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N-Glycosylation engineering to improve the constitutive expression of Rhizopus oryzae lipase in Komagataella phaffii Xiaowei Yu, Min Yang, Chuanhuan Jiang, Xiaofeng Zhang, and Yan Xu J. Agric. Food Chem., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.7b01884 • Publication Date (Web): 06 Jul 2017 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on July 7, 2017
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constitutive expression of Rhizopus oryzae lipase in
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Komagataella phaffii
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Xiao-Wei Yu a,b,*, Min Yanga, Chuanhuan Jianga, Xiaofeng Zhanga, Yan Xu a,b,*
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The Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, P. R. China
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State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi
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Corresponding
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Abstract
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Our previous studies demonstrated that the N-glycans in Rhizopus chinensis lipase
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(RCL) was important for its secretion. In order to improve the secretion of Rhizopus
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oryzae lipase (ROL) under the control of the GAP promoter in K. phaffii, two extra
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N-glycosylation sites were introduced in ROL according to the position of the
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N-glycosylation sites of RCL by sequence alignment. The results indicated that the
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secretion level of ROL was strongly improved by N-glycosylation engineering, and
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the highest value of extracellular enzyme activity was increased from 0.4±0.2 U/mL
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to 207±6 U/mL in shake flask. In 7-L fermenter, the extracellular enzyme activity of
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the mutant (2600±43 U/mL) and the total protein concentration (2.5±0.2 g/L) were
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218- and 6.25-fold higher than these of the parent, respectively. This study presents a
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strategy for constitutive recombinant expression of ROL using the GAP promoter
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combined with N-glycosylation engineering, providing a potential enzyme for the
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application in food industry.
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Keywords: Rhizopus oryzae; lipase; N-glycosylation; Komagataella phaffii; GAP
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promoter; Rational design;
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Introduction
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Komagataella phaffii (formerly called Pichia pastoris) is a widely used platform for
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the production of many heterologous proteins of medical and industrial interest.1, 2
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Many factors can potentially affect heterologous protein production in the K. phaffii
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expression system, such as promoter, gene sequence, gene copy number and
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post-translational modification of proteins.3 The promoter is very important for
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transcription initiation. The AOX1 promoter is the most widely used promoter, which
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has been successfully used to express many different kinds of foreign genes. The
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tightly regulated AOX1 promoter can be strongly induced by methanol and is
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repressed by glucose, glycerol and ethanol. However, methanol is toxic and a
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potential fire hazard.4 One of the alternative promoters is the constitutive promoter
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(PGAP) of the glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) enzyme. PGAP,
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providing a continuous transcription of the heterologous gene, has the advantages of
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omitting the use of hazardous methanol and ease of process handling.4, 5
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Lipases are very attractive enzymes for use in various industrial applications, such as
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in the food processing industry for brewing and wine making, dairy processing, fruit,
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meat, and vegetable processing,6-8 and in the energy industry for biodiesel
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production.9, 10 Rhizopus lipases, are highly important resources of industrial lipases,
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which are the most attractive enzymes in the application of edible oil and fat
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industry.11 In order to enhance the enzyme production to meet industry demand,
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several Rhizopus lipases have been expressed in Escherichia coli,
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae13, 14 and in K. phaffii.15-20 The best productivity was gained 3
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in the host of K. phaffii. The extracellular activity of the mature lipase from R. oryzae
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expressed in K. phaffii reached 500 U/mL (60 mg active lipase per liter).17 And the
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extracellular activity of this lipase was further improved to 1334 U/mL by a methanol
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feeding strategy.15 The highest extracellular enzyme activity of ROL reported in K.
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phaffii was 21000 U/mL with a specific activity of the crude enzyme of 2210 U/mg,
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which was obtained with methanol induction in a 50-L bioreactor.19 However, all
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above mentioned reports on the expression of Rhizopus lipases in K. phaffii were
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under the AOX1 promoter induced by methanol, which is unfavorable for the usage in
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food industry because of its toxicity.
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N-glycosylation is important for protein maturation along the ER and Golgi traffic
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pathway.21 The processing steps in the ER and Golgi of some enzymes and the
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respective genes of K. phaffii are described by Delic et al..22 The discovery of the
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quality control system in the ER has further elucidated the relationship between
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protein N-glycosylation and its secretion,21, 23-25 which provides a theoretical basis for
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N-glycosylation engineering. The introduction of N-glycosylation sites has been
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successfully applied to improve pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties of
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therapeutic proteins.26,
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modified by N-glycosylation engineering. Sagt et al.28 demonstrated that introducing
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an N-glycosylation site, preferably at the N terminus of cutinase, improved the protein
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secretion levels by five-fold. Han et al.29 improved the hydrolytic efficiency and
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specific activity of an elastase by introduction of N-glycosylation sites.
