Efficient cloning system for construction of gene silencing vectors in Aspergillus niger

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 917-924

  Oliveira, José Miguel ^a   Van Der Veen, Douwe ^a   De Graaff, Leo H ^a   Qin, Ling ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aspergillus niger; Gateway cloning; pFIRD1; Post transcriptional gene silencing; XlnR

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; CLONING; DEGRADATION; FOOD ADDITIVES; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; SULFATE MINERALS; TRANSCRIPTION;

ASPERGILLUS NIGER; CO-TRANSFORMATION; D-XYLOSE; DEGRADING ACTIVITIES; EFFECTIVE TOOL; EXPRESSION VECTORS; GATEWAY CLONING; GENE SILENCING; GENES ENCODING; PFIRD1; POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRODUCT FORMATION; RAPID GENERATION; SEMI-QUANTITATIVE; TRANSCRIPT LEVELS; WILD-TYPE; XLNR;

VECTORS;

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; XYLAN; XYLOSE;

ASSAY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CLONE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FUNGUS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; RECOMBINATION;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE CONTROL; GENE SILENCING; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; WILD TYPE;

ASPERGILLUS NIGER; CLONING, MOLECULAR; D-XYLULOSE REDUCTASE; ENDO-1,4-BETA XYLANASES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC VECTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XYLANS;

ASPERGILLUS NIGER; FUNGI;

EID: 51849146893     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-008-1640-x     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. SE Barnes MJC Alcocer DB Archer 2008 siRNA as a molecular tool for use in Aspergillus niger Biotechnology Letters 30 885 890
2. JA Benen HC Kester J Visser 1999 Kinetic characterization of Aspergillus niger N400 endopolygalacturonases I, II and C Eur J Biochem 259 577 585
3. K Berns EM Hijmans J Mullenders TR Brummelkamp A Velds M Heimerikx RM Kerkhoven M Madiredjo W Nijkamp B Weigelt R Agami W Ge G Cavet PS Linsley RL Beijersbergen R Bernards 2004 A large-scale RNAi screen in human cells identifies new components of the p53 pathway Nature 428 431 437
4. M Boutros AA Kiger S Armknecht K Kerr M Hild B Koch SA Haas R Paro N Perrimon 2004 Genome-wide RNAi analysis of growth and viability in Drosophila cells Science 303 832 835
5. C Catalanotto G Azzalin G Macino C Cogoni 2000 Gene silencing in worms and fungi Nature 404 245
6. C Catalanotto M Pallotta P ReFalo MS Sachs L Vayssie G Macino C Cogoni 2004 Redundancy of the two dicer genes in transgene-induced posttranscriptional gene silencing in Neurospora crassa Mol Cell Biol 24 2536 2545
7. C Cogoni G Macino 1997 Isolation of quelling-defective (qde) mutants impaired in posttranscriptional transgene-induced gene silencing in Neurospora crassa Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 94 10233 10238
8. C Cogoni G Macino 1999 Gene silencing in Neurospora crassa requires a protein homologous to RNA-dependent RNA polymerase Nature 399 166 169
9. C Cogoni G Macino 1999 Posttranscriptional gene silencing in Neurospora by a RecQ DNA helicase Science 286 2342 2344
10. L de Graaff H van den Broek J Visser 1988 Isolation and transformation of the pyruvate kinase gene of Aspergillus nidulans Curr Genet 13 315 321
11. A Fire S Xu MK Montgomery SA Kostas SE Driver CC Mello 1998 Potent and specific genetic interference by double-stranded RNA in Caenorhabditis elegans Nature 391 806 811
12. A Fitzgerald JA Van Kan KM Plummer 2004 Simultaneous silencing of multiple genes in the apple scab fungus, Venturia inaequalis, by expression of RNA with chimeric inverted repeats Fungal Genet Biol 41 963 971
13. M Goldoni G Azzalin G Macino C Cogoni 2004 Efficient gene silencing by expression of double stranded RNA in Neurospora crassa Fungal Genet Biol 41 1016 1024
14. T Goosen F van Engelenburg F Debets K Swart K Bos H van den Broek 1989 Tryptophan auxotrophic mutants in Aspergillus niger: inactivation of the trpC gene by cotransformation mutagenesis Mol Gen Genet 219 282 288
15. AA Hasper J Visser LH de Graaff 2000 The Aspergillus niger transcriptional activator XlnR, which is involved in the degradation of the polysaccharides xylan and cellulose, also regulates D-xylose reductase gene expression Mol Microbiol 36 193 200
16. AA Hasper LM Trindade D van der Veen AJ van Ooyen LH de Graaff 2004 Functional analysis of the transcriptional activator XlnR from Aspergillus niger Microbiology 150 1367 1375
17. C Henry I Mouyna JP Latge 2007 Testing the efficacy of RNA interference constructs in Aspergillus fumigatus Curr Genet 51 277 284
18. RS Kamath AG Fraser Y Dong G Poulin R Durbin M Gotta A Kanapin N Le Bot S Moreno M Sohrmann DP Welchman P Zipperlen J Ahringer 2003 Systematic functional analysis of the Caenorhabditis elegans genome using RNAi Nature 421 231 237
19. M Karimi D Inze A Depicker 2002 GATEWAY vectors for Agrobacterium- mediated plant transformation Trends Plant Sci 7 193 195
20. MA Kusters-van Someren JA Harmsen HC Kester J Visser 1991 Structure of the Aspergillus niger pelA gene and its expression in Aspergillus niger and Aspergillus nidulans Curr Genet 20 293 299
21. V Meyer 2008 Genetic engineering of filamentous fungi-progress, obstacles and future trends Biotechnol Adv 26 177 185
22. V Meyer M Arentshorst A El-Ghezal AC Drews R Kooistra CA van den Hondel AF Ram 2007 Highly efficient gene targeting in the Aspergillus niger kusA mutant J Biotechnol 128 770 775
23. A Moriwaki M Ueno S Arase J Kihara 2007 RNA-mediated gene silencing in the phytopathogenic fungus Bipolaris oryzae FEMS Microbiology Lett 269 85 89
24. I Mouyna C Henry TL Doering JP Latge 2004 Gene silencing with RNA interference in the human pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus FEMS Microbiol Lett 237 317 324
25. H Nakayashiki S Hanada BQ Nguyen N Kadotani Y Tosa S Mayama 2005 RNA silencing as a tool for exploring gene function in ascomycete fungi Fungal Genet Biol 42 275 283
26. C Napoli C Lemieux R Jorgensen 1990 Introduction of a chimeric chalcone synthase gene into petunia results in reversible co-suppression of homologous genes in trans Plant Cell 2 279 289
27. FE Nicolas S Torres-Martinez RM Ruiz-Vazquez 2003 Two classes of small antisense RNAs in fungal RNA silencing triggered by non-integrative transgenes Embo J 22 3983 3991
28. PJ Paddison JM Silva DS Conklin M Schlabach M Li S Aruleba V Balija A O'Shaughnessy L Gnoj K Scobie K Chang T Westbrook M Cleary R Sachidanandam WR McCombie SJ Elledge GJ Hannon 2004 A resource for large-scale RNA-interference-based screens in mammals Nature 428 427 431
29. HJ Pel JH de Winde DB Archer PS Dyer G Hofmann PJ Schaap G Turner RP de Vries R Albang K Albermann MR Andersen JD Bendtsen JA Benen M van den Berg S Breestraat MX Caddick R Contreras M Cornell PM Coutinho EG Danchin AJ Debets P Dekker PW van Dijck A van Dijk L Dijkhuizen AJ Driessen C d'Enfert S Geysens C Goosen GS Groot PW de Groot T Guillemette B Henrissat M Herweijer JP van den Hombergh CA van den Hondel RT van der Heijden RM van der Kaaij FM Klis HJ Kools CP Kubicek PA van Kuyk J Lauber X Lu MJ van der Maarel R Meulenberg H Menke MA Mortimer J Nielsen SG Oliver M Olsthoorn K Pal NN van Peij AF Ram U Rinas JA Roubos CM Sagt M Schmoll J Sun D Ussery J Varga W Vervecken PJ van de Vondervoort H Wedler HA Wosten AP Zeng AJ van Ooyen J Visser H Stam 2007 Genome sequencing and analysis of the versatile cell factory Aspergillus niger CBS 513.88 Nat Biotechnol 25 221 231
30. MW Pfaffl 2001 A new mathematical model for relative quantification in real-time RT-PCR Nucleic Acids Res 29 e45
31. G Pontecorvo JA Roper LM Hemmons KD Macdonald AW Bufton 1953 The genetics of Aspergillus nidulans Adv Genet 5 141 238
32. N Romano G Macino 1992 Quelling: transient inactivation of gene expression in Neurospora crassa by transformation with homologous sequences Mol Microbiol 6 3343 3353
33. GJ Ruijter H Panneman D Xu J Visser 2000 Properties of Aspergillus niger citrate synthase and effects of citA overexpression on citric acid production FEMS Microbiol Lett 184 35 40
34. P Tanguay S Bozza C Breuil 2006 Assessing RNAi frequency and efficiency in Ophiostoma floccosum and O. piceae Fungal Genet Biol 43 804 812
35. AR van der Krol LA Mur M Beld JN Mol AR Stuitje 1990 Flavonoid genes in petunia: addition of a limited number of gene copies may lead to a suppression of gene expression Plant Cell 2 291 299
36. NN van Peij MM Gielkens RP de Vries J Visser LH de Graaff 1998 The transcriptional activator XlnR regulates both xylanolytic and endoglucanase gene expression in Aspergillus niger Appl Environ Microbiol 64 3615 3619
37. NN van Peij J Visser LH de Graaff 1998 Isolation and analysis of xlnR, encoding a transcriptional activator co-ordinating xylanolytic expression in Aspergillus niger Mol Microbiol 27 131 142
38. W Vishniac M Santer 1957 The thiobacilli Bacteriol Rev 21 195 213
39. MA Walti C Villalba RM Buser A Grunler M Aebi M Kunzler 2006 Targeted gene silencing in the model mushroom Coprinopsis cinerea (Coprinus cinereus) by expression of homologous hairpin RNAs Eukaryot Cell 5 732 744
40. O Yamada R Ikeda Y Ohkita R Hayashi K Sakamoto O Akita 2007 Gene silencing by RNA interference in the koji mold Aspergillus oryzae Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 71 138 144