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.     

The normally periplasmic enzyme β-lactamase is specifically and efficiently translocated through the Escherichia coli outer membrane when it is fused to the cell-surface enzyme pullulanase

Hybrid proteins were constructed in which C-terminal regions of the bacterial cell surface and extracellular protein pullulanase were replaced by the mature forms of the normally periplasmic Escherichia coli proteins beta-lactamase or alkaline phosphatase. In E. coli strains expressing all pullulanase secretion genes, pullulanase-beta-lactamase hybrid protein molecules containing an N-terminal 834-amino-acid pullulanase segment were efficiently and completely transported to the cell surface. This hybrid protein remained temporarily anchored to the cell surface, presumably via fatty acids attached to the N-terminal cysteine of the pullulanase segment, and was subsequently specifically released into the medium in a manner indistinguishable from that of pullulanase itself. These results suggest that the C-terminal extremity of pullulanase lacks signal(s) required for export to the cell surface. When beta-lactamase was replaced by alkaline phosphatase, the resulting hybrid also became exposed at the cell surface, but exposition was less efficient and specific release into the medium was not observed. We conclude that proteins that do not normally cross the outer membrane can be induced to do so when fused to a permissive site near the C-terminus of pullulanase.     

Cloning and expression of the gene for thermostable pullulanase from Clostridium thermohydrosulfuricum in Escherichia coli

Using a pUC19-based genomic library of the anaerobic thermophilic bacterium C. thermohydrosulfuricum a DNA fragment that confers pullulanase activity to E. coli cells has been identified. Subcloning and restriction mapping procedures was carried out and the primary structure of the 5'-region of the pullulanase gene (pul) was determined. The pul enzyme was shown to be a protein with molecular weight of approximately 60,000. It was found that both pullulanase and glucoamylase activities resides in pullulanase. The intracellular distribution of pullulanase was studied. An E. coli strain that produces large amounts of thermostable pullulanase has been constructed.     

Cell-associated pullulanase from Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron: cloning, characterization, and insertional mutagenesis to determine role in pullulan utilization.

We have cloned a pullulanase gene from Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron. The pullulanase expressed from this clone in Escherichia coli was cell associated and soluble and had a molecular mass of 72 kilodaltons by gel filtration. Maxicell analysis of proteins coded by the cloned insert showed that a 71.6- to 73.2-kilodalton doublet was associated with pullulanase activity. Thus, the pullulanase is probably a monomer. The cloned pullulanase produced maltotriose as an end product of pullulan digestion. In B. thetaiotaomicron the pullulanase activity was cell associated. Approximately 80% of the activity was soluble, and 16 to 18% was membrane associated. The molecular mass of the soluble pullulanase was 77 kilodaltons by gel filtration. To determine whether the cloned pullulanase gene was essential for pullulan utilization, we used directed insertional mutagenesis to inactivate the B. thetaiotaomicron pullulanase gene. The pullulanase specific activity of the mutant was approximately 45% of that of wild-type B. thetaiotaomicron. However, the pullulanase-negative insertional mutant 95-1 was still able to grow on pullulan at a rate similar to that of wild-type B. thetaiotaomicron. Thus, there must be a second pullulanase in B. thetaiotaomicron.     

Export and secretion of the lipoprotein pullulanase by Klebsiella pneumoniae

Pullulanase, a secreted lipoprotein of Klebsiella pneumoniae, is initially localized to the outer face of the outer membrane, as shown by protease and substrate accessibility and by immunofluorescence tests. Freeze-thaw disruption of these cells released both membrane-associated and apparently soluble forms of pullulanase. Membrane-associated pullulanase co-fractionated with authentic outer membrane vesicles upon isopycnic sucrose-gradient centrifugation, whereas the quasi-soluble form had the same equilibrium density as inner membrane vesicles and extracellular pullulanase aggregates. The latter also contained outer membrane maltoporin, but were largely devoid of other membrane components including LPS and lipids. K. pneumoniae carrying multiple copies of the pullulanase structural gene (pulA) produced increased amounts of cell-associated and secreted pullulanase, but a large proportion of the enzyme was neither exposed on the cell surface nor released into the medium, even after prolonged incubation. This suggests that factors necessary for pullulanase secretion were saturated by the over-produced pullulanase. When pulA was expressed under lacZ promotor control, the pullulanase which was produced was not exposed on the cell surface at any time, suggesting that pullulanase secretion genes are not expressed constitutively, and raising the possibility that they, like pulA, may be part of the maltose regulon.     