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Enzymatic properties and production also have been
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In our previous study, we demonstrated that the R. chinensis lipase (RCL, GenBank
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accession no. EF405962) expressed in K. phaffii was N-glycosylated at three sites
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(N-14, N-48 and N-60) in the prosequence and N-glycosylation had a great impact on
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its secretion.30 RCL is homologous to the lipase from R. oryzae (ROL, 75.6% identity,
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GenBank accession no. AF229435), while ROL contained only one potential
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N-glycosylation site in the prosequence. In this study, we constructed the constitutive
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expression of Rhizopus oryzae lipase (ROL) in K. phaffii under the GAP promoter to
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avoid methanol induction, and then improved the secretion level of ROL by rational
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design of the N-glycosylation site in the prosequence of ROL according to the
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N-glycosylation sites in RCL.
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Materials and Methods
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Strains and plasmids
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Escherichia coli JM109 was used as the cloning host. K. phaffii GS115 (Novagen,
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USA) was used as the heterologous expression host. The plasmid pGAPZɑ (Novagen,
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USA) was
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pPIC9K-proROL were constructed and stored in our lab.31
used as gene expression
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Enzymes and reagents
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p-nitrophenyl palmitate (pNPP) was from Sigma (USA). Restriction enzymes, Taq
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DNA polymerase, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) reagent, T4 DNA ligase,
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SDS-PAGE Protein Marker was provided by Beyotime Institue Biotechnology
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(China). Primers were synthesized at Sangon Biotech (China). Gel Extraction Kit,
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PCR Purification Kit were from Bioflux (Malaysia). Plasmid Mini Kit I was from
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OMEGA BioTek (USA). Fluorescence quantification tubes were purchased from
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Bio-Rad (USA). AceQTM qPCR SYBR® Green Master Mix was from Vazyme (China).
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All other chemicals used were purchased from Sinopharm Chemical Reagent (China).
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Introduction of the N-glycosylation sites in ROL
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The proROL gene without its own signal sequence was amplified from the
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pPIC9K-proROL vector. After treatment with EcoR I and Not I the proROL gene was
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ligated into the pGAPZɑ vector using T4 DNA ligase, fused in frame with the
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sequence
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pGAPZɑ-proROL. The introduction of N-glycosylation sites in the prosequence of
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proROL were made by point mutation using pGAPZɑ-proROL as a template. The
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point mutations at positions A (mutate S15A16S17 to N15G16T17) and B (mutate N50T51
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to N50L51T52) were carried out using PrimeSTAR (mix) polymerase with the primers
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showed in Table 1 and yielded vectors pGAPZɑ-proROLA and pGAPZɑ-proROLB,
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respectively. Then, the pGAPZɑ-proROLAB recombinant plasmid was constructed by
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a point mutation at position B using the pGAPZɑ-proROLA plasmid as a template.
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Subsequently, the transformants were selected on low salt LB agar plates with 25
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µg/mL Zeocin. K. phaffii GS115 competent cells were transformed with the Avr II
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linearized recombinant plasmids by electroporation with 750V/mm using a Gene
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Pulser TM (Bio-Rad). The transformed cells were grown on YPD plates with 100
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µg/mL Zeocin and cultured for confirmation of the recombinant lipases. Gene
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manipulation and media are prepared by means of “Pichia expression Kit” from
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Invitrogen Corporation.32
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Gene copy number determination
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The gene copy number was determined by real-time quantitative PCR with slight
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modification.33 The designed primers were annealed to the complementary regions of
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the GAP promoter sequence. The parent strain GS115 only contains one GAP
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promoter. Thus, the copy number of PGAP minus one equals the copy number of the
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lipase gene controlled under the GAP promoter. qPCR data were normalized using
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GAPDH gene as the endogenous control (reference gene). All qPCR reactions were
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run in triplicate on MJ chromo4 (MJ, America) using the following program: 98 °C 2
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min, 40 cycles of 98 °C for 5 s, and 50 °C for 5 s.
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Lipase Fermentation
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The K. phaffii transformants were cultured in 100 mL of YPD medium shaken at
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30 °C and 200 rpm in 500 mL shake flasks. The culture supernatant was collected
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every 12 h or 24 h during culture to assay the cell growth, protein concentration, and
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lipase activity of different mutants.
