Genetically engineered microorganisms are being increasingly used for the industrial production of complicated chemical compounds such as steroids; however, there have been few reports on the use of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe for this purpose. We previously have demonstrated that this yeast is a unique host for recombinant expression of human CYP11B2 (aldosterone synthase), and here we report the functional production of human CYP11B1 (steroid 11beta-hydroxylase) in S. pombe using our new integration vector pCAD1. In the human adrenal, the mitochondrial cytochrome P450 enzyme CYP11B1 catalyses the conversion of 11-deoxycortisol to cortisol, a key reaction in cortisol biosynthesis that in addition is of fundamental interest for the technical synthesis of glucocorticoids. We observed that the endogenous mitochondrial electron transport system detected previously by us is capable of supplying this enzyme with the reducing equivalents necessary for steroid hydroxylation activity. Under optimised cultivation conditions the transformed yeasts show in vivo the inducible ability to efficiently and reliably convert deoxycortisol to cortisol at an average rate of 201 microM d(-1) over a period of 72h, the highest value published to date for this biotransformation.
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