background and objectives: during past decades hansenula polymorpha has attracted global attention for the expression of recombinant proteins due to its high growth rate, minimal nutritional porequirements and use of methanol as a low cost inducer. materials and methods: the corresponding nucleotide sequences for the expression of heterologous genes in hansenula poylmorpha were extracted and as...

phytic acid is the dominant form of phosphorous in plant seeds. however, phytic acid cannot beutilized by animals and causes them serious phosphate deficiency. utilization of phytase as ananimal feed additive can affect liberation of phosphor and its mineral availability. in this study,heterologous expression of the a. niger phya gene was investigated in the methylotrophic yeastsp. pastoris and...

In the yeast Hansenula polymorpha peroxisomes are selectively degraded upon a shift of cells from methanol to glucose-containing media. We identified the H. polymorpha TUP1 gene by functional complementation of the peroxisome degradation deficient mutant pdd2-4. Tup1 proteins function in transcriptional repression of specific sets of genes involved in various cellular processes. Our combined da...

bioconversion of cellulosic material into bioethanol needs cellulase complex enzymesthat contain endoglucanase, exoglucanase and beta glucosidase. one of the most important organisms that produce cellulases is the filamentous fungi, trichoderma reesei which able to secrete large amounts of different cellulases. these enzymes are probably the most widely used cellulases industrially, however, th...

In the yeast Hansenula polymorpha the development and turnover of peroxisomes is readily achieved by manipulation of the cultivation conditions. The organelles massively develop when the cells are incubated in the presence of methanol as the sole source of carbon and energy. However, they are rapidly and selectively degraded when methanol-grown cells are placed at conditions of repression of me...

The TPS1 gene from Hansenula polymorpha, which encodes trehalose-6-phosphate (Tre6P) synthase, has been isolated and characterized. The deletion of TPS1 rendered H. polymorpha cells incapable of trehalose synthesis under conditions where wild-type cells normally accumulate high levels of trehalose. Interestingly, the loss of Tre6P synthase did not cause any obvious growth defects on a glucose-c...

Contour-clamped homogeneous electrophoresis and an embedded-agarose method of sample preparation were combined to carry out an analysis of the chromosome sets of nine strains of Hansenula polymorpha (syn. Pichia angusta). Chromosomal DNA molecules could be separated into a series of bands ranging, approximately, from 650 up to 2,200 kb in size. Polymorphism of the electrophoretic pattern was de...

PER genes are essential for the biogenesis of peroxisomes in the yeast Hansenula polymorpha. Here we describe the functional complementation of a H. polymorpha per9 disruption strain (delta per9) by a heterologous gene. The Saccharomyces cerevisiae Pas3p, a homologue of per9p, restored peroxisome biogenesis and peroxisomal protein import in the delta per9 mutant, allowing it to grow again on me...

Bioconversion of cellulosic material into bioethanol needs cellulase complex enzymesthat contain endoglucanase, exoglucanase and beta glucosidase. One of the most important organisms that produce cellulases is the filamentous fungi, Trichoderma reesei which able to secrete large amounts of different cellulases. These enzymes are probably the most widely used cellulases industrially, however, th...

Hexose oxidase (HOX) is an enzyme that catalyses the oxidation of C6-sugars to their corresponding lactones. A hexose oxidase enzyme produced from a nonpathogenic and nontoxigenic genetically engineered strain of the yeast Hansenula polymorpha has been developed for use in several food applications. It is encoded by the hexose oxidase gene from the red alga Chondrus crispus that is not known to...