[Engineering of a System for the Production of Mutant Human Alpha-Fetoprotein in the Methylotrophic Yeast Pichia pastoris].

A system for the production of mutant recombinant human alpha-fetoprotein (rhAFPO) lacking the glycosylation site has been engineered in the yeast Pichia pastoris. A strain of the methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris GS 115/pPICZ?A/rhAFP0, which produces unglycosylated rhAFPO and secretes it to the culture medium, has been constructed. Optimization and scale-up of the fermentation technology have resulted in an increase in the rhAFP0 yield to 20 mg/L.

[The mutational analysis of carbon catabolite repression in filamentous fungus Penicillium canescens].

Penicillium canescens strain F178 is a natural producer of beta-galactosidase and endo-1,4-beta-xylanase. The transcription of genes bgaS and xylA, coding for these proteins, is subject to carbon catabolite repression. The system for selective isolation of regulatory mutants in P.

[Multigene families of endo-(1-4)-beta-xylanases of Penicillium canescens].

Four novel genes of the enzymes of the endoxylanase (EC 3.2.1.

[Transcriptional regulator of carbon catabolite repression CreA in filamentous fungus].

Penicillium canescens strain F178 is a natural producer of beta-galactosidase and endo-1,4-beta-xylanase. Tanscription of genes bgaS and xylA coding for these proteins is subject to carbon catabolite repression which proceed mainly in filamentous fungi by transcriptional repressor CreA. creA gene of P.

[A heterologous production of the Trametes hirsuta laccase in the fungus Penicillium canescens].

A heterologous protein expression in the fungus Penicillium canescens is described for the first time. The fungal strains producing Trametes hirsuta laccase under control of a highly efficient promoter of the P. canescens gene bgaS has been constructed.