嗜热枯草芽孢杆菌普鲁兰酶基因的表达与重组酶的性质

克隆嗜热枯草芽孢杆菌WY-34普鲁兰酶基因并在大肠杆菌中进行表达,对重组酶进行纯化和酶学性质研究,根据枯草芽孢杆菌的普鲁兰酶蛋白序列,设计PCR引物对WY-34的普鲁兰酶基因进行克隆及异源表达.对表达蛋白的最适pH、pH稳定性及最适温度、温度稳定性等特性进行研究,并测定重组普鲁兰酶的底物特异性.将普鲁兰酶基因pluA克隆及分析序列后,发现基因长度为2.2 kb,编码718个氨基酸,在大肠杆菌中异源表达.通过Ni-IDA亲和层析一步纯化得到比活力为93.2 U/mg的纯酶,SDS-PAGE和凝胶层析测定的分子量分别为76.2 kD和74.3 kD.酶学性质研究表明,该酶的最适温度为40℃,在温度不高于45℃条件下稳定;最适pH为6.0,同一温度下pH 6.0-9.0范围内处理30 min可以保持80％以上的酶活力,此酶对普鲁兰糖有很强的底物特异性.此重组普鲁兰酶的酶学性质表明此酶具有一定的工业化应用价值.     

一个新型耐热普鲁兰酶的结构与功能

新型普鲁兰酶的研究对于普鲁兰酶制剂的国产化、打破国外垄断具有非常重要的意义。从我国云南腾冲地区轮马热泉的淤泥中分离获得了一株耐热普鲁兰酶产生菌LM 18-11,经16S rDNA序列系统进化树分析,确定该菌为厌氧芽胞杆菌Anoxybacillus属种,并从中克隆获得了耐热普鲁兰酶的编码基因,该酶在55℃-60℃、pH 5.6-6.4的范围内具有最大的反应活性。此外,该酶具有较好的热稳定性,在60℃下处理48 h,仍可保持50%以上的活力;动力学分析该酶的Vmax和Km分别为750 U/mg和1.47 mg/mL,是目前文献报道中比活力最高的耐热普鲁兰酶。同时还对该酶进行了晶体结构分析,结果显示该酶具有?-淀粉酶家族中典型的结构,在N端具有一个特殊的底物结合域,该结构域的缺失导致比活力和底物结合力都有相应降低,Vmax和Km分别为324 U/mg和1.95 mg/mL。同时,将该普鲁兰酶编码基因导入枯草芽胞杆菌中,在P43启动子的控制下,普鲁兰酶基因获得了高效表达,胞外酶活可达42 U/mL,相比初始菌种,表达活力提高40倍以上。研究表明该普鲁兰酶具有很好的应用前景。     

嗜热地芽胞杆菌(Geobacilluskaustophilus)DY115普鲁兰酶基因的克隆、表达和酶学性质

采用基因工程方法对嗜热地芽胞杆菌(Geobacillus kaustophilus)DY115的普鲁兰酶基因pulA在大肠杆菌中进行了克隆表达。该基因ORF全长为2 157bp,编码718个氨基酸。重组PulA在大肠杆菌(Escherichia coli)BL21(DE3)中能够有效表达,经Ni-Sepharose亲和层析获得纯化的重组PulA蛋白。PulA最适作用温度为70℃,最适pH为8.0,在65℃和碱性条件下具有良好的热稳定性;K+和Mn2+对PulA活性有明显促进作用,Cu2+和Zn2+则强烈抑制PulA活性;PulA对普鲁兰糖水解能力最强,且其水解支链淀粉和糯米淀粉的能力明显高于直链淀粉;PulA可水解普鲁兰糖的α-(1,6)糖苷键生成麦芽三糖,属于I型普鲁兰酶。这是首次对来源于地芽胞杆菌属(Geobacillus)的高温碱性普鲁兰酶进行报道,由于PulA具有较好的水解淀粉支链的能力,因此其在淀粉加工业以及洗涤业上应用前景良好。     

