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US 11,352,633 · App. 17/070,948 · Granted Jun 7, 2022

Aureobasidium pullulans strains with high-yield heavy oil and construction method and application thereof

Inventors: Yefu Chen (Tianjin, CN); Siyao Huang (Tianjin, CN); Peng Zheng (Tianjin, CN); Yuanhua Wang (Tianjin, CN); Jian Guo (Tianjin, CN); Mengjuan Zhang (Tianjin, CN); Xuewu Guo (Tianjin, CN); Dongguang Xiao (Tianjin, CN)
Assignee: Tianjin University of Science and Technology
C12N15/80C12N9/88C12N15/902C12P7/6463
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Patent No.
US 11,352,633
App. No.
17/070,948
Granted
Jun 7, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

An Aureobasidium pullulans recombinant strain with high-yield heavy oil and a construction method and application thereof are provided. The Aureobasidium pullulans recombinant strain is obtained by knocking out a pullulan synthetase PUL gene while overexpressing an ACL gene. The obtained Aureobasidium pullulans recombinant strain can significantly increase the yield of heavy oil. After 7-day fermentation with xylose as carbon source, the yield of the heavy oil of the recombinant strain reaches 19.4372 g/L, while the yield of the heavy oil of the original strain is 10.0325 g/L, i.e. the recombinant strain improves the yield by 93.74% compared with the original strain.

Claims (18)

1. An Aureobasidium pullulans recombinant strain, wherein the Aureobasidium pullulans recombinant strain improves a yield of heavy oil, and the Aureobasidium pullulans recombinant strain is achieved by using an Aureobasidium pullulans P30 strain as an original strain, using an ATP-citrate lyase (ACL) gene as a substitute for a pullulan synthetase (PUL) gene, and overexpressing the ACL gene with a promoter,

wherein the nucleotide sequence of the ACL gene comprises SEQ ID NO: 1, the nucleotide sequence of the PUL gene comprises SEQ ID NO: 2, and the preservation number of the Aureobasidium pullulans P30 strain is CGMCC No. 13988.

2. The Aureobasidium pullulans recombinant strain according to claim 1 , wherein the promoter is a PGK promoter, and the nucleotide sequence of the PGK promoter is as SEQ ID NO: 5.

3. A method of making the Aureobasidium pullulans recombinant strain according to claim 1 , comprising the following steps:

obtaining an Aureobasidium pullulans P30 strain as the original parent strain;

sequentially connecting and integrating an upstream homologous arm FA of the PUL gene of the Aureobasidium pullulans P30, a hygromycin resistance gene (hyg) fragment, a PGK promoter, the ACL gene of the Aureobasidium pullulans P30 strain, a GAP terminator and a downstream homologous arm FB of the PUL gene of the Aureobasidium pullulans P30 strain into a PUL gene integration site of the Aureobasidium pullulans P30 strain; and

performing homologous recombination to obtain the Aureobasidium pullulans recombinant strain of claim 1 , wherein the nucleotide sequence of the PGK promoter is SEQ ID NO: 5, and the nucleotide sequence of the GAP terminator is SEQ ID NO: 6.

4. The method of making the Aureobasidium pullulans recombinant strain according to claim 3 , specifically comprising the following steps:

carrying out a first PCR amplification with a genome of the Aureobasidium pullulans P30 strain as a template to obtain PCR amplification products of the upstream homologous arm FA and the downstream homologous arm FB of the PUL gene, the PGK promoter, the GAP terminator and the ACL gene;

carrying out a second PCR amplification on a plasmid carrying a hyg resistance gene to obtain a PCR amplification product of the hyg resistance gene fragment; and

performing an electrotransformation to sequentially connect and integrate the PCR amplification products of the upstream homologous arm FA of the PUL gene, the hyg resistance gene fragment, the PGK promoter, the ACL gene, the GAP terminator and the downstream homologous arm FB of the PUL gene into the PUL gene integration site of the Aureobasidium pullulans P30 strain, and

performing the homologous recombination to obtain the Aureobasidium pullulans recombinant strain of claim 1 overexpressing the ACL gene with the PGK promoter.

5. A method to produce a heavy oil, comprising culturing the Aureobasidium pullulans recombinant strain according to claim 1 under fermentation conditions, wherein the fermentation results in production of heavy oil.

6. The method according to claim 5 , comprising the following steps:

selecting and inoculating a strain seed of the Aureobasidium pullulans recombinant strain according to claim 1 into a seed culture medium, and performing shake culture at 28-30° C. and 200-240 r/min for 20-24 h to obtain a seed solution;

inoculating the seed solution at an inoculum size of 6%-8% into a fermentation culture medium, and performing a shake flask fermentation at 28-30° C. and 200-240 r/min for 5-7 days;

wherein the seed culture medium comprises 20 g/L of xylose, 1.0 g/L of yeast extract powder, 4.0 g/L of K 2 HPO 4 , 0.8 g/L of (NH 4 ) 2 SO 4 , 0.2 g/L of MgSO 4 , 4.0 g/L of NaCl and water as balance, with a pH of 5.5-6.5, and the seed culture medium is subjected to sterilization at 121° C. for 20 min; and

the fermentation culture medium comprises 50 g/L of xylose, 1.4-2.0 g/L of yeast extract powder, 0.8 g/L of KNOB, 2.0 g/L of NaCl, 5.0 g/L of K 2 HPO 4 , 0.3 g/L of MgSO 4 and water as balance, with a pH of 4.5-5.5, and the fermentation culture medium is subjected to sterilization at 121° C. for 20 min.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 15, 2020
From: CHEN, YEFU; HUANG, SIYAO; ZHENG, PENG; WANG, YUANHUA; GUO, JIAN; ZHANG, MENGJUAN; GUO, XUEWU; XIAO, DONGGUANG
To: TIANJIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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Priority Claims (1)
CN 201910978113 .1 · Oct 15, 2019 · national
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