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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, January 2004, p. 137-144, Vol. 70, No. 1
0099-2240/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.1.137-144.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Molecular Cloning and Expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae of a Laccase Gene from the Ascomycete Melanocarpus albomyces

Laura-Leena Kiiskinen* and Markku Saloheimo

VTT Biotechnology, Espoo, Finland

Received 3 July 2003/ Accepted 16 October 2003

The lac1 gene encoding an extracellular laccase was isolated from the thermophilic fungus Melanocarpus albomyces. This gene has five introns, and it encodes a protein consisting of 623 amino acids. The deduced amino acid sequence of the laccase was shown to have high homology with laccases from other ascomycetes. In addition to removal of a putative 22-amino-acid signal sequence and a 28-residue propeptide, maturation of the translation product of lac1 was shown to involve cleavage of a C-terminal 14-amino-acid extension. M. albomyces lac1 cDNA was expressed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae under the inducible GAL1 promoter. Extremely low production was obtained with the expression construct containing laccase cDNA with its own signal and propeptide sequences. The activity levels were significantly improved by replacing these sequences with the prepro sequence of the S. cerevisiae {alpha}-factor gene. The role of the C-terminal extension in laccase production in S. cerevisiae was also studied. Laccase production was increased sixfold with the modified cDNA that had a stop codon after the native processing site at the C terminus.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: VTT Biotechnology, P.O. Box 1500, Fin-02044 VTT, Finland. Phone: 358-9-4565984. Fax: 358-9-4552103. E-mail: Laura-Leena.Kiiskinen{at}vtt.fi.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, January 2004, p. 137-144, Vol. 70, No. 1
0099-2240/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.1.137-144.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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