IP Library Granted Patent US 7,718,396
Granted Patent B2
US 7,718,396 · App. 10/377,803 · Granted May 18, 2010

Inducible high expression system

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Patent No.
US 7,718,396
App. No.
10/377,803
Granted
May 18, 2010
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention provides a vector containing a DNA construct containing a first promoter that is a nitrilase gene promoter, a multicloning site and a nitrilase transcription regulatory protein gene (particularly preferably a structural gene is ligated into a multicloning site and a second promoter is placed at the upstream of the nitrilase transcription regulatory protein gene), and the like. The present invention affords a high expression system capable of expressing a large amount of useful proteins by actinomycete host represented by actinomycete belonging to the genus Streptomyces and the like beneficially used for the production of useful proteins.

Claims (33)

1. A DNA construct comprising a first promoter that is a nitrilase gene promoter consisting of the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 15, operably linked to a nitrilase gene from Rhodococcus rhodochrous J 1 and a second promoter that is a nitrilase gene promoter consisting of the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 15, wherein the second promoter is placed upstream of a nitrilase transcription regulatory protein gene from Rhodococcus rhodochrous J 1.

2. A DNA construct comprising a first promoter that is a nitrilase gene promoter consisting of the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 15, operably linked to a cloning or multi-cloning site and a second promoter that is a nitrilase gene promoter consisting of the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 15, wherein the second promoter is placed upstream of a nitrilase transcription regulatory protein gene from Rhodococcus rhodochrous J 1.

3. The DNA construct of claim 1 , further comprising a terminator region upstream of the first promoter and/or the second promoter.

4. A vector comprising both the DNA construct of claim 1 , and a DNA involved in a regulatory function of intracellular autonomous replication of actinomycete.

5. The vector of claim 4 , further comprising a DNA involved in a regulatory function of intracellular autonomous replication of a bacterial cell other than actinomycete.

6. The vector of claim 4 , wherein the actinomycete belongs to a genus other than the genus Rhodococcus.

7. The vector of claim 4 , wherein the actinomycete belongs to the genus Streptomyces.

8. The vector of claim 5 , wherein the bacterial cell other than actinomycete is Eseherichia coli.

9. A transformant transformed with the vector of claim 4 .

10. A transformant transformed with the vector of claim 5 .

11. A transformant belonging to actinomycete, which has been transformed with a vector comprising both a DNA construct comprising a first promoter that is a nitrilase gene promoter consisting of the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 15, operably linked to a structural gene and a second promoter that is a nitrilase gene promoter consisting of the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 15, wherein the second promoter is placed upstream of the nitrilase transcription regulatory protein gene from Rhodococcus rhodochrous J 1, and a DNA involved in a regulatory function of intracellular autonomous replication of actinomycete.

12. A transformant belonging to actinomycete, into which a DNA construct comprising a first promoter that is a nitrilase gene promoter consisting of the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 15, operably linked to a structural gene and a second promoter that is a nitrilase gene promoter consisting of the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 15, wherein the second promoter is placed upstream of the nitrilase transcription regulatory protein gene from Rhodococcus rhodochrous J 1, has been introduced.

13. A structural gene expression system which comprises expression of a vector comprising both a DNA construct comprising a first promoter that is a nitrilase gene promoter consisting of the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 15, operably linked to the structural gene and a second promoter that is a nitrilase gene promoter consisting of the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 15, wherein the second promoter is placed upstream of the nitrilase transcription regulatory protein gene from Rhodococcus rhodochrous J 1 and a DNA involved in a regulatory function of intracellular autonomous replication of actinomycete, under the control of an inducer in an actinomycete host.

14. A structural gene expression system which comprises expression of the structural gene in an actinomycete host, into which a DNA construct comprising a first promoter that is a nitrilase gene promoter consisting of the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 15, operably linked to the structural gene and a second promoter that is a nitrilase gene promoter consisting of the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 15, wherein the second promoter is placed upstream of the nitrilase transcription regulatory protein gene from Rhodococcus rhodochrous J 1, has been introduced, under the control of an inducer.

15. A production method of a gene product encoded by a structural gene, which comprises expression of a vector comprising both a DNA construct comprising a first promoter that is a nitrilase gene promoter consisting of the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 15, operably linked to the structural gene and a second promoter that is a nitrilase gene promoter consisting of the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 15, wherein the second promoter is placed upstream of the nitrilase transcription regulatory protein gene from Rhodococcus rhodochrous J 1 and a DNA involved in a regulatory function of intracellular autonomous replication of actinomycete, in an actinomycete under the control of an inducer.

16. A production method of a gene product encoded by a structural gene, which comprises expression, under the control of an inducer, of the structural gene in a host belonging to actinomycete into which a DNA construct comprising a first promoter that is a nitrilase gene promoter consisting of the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 15, operably linked to the structural gene and a second promoter that is a nitrilase gene promoter consisting of the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 15, wherein the second promoter is placed upstream of the nitrilase transcription regulatory protein gene from Rhodococcus rhodochrous J 1, has been introduced.

17. The DNA construct of claim 2 , further comprising a terminator region upstream of the first promoter and/or the second promoter.

18. A vector comprising both the DNA construct of claim 2 , and a DNA involved in a regulatory function of intracellular autonomous replication of actinomycete.

19. The vector of claim 18 , further comprising a DNA involved in a regulatory function of intracellular autonomous replication of a bacterial cell other than actinomycete.

20. The vector of claim 18 , wherein the actinomycete belongs to a genus other than the genus Rhodococcus.

21. The vector of claim 18 , wherein the actinomycete belongs to the genus Streptomyces.

22. The vector of claim 19 , wherein the bacterial cell other than actinomycete is Escherichia coli.

23. A transformant transformed with the vector of claim 18 .

24. A transformant transformed with the vector of claim 19 .

25. The transformant of claim 11 , wherein the structural gene is a nitrilase gene.

26. The transformant of claim 12 , wherein the structural gene is a nitrilase gene.

27. The system of claim 13 , wherein the structural gene is a nitrilase gene.

28. The system of claim 14 , wherein the structural gene is a nitrilase gene.

29. The production method of claim 15 , wherein the structural gene is a nitrilase gene.

30. The system of claim 13 , wherein the actinomycete belongs to the genus Streptomyces.

31. The system of claim 14 , wherein the actinomycete belongs to the genus Streptomyces.

32. The method of claim 15 , wherein the actinomycete belongs to the genus Streptomyces.

33. The method of claim 16 , wherein the actinomycete belongs to the genus Streptomyces.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 5, 2016
From: ASTELLAS PHARMA INC.
To: KOBAYASHI, MICHIHIKO, MR.
Reel/Frame 039354/0600 →
MERGER Recorded Dec 12, 2005
From: FUJISAWA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
To: ASTELLAS PHARMA INC.
Reel/Frame 017073/0257 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 4, 2003
From: KOBAYASHI, MICHIHIKO; HASHIMOTO, YOSHITERU; HIGASHIBATA, HIROKI
To: KOBAYASHI, MICHIHIKO; FUJISAWA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 014138/0424 →