Cloning and nucleotide sequence of the pullulanase gene of Thermus thermophilus HB8 and production of the enzyme in Escherichia coli.

A 3.4-kb SphI fragment carrying the pullulanase gene of Thermus thermophilus HB8 was cloned. Based on the nucleotide sequence of it and the flanking region analyzed by direct sequencing of the inverse PCR product, an expression vector was constructed. The E. coli cells harboring the plasmid produced an about 80-kDa protein having pullulanase activity, the optimum temperature of which was 70 degrees C.     

Biosynthesis and secretion of pullulanase, a lipoprotein from Klebsiella aerogenes

We constructed, by site-directed mutagenesis, a mutant pullulanase gene in which the cysteine residue in a pentapeptide sequence, Leu16-Leu-Ser-Gly-Cys20 within the NH2-terminal region of pullulanase from Klebsiella aerogenes, is replaced by serine (Ser20). The modification, processing, and subcellular localization of the mutant pullulanase were studied. Labeling studies with [3H]palmitate and immunoprecipitation with mouse antiserum raised against pullulanase showed that the wild form of both the extracellular and intracellular pullulanases contained lipids, whereas the mutant enzyme was not modified with lipids. Only the Cys20 was modified with glyceryl lipids. The bulk of the mutant pullulanase was located in the periplasm, but a portion of the unmodified, mutant pullulanase was secreted into the medium. Mutant pullulanases from the extracellular and the periplasm were purified and their NH2-terminal sequences were determined. Both the mutant pullulanases were cleaved between residues of Ser13 and Leu14 which is 6-amino acid residues upstream of the lipid modified pullulanase cleavage site. This new cleavage was resistant to globomycin, an inhibitor of the prolipoprotein signal peptidase of Escherichia coli. These results indicate that the pentapeptide sequence plays an important role in maturation and translocation of pullulanase in K. aerogenes. However, the modification of pullulanase with lipids seems to be not essential for export of the enzyme across the outer membrane.     

Cloning of the pullulanase gene and overproduction of pullulanase in Escherichia coli and Klebsiella aerogenes.

The pullulanase gene (pul) of Klebsiella aerogenes was cloned into a pBR322 vector in Escherichia coli. Deletion analysis of the recombinant plasmid showed that the pul coding sequence, probably with the regulator gene, was located entirely within a 4.2-kilobase segment derived from the chromosomal DNA of K. aerogenes. E. coli cells carrying the recombinant plasmids produced about three- to sevenfold more pullulanase than did the wild-type strain of K. aerogenes W70. When the cloned cells of E. coli were grown with pullulan or maltose, most pullulanase was produced intracellularly, whereas K. aerogenes produced pullulanase extracellularly. Transfer of the plasmid containing the pul gene into K. aerogenes W70 resulted in about a 20- to 40-fold increase in total production of pullulanase, and the intracellular enzyme level was about 100- to 150-fold higher than that of the parent strain W70. The high level of pullulanase activity in K. aerogenes cells carrying the recombinant plasmid was maintained for at least 2 weeks.     

