Cloning and Characterization of the Orotidine-5'-Phosphate Decarboxylase Gene (URA3) from the Osmotolerant Yeast Candida Magnoliae
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J. Microbiol. Biotechnol. (2012), 22(5), 642–648 http://dx.doi.org/10.4014/jmb.1111.11071 First published online February 17, 2012 pISSN 1017-7825 eISSN 1738-8872 Cloning and Characterization of the Orotidine-5'-Phosphate Decarboxylase Gene (URA3) from the Osmotolerant Yeast Candida magnoliae Park, Eun-Hee1, Jin-Ho Seo2, and Myoung-Dong Kim1* 1School of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon 200-701, Korea 2Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-921, Korea Received: November 28, 2011 / Revised: January 10, 2012 / Accepted: January 11, 2012 We determined the nucleotide sequence of the URA3 gene amounts of erythritol [10, 12, 21]. A gene transformation/ encoding orotidine-5'-phosphate decarboxylase (OMPDCase) disruption system might be essential to understand the of the erythritol-producing osmotolerant yeast Candida underlying molecular mechanisms of osmotolerance and magnoliae by degenerate polymerase chain reaction and erythritol production in C. magnoliae. However, the genetic genome walking. Sequence analysis revealed the presence manipulation of C. magnoliae is limited by a lack of markers of an uninterrupted open-reading frame of 795 bp, encoding and efficient transformation methods, which implies that a 264 amino acid residue protein with the highest identity manipulation of this strain should involve the use of to the OMPDCase of the yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus. dominant drug-resistance markers. Although several dominant Phylogenetic analysis of the deduced amino acid sequence drug-resistance markers are available [33], little success revealed that it shared a high degree of identity with other has been achieved in Candida species, which frequently yeast OMPDCase homologs. The cloned URA3 gene exhibit drug resistance and show different codon usage successfully complemented the ura3 null mutation in preferences [1, 15]. Saccharomyces cerevisiae, revealing that it encodes a Genetic transformation systems employing auxotrophic functional OMPDCase in C. magnoliae. An enzyme activity markers (URA3, TRP1, HIS3, and LEU2) have been developed assay and reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction for different yeasts, because transformants can be easily indicated that the expression level of the C. magnoliae selected on drop-out media [18, 27-29]. The URA3 gene URA3 gene in S. cerevisiae was not as high as that of the S. encodes orotidine-5'-phosphate decarboxylase (OMPDCase), cerevisiae URA3 gene. The GenBank accession number which catalyzes the last step in the biosynthesis of for C. magnoliae URA3 is JF521441. pyrimidines [30], and has been used as a useful genetic Keywords: Candida magnoliae, URA3, orotitine-5'-phosphate marker for Saccharomyces cerevisiae and other yeasts [24, decarboxylase, complementation 25, 31]. One advantage of utilizing the URA3 gene as a selectable marker in gene transformation/disruption is that wild-type cells are not able to survive in medium containing 5-fluoro-orotic acid (5-FOA), which makes it possible to Erythritol, a four-carbon sugar alcohol, is a low caloric and develop a “Ura-blaster” for repeated use or recycling of the non-cariogenic sweetener that occurs naturally in algae, URA3 gene in “pop-in” and “pop-out” applications [2, 9]. fruits, and mushrooms [5]. Most ingested erythritol is not The present work describes the isolation and sequence metabolized by the human body and is excreted unchanged analysis of the URA3 gene from C. magnoliae (CmURA3) in the urine without changing blood glucose and insulin as the first step in the construction of a host-vector tool for levels [8, 19]. It also prevents dental caries because the an auxotrophic transformation system for this osmotolerant bacteria that cause dental caries are not able to utilize yeast. In addition, we compared the deduced amino acid erythritol as a carbon source [16]. sequence of the cloned URA3 gene with those of other Candida magnoliae JH110, an osmotolerant yeast strain yeasts to gain insight into the phylogenetic position of isolated from honeycomb [10, 32], is able to produce large C. magnoliae. The functionality of the cloned gene was *Corresponding author demonstrated by complementation of a URA3-negative S. Phone: +82-33-250-6458; Fax: +82-33-241-0508; cerevisiae strain. E-mail: [email protected] 643 Park et al. MATERIALS AND METHODS isopropanol]. The DNA was precipitated with absolute ethanol and then dissolved in TE buffer [10 mM Tris-HCl and 1 mM EDTA Strains and Culture Conditions (pH 8.0)]. Plasmid DNA was isolated and purified from E. coli C. magnoliae KFCC 10900 [11, 32] and S. cerevisiae BY4742 using the AccuPrep Plasmid Mini Extraction Kit (Bioneer, Korea). [MATa his3∆1 leu2∆0 lys2∆0 ura3∆0] were purchased from Plasmids pGEM-T (Promega, USA) and pRS314 (ATCC 77143) EUROSCARF (European Saccharomyces cerevisiae Archive for were used for general cloning and the complementation study, Functional Analysis). S. cerevisiae EH 13.15 [13] was