Enhancing transglutaminase production of Streptomyces mobaraensis by iterative mutagenesis breeding with atmospheric and room-temperature plasma (ARTP)

Abstract

Objectives

To improve the fermentation production of transglutaminase (TGase) from Streptomyces mobaraensis for applications in the food industry, the atmospheric and room-temperature plasma (ARTP) mutagenesis was applied to breed S. mobaraensis mutants with increased TGase production.

Results

After eight rounds of iterative ARTP mutagenesis, four genetically stable mutants, Sm5-V1, Sm6-V13, Sm2-V10, and Sm7-V12, were identified, which showed increased TGase production by 27, 24, 24, and 19%, respectively. The best mutant Sm5-V1 exhibited a maximum TGase activity of 5.85 U/mL during flask fermentation. Compared to the wild-type strain, the transcription levels of the zymogen TGase genes in the mutants increased significantly as indicated by quantitative real-time PCR, while the gene nucleotide sequences of the mutants did not change at all. It was shown that the overexpression of TGase zymogen gene in the mutants contributes to the increase in TGase production.

Conclusions

ARTP is a potentially efficient tool for microbial mutation breeding to bring some significant changes required for the industrial applications.

Keywords

Atmospheric and room-temperature plasma / Breeding / Streptomyces mobaraensis / Transcription level / Transglutaminase

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Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China(21536004)

Shanghai Commission of Science and Technology(15JC1400403)

Shanghai Pujiang Program(15PJ1401200)