Obtaining a Recombinant Producer of Trametes hirsuta Versatile Peroxidase VP2 in Penicillium canescens

The interest in peroxidases of the basidiomycete secreted enzyme complex is due to their wide substrate specificity and the ability of these enzymes to participate in the biodegradation of such difficult to degrade biopolymers as lignin. However, due to the difficulty of isolating these enzymes from native sources, their study is difficult. In this work, expression vectors were created that carried the sequence encoding the T. hirsuta LE-BIN072 versatile peroxidase VP2, which was transformed into the genome of the P. canescens strain. Screening of transformants showed the presence of peroxidase activity up to 1 U/mL. Fragments of the target protein in the culture liquids of the selected transformants were identified by mass spectrometric analysis. A new strain, P. canescens pVP2D-6, a producer of the recombinant versatile peroxidase VP2 of T. hirsuta LE-BIN072, was obtained for the first time, and the ability of the enzyme complex secreted by it to modify alkaline lignin was shown.