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BIOTECHNOLOGY LETTERS
Volume 35, Issue 9, Pages 1425-1432Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10529-013-1219-1
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Biosynthesis; Pigment; Monascus ruber; Regulator; trpC promoter
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- Natural Science Foundation of China [31171649/C200101]
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Pigments produced by Monascus are traditional food colorants and are widely used as dietary supplements. Since genes involving in pigment biosynthesis have not been reported, we describe the identification of a putative pigment-regulatory gene (pigR) obtained by molecular analysis of an albino strain of Monascus ruber M7. In the pigR-deleted strain (Delta pigR), neither the pigments nor pigR expression were detected by HPLC or reverse-transcription PCR, respectively, whereas the introduction of the pigR, together with a constitutive trpC promoter into Delta pigR, caused it to produce 5.4 U of red pigments/g dry mycelia, about 12-fold higher than Monascus ruber M7 (0.46 U/g dry mycelia). Thus pigR up-regulates pigment production in Monascus ruber M7.
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