嗜热地芽胞杆菌(Geobacillus kaustophilus)DY115普鲁兰酶基因的克隆、表达和酶学性质

采用基因工程方法对嗜热地芽胞杆菌(Geobacillus kaustophilus)DY115的普鲁兰酶基因pulA在大肠杆菌中进行了克隆表达。该基因ORF全长为2 157bp,编码718个氨基酸。重组PulA在大肠杆菌(Escherichia coli)BL21(DE3)中能够有效表达,经Ni-Sepharose亲和层析获得纯化的重组PulA蛋白。PulA最适作用温度为70℃,最适pH为8.0,在65℃和碱性条件下具有良好的热稳定性;K~+和Mn~(2+)对PulA活性有明显促进作用,Cu~(2+)和Zn~(2+)则强烈抑制PulA活性;PulA对普鲁兰糖水解能力最强,且其水解支链淀粉和糯米淀粉的能力明显高于直链淀粉;PulA可水解普鲁兰糖的α-(1,6)糖苷键生成麦芽三糖,属于I型普鲁兰酶。这是首次对来源于地芽胞杆菌属(Geobacillus)的高温碱性普鲁兰酶进行报道,由于PulA具有较好的水解淀粉支链的能力,因此其在淀粉加工业以及洗涤业上应用前景良好。     

普鲁兰酶基因在毕赤酵母中组成型表达及定点突变研究

合成Bacillus acidopullulyticus的全长普鲁兰酶基因并在毕赤酵母X-33中进行组成型外分泌表达,重组酶的最适作用温度为60℃,最适作用pH值为4.5~5.0,酶比活力为2.0 U/mg.采用重叠延伸PCR方法对普鲁兰酶基因进行定点突变,实验结果表明,625、626位点Ala、Leu氨基酸突变为Leu、Tyr氨基酸后,该酶的催化效率有所降低,而Gln487Ala的突变对催化效率没有较大的影响.该研究结果为探究关键氨基酸区域对催化效率的影响提供了一定的理论和实验基础.     

工业属性普鲁兰酶的开发及其催化性能改善的研究进展

摘要：普鲁兰酶是能够水解支链淀粉α-1,6-糖苷键的脱支酶,主要应用于食品加工工业,但目前能够满足工业过程要求的普鲁兰酶仍较为有限。利用现代生物技术的新型普鲁兰酶产生菌种的选育、普鲁兰酶的异源表达、基于蛋白结构特征的酶分子改造为具有工业属性普鲁兰酶的开发提供了新的手段。此外,通过底物修饰和固定化也能在一定程度上改善普鲁兰酶的催化特性与功能。主要综述了普鲁兰酶的发现、表达与改造及性能改善方法等方面的研究进展。     

地衣芽孢杆菌普鲁兰酶编码基因的鉴定

对地衣芽孢杆菌基因组序列分析显示。其中标注为amyX的基因可能编码普鲁兰酶。以PCR方法,从地衣芽孢杆菌染色体DNA中扩增出amyX基因蛋白编码区,插入大肠杆菌表达载体pET28aT7启动予下游。含重组质粒的大肠杆菌BL21（DE3）在IPTG诱导下表达出有活性的普鲁兰酶。酶学性质初步分析表明,重组普鲁兰酶最适反应温度为40℃,最适pH值为6．0。     

类芽胞杆菌碱性果胶裂解酶的纯化与酶学性质表征

从类芽胞杆菌Paenibacillus sp.WZ008的发酵上清液中纯化得到一个高活力碱性果胶裂解酶,经SDS-PAGE电泳估算其亚基相对分子质量为4.5×104。通过对该酶进行酶学性质研究发现：该酶能催化裂解果胶酸、低酯果胶和高酯果胶;酶催化反应最适温度范围为55～60℃,最适pH为9.6,在最适条件下以低酯果胶为底物酶的比酶活达3 021.6 U/mg;Ca2＋能增强该酶的活力,而Mn2＋,Ba2＋和EDTA强烈抑制该酶活力;当没有Ca2＋存在时,高度酯化的果胶是该酶的最适底物,在4 mmol/L Ca2＋存在时,该酶以果胶酸为底物比酶活最高（25 467 U/mg）。该酶N端序列比对分析发现与类芽胞杆菌Paenibacillus amylolyticus strain 27c64果胶裂解酶高度同源。     

长野芽胞杆菌(Bacillus naganoensis)普鲁兰酶在大肠杆菌中的活性表达与分泌调控

[目的]从长野芽胞杆菌(Bacillus naganoensis)JNB-1中克隆出普鲁兰酶基因并在大肠杆菌系统中表达,通过优化诱导条件和使用化学添加剂提高了胞外酶活.[方法]采用PCR方法,从B.naganoensis基因组中扩增出普鲁兰酶基因pul,构建重组菌E,coli BL21/pET-20b-pul.通过优化,确定优化后的IPTG诱导条件以及甘氨酸、Na+的最佳添加参数.[结果]普鲁兰酶在大肠杆菌中得到有效表达,其相对分子质量为ll9kDa.在优化后的诱导条件(诱导温度20℃,IPTG终浓度0.4 mmol/L,在菌体OD600至1.2时诱导)下,普鲁兰酶的总酶活达到10.8 U/mL.添加甘氨酸和Na+均能有效促进普鲁兰酶的分泌.在诱导时添加终浓度0.08 mol/L的甘氨酸和0.2 mol/L Na+,胞外酶活提高至8.1 U/mL,是不加任何添加剂的10.3倍.[结论]该重组菌的构建为普鲁兰酶制剂的工业生产提供了有价值的菌株,对化学添加剂促进分泌的研究也为重组酶的高水平胞外生产提供了有效的方法.     

