Supported by National High-Tech Research and Development Program of China (863 Program, No. 2002AA628050) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30270031).
a halotolerant unicellular green alga without a rigid cell wall
can live in salinities ranging from 0.05 to 5 mol/L NaCl. These features ofD. salina make it an ideal host for the production of antibodies
oral vaccine
and commercially valuable polypeptides. To produce high level of heterologous proteins fromD. salina
highly efficient promoters are required to drive expression of target genes under controlled condition. In the present study
we cloned a 5′ franking region of 1.4 kb from the carbonic anhydrase (CAH) gene ofD. salina by genomic walking and PCR. The fragment was ligated to the pMD18-T vector and characterized. Sequence analysis indicated that this region contained conserved motifs
including a TATA- like box and CAAT-box. Tandem (GT)n repeats that had a potential role of transcriptional control
were also found in this region. The transcription start site (TSS) of theCAH gene was determined by 5′ RACE and nested PCR method. Transformation assays showed that the 1.4 kb fragment was able to drive expression of the selectable bar (bialaphos resistance) gene when the fusion was transformed intoD. salina by biolistics. Northern blotting hybridizations showed that the bar transcript was most abundant in cells grown in 2 mol/L NaCl
and less abundant in 0.5 mol/L NaCl
indicating that expression of the bar gene was induced at high salinity. These results suggest the potential use of theCAH gene promoter to induce the expression of heterologous genes inD. salina under varied salt condition.
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