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. 1991 Mar;57(3):630–635. doi: 10.1128/aem.57.3.630-635.1991

Carbon Source Control of Cellobiohydrolase I and II Formation by Trichoderma reesei

Robert Messner 1,*, Christian P Kubicek 1
PMCID: PMC182770  PMID: 16348428

Abstract

Regulation of the formation and secretion of two cellulase components from Trichoderma reesei QM 9414, cellobiohydrolases I and II (CBH I and CBH II, respectively), by the carbon source was investigated. With monoclonal antibodies against CBH I and CBH II it was found that during cultivation on carbon sources which enable fast growth (glucose, glycerol, and fructose), no formation of CBH I occurred, whereas low levels of CBH II were formed. Lactose and cellulose, which allow comparably slower growth, promoted the formation of both CBH I and CBH II. However, noncarbohydrate carbon sources as citrate or acetate, which also enable only slow growth, did not promote the formation of CBH I or CBH II. The addition of glucose or glycerol to lactose- or cellulose-pregrown mycelia, on the other hand, only partially reduced the formation of CBH I. This reduction was also achieved by several other metabolizable and nonmetabolizable carbon compounds, e.g., fructose, galactose, β-methylglucoside, 2-deoxyglucose, and rhamnose, as well as by transfer to no carbon source at all. This result indicates that the control of CBH I synthesis by the carbon source is due to induction and not to repression. The use of cycloheximide and 5-fluorouracil as inhibitors at and before translation, respectively, revealed a half-life for CBH I mRNA of at least several hours, which may, at least in part, account for the prolonged synthesis of some CBH I under these conditions. Northern (RNA) hybridization with full copies of cbh1 and cbh2 genes indicated that the control of CBH I and CBH II biosyntheses by the carbon source operates mainly at the pretranslational level. We conclude that the low rate of cellulase synthesis on glucose and some other carbon sources is due to the lack of an inducer and not to carbon source repression.

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