Vector with sufficient homology for integration of the DNA into the chromosomal DNA of Yarrowia lipolytica, method of producing the Y.lipolytica transforming vector and transformants obtained thereby

摘要

Process for transformation of Yarrowia lipolytica, vectors useful therefor comprising DNA of a microbial vector and chromosomal DNA of Y. lipolytica and transformants comprising said vectors in E coli and Y lipolytica, and integrative shuttle vectors for Escherichia-Yarrowia transgeneric cloning. Said vectors or subclones thereof enable creation of Y. lipolytica cloning vectors into which specific or random segments of DNA can be inserted and the resulting vectors used to transform a suitable host microbe, especially Y. lipolytica, to improve the fermentation characteristics thereof and hence their industrial utilization. The methodology described permits the cloning of genes from a gene library of Y. lipolytica by complenentation with an integrating vector. Specifically claimed are the plasmid vectors pLD25, pLD28, pLD40 and pLD55, Y. lipolytica transformants containing pLD25 and pLD55, and an E. coli transformant containing pLD25.