Biochemical and genetic studies on the pyruvate branch point enzymes of rhizopus oryzae

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Rhizopus oryzae is a filamentous fungi which produces lactic acid and ethanol in fermentations. R. oryzae has numerous advantages for use industrial production of L-(+)-lactic acid but the yield of lactic acid produced on the basis of carbon consumed is low. Metabolic flux analysis of R. oryzae has shown that most of the pyruvate produced at the end of the glycolysis is channelled to ethanol, acetyl-CoA and oxaloacetate production. This study aimed to answer some questions addressed on the regulation of pyruvate branch point in R. oryzae and for this purpose biochemical characterisation of the enzymes acting at this branch point and cloning the genes coding for these enzymes have been done. Pyruvate decarboxylase was purified and characterised for the first time from R. oryzae. The purified enzyme has a Hill coefficient of 1.84 and the Km of the enzyme is 8.6 mM for pyruvate at pH 6.5. The enzyme is inhibited at pyruvate concentrations higher than 30 mM. The optimum pH for enzyme activity shows a broad range from 5.7 and 7.2. The monomer molecular weight was estimated as 59l2 kDa by SDS-PAGE analysis. Pyruvate decarboxylase (pdcA and pdcB) and lactate dehydrogenase (ldhA and ldhB) genes of R. oryzae have been cloned by PCR-cloning approach and the filamentous fungi Aspergillus niger was transformed with these genes. The A. niger transformed with either of the ldh genes of R. oryzae showed enhanced production of lactic acid compared to wild type. Citric acid production was also increased in these transformants while no gluconate production was observed Cloning of hexokinase gene from R. oryzae using degenerate primers was studied by the use of GenomeWalker kit (Clontech). The results of this study were evaluated by using some bioinformatics tools depending on the unassembled clone sequences of R. oryzae genome.

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Ş. Açar, “Biochemical and genetic studies on the pyruvate branch point enzymes of rhizopus oryzae,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2004.