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Genetic engineering of an industrial strain of Saccharopolyspora erythraea for stable expression of the Vitreoscilla haemoglobin gene (vhb)

Institute of Biotechnology, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland

ABSTRACT

Several Actinomycetes/Streptomycetes expression vectors are described for expression of the Vitreoscilla haemoglobin gene (vhb) in an industrial erythromycin-producing strain of Saccharopolyspora erythraea. Cloning of vhb under the control of either the thiostrepton-inducible PtipA promoter or the constitutive PermE^* promoter led to the production of chemically active haemoglobin (VHb) in Streptomyces lividans TK24 transformed with these constructs. However, the plasmids could not be transformed into Sac. erythraea. Transformants of Sac. erythraea and/or exconjugants were obtained using a novel Escherichia coli/Streptomyces shuttle vector comprised of vhb under the control of the PermE^* promoter, the Streptomyces plasmid pIJ350 origin of replication, the thiostrepton-resistance gene (tsr) for selection, and the oriT region which is necessary for conjugal transfer. Increased plasmid stability in Sac. erythraea was obtained by construction of a vector for chromosomal integration. This vector contained the Streptomyces phage øC31 attachment site for chromosomal integration and vhb expressed under the PmerR promoter and was stably maintained in the chromosome of Sac. erythraea. Shake-flask cultivations of the transformed Sac. erythraea strain with the chromosomally integrated vhb gene show that vhb is expressed in an active form. The corresponding amount of erythromycin produced in the vhb-expressing strain was approximately 60% higher relative to the original VHb-negative strain.

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