used to prepare respectively. genomic DNA template for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of the S. cerevisiae URA3 gene (ScURA3). Escherichia Degenerate PCR and Genome Walking coli TOP10 (Invitrogen, USA) was used for plasmid DNA preparation The degenerate oligonucleotide primers CmURA3-DGF and CmURA3- and was routinely grown at 37oC. DGR (listed in Table 1) were designed based on the core consensus LB medium (0.5% bacto-yeast extract, 1% bacto-tryptone peptone, conserved regions, FEDRKF and RYQKAG, of yeast OMPDCases and 1% NaCl) supplemented with 100 µg/ml ampicillin was used [20, 22, 27, 31]. for plasmid DNA preparation. C. magnoliae was grown in YEPD PCR reactions were performed using 5 units of Diastar Taq (1% bacto-yeast extract, 2% bacto-proteose peptone, and 2% glucose) polymerase (Solgent, Korea). For the PCR, 1 µg of template DNA at 30oC for extraction of genomic DNA. S. cerevisiae cells carrying and 100 pmol of each primer were used. The reaction conditions o plasmid were grown in synthetic complete medium lacking uracil were 5 min at 95 C followed by 35 cycles of denaturation for 1 min o o (SC-URA-) or tryptophan (SC-TRP-), containing 2% glucose. The at 95 C, annealing for 1 min at 53 C, and extension for 1 min 30 s o S. cerevisiae transformants were grown in selective medium at 30oC at 68 C. The ~500 bp amplified fragment was cloned into the to an optical density at 600 nm (A600) of 0.8 and harvested by brief pGEM-T vector by TA cloning and sequenced. The complete open centrifugation for the OMPDCase enzyme activity assay. reading frame (ORF) and promoter and terminator regions were identified by genomic walking, which was performed with the DNA Nucleic Acid Isolation and Plasmids Walking SpeedUp Kit (Seegene, Korea) according to the manufacturer’s Yeast cells in the exponential growth phase were harvested by protocol. centrifugation, disrupted by vortexing with acid-washed glass beads (Sigma-Aldrich, USA), and the clarified lysate was applied to an Sequence Analysis anion-exchange column (Qiagen, Germany) that had been equilibrated Similarity searches for nucleotide and protein sequences were performed with 4 ml of QBT buffer [750 mM NaCl, 50 mM MOPS (pH 7.0), using the Web-based BLAST algorithm of the National Center for 15% isopropanol, and 0.15% Triton X-100]. The column was Biotechnology Information (NCBI; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ washed twice with 15 ml of QC buffer [1 M NaCl, 50 mM MOPS blast). The deduced amino acid sequence was obtained using the (pH 7.0), and 15% isopropanol], and the DNA was eluted with 5 ml translational tool of the Expert Protein Analysis System (ExPASY; of QE buffer [1.25 M NaCl, 50 mM Tris-HCl (pH 8.5), and 15% http://kr.expasy.org/tools/dna.html). Multiple amino acid sequences Table 1. Primers used in this study. Name Sequence (5'-3') Comments CmURA3-DGF TRSTYAARACNCAYATYG Degenerate PCR CmURA3-DGR GAYMGNAARTTTGCHG Degenerate PCR TSP1-cmURA3-5' ACGCGAGTACTCGCCCTT Genome walking TSP2-cmURA3-5' TCTTCGAGGCCAGACACAAT Genome walking TSP3-cmURA3-5' ATGTCCGCCCATTCGGCAAT Genome walking TSP1-cmURA3-3' CATTGTGTCTGGCCTCGAAGA Genome walking TSP2cmURA3-3' GTCGAGATTGCACGCTCGAA Genome walking TSP3cmURA3-3' GTTGGCCTCGACGACAAAGGC Genome walking ScURA3-F AATTGGATCCCTAGTGATTCACAGAAGTATG pME1043 construction ScURA3-R AATTGAATTCACTAGTGATTCACAGAAGTA pME1043 construction CmURA3-F AATTGGATCCTTCAACTTTTGCAACCCGCACGC pME1044 construction CmURA3-R AATTATCGATGCGCCGCCATTTTGTGGAAA pME1044 construction RT-cmURA3-F GGAACGTGCTGCTACTCATC RT-PCR RT-cmURA3-R TCAAAAGGCCTCTAGGTTCCT RT-PCR RT-scURA3-F GGATATTGGGTCCACCGT RT-PCR RT-scURA3-R GGCCAACGATGATGACGT RT-PCR RT-scACT1-F ATGGATTCTGAGGTTGCTG RT-PCR RT-scACT1-R AAAACGGCTTGGATGGAAA RT-PCR For degenerate primers CmURA3-DGF and CmURA3-DGR, R is A or G; S is C or G; Y is C or T; M is A or C; H is A or T or C; N is A or C or G or T. THE OROTIDINE-5'-PHOSPHATE DECARBOXYLASE GENE FROM CANDIDA MAGNOLIAE 644 were aligned using the CLUSTALW program, and the phylogenetic were used for 40 cycles of RT-PCR amplification. Aliquots of the tree was constructed with MEGA 5.0 using the neighbor-joining PCR product were separated on a 0.8% agarose gel. method. Bootstrap analysis was performed with 1,000 replicates to test the relative support for the branches in the phylogenetic tree. Codon usage analysis was performed using the Web-based tool RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Codon Usage Database (http://www.kazusa.or.jp/codon/). Isolation and Characterization of the C. magnoliae Cloning of CmURA3 and ScURA3 URA3 Gene A TRP1-marked centromere plasmid, pRS314 (4.78 kb), was used Degenerate PCR primers targeting conserved regions of to express CmURA3 and ScURA3. To obtain CmURA3 and ScURA3 the URA3 gene were designed based on a multiple alignment genes, including their own promoter and terminator regions, DNA of published yeast URA3 gene sequences (Table 1). A PCR - CmURA3 fragments compassing the region from 200 to +200 bp of product of approximately 0.5 kb was amplified (data not and ScURA3 were amplified by PCR using the primers listed in o shown) at an annealing temperature of 53 C, TA-cloned, Table 1.