产酸克雷伯氏菌M5al普鲁兰酶的异源表达及酶学性质研究

普鲁兰酶(EC 3.2.1.41)是一类淀粉脱支酶,能够特异性水解淀粉中的α-1,6-糖苷键,从而提高淀粉的利用率,在以淀粉为原料的食品、纺织、生物燃料和洗涤剂等行业中具有重要的应用价值。本研究以产酸克雷伯氏菌Klebsiella oxytoca M5al基因组DNA为模板,将PCR扩增得到的普鲁兰酶基因pul A克隆至表达载体p ET28a(+),构建好的重组质粒转化大肠杆菌Escherichia coli BL21(DE3),在培养基中添加0.5 mmol/L异丙基硫代半乳糖苷(IPTG)的条件下对该酶基因进行诱导表达,经镍柱纯化获得重组普鲁兰酶用于酶学性质研究。SDS-PAGE及Western Blot检测显示普鲁兰酶基因pul A在上述大肠杆菌宿主中成功获得了表达。该重组酶最适反应p H5.5,最适温度60℃。金属离子对酶活性有一定影响。Mn2+对酶活促进作用显著;Fe3+、Mg2+、Fe2+对酶活只有微弱的促进作用,而Cu2+对酶活造成强烈抑制。来源于Klebsiella oxytoca M5al的普鲁兰酶最适催化条件符合工业生产中淀粉糖化工艺的要求,具有应用于淀粉工业的潜力。     

A new thermoactive pullulanase from Desulfurococcus mucosus: cloning, sequencing, purification, and characterization of the recombinant enzyme after expression in Bacillus subtilis

The gene encoding a thermoactive pullulanase from the hyperthermophilic anaerobic archaeon Desulfurococcus mucosus (apuA) was cloned in Escherichia coli and sequenced. apuA from D. mucosus showed 45.4% pairwise amino acid identity with the pullulanase from Thermococcus aggregans and contained the four regions conserved among all amylolytic enzymes. apuA encodes a protein of 686 amino acids with a 28-residue signal peptide and has a predicted mass of 74 kDa after signal cleavage. The apuA gene was then expressed in Bacillus subtilis and secreted into the culture fluid. This is one of the first reports on the successful expression and purification of an archaeal amylopullulanase in a Bacillus strain. The purified recombinant enzyme (rapuDm) is composed of two subunits, each having an estimated molecular mass of 66 kDa. Optimal activity was measured at 85 degrees C within a broad pH range from 3.5 to 8.5, with an optimum at pH 5.0. Divalent cations have no influence on the stability or activity of the enzyme. RapuDm was stable at 80 degrees C for 4 h and exhibited a half-life of 50 min at 85 degrees C. By high-pressure liquid chromatography analysis it was observed that rapuDm hydrolyzed alpha-1,6 glycosidic linkages of pullulan, producing maltotriose, and also alpha-1,4 glycosidic linkages in starch, amylose, amylopectin, and cyclodextrins, with maltotriose and maltose as the main products. Since the thermoactive pullulanases known so far from Archaea are not active on cyclodextrins and are in fact inhibited by these cyclic oligosaccharides, the enzyme from D. mucosus should be considered an archaeal pullulanase type II with a wider substrate specificity.     

New type of pullulanase from Bacillus stearothermophilus and molecular cloning and expression of the gene in Bacillus subtilis.

A new type of pullulanase which mainly produced panose from pullulan was found in Bacillus stearothermophilus and purified. The enzyme can hydrolyze pullulan efficiently and only hydrolyzes a small amount of starch. When pullulan was used as a substrate, the main product was panose and small amounts of glucose and maltose were simultaneously produced. By using pTB522 as a vector plasmid, the enzyme gene was cloned and expressed in Bacillus subtilis. Since the enzyme from the recombinant plasmid carrier could convert pullulan into not only panose but also glucose and maltose, we concluded that these reactions were due to the single enzyme. The new pullulanase, with a molecular weight of 62,000, was fairly thermostable. The optimum temperature was 60 to 65 degrees C, and about 90% of the enzyme activity was retained even after treatment at 60 degrees C for 60 min. The optimum pH for the enzyme was 6.0.     

