title: Expression of an Aspergillus niger glucose oxidase in saccharomyces cerevisiae and its use to optimize fructo-oligosaccharides synthesis.
abstract: Fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS) represent the most abundantly supplied and utilized group of nondigestible oligosaccharides as food ingredients. These prebiotics can be produced from sucrose using the transglycosylating activity of beta-fructofuranosidases (EC 3.2.1.26) at high concentrations of the starting material. The main problem during FOS synthesis is that the activity of the enzyme is inhibited by the glucose generated during the reaction, and therefore the maximum FOS content in commercial products reaches up to 60% on a dry substance basis. The glucose oxidase (gox) gene from Aspergillus niger BT18 was cloned and integrated, as part of an expression cassette, into the ribosomal DNA of a Saccharomyces cerevisiae host strain. One of the recombinant strains with a high copy number of the gox gene and showing a high GOX specific activity was used to produce the enzyme. Addition of the extracellular glucose oxidase to the FOS synthesis reaction helped to remove the glucose generated, avoiding the inhibition of the fungal beta-fructofuranosidase. As a result, a final syrup containing up to 90% of FOS was obtained.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biotechnology, Puleva Biotech, SA, Camino de Purchil, Granada, Spain.
authors.forename: Magdalena
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Valdivieso-Ugarte
authors.forename: Carmen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ronchel
authors.forename: Oscar
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Bañuelos
authors.forename: Javier
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Velasco
authors.forename: José L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Adrio
mesh_terms: D001234:Aspergillus niger / Q000201:enzymology*; D005632:Fructose / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D015971:Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic / Q000235:genetics*; D005949:Glucose Oxidase / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D009844:Oligosaccharides / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D015202:Protein Engineering / Q000379:methods; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D009844:Oligosaccharides; D005632:Fructose; D005949:Glucose Oxidase