The content of pullulan and melanin in 500 mutants of Aureobasidum pullulans obtained by ultraviolet mutagenesis were examined and statistically analyzed, and a strong positive correlation was found between them. The result was further confirmed by culturing wild type strain As3.3984 in different media. Then we constructed melanin-deletion mutant As-Δalb1 and pullulan-deletion mutant As-Δpul. As-Δalb1 was a melanin-free strain with the yield of pullulan decreased by 41.01%. The supplementation of melanin in the culture of As-Δalb1 increased the production of pullulan. As-Δpul synthesized neither pullulan nor melanin and recovered melanin synthesis by adding pullulan to the medium. The results suggested that high concentration- of pullulan induced morphological transformation and synthesis of melanin, and melanin promoted the synthesis of pullulan. The pullulan biosynthetic genes, upt, pgm, ugp, and pul, were down-regulated, while the negative regulatory gene of pullulan synthesis, creA, was up-regulated by melanin deficiency.
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