Physiological and enzymatic characterization of a novel pullulan-degrading thermophilic Bacillus strain 3183

Summary A new thermophilic Bacillus strain 3183 (ATCC 49341) was isolated from hot-spring sediments. The organism grew on pullulan as a carbon source and showed optimum pH and temperature at pH 5.5 and 62° C, respectively, for growth. The strain reduced nitrate to nitrite both aerobically and anaerobically. It produced extracellular thermostable pullulanase and saccharidase activities which degraded pullulan and starch into maltotriose, maltose, and glucose. Medium growth conditions for pullulanase production were optimized. The optimum pH and temperature for pullulanase activity were at pH 6.0 and 75° C, respectively. The enzyme was stable at pH 5.5-7.0 and temperature up to 70° C in the absence of substrate. The K _m for pullulan at pH 6.0 and 75° C was 0.4 mg/ml. The pullulanase activity was stimulated and stabilized by Ca²⁺. It was inhibited by ethylenediaminetetraacetate (EDTA), beta and gamma-cyclodextrins but not by alpha-cyclodextrin and reagents that inhibit essential enzyme SH-groups. Offprint requests to: B. C. Saha     

Pullulanase type I from Fervidobacterium pennavorans Ven5: cloning, sequencing, and expression of the gene and biochemical characterization of the recombinant enzyme

The gene encoding the type I pullulanase from the extremely thermophilic anaerobic bacterium Fervidobacterium pennavorans Ven5 was cloned and sequenced in Escherichia coli. The pulA gene from F. pennavorans Ven5 had 50.1% pairwise amino acid identity with pulA from the anaerobic hyperthermophile Thermotoga maritima and contained the four regions conserved among all amylolytic enzymes. The pullulanase gene (pulA) encodes a protein of 849 amino acids with a 28-residue signal peptide. The pulA gene was subcloned without its signal sequence and overexpressed in E. coli under the control of the trc promoter. This clone, E. coli FD748, produced two proteins (93 and 83 kDa) with pullulanase activity. A second start site, identified 118 amino acids downstream from the ATG start site, with a Shine-Dalgarno-like sequence (GGAGG) and TTG translation initiation codon was mutated to produce only the 93-kDa protein. The recombinant purified pullulanases (rPulAs) were optimally active at pH 6 and 80 degrees C and had a half-life of 2 h at 80 degrees C. The rPulAs hydrolyzed alpha-1,6 glycosidic linkages of pullulan, starch, amylopectin, glycogen, alpha-beta-limited dextrin. Interestingly, amylose, which contains only alpha-1,4 glycosidic linkages, was not hydrolyzed by rPulAs. According to these results, the enzyme is classified as a debranching enzyme, pullulanase type I. The extraordinary high substrate specificity of rPulA together with its thermal stability makes this enzyme a good candidate for biotechnological applications in the starch-processing industry.     

Cloning, expression and biochemical characterisation of a unique thermostable pullulan-hydrolysing enzyme from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus aggregans

The gene for a new type of pullulan hydrolase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus aggregans was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli. The 2181-bp open reading frame encodes a protein of 727 amino acids. A hypothetical membrane linker region was found to be cleaved during processing in E. coli. The recombinant enzyme was purified 70-fold by heat treatment, affinity and anion exchange chromatography. Optimal activity was detected at 95 degrees C at a broad pH range from 3.5 to 8.5 with an optimum at pH 6.5. More than 35% of enzymatic activity was detected even at 120 degrees C. The enzyme was stable at 90 degrees C for several hours and exhibited a half-life of 2.5 h at 100 degrees C. Unlike all pullulan-hydrolysing enzymes described to date, the enzyme is able to attack alpha-1,6- as well as alpha-1,4-glycosidic linkages in pullulan leading to the formation of a mixture of maltotriose, panose, maltose and glucose. The enzyme is also able to degrade starch, amylose and amylopectin forming maltotriose and maltose as main products.     

Expression and biochemical characterization of a novel type I pullulanase from <Emphasis Type="Italic">Bacillus megaterium</Emphasis>

Objectives

To identify novel pullulanases from microorganisms and to investigate their biochemical characterizations.

