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Improving Cellulase Production in Trichoderma koningii Through RNA Interference on ace1 Gene Expression

  • Wang, Shao-Wen (College of Life Science, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Microbial Genetic Engineering, Shenzhen University) ;
  • Xing, Miao (College of Life Science, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Microbial Genetic Engineering, Shenzhen University) ;
  • Liu, Gang (College of Life Science, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Microbial Genetic Engineering, Shenzhen University) ;
  • Yu, Shao-Wen (College of Life Science, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Microbial Genetic Engineering, Shenzhen University) ;
  • Wang, Juan (College of Life Science, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Microbial Genetic Engineering, Shenzhen University) ;
  • Tian, Sheng-Li (College of Life Science, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Microbial Genetic Engineering, Shenzhen University)
  • Received : 2011.12.19
  • Accepted : 2012.04.10
  • Published : 2012.08.28
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Abstract

Ribonucleic acid interference (RNAi) inhibits the expression of target genes in a sequence-specific manner, and shows potential for gene knockdown in filamentous fungi, in which the locus-specific gene knockout occurs in low frequency. In this study, the function of the repressor of cellulase expression I (ACEI) was verified in Trichoderma koningii (T. koningii) YC01 through RNAi, and ace1-silenced strains with improved cellulase productivity were obtained. An expression cassette that transcribed the interfering double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) of ace1 was constructed and transformed into T. koningii, and the transformants, in which the expression of ace1 was successfully silenced, were selected. As a result of the ace1 gene silencing, the expression levels of the main cellulase and xylanase genes were elevated, and the enhanced production of total proteins, cellulase, and xylanase was observed in the cultivation. In addition, the down-regulation of ace1 resulted in an increasing expression of xyr1, but no clear variation in the expression of cre1, which suggested that ACEI acted as a repressor of the xyr1 transcription, but was not involved in the regulation of the cre1 expression. The results of this work indicate that ace1 is a valid target gene for enhancing enzyme production in T. koningii, and RNAi is an appropriate tool for improving the properties of industrial fungi.

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