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Feed batch fermentation experiments were performed in a 7-L bioreactor (New
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2.6 L of a Fermentation Basal Salts Medium (40 g/L glycerol, 22.7 g/L H3PO4, 0.93
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g/L CaSO4, 18.2 g/L K2SO4, 14.9 g/L MgSO4 ·7H2O, 4.13 g/L KOH, 7.0 g/L K2HPO4)
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and 12 mL of trace solution. Trace solution consisted of 6 g/L CuSO4·5H2O, 0.08 g/L
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NaI, 3.0 g/L MnSO4 · H2O, 0.2 g/L Na2MoO4 ·2H2O, 0.02 g/L H3BO3, 0.5 g/L CoCl2,
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20 g/L ZnCl2, 65 g/L FeSO4·7H2O, 0.2 g/L biotin, and concentrated sulfuric acid, 0.5 %
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(v/v). The fermentation conditions were maintained at 30 °C and the pH of the
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medium was adjusted and controlled at 5.0 with the addition of 28 % (v/v) ammonium
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hydroxide. During the fermentation, 50 % (v/v) glycerol containing 1.2 % (v/v) trace
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solution was feed at the average rate of 12.4 g/L/h and adjusted to control DO at
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20~40 % saturation.
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Lipase activity assay
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Lipase activity was measured on emulsified p-nitrophenyl palmitate (pNPP) as the
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substrate according to Kordel et al..34 One volume of a 1.08 mM solution of pNPP in
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2-propanol was mixed prior to use with nine volumes of 50 mM phosphate buffer pH
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8.0 containing 4 g/L Triton X-100 and 1 g/L arabic gum. The standard reaction was
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started by pre-equilibration of 2.4 mL of above mixture at 40 °C and then addition of
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0.1 mL of enzyme solution at an appropriate dilution in 50 mM pH 8.0
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phosphate buffer. The absorbance of the reactant against a blank without enzyme was
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monitored at 410 nm using a UV-vis spectrophotometer (UNICO UV-3102 PC,
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China). One enzyme unit was defined as the amount of enzyme releasing 1 µmol of
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SDS-PAGE analysis
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SDS-PAGE was conducted in accordance with the method of Laemmli.35 Samples of
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extracellular proteins (the culture supernatant) of the mutants were subjected to 12%
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SDS–PAGE using a Mini-Protein II Cell (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Hercules, CA).
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Protein was stained with Coomassie Brilliant Blue R-250 (Amresco, Solon, OH, USA)
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and quantified by a Molecular Imaging System Cell (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Hercules,
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CA) using protein ladder as the standard. All samples were normalised for the
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same cell density prior to loading on gel.
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Rational design of the N-glycosylation site in R. oryzae lipase
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In our previous study, we demonstrated that the lipase from R. chinensis (RCL) was
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N-glycosylated when expressed in K. phaffii and the N-glycans played a key role in
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the lipase secretion.30 Both ROL and RCL sequences are composed of signal sequence,
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prosequence and mature sequence (Fig. 1). As shown in Figure 1A, RCL has three
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N-linked glycosylation sites in the prosequence (N-14, N-48, N-60), while ROL only
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contains one potential site. Therefore, according to the N-glycosylation sites in RCL,
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the amino acids S15A16S17 and N50T51 of ROL were mutated into the N-glycosylation
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sites (N15G16T17 and N50L51T52) by rational design (Fig. 1B) and were named
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r28ROLA and r28ROLB, respectively. The amino acids S15A16S17 and N50T51 of ROL
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Gene copy number determination of R. oryzae lipase
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qPCR has been developed into an important and widely used analytical tool
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lipase gene copy number was subsequently determined by measuring the copy
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number ratio of the target gene to GAPDH. The results showed that the copy number
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of R. oryzae lipase gene in all used strains in this study is one.
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Cell growth of the recombinant strains producing N-glycosylation engineered lipase
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Lipase fermentation was carried out in shake flask to determine the difference
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between r28ROL and variants containing additional N-glycosylation sites. As shown
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in Figure 2, the cell growth rate of the N-glycosylation mutants were consistent with
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that of the parent r28ROL. All strains grew quickly within 48 h and later grew slowly
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and steadily after 72 h, indicating that the introduction of the N-glycosylation sites in
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R. oryzae lipase did not influence biomass accumulation.