Cloning of the pullulanase gene and overproduction of pullulanase in Escherichia coli and Klebsiella aerogenes

The pullulanase gene (pul) of Klebsiella aerogenes was cloned into a pBR322 vector in Escherichia coli. Deletion analysis of the recombinant plasmid showed that the pul coding sequence, probably with the regulator gene, was located entirely within a 4.2-kilobase segment derived from the chromosomal DNA of K. aerogenes. E. coli cells carrying the recombinant plasmids produced about three- to sevenfold more pullulanase than did the wild-type strain of K. aerogenes W70. When the cloned cells of E. coli were grown with pullulan or maltose, most pullulanase was produced intracellularly, whereas K. aerogenes produced pullulanase extracellularly. Transfer of the plasmid containing the pul gene into K. aerogenes W70 resulted in about a 20- to 40-fold increase in total production of pullulanase, and the intracellular enzyme level was about 100- to 150-fold higher than that of the parent strain W70. The high level of pullulanase activity in K. aerogenes cells carrying the recombinant plasmid was maintained for at least 2 weeks.     

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。     

Secretion of the cell surface lipoprotein pullulanase in Escherichia coli. Cooperation or competition between the specific secretion pathway and the lipoprotein sorting pathway.

The fatty acid-acylated enzyme pullulanase is normally found in either of two locations in Escherichia coli, depending on whether or not the producing strains also express the genes specifically required for the second step in pullulanase secretion. When they are expressed, the enzyme is localized to the cell surface, while in their absence, it is directed to an unidentified location in the cell envelope which, upon lysis, forms vesicles whose density is intermediate between those of outer and cytoplasmic membrane vesicles. In order to test the role of the putative lipoprotein sorting signal, Asp2, in pullulanase sorting and secretion, the structural gene (pulA) was subjected to site-directed mutagenesis. Replacement of the Asp2 residue by Asn, Glu, or Ser caused the enzyme to fractionate with outer membrane-derived vesicles rather than with intermediate density vesicles from E. coli cells devoid of pullulanase secretion genes. A pronounced secretion defect was observed in a two-step secretion assay in which the first (sec gene-dependent) and second (pul gene-dependent) secretion steps were uncoupled. We propose that the Asp residue increases the efficiency of pullulanase secretion by allowing the enzyme to be initially sorted to a region of the cell envelope wherein most of the pullulase-specific secretion factors are located.     

Characteristics of thermostable pullulanase from Bacillus stearothermophilus and the nucleotide sequence of the gene

Thermostable pullulanase was purified to homogeneity on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel from the culture supernatant of Bacillus stearothermophilus TRS128. However, multiformity of the pullulanase was suggested by activity staining on a pullulan-reactive red plate. The thermostability of the enzyme was tested. In the presence of Ca²⁺, the optimum temperature of the pullulanase was 75°C, and nearly 100% of the enzyme activity was retained even after treatment at 68°C for 60 min. Since the thermostable pullulanase gene (pulT) has been cloned, the nucleotide sequence was determined. Although the DNA sequence revealed only one large open reading frame, two possible pairs of SD sequence and initiation codon were found in the frame. To analyze the regulatory region, several mutations (deletion, insertion and substitution of nucleotides) were introduced in the flanking region of pulT, using site-directed mutagenesis. A putative promoter, SD sequence and initiation codon were inferred. The pulT gene was composed of 1974 bases and 658 amino acid residues (molecular weight 75,375). The deduced amino acid sequence of the thermostable pullulanase exhibited a fairly low homology with that of the thermolabile pullulanase from Klebsiella aerogenes. However, four consensus sequences containing catalytic and/or substrate binding sites for amylolytic enzymes were also found in the thermostable pullulanase and the thermolabile enzyme.     

普鲁兰酶基因在解淀粉芽孢杆菌BF7658菌株中的分泌表达

根据文献报道的核苷酸序列合成Bacillus deramificans普鲁兰酶成熟肽编码基因BdP。将BdP基因插入芽孢杆菌分泌表达载体pUC980信号肽编码区下游,获得重组质粒pUC980-BdP,重组质粒转化中温α-淀粉酶生产菌解淀粉芽孢杆菌BF7658菌株。摇瓶发酵实验表明,重组转化子发酵液有明显普鲁兰酶酶活,约48h酶活达到最高水平,为2．8ASPU／mL。酶学性质分析表明,重组酶最适作用温度约为60℃,最适反应pH为5．0,60℃保温3h仍保存50％的活性。重组酶性质适合淀粉糖化工艺的要求。     

