Abstract
A set of YEp Saccharomyces cerevisiae-based, integrative Hansenula polymorpha plasmids was constructed to express lacZ gene under yeast gene promoters. The HpLEU2 and HpURA3 genes were used both as markers and to target the integration of plasmids into the corresponding H. polymorpha genome locus. The frequency of transformation reached with these plasmids linearised either in HpLEU2 or HpURA3 was around 100 transformants per microgram of plasmid DNA; in all transformants checked by Southern blotting the plasmid was integrated into the genome locus corresponding to the gene plasmid marker. PCR showed that about 50% of the transformants contained more than one plasmid copy per genome. Experiments carried out using the developed plasmids to determine the strength of the gene promoters involved in nitrate assimilation in H. polymorpha revealed that, in the presence of nitrate, the nitrate reductase gene promoter (YNR1) was the strongest, followed by nitrite reductase (YNI1) and nitrate transporter (YNT1).
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