用膨胀床金属亲和层析从淡菜匀浆液中分离纯化纤维素酶

研究了一种新的膨胀床金属亲和层析技术,即将金属亲和层析结合膨胀床层析,直接从淡菜(Blue mussel)匀浆液中纯化纤维素酶。研究了金属亲和配基种类、pH、离子强度及流速对酶吸附和解吸的影响,确定了酶洗脱条件和介质再生条件。一步可纯化纤维素酶194倍,酶收率达82%。本方法不需要预先去除细胞碎片,而且处理速率比传统层析技术高3～4倍。     

近暗散白蚁β-葡糖苷酶基因RpBg7的克隆及其在毕赤酵母中的表达

【目的】白蚁是自然界中利用木质纤维素能力很强的生物,是纤维素酶的天然资源库。本研究旨在挖掘新来源的纤维素酶基因,为生物质能源的高效利用提供新的天然酶。【方法】根据前期蛋白质组测序的结果,利用PCR结合RACE克隆了近暗散白蚁Reticulitermes perilucifugus β-葡糖苷酶7(β-glucosidase 7)基因RpBg7 cDNA全长序列;通过生物信息学软件分析了RpBg7的序列;用表达载体pPICZαA在毕赤酵母Pichia pastoris X-33中表达RpBg7蛋白,并用4-硝基苯基-β-d-吡喃葡萄糖苷(4-nitrophenyl β-d-glucopyranoside, 4pNPG)为底物检测了表达的RpBg7蛋白的酶活性。【结果】获得了近暗散白蚁的一个内源性β-葡糖苷酶7基因RpBg7(GenBank登录号: MN944395),其开放阅读框长1 485 bp,编码495个氨基酸残基。RpBg7蛋白预测分子量为57 kD,属于糖苷水解酶1(glycosidehydrolase 1, GH1)家族,具有保守的碱性氨基酸残基Glu187和Glu394。通过毕赤酵母表达系统成功表达RpBg7蛋白。酶活性分析结果表明,毕赤酵母胞外分泌蛋白粗酶液和胞内蛋白粗酶液中RpBg7酶活性分别为4.43和7.47 U/mL。【结论】克隆并利用毕赤酵母表达了近暗散白蚁的GH1家族的一个β-葡糖苷酶7基因RpBg7,为后期纤维素酶的改造和应用提供了条件。     

Fusarium oxysporim M1菌株的rDNA ITS鉴定及其纤维素酶活性及纯化研究

以1株分离于北大仓白酒大曲的产纤维素酶真菌M1为材料,对其进行了形态及分子生物学鉴定;纯化并研究了其纤维素酶的酶学性质。以真菌ITS1/ITS4通用引物,扩增真菌M1的rDNA ITS序列,再与GenBank中其他菌株rDNA ITS序列进行比对,使用Mega5.0软件,采用最大似然法进行聚类分析。结果显示,该真菌同已经报道的Fusarium oxysporim strain Bt3聚为一类,一致率达99%,与形态学方法鉴定一致,命名为Fusarium oxysporum M1。该菌具有很高纤维素酶活力,FPA和CMCA分别高达16.84 IU/mL和35.31 IU/mL。经过发酵条件优化酶活性进一步提高。经硫酸铵分级分离、疏水和离子交换层析,纯化了该菌纤维素酶,纯化倍数高达17.97倍,得率为3.676%,SDS-PAGE分析表明,该纤维素酶分子量达60 k Da。本研究为进一步研究该酶高效催化机理及实际应用提供参考。     

东亚飞蝗肠道内高产纤维素酶菌株筛选及鉴定

为微生物制剂生产筛选菌种资源。运用昆虫解剖技术取出东亚飞蝗(Locusta migratoria manilensis)肠道,采用稀释涂板法对肠道内的菌种进行分离,并利用羧甲基纤维素钠(CMC-Na)改良培养基初筛产纤维素酶菌株。结果表明,从东亚飞蝗肠道内共分离得到12株产纤维素酶菌株,均为细菌,并对纤维素酶活较高的菌株K005进行了形态学和分子生物学鉴定,通过菌落及菌体形态特征、生理生化特性、16S r DNA序列测定结果,将该菌株鉴定为蜡样芽胞杆菌(Bacillus cereus)。     

