Abstract:
To study the expression and subcellular localization of recombinant dammarenediol-Ⅱ synthase (DS) in
Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the dammarenediol-Ⅱ synthase gene
ds was cloned from
Panax ginseng, and the gene
ds was fused with the gene of green fluorescent protein to obtain the fusion gene
ds-
gfp. The recombinant expression plasmids pESC-HIS-DS and pESC-HIS-DS-GFP were constructed and transformed into
S. cerevisiae INVSc1 to obtain recombinant strains INVSc1-DS and INVSc1-DS-GFP. Microsomes of recombinant strains were prepared by differential centrifugation and observed by fluorescence microscope. The green fluorescence was only detected in INVSc1-DS-GFP microsomes, which indicated that DS was a membrane protein. It was also proved that dammarenediol-Ⅱ was produced from the cyclization of 2, 3-oxidosqualene catalyzed by DS through
in vitro enzymatic reaction. In addition, our results revealed that the fusion expression of
ds with
gfp significantly improved the production of dammarenediol-Ⅱ from 7.53 mg·g
-1 to 12.24 mg·g
-1. This study provides a new strategy in the optimization of the pathway of ginsenosides biosynthesis in
S. cerevisiae.