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Effect of the extra N-glycosylation sites on the secretion level of R. oryzae lipase
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In Figure 3, the total extracellular protein concentration of r28ROL and the mutants
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introduced with the extra N-glycosylation sites were compared. The total protein
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concentration of r28ROL (Fig. 3, Fig. 4) was apparently lower than those of the
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detected by SDS-PAGE (Fig. 4). Due to the existence of the Kex2 protease site (KR)
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in the prosequence of ROL (Fig. 1), the potential N-glycosylation sites in the
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prosequence of ROL were removed after the cleavage by Kex2 endoprotease. The
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resulting products of ROL, named r28ROL, were the mature lipases attached with 28
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amino acids of the carboxy-terminal part of the prosequence.37,
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detected molecular weight of r28ROLA, r28ROLB and r28ROLAB were the same as
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r28ROL. As shown in Figure 4, the masses of the mutants (r28ROLA, r28ROLB and
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r28ROLAB) were approximately 35.0 kDa, consistent with the reported value of
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r28ROL.13 The secretion levels of the mutants reached the highest point at 84 h and
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later decreased. The secretion levels of r28ROLA and r28ROLAB were slightly
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higher than that of r28ROLB at 84 h. However, the bands of r28ROL without
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introduction of the N-glycosylation sites in the prosequence were not detected when
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culturing from 24 h to 96 h.
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Under GAP promoter the extracellular activity of the parent r28ROL could not be
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detected, in agreement with no band being detected by SDS-PAGE in the supernatant.
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We speculated that r28ROL was retained in the cell. Thus, the intracellular activity
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was measured and the intracellular proteins were analyzed using SDS-PAGE.
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However, neither the intracellular lipase activity nor the intracellular lipase of
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r28ROL could be detected, which was the same case with the mutants (r28ROLA,
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r28ROLB, r28ROLAB) (data not shown).
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As shown in Figure 5, the extracellular enzyme activity of r28ROL and the mutants
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were compared during cultivation. In agreement with no band being detected by
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SDS-PAGE, the activity of r28ROL in the supernatant was very low (0.4±0.2 U/mL),
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while those of the mutants reached a much higher level. The highest activities of
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r28ROLA, r28ROLB and r28ROLAB were 175±2 U/mL, 150±2 U/mL and 207±6
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U/mL, respectively, after culturing for 84 h. The activities of the r28ROLA and
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r28ROLAB mutants were slightly higher than that of r28ROLB.
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Lipase fermentation in 7-L fermenter
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The production of the N-glycosylation engineered lipase r28ROLAB in K. phaffii was
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further investigated in 7-L fermenter, and compared with that of the parent r28ROL.
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As shown in Figure 6, the extracellular enzyme activity of the mutant r28ROLAB
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reached the maximum of 2600±43 U/mL by pNPP assay after induction of 84 h,
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which was 218 folds higher than that of the parent r28ROL (11±1 U/mL). The total
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extracellular protein concentration of r28ROLAB (2.5±0.2 g/L) showed an increase of
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6.25 times over that of the parent at 84 h and the specific activity of the crude enzyme
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r28ROLAB was 1040 U/mg. Nevertheless, the cell grow rates of both strains were
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It was unexpected that the first attempt to express ROL under the GAP promoter in K.
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phaffii was unsuccessful, which showed nearly no lipase activity (r28ROL) in the
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supernatant (Fig. 5.), since ROL has been successfully expressed under the AOX1
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promoter.15-20 Compared with the GAP and AOX1 promoters, researches showed that
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the overall efficiency of protein expression under the regulation of AOX1 or GAP
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promoter in K. phaffii depends on individual protein.39 In several cases, the AOX1
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promoter was found to be superior to the GAP promoter, whereas in some cases the
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GAP promoter gained better yield.40 Researchers even combined use of these two
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promoters in K. phaffii for enhancing the protein expression level.5 In our case, the
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GAP promoter might be too weak to make ROL expressed. However, the reasons
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underlying the differences between protein expression under the control of different
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promoters is still unclear.
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Glycosylation in K. phaffii is a common post-translational modification of proteins.
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The roles of N-glycosylation in protein secretion have been widely studied, and
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abundant literature has shown that a lack of N-glycosylation may cause defects in
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particular protein secretion pathways.41, 42 It has been reported that N-glycosylation
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can be engineered to increase protein secretion based on the amino acid sequence of
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the protein.43 In our previous study, we demonstrated that R. chinensis lipase
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containing the intact prosequence (proRCLCNQ) was N-glycosylated at the N-14,
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N-48 and N-60 sites when expressed in K. phaffii, and the N-glycans on N-60 played
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a key role in the secretion of lipase.30 The alignment of the amino acids of RCL and
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potential N-glycosylation site in the prosequence, while there are three
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N-glycosylation sites in the prosequence of RCL (Fig. 1A). Because the expression
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level of ROL in K. phaffii under the GAP promoter is quite lower than that of RCL,
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we hypothesized that the introduction of the N-glycosylation consensus sequence in
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the prosequence of ROL designed according to the N-glycosylation sites in RCL
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would enhance its secretion efficiency.