Efficient production of cellulase in the culture of Acremonium cellulolyticus using untreated waste paper sludge

Cellulase was produced by Acremonium cellulolyticus using untreated waste paper sludge (PS) as the carbon source. The clay present in PS did not show any inhibitory effect on cellulase production but did alter the pH during fermentation. On the flask scale, the maleate buffer concentration and pH were key factors that affected the efficiency of cellulase production from PS cellulose. Optimum cellulase production in a 3-L fermentor of working volume 1.5 L was achieved by controlling the pH value at 6.0 using 2 M NaOH and 2 M maleic acid, and the productivity reached 8.18 FPU/mL. When 40.89 g/L PS cellulose, 2.2 g/L (NH(4) )(2) SO(4) , and 4.4 g/L urea were added to a 48-h culture, the cellulase activity was 9.31 FPU/mL at the flask scale and 10.96 FPU/mL in the 3-L fermentor. These values are ～80% of those obtained when pure cellulose is used as the carbon source. The method developed here presents a new route for the utilization of PS.     

Accumulation of recombinant cellobiohydrolase and endoglucanase in the leaves of mature transgenic sugar cane

A major strategic goal in making ethanol from lignocellulosic biomass a cost-competitive liquid transport fuel is to reduce the cost of production of cellulolytic enzymes that hydrolyse lignocellulosic substrates to fermentable sugars. Current production systems for these enzymes, namely microbes, are not economic. One way to substantially reduce production costs is to express cellulolytic enzymes in plants at levels that are high enough to hydrolyse lignocellulosic biomass. Sugar cane fibre (bagasse) is the most promising lignocellulosic feedstock for conversion to ethanol in the tropics and subtropics. Cellulolytic enzyme production in sugar cane will have a substantial impact on the economics of lignocellulosic ethanol production from bagasse. We therefore generated transgenic sugar cane accumulating three cellulolytic enzymes, fungal cellobiohydrolase I (CBH I), CBH II and bacterial endoglucanase (EG), in leaves using the maize PepC promoter as an alternative to maize Ubi1 for controlling transgene expression. Different subcellular targeting signals were shown to have a substantial impact on the accumulation of these enzymes; the CBHs and EG accumulated to higher levels when fused to a vacuolar-sorting determinant than to an endoplasmic reticulum-retention signal, while EG was produced in the largest amounts when fused to a chloroplast-targeting signal. These results are the first demonstration of the expression and accumulation of recombinant CBH I, CBH II and EG in sugar cane and represent a significant first step towards the optimization of cellulolytic enzyme expression in sugar cane for the economic production of lignocellulosic ethanol.     

GENPLAT: an Automated Platform for Biomass Enzyme Discovery and Cocktail Optimization

