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Starch and maltooligosaccharides such as maltose and maltotriose induce the production of amylolytic enzymes including alpha-amylase in Aspergillus oryzae. A transcriptional activator gene amyR, required for maltose induction of amylolytic enzymes, has been cloned and characterized. The amyR gene deletion mutant showed significantly poor growth on starch medium but normal growth on maltose medium. This indicated the existence of another maltose-utilizing system, whose expression might not be controlled by amyR. We have identified a gene cluster homologous to the MAL cluster of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in the A. oryzae genome. The cluster consists of a MAL61 homolog (designated malP), a MAL62 homolog (designated malT), and a MAL63 homolog (designated malR). Overexpression of malT in A. oryzae resulted in a significant increase in intracellular alpha-glucosidase activity, and that of malP allowed S. cerevisiaemal61Delta to grow on maltose. The expression of both malP and malT genes was highly up-regulated in the presence of maltose, but malR expressed constitutively irrespective of carbon sources. Disruption of malR resulted in the loss of malP and malT expression and thus in restricted growth on maltose medium. In addition, a malP disruptant showed a significantly reduced expression of malT and malR and exhibited a growth defect on maltose similar to the malR disruptant. These results suggest that the MAL cluster of A. oryzae is responsible for the assimilation of maltose in A. oryzae.
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PMID:Characterization and expression analysis of a maltose-utilizing (MAL) cluster in Aspergillus oryzae. 1985 Jan 46

The expression of secreted proteins in filamentous fungi is down-regulated by a transcriptional feedback mechanism under endoplasmic reticulum stress, termed repression under secretion stress (RESS). To investigate the RESS mechanism, we analyzed the expression of the Taka-amylase A gene (amyB) in Aspergillus oryzae, which was depressed under secreted protein stress. We conducted a truncation and deletion analysis of the amyB promoter to identify cis-elements required for RESS. A nucleotide sequence (positions -378 to -291) without any binding sites for the transcriptional activator AmyR, which is involved in amylolytic gene expression, was required for RESS. The octamer sequence TCACGGGC (positions -307 to -300) constituted the core sequence of the upstream activating element essential for amyB down-regulation under secretion stress. Both the inactivation of AmyR and RESS contributed to the down-regulation of amyB expression under ER stress.
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PMID:Identification of functional cis-elements required for repression of the Taka-amylase A gene under secretion stress in Aspergillus oryzae. 2528 Jul 30


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