Results

A novel pullulanase gene (BmPul) from Bacillus megaterium WW1210 was cloned and heterologously expressed in Escherichia coli. The gene has an ORF of 2814 bp encoding 937 amino acids. The recombinant pullulanase (BmPul) was purified to homogeneity and biochemically characterized. BmPul has an MW of approx. 112 kDa as indicated by SDS-PAGE. Optimum conditions were at 55 °C and pH 6.5. The enzyme was stable below 40 °C and from pH 6.5?8.5. The Km values of BmPul towards pullulan and amylopectin were 3.3 and 3.6 mg/ml, respectively. BmPul hydrolyzed pullulan to yield mainly maltotriose, indicating that it should be a type I pullulanase.

Conclusions

A novel type I pullulanase from Bacillus megaterium was identified, heterologously expressed and biochemically characterized. Its properties makes this enzyme as a good candidate for the food industry.

     

Enzymatic characterization of a maltogenic amylase from Lactobacillus gasseri ATCC 33323 expressed in Escherichia coli

A gene corresponding to a maltogenic amylase (MAase) in Lactobacillus gasseri ATCC 33323 (lgma) was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli. The recombinant LGMA was efficiently purified 24.3-fold by one-step Ni-NTA affinity chromatography. The final yield and specific activity of the purified recombinant LGMA were 68% and 58.7 U/mg, respectively. The purified enzyme exhibited optimal activity for beta-CD hydrolysis at 55 degrees C and pH 5. The relative hydrolytic activities of LGMA to beta-CD, soluble starch or pullulan was 8:1:1.9. The activity of LGMA was strongly inhibited by most metal ions, especially Zn(2+), Fe(2+), Co(2+) and by EDTA. LGMA possessed some unusual properties distinguishable from typical MAases, such as being in a tetrameric form, having hydrolyzing activity towards the alpha-(1,6)-glycosidic linkage and being inhibited by acarbose.     

Characterization of an endo-Acting Amylopullulanase from Thermoanaerobacter Strain B6A

A thermoanaerobe (Thermoanaerobacter sp.) grown in TYE-starch (0.5%) medium at 60°C produced both extra- and intracellular pullulanase (1.90 U/ml) and amylase (1.19 U/ml) activities. Both activities were produced at high levels on a variety of carbon sources. The temperature and pH optima for both pullulanase and amylase activities were 75°C and pH 5.0, respectively. Both the enzyme activities were stable up to 70°C (without substrate) and at pH 4.5 to 5.0. The half-lives of both enzyme activities were 5 h at 70°C and 45 min at 75°C. The enzyme activities did not show any metal ion activity, and both activities were inhibited by β- and γ-cyclodextrins but not by α-cyclodextrin. A single amylolytic pullulanase responsible for both activities was purified to homogeneity by DEAE-Sepharose CL-6B column chromatography, gel filtration using high-pressure liquid chromatography, and pullulan-Sepharose affinity chromatography. It was a 450,000-molecular-weight glycoprotein composed of two equivalent subunits. The pullulanase cleaved pullulan in α1,6 linkages and produced multiple saccharides from cleavage of α-1,4 linkages in starch. The K_ms for pullulan and soluble starch were 0.43 and 0.37 mg/ml, respectively.     

Purification and properties of a thermostable pullulanase from Clostridium thermosulfurogenes EM1 which hydrolyses both α-1,6 and α-1,4-glycosidic linkages

Summary A novel thermostable pullulanase, secreted by the thermophilic anaerobic bacterium Clostridium thermosulfurogenes EM1, was purified and characterized. Applying anion exchange chromatography and gel filtration the enzyme was purified 47-fold and had a specific activity of 200 units/mg. The molecular mass of this thermostable enzyme was determined to be 102 000 daltons and consisted of a single subunit. The enzyme was able to attack specifically the -1,6-glycosidic linkages in pullulan and caused its complete hydrolysis to maltotriose. Surprisingly and unlike the enzyme from Klebsiella pneumoniae, the purified enzyme from this anaerobic thermophile exhibited, in addition to its debranching and pullulanase activity, an -1,4 hydrolysing activity as well. By the action of this single polypeptide chain various branched and linear polysaccharides were completely converted to two major products, namely maltose and maltotriose. The K _m values of this enzyme for pullulan and amylose were determined to be 1.33 mg/ml and 0.38 mg/ml, respectively. This debranching enzyme displays a temperature optimum at 60°–65° C and a pH optimum at 5.5–6.0. The application of this new class of pullulanase (pullulanase type II) in industry will significantly enhance the starch saccharification process. Offprint requests to: G. Antranikian