The high cost of enzymes for biomass deconstruction is a major impediment to the economic conversion of lignocellulosic feedstocks to liquid transportation fuels such as ethanol. We have developed an integrated high throughput platform, called GENPLAT, for the discovery and development of novel enzymes and enzyme cocktails for the release of sugars from diverse pretreatment/biomass combinations. GENPLAT comprises four elements: individual pure enzymes, statistical design of experiments, robotic pipeting of biomass slurries and enzymes, and automated colorimeteric determination of released Glc and Xyl. Individual enzymes are produced by expression in Pichia pastoris or Trichoderma reesei, or by chromatographic purification from commercial cocktails or from extracts of novel microorganisms. Simplex lattice (fractional factorial) mixture models are designed using commercial Design of Experiment statistical software. Enzyme mixtures of high complexity are constructed using robotic pipeting into a 96-well format. The measurement of released Glc and Xyl is automated using enzyme-linked colorimetric assays. Optimized enzyme mixtures containing as many as 16 components have been tested on a variety of feedstock and pretreatment combinations.GENPLAT is adaptable to mixtures of pure enzymes, mixtures of commercial products (e.g., Accellerase 1000 and Novozyme 188), extracts of novel microbes, or combinations thereof. To make and test mixtures of ˜10 pure enzymes requires less than 100 μg of each protein and fewer than 100 total reactions, when operated at a final total loading of 15 mg protein/g glucan. We use enzymes from several sources. Enzymes can be purified from natural sources such as fungal cultures (e.g., Aspergillus niger, Cochliobolus carbonum, and Galerina marginata), or they can be made by expression of the encoding genes (obtained from the increasing number of microbial genome sequences) in hosts such as E. coli, Pichia pastoris, or a filamentous fungus such as T. reesei. Proteins can also be purified from commercial enzyme cocktails (e.g., Multifect Xylanase, Novozyme 188). An increasing number of pure enzymes, including glycosyl hydrolases, cell wall-active esterases, proteases, and lyases, are available from commercial sources, e.g., Megazyme, Inc. (www.megazyme.com), NZYTech (www.nzytech.com), and PROZOMIX (www.prozomix.com).Design-Expert software (Stat-Ease, Inc.) is used to create simplex-lattice designs and to analyze responses (in this case, Glc and Xyl release). Mixtures contain 4-20 components, which can vary in proportion between 0 and 100%. Assay points typically include the extreme vertices with a sufficient number of intervening points to generate a valid model. In the terminology of experimental design, most of our studies are "mixture" experiments, meaning that the sum of all components adds to a total fixed protein loading (expressed as mg/g glucan). The number of mixtures in the simplex-lattice depends on both the number of components in the mixture and the degree of polynomial (quadratic or cubic). For example, a 6-component experiment will entail 63 separate reactions with an augmented special cubic model, which can detect three-way interactions, whereas only 23 individual reactions are necessary with an augmented quadratic model. For mixtures containing more than eight components, a quadratic experimental design is more practical, and in our experience such models are usually statistically valid.All enzyme loadings are expressed as a percentage of the final total loading (which for our experiments is typically 15 mg protein/g glucan). For "core" enzymes, the lower percentage limit is set to 5%. This limit was derived from our experience in which yields of Glc and/or Xyl were very low if any core enzyme was present at 0%. Poor models result from too many samples showing very low Glc or Xyl yields. Setting a lower limit in turn determines an upper limit. That is, for a six-component experiment, if the lower limit for each single component is set to 5%, then the upper limit of each single component will be 75%. The lower limits of all other enzymes considered as "accessory" are set to 0%. "Core" and "accessory" are somewhat arbitrary designations and will differ depending on the substrate, but in our studies the core enzymes for release of Glc from corn stover comprise the following enzymes from T. reesei: CBH1 (also known as Cel7A), CBH2 (Cel6A), EG1(Cel7B), BG (β-glucosidase), EX3 (endo-β1,4-xylanase, GH10), and BX (β-xylosidase).     

An acidic and thermostable carboxymethyl cellulase from the yeast Cryptococcus sp. S-2: purification, characterization and improvement of its recombinant enzyme production by high cell-density fermentation of Pichia pastoris

The extracellular carboxymethyl cellulase (CSCMCase) from the yeast, Cryptococcus sp. S-2, was produced when grown on cellobiose. It was purified to homogeneity from the supernatant by ultrafiltration, DEAE-5PW anion exchange column and TSK-Gel G3000SW gel filtration. The purified enzyme was monomeric protein with molecular mass of approximately 34 kDa. The optimum temperature and pH for the action of the enzyme were at 40–50 °C and 3.5, respectively. It was stable at pH range of 5.5–7.5 and retained approximately 50% of its maximum activity after incubating at 90 °C for 1 h. Moreover, it could able to hydrolyze carboxymethyl cellulose sodium salt higher than insoluble cellulose substrate such as Avicel, SIGMACELL^® and CM cellulose. Due to its action at acidic pH and moderately stable at high temperature, the gene encoding carboxymethyl cellulase (CSCMCase) was isolated and improved the enzyme yield by high cell-density fermentation of Pichia pastoris. The CSCMCase cDNA contains 1023 nucleotides and encodes a 341-amino acid. It was successfully expressed under the control of alcohol oxidase I promoter using methanol induction of P. pastoris fermentation in a 2L ABLE bioreactor. The production of the recombinant carboxymethyl cellulases was higher than that from Cryptococcus sp. S-2 of 657-fold (2.75 and 4.2 × 10⁻³ mg protein L⁻¹, respectively) indicating that the leader sequence of CSCMCase has been recognized and processed as efficiently by P. pastoris. Furthermore, the recombinant enzyme was purified in two-step of ultrafiltration and hydrophobic interaction chromatography which would be much more convenient for large-scale purification for successful industrial application.