Modulation of heterologous protein secretion in the thermotolerant methylotrophic yeast Ogataea thermomethanolica TBRC 656 by CRISPR-Cas9 system.

The thermotolerant methylotrophic yeast Ogataea thermomethanolica TBRC 656 is a potential host strain for industrial protein production. Heterologous proteins are often retained intracellularly in yeast resulting in endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and poor secretion, and despite efforts to enginee...

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Autores principales: Worarat Kruasuwan, Aekkachai Puseenam, Chitwadee Phithakrotchanakoon, Sutipa Tanapongpipat, Niran Roongsawang
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:2f0d6faccf15452a96ffe9e6c76694452021-12-02T20:17:27ZModulation of heterologous protein secretion in the thermotolerant methylotrophic yeast Ogataea thermomethanolica TBRC 656 by CRISPR-Cas9 system.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0258005https://doaj.org/article/2f0d6faccf15452a96ffe9e6c76694452021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258005https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203The thermotolerant methylotrophic yeast Ogataea thermomethanolica TBRC 656 is a potential host strain for industrial protein production. Heterologous proteins are often retained intracellularly in yeast resulting in endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and poor secretion, and despite efforts to engineer protein secretory pathways, heterologous protein production is often lower than expected. We hypothesized that activation of genes involved in the secretory pathway could mitigate ER stress. In this study, we created mutants defective in protein secretory-related functions using clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-CRISPR-associated protein 9 (Cas9) tools. Secretion of the model protein xylanase was significantly decreased in loss of function mutants for oxidative stress (sod1Δ) and vacuolar and protein sorting (vps1Δ and ypt7Δ) genes. However, xylanase secretion was unaffected in an autophagy related atg12Δ mutant. Then, we developed a system for sequence-specific activation of target gene expression (CRISPRa) in O. thermomethanolica and used it to activate SOD1, VPS1 and YPT7 genes. Production of both non-glycosylated xylanase and glycosylated phytase was enhanced in the gene activated mutants, demonstrating that CRISPR-Cas9 systems can be used as tools for understanding O. thermomethanolica genes involved in protein secretion, which could be applied for increasing heterologous protein secretion in this yeast.Worarat KruasuwanAekkachai PuseenamChitwadee PhithakrotchanakoonSutipa TanapongpipatNiran RoongsawangPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 9, p e0258005 (2021)
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Worarat Kruasuwan
Aekkachai Puseenam
Chitwadee Phithakrotchanakoon
Sutipa Tanapongpipat
Niran Roongsawang
Modulation of heterologous protein secretion in the thermotolerant methylotrophic yeast Ogataea thermomethanolica TBRC 656 by CRISPR-Cas9 system.
description The thermotolerant methylotrophic yeast Ogataea thermomethanolica TBRC 656 is a potential host strain for industrial protein production. Heterologous proteins are often retained intracellularly in yeast resulting in endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and poor secretion, and despite efforts to engineer protein secretory pathways, heterologous protein production is often lower than expected. We hypothesized that activation of genes involved in the secretory pathway could mitigate ER stress. In this study, we created mutants defective in protein secretory-related functions using clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-CRISPR-associated protein 9 (Cas9) tools. Secretion of the model protein xylanase was significantly decreased in loss of function mutants for oxidative stress (sod1Δ) and vacuolar and protein sorting (vps1Δ and ypt7Δ) genes. However, xylanase secretion was unaffected in an autophagy related atg12Δ mutant. Then, we developed a system for sequence-specific activation of target gene expression (CRISPRa) in O. thermomethanolica and used it to activate SOD1, VPS1 and YPT7 genes. Production of both non-glycosylated xylanase and glycosylated phytase was enhanced in the gene activated mutants, demonstrating that CRISPR-Cas9 systems can be used as tools for understanding O. thermomethanolica genes involved in protein secretion, which could be applied for increasing heterologous protein secretion in this yeast.
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author Worarat Kruasuwan
Aekkachai Puseenam
Chitwadee Phithakrotchanakoon
Sutipa Tanapongpipat
Niran Roongsawang
author_facet Worarat Kruasuwan
Aekkachai Puseenam
Chitwadee Phithakrotchanakoon
Sutipa Tanapongpipat
Niran Roongsawang
author_sort Worarat Kruasuwan
title Modulation of heterologous protein secretion in the thermotolerant methylotrophic yeast Ogataea thermomethanolica TBRC 656 by CRISPR-Cas9 system.
title_short Modulation of heterologous protein secretion in the thermotolerant methylotrophic yeast Ogataea thermomethanolica TBRC 656 by CRISPR-Cas9 system.
title_full Modulation of heterologous protein secretion in the thermotolerant methylotrophic yeast Ogataea thermomethanolica TBRC 656 by CRISPR-Cas9 system.
title_fullStr Modulation of heterologous protein secretion in the thermotolerant methylotrophic yeast Ogataea thermomethanolica TBRC 656 by CRISPR-Cas9 system.
title_full_unstemmed Modulation of heterologous protein secretion in the thermotolerant methylotrophic yeast Ogataea thermomethanolica TBRC 656 by CRISPR-Cas9 system.
title_sort modulation of heterologous protein secretion in the thermotolerant methylotrophic yeast ogataea thermomethanolica tbrc 656 by crispr-cas9 system.
publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate 2021
url https://doaj.org/article/2f0d6faccf15452a96ffe9e6c7669445
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