Isolation and Chemical Characterization of a Mating Pheromone Produced by Saccharomyces kluyveri

The pullulanase gene (pul) of Klebsiella aerogenes was transferred in vivo to Escherichia coli by using RP4:: Mu cts. The pul gene was expressed in E. coli, although the level of pullulanase activity in E. coli was lower than that in K. aerogenes, and the Pul⁺ transconjugants were relatively unstable in an unselective medium. Production of pullulanase, which is used to make maltose from starch, was induced in E. coli by pullulan, waxy maize amylopectin, soluble starch and maltose. When the transconjugant cells of E. coli were grown with pullulan or maltose, most pullulanase was produced intracellularly, whereas K. aerogenes produced pullulanase extracellularly. Retransfer of the pul_k gene from E. coli to K. aerogenes by conjugation resulted in an increase of the production of extracellular pullulanase.     

Characterization of a neopullulanase and an alpha-glucosidase from Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron 95-1.

Previously, we constructed a gene disruption in the pullulanase I gene of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron 5482A. This mutant, designated B. thetaiotaomicron 95-1, had a lower level of pullulanase specific activity than did wild-type B. thetaiotaomicron but still exhibited a substantial amount of pullulanase activity. Characterization of the remaining pullulanase activity present in B. thetaiotaomicron 95-1 has identified an alpha(1----4)-D-glucosidic bond cleaving pullulanase which has been tentatively designated a neopullulanase. The neopullulanase (pullulanase II) is a 70-kDa soluble protein which cleaves alpha(1----4)-D-glucosidic bonds in pullulan to produce panose. The neopullulanase also cleaved alpha(1----4) bonds in amylose and in oligosaccharides of maltotriose through maltoheptaose in chain length. An alpha-glucosidase from B. thetaiotaomicron 95-1 was characterized. The alpha-glucosidase was partially purified to a preparation containing three proteins of 80, 57, and 50 kDa. Pullulan and amylose were not hydrolyzed by the alpha-glucosidase. alpha(1----4)-D-Glucosidic oligosaccharides from maltose to maltoheptaose were hydrolyzed to glucose by the alpha-glucosidase. The alpha-glucosidase also hydrolyzed alpha(1----6)-linked oligosaccharides such as panose (the product of the pullulanase II action on pullulan) and isomaltotriose.     

Klebsiella pneumoniae strain K21: evidence for the rapid secretion of an unacylated form of pullulanase

Klebsiella pneumoniae strain PAP996 was previously shown to secrete fatty acylated, aggregated (micellar) pullulanase only after the end of exponential growth. Here we show that the closely related strain K21 secretes large amounts of unacylated, non-aggregated (monomeric) pullulanase during exponential growth. Only a small amount (less than 10%) of the secreted pullulanase was initially retained by the exponentially growing cells to be subsequently secreted in a fatty acylated, aggregated form. Despite the absence of fatty acids in secreted monomeric pullulanase, the effects of the antibiotic globomycin on pullulanase maturation indicated that all of the enzyme synthesized by strain K21 is processed by lipoprotein signal peptidase.     

Covalent immobilization of pullulanase on alginate and study of its hydrolysis of pullulan

The immobilization of pullulanase from Klebsiella pneumoniae by grafting was investigated. Pullulanase was linked after activation of alginate via a covalent bond between the amine groups of the enzyme and the carboxylic acid groups of alginate. The immobilization yield was 60%. The activity of free pullulanase and immobilized pullulanase was followed by the quantification of reducing ends by colorimetric assay and the determination of the molar masses of the hydrolyzed pullulan by SEC/MALS/DRI. Compared to free pullulanase, the kinetics is largely slowed. The evolution of the weight average molar mass of pullulan leading to high production of shorter oligosaccharides during hydrolysis is not the same as that obtained with free enzyme. Immobilized pullulanase retained 75% and 30% of its initial activity after 24 h and 14 days of incubation at 60°C, respectively while free pullulanase lost its activity after 5 h of hydrolysis at the same temperature. The kinetic parameters of immobilized pullulanase were also investigated by isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC). The affinity of immobilized enzyme to its substrate was reduced compared to the free pullulanase due to steric hindrance and chemical links. © 2015 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Biotechnol. Prog., 31:883–889, 2015     