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The alignment of the prosequence of RCL and ROL indicated that ROL also contains
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the key potential N-60 site, despite of no secretion of r28ROL under the constitutive
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promoter in this study. We speculated that the N-glycans on N-14, N-48 and N-60 in
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r27RCLC probably function collaboratively for the efficient secretion of the lipase.
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Based on this hypothesis, we designed three mutants to introduce the N-glycosylation
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site (A, B and AB) in r28ROL at the conserved location to N-14 and N-48 in
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r27RCLC, respectively (Fig.1B). Heterologous gene dosage has a great influence on
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protein expression level in K. phaffii.33 To rule out the influence of gene copy number
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on lipase secretion level and enzymatic activity, we determined the copy numbers of
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proROL, proROLA, proROLB and proROLAB in K. phaffii GS115 and employed
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strains with only one copy number of lipase gene. Therefore, the differences in
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secretion level between r28ROL and the N-glycosylation mutants should not be
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influenced by gene copy number. After introducing the extra N-glycosylation sites in
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ROL, the secretion levels (Fig. 3) and extracellular enzyme activities (Fig. 5) of
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r28ROLA, r28ROLB and r28ROLAB greatly improved compared to r28ROL.
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r28ROLA were slightly higher than those of r28ROLB. These results suggested that
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the introduced mutations in ROL has a great impact on the protein secretion in K.
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phaffii.
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In 7-L fermenter the extracellular enzyme activity of the mutant r28ROLAB
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(2600±43 U/mL) and the total protein concentration (2.5±0.2 g/L) were 218- and
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6.25-fold higher than those of the parent r28ROL, respectively (Fig. 6). Although this
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value was still lower than the highest activity of ROL (21000U/mL) ever reported
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under the AOX1 promoter performed in 50-L fermenter
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r28ROLAB under the GAP promoter can be further improved by optimization of gene
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copy number, scale-up fermentation, co-expression of chaperons and so on.
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In conclusion, in order to simplify enzyme production compared to methanol
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inducible expression systems this study constructed recombinant strains for
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constitutive expression of ROL under the control of GAP promoter in K. phaffii, and
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successfully enhanced the extracellular activity of ROL by N-glycosylation
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engineering, providing a potential enzyme for the industry applications. The strategy
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of introducing extra N-glycosylation sites by rational design proved to be an efficient
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way to enhance secretion of certain enzymes produced in K. phaffii.
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, the production of
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Acknowledgments
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Financial support from NSFC (31671799), Six Talent Peaks Project in Jiangsu
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Province (NY-010), 333 Project in Jiangsu Province (BRA2015316), and the National
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High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program)
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(2012AA022207) are greatly appreciated.
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Primers used in the introduction of the N-glycosylation sites in ROL. Name
Sequence (5’-3’)
Length (bp)
GATTCTCCACTACCGCCGTCAACGGAACCGAC
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NGT-A F1 AATTCTGCCCTCCC GGGAGGAATTGTCGGTTCCGTTGACGGCGGTA
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NGT-A R1 GTGGAAGATC NLT-BF2
CTACATGCAAAAGAATCTTACAGAATGGTATGA
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NLT-BR2
TCATACCATTCTGTAAGATTCTTTTGCATGTAG
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Fig. 1 (A) Alignment of the amino acids of R. oryzae lipase and R. chinensis lipase;
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(B) Rational design of the N-glycosylation sites in the prosequence of ROL.
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N-glycosylation sites in RCL and the corresponding sites in ROL are indicated by
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arrows; the Kex2 protease site “KR” is indicated by brackets; the mutation sites A and
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B are indicated by arrows in the mutated ROL.
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Fig. 2 Growth of the strains expressing R. oryzae lipases.
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Fig. 3 Total protein concentration in the supernatant of the strains expressing R.
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oryzae lipases.
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Fig. 4 SDS-PAGE analyses of the supernatant of the strains expressing R. oryzae
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lipases.
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Fig. 5 Extracellular lipase activity of the strains expressing R. oryzae lipases.
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Fig. 6 Extracellular lipase activity, protein concentration, cell concentration profiles
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of the strains expressing R. oryzae lipases.
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