Cloning, