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Title: Methods for transforming and expression screening of filamentous fungal cells with a DNA library

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1183451

The present invention relates to methods for expression screening of filamentous fungal transformants, comprising: (a) isolating single colony transformants of a DNA library introduced into E. coli; (b) preparing DNA from each of the single colony E. coli transformants; (c) introducing a sample of each of the DNA preparations of step (b) into separate suspensions of protoplasts of a filamentous fungus to obtain transformants thereof, wherein each transformant contains one or more copies of an individual polynucleotide from the DNA library; (d) growing the individual filamentous fungal transformants of step (c) on selective growth medium, thereby permitting growth of the filamentous fungal transformants, while suppressing growth of untransformed filamentous fungi; and (e) measuring activity or a property of each polypeptide encoded by the individual polynucleotides. The present invention also relates to isolated polynucleotides encoding polypeptides of interest obtained by such methods, to nucleic acid constructs, expression vectors, and recombinant host cells comprising the isolated polynucleotides, and to methods of producing the polypeptides encoded by the isolated polynucleotides.

Research Organization:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC36-98GO10337
Assignee:
Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, CA)
Patent Number(s):
9,045,748
Application Number:
11/140,150
OSTI ID:
1183451
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Methods and compositions for cellular and metabolic engineering patent October 2001
Methods and materials for the rapid and high volume production of a gene knock-out library in an organism patent March 2004
High-throughput screening of expressed DNA libraries in filamentous fungi patent October 2006
High-throughput screening of expressed DNA libraries in filamentous fungi patent-application August 2003
Mutation and screening to increase chymosin yield in a genetically-engineered strain ofAspergillus awamori journal June 1990
A System for Dual Protein Expression in Pichia pastoris and Escherichia coli journal December 2000
High-throughput screening for soluble recombinant expressed kinases in Escherichia coli and insect cells journal July 2004

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