PMID- 22285974 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20120409 LR - 20211021 IS - 1879-0038 (Electronic) IS - 0378-1119 (Print) IS - 0378-1119 (Linking) VI - 496 IP - 2 DP - 2012 Apr 1 TI - Analysis of the 5' untranslated region (5'UTR) of the alcohol oxidase 1 (AOX1) gene in recombinant protein expression in Pichia pastoris. PG - 118-27 AB - Pichia pastoris is a methylotrophic yeast that has been genetically engineered to express over one thousand heterologous proteins valued for industrial, pharmaceutical and basic research purposes. In most cases, the 5' untranslated region (UTR) of the alcohol oxidase 1 (AOX1) gene is fused to the coding sequence of the recombinant gene for protein expression in this yeast. Because the effect of the AOX1 5'UTR on protein expression is not known, site-directed mutagenesis was performed in order to decrease or increase the length of this region. Both of these types of changes were shown to affect translational efficiency, not transcript stability. While increasing the length of the 5'UTR clearly decreased expression of a beta-galactosidase reporter in a proportional manner, a deletion analysis demonstrated that the AOX1 5'UTR contains a complex mixture of both positive and negative cis-acting elements, suggesting that the construction of a synthetic 5'UTR optimized for a higher level of expression may be challenging. CI - Copyright A(c) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Staley, Chris A AU - Staley CA AD - Department of Biological Sciences, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA 95211, USA. FAU - Huang, Amy AU - Huang A FAU - Nattestad, Maria AU - Nattestad M FAU - Oshiro, Kristin T AU - Oshiro KT FAU - Ray, Laura E AU - Ray LE FAU - Mulye, Tejas AU - Mulye T FAU - Li, Zhiguo Harry AU - Li ZH FAU - Le, Thu AU - Le T FAU - Stephens, Justin J AU - Stephens JJ FAU - Gomez, Seth R AU - Gomez SR FAU - Moy, Allison D AU - Moy AD FAU - Nguyen, Jackson C AU - Nguyen JC FAU - Franz, Andreas H AU - Franz AH FAU - Lin-Cereghino, Joan AU - Lin-Cereghino J FAU - Lin-Cereghino, Geoff P AU - Lin-Cereghino GP LA - eng GR - R15 GM065882/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States GR - R15 GM065882-03/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States GR - GM65882-03/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20120125 PL - Netherlands TA - Gene JT - Gene JID - 7706761 RN - 0 (5' Untranslated Regions) RN - 0 (Recombinant Proteins) RN - EC 1.1.- (Alcohol Oxidoreductases) RN - EC 1.1.3.13 (alcohol oxidase) RN - EC 3.2.1.23 (beta-Galactosidase) SB - IM MH - *5' Untranslated Regions MH - Alcohol Oxidoreductases/*genetics MH - Base Sequence MH - Cell-Free System MH - Gene Deletion MH - Gene Expression Profiling/methods MH - *Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal MH - Molecular Sequence Data MH - Mutagenesis, Site-Directed MH - Mutation MH - Nucleic Acid Conformation MH - Pichia/*metabolism MH - Protein Biosynthesis MH - Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction/methods MH - Recombinant Proteins/metabolism MH - beta-Galactosidase/metabolism PMC - PMC3464313 MID - NIHMS352105 EDAT- 2012/01/31 06:00 MHDA- 2012/04/10 06:00 PMCR- 2013/04/01 CRDT- 2012/01/31 06:00 PHST- 2011/09/14 00:00 [received] PHST- 2011/12/31 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2012/01/05 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2012/01/31 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2012/01/31 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2012/04/10 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2013/04/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - S0378-1119(12)00021-2 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.gene.2012.01.006 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Gene. 2012 Apr 1;496(2):118-27. doi: 10.1016/j.gene.2012.01.006. Epub 2012 Jan 25.