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1987 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

@construction of Expression-controlling Vector for Yeast Host

Research Project

Project/Area Number 60480058
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field 発酵・醸造
Research InstitutionOosaka University

Principal Investigator

OSHIMA Yasuji  Department of Fermentation Technology,Faculty of Engineering, 工学部, 教授 (20029242)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) ARAKI Hiroyuki  大阪大学, Department of Fermentation Technology,Faculty of Engineering, RESARCH (20151160)
Project Period (FY) 1985 – 1987
Keywordsyeast / expression-controlling vector / phosphatase / phosphate / gene regulation / positive factor negative factor / 負因子 / 遺伝子発現調節
Research Abstract

Expression of acid phosphatase genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae are regulated by a system consisting of five regulatory genes,i.e.,PHO2,PHO4,PHO80,PHO81,and PHO85.The same regulatory genes,except for PHO2,also regulate expression of a gene encoding alkaline phosphatase.A current model proposes that a refulatory molecule (positive factor)specified by PHO4 is indispensable for the transcription of both the genes for acid and alkaline phosphatases.With repressively high amount of inorganic phosphate (Pi)in the medium,a product of the PHO80 gene (negative factor) aggregates with the positive factor,preventing it from activating the transcription of the enzyme structural genes.When the Pi concectration in the medium is low enough,the PHO81 product (mediator)reacts with the negative factor,thereby releasing the positive factor from the negaive factor and allowing it to activate the transcription of the structural ganes.We investigated the mode of expression of the regulatory genes.It was fo … More und that the PHO4 expression (and also PHO80; Toh-e and Shimauchi,Yeast 2:129-139,1986)is low level constitutive.The PHO2 gene was also found to be expressed low level,while it was repressed by Pi and the active PHO2 product.The PHO85 gene might be involved in a mechanism of the PHO80 expression (A. Toh-e,personal communication).We then examined the effect of incresed copy number of the regulatory genes for the acid phosphatase production.More increased phosphatase activities were observed on the increase of the PHO4 gene than the structural genes for enzyme,while the dosage of PHO2 affect little on the enzyme activity. The dosage effect of the PHO4 gene was cancelled by concurrent dosage of the PHO8 gene.These observation strongly suggest that increased dosage or production of the positive factor is effective for a promoter in the protein production by recombinant DNA technology.That the PHO2 gene also directly concerned with gwnw expression was suggested by nuclear localization of the PHO2 proetein and its binding with the5' upstream region of the structural gene.We also investigated the position effect of the positive factor-recognition sites at the5' upstream region of a structural gene with the HIS5 gene encoding histidinol-phosphate aminotransferase as a model.The results showed that one of the recognition sites the most closely located to the open reading frame is essential for the gene regulation and two recognition sites should have an appropriate distance between them. Less

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  • [Publications] Y. Tamai;A. Toh-e and Y. Oshima: Journal of Bacteriology. 164. 964-968 (1985)

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  • [Publications] K. Nishiwaki;N. Hayashi;S. Irie;D. -H. Chung;S. Harashima and Y. Oshima: Molecular and General Genetics. 208. 159-167 (1987)

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  • [Publications] Y. Kaneko;N. Hayashi;A. Toh-e;I. Banno and Y. Oshima: Gene. 58. 137-148 (1987)

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  • [Publications] Y. -I. Hwang;S. Harashima and Y. Oshima: Applied Microbiology and Biotechnolotgy. 28. (1988)

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  • [Publications] A. Torriani-Gorini;F. G. Rothman;S. Silver;A. Wright;A. Wright;E. Yagil編, K. Yoshida;Z. Kuromitsu;N. Ogawa;K. Ogawa and Y. Oshima: "Phosphate Metabolism and Cellular Regulation in Microorganisms:Regulatory Circuit for Phosphatase Synthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae(49-55)" Ameracan Society for Microbiology, 316 (1987)

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  • [Publications] 平野正編, 吉田和哉, 黒光淳郎, 小川暢男, 大嶋泰収: "酵母のバイオテクノロジー, 基礎と応用, ホスファターゼ系における信号伝達と遺伝子発現調節機構:59-70頁" 学会出版センター, 246 (1988)

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  • [Publications] K.Nishiwaki,N.Hayashi,S.Irie,D.-H.Chung,S.Harashima,and Y.Oshima: "Structure of the yeast HIS5 gene responsive to general control of amino acid biosynthesis" Molecular and General Genetics. 208. 159-167 (1987)

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  • [Publications] Y.Kaneko,N.Hayashi,A.Toh-e,I.Banno,and Y.Oshima: "Structural characteristics of the PHO8 gene encoding repressible alkaline phosphatase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae" Gene. 58. 137-148 (1987)

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  • [Publications] Y.-I. Hwang,S.Harashima,and Y.Oshima: "Construction of a promoter-probe vector with the HIS5 gene encoding repressible acid phosphatase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae" Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 28. (1988)

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  • [Publications] K.Yoshida,Z.Kuromitsu,N.Ogawa,K.Ogawa,and Y.Oshima: American Society for Microbiology,Washington,DC,U.S.A.Regulatoly circuit for phosphatase synthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae,In A.Torrianigorini F.G.Rothman,S.Silver,A.Wright,E.Yagil(ed),Phosphate Metabolism and Cellular Regulation in Microorganisms, 49-55 (1987)

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