Cloning and expression of the thermostable pullulanase gene from Thermus sp. strain AMD-33 in Escherichia coli

Abstract The gene coding for a thermostable pullulanase from a thermophile, Thermus sp. strain AMD-33, was cloned in Escherichia coli using pDR540 as a vector. A restriction map was determined for the plasmid pTPS131 which contained the fragment carrying the pullulanase gene. DNA-DNA hybridisation analysis showed that the DNA fragment contained the gene from Thermus sp. strain AMD-33. The strain of E. coli harbouring the plasmid pTPS131 produced most of the pullulanase protein cellularly, whereas Thermus sp. strain AMD-33 produced pullulanase extracellularly. Comparative studies of the enzyme from the thermophile and the plasmid-encoded enzyme in E. coli demonstrated that the optimum temperature and pH of the enzymes were closely similar.     

Analysis of the subcellular location of pullulanase produced by Escherichia coli carrying the pulA gene from Klebsiella pneumoniae strain UNF5023

Three different techniques, protease accessibility, cell fractionation and in situ immunocytochemistry, were used to study the location of the lipoprotein pullulanase produced by Escherichia coli K12 carrying the cloned pullulanase structural gene (pulA) from Klebsiella pneumoniae, with or without the K. pneumoniae genes required to transport pullulanase to the cell surface (secretion-competent and secretion-incompetent, respectively). Pullulanase produced by secretion-competent strains could be slowly but quantitatively released into the medium by growing the cells in medium containing pronase. The released pullulanase lacked the N-terminal fatty-acylated cysteine residue (and probably also a short N-terminal segment of the pullulanase polypeptide), confirming that the N-terminus is the sole membrane anchor in the protein. Pullulanase produced by secretion-incompetent strains was not affected by proteases, confirming that it is not exposed on the cell surface. Pullulanase cofractionated with both outer and inner membrane vesicles upon isopycnic sucrose gradient centrifugation, irrespective of the secretion competence of the strain. Examination by electronmicroscopy of vesicles labelled with antipullulanase serum and protein A-gold confirmed that pullulanase was associated with both types of vesicles. When thin-sectioned cells were examined by the same technique, pullulanase was found to be located mainly on the cell surface of the secretion-competent cells and mainly in the proximity of the inner membrane in the secretion-incompetent cells. Thus, while the results from three independent techniques (substrate accessibility, protease accessibility and in situ immunocytochemistry) show that pullulanase is transported to the cell surface of secretion-competent cells, this could not be confirmed by cell-fractionation techniques. Possible explanations for this discrepancy are discussed.     

Cloning and expression in Escherichia coli of the Klebsiella pneumoniae genes for production, surface localization and secretion of the lipoprotein pullulanase.

This article describes the reconstitution in Escherichia coli of a heterologous protein secretion system comprising a gene for an extracellular protein together with its cognate secretion genes. The protein concerned, pullulanase, is a secreted lipoprotein of the Gram-negative bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae. It is initially localized to the cell surface before being specifically released into the medium. E. coli carrying the cloned pullulanase structural gene (pulA) produces pullulanase but does not expose or secrete it. Secretion genes were cloned together with pulA in an 18.8 kbp fragment of K. pneumoniae chromosomal DNA. E. coli carrying this fragment exhibited maltose-inducible production, exposition and specific secretion of pullulanase. Transposon mutagenesis showed that the secretion genes are located on both sides of pulA. Secretion genes located 5' to pulA were transcribed in the opposite orientation to pulA under the control of the previously identified, malT-regulated malX promoter. Thus these secretion genes are part of the maltose regulon and are therefore co-expressed with pulA. Transposon mutagenesis suggested that secretion genes located 3' of pulA are not co-transcribed with pulA, raising the possibility that some secretion functions are not maltose regulated.