title: Increase of yeast survival under oxidative stress by the expression of the laccase gene from Coprinellus congregatus.
abstract: Coprinellus congregatus secreted a laccase isozyme when the culture was transferred to an acidic liquid medium (pH 4.1). The laccase cDNA gene (clac2) was used as a probe for cloning of the genomic laccase gene (lac2) including the promoter (Plac2). The open reading frame (ORF) of lac2 had 526 deduced amino acids and four conserved copper binding domains as other fungal laccases. Recombinant plasmid (pRSlac2p-cDNA) of lac2 cDNA with its own promoter was transformed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Expression of the transformed lac2 gene was induced by oxidative stress (H2O2) in yeast and the survival rate of the transformed yeast strain was greatly increased when compared with that of the control strain transformed with pRS316 yeast vector.
authors.affiliation: Molecular Microbiology Lab, Department of Biochemistry, Division of Life Sciences, Kangwon National University, Chunchon 200-701, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Dongsik
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Eunju
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kwak
authors.forename: Hyoung T
authors.initials: HT
authors.lastname: Choi
mesh_terms: D000363:Agaricales / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D015971:Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic; D015966:Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal; D006861:Hydrogen Peroxide / Q000494:pharmacology; D042845:Laccase / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D018384:Oxidative Stress; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000502:physiology; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D014170:Transformation, Genetic
chemical_list: D006861:Hydrogen Peroxide; D042845:Laccase