addition to its role as negative regulator of alternate carbon source utilization in filamentous fungi. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s13068-018-1011-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-57845892018-02-07 Disruption of zinc finger DNA binding domain in catabolite repressor Mig1 increases growth rate, hyphal branching, and cellulase expression in hypercellulolytic fungus Penicillium funiculosum NCIM1228 Randhawa, Anmoldeep Ogunyewo, Olusola A. Eqbal, Danish Gupta, Mayank Yazdani, Syed Shams Biotechnol Biofuels Research BACKGROUND: There is an urgent requirement for second-generation bio-based industries for economical yet efficient enzymatic cocktail to convert diverse cellulosic biomass into fermentable sugars. In our previous study, secretome of Penicillium funiculosum NCIM1228 showed high commercial potential by exhibiting high biomass hydrolyzing efficiency. To develop NCIM1228 further as an industrial workhorse, one of the major genetic interventions needed is global deregulation of cellulolytic genes to achieve higher enzyme production. Mig1 orthologs found in all yeast and filamentous fungi are transcriptional regulators that maintain carbon homeostasis by negatively regulating genes of secondary carbon source utilization. Their disruption has long been known to be beneficial for increasing the production of secreted enzymes for alternate carbon source utilization. RESULTS: Upon detailed genotypic and phenotypic analysis, we observed that NCIM1228 harbors a truncated yet functional allele of homolog of a well-known catabolite repressor, Mig1. Alleviation of carbon repression in NCIM1228 was attained by replacing functional Mig1(134) allele with null allele Mig1(88). P. funiculosum having Mig1(88) null allele showed better growth characteristics and 1.75-fold better glucose utilization than parent strain. We also showed that visibly small colony size, one of the major characteristics of CCR disruptant strains in filamentous fungi, was not due to retarded growth, but altered hyphal morphology. CCR-disrupted strain PfMig1(88) showed profuse branching pattern in terminal hyphae resulting in small and compact colonies with compromised filamentous proliferation. We further observed that basal level expression of two major classes of cellulases, namely, cellobiohydrolase and endoglucanase, was regulated by Mig1(134) in NCIM1228, whereas other two major classes, namely, xylanases and β-glucosidase, were only marginally regulated. Finally, CCR disruption in P. funiculosum NCIM1228 led to prolonged cellulase induction in production medium resulting in twofold increased cellulase activity than the parent strain with maximum secreted protein titer being > 14 g/l. CONCLUSIONS: CCR-disrupted P. funiculosum showed better growth, enhanced carbon source utilization, profuse branching pattern in terminal hyphae, and higher cellulase activity than parent strain. Our findings are particularly important in shedding light on important functions performed by Mig1 in addition to its role as negative regulator of alternate carbon source utilization in filamentous fungi. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s13068-018-1011-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2018-01-25 /pmc/articles/PMC5784589/ /pubmed/29416560 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13068-018-1011-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Randhawa, Anmoldeep
Ogunyewo, Olusola A.
Eqbal, Danish
Gupta, Mayank
Yazdani, Syed Shams
Disruption of zinc finger DNA binding domain in catabolite repressor Mig1 increases growth rate, hyphal branching, and cellulase expression in hypercellulolytic fungus Penicillium funiculosum NCIM1228
title Disruption of zinc finger DNA binding domain in catabolite repressor Mig1 increases growth rate, hyphal branching, and cellulase expression in hypercellulolytic fungus Penicillium funiculosum NCIM1228
title_full Disruption of zinc finger DNA binding domain in catabolite repressor Mig1 increases growth rate, hyphal branching, and cellulase expression in hypercellulolytic fungus Penicillium funiculosum NCIM1228
title_fullStr Disruption of zinc finger DNA binding domain in catabolite repressor Mig1 increases growth rate, hyphal branching, and cellulase expression in hypercellulolytic fungus Penicillium funiculosum NCIM1228
title_full_unstemmed Disruption of zinc finger DNA binding domain in catabolite repressor Mig1 increases growth rate, hyphal branching, and cellulase expression in hypercellulolytic fungus Penicillium funiculosum NCIM1228
title_short Disruption of zinc finger DNA binding domain in catabolite repressor Mig1 increases growth rate, hyphal branching, and cellulase expression in hypercellulolytic fungus Penicillium funiculosum NCIM1228
title_sort disruption of zinc finger dna binding domain in catabolite repressor mig1 increases growth rate, hyphal branching, and cellulase expression in hypercellulolytic fungus penicillium funiculosum ncim1228
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5784589/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29416560
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13068-018-1011-5
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