Abstract
Heterologous production of 3-hydroxy-lanosta-8, 24-dien-26 oic acid
(HLDOA) was recently achieved by expressing CYP5150L8 from
Ganoderma lucidum in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, but
post-modification of HLDOA remains unclear. In this study, another P450
from G. lucidum, CYP5139G1, was identified to be responsible for
C-28 oxidation of HLDOA, resulting in the formation of a new ganoderic
acid (GA) 3,28-dihydroxy-lanosta-8, 24-dien-26 oic acid (DHLDOA) by the
engineered yeast, whose chemical structure was confirmed by LC-MS and
NMR. In vitro enzymatic experiments confirmed the oxidation of HLDOA to
DHLDOA by CYP5139G1. As the DHLDOA production was low (0.27 mg/L), to
improve it, the strategy of adjusting the dosage of hygromycin and
geneticin G418 to respectively manipulate the copy number of plasmid
pRS425-Hyg-CYP5150L8-iGLCPR (harboring CYP5150L8, iGLCPR and hygromycin
resistant gene hygR) and pRS426-KanMx-CYP5139G1 (harboring CYP5139G1 and
G418 resistant gene KanMx) was adopted. Finally, 2.2 mg/L of DHLDOA was
obtained, which was 8.2 fold of the control (without antibiotics
addition). The work not only enriches the library of GAs and GA
biosynthetic enzymes, but also helps to construct heterologous cell
factories for other GA production as well as to elucidate the authentic
GA biosynthetic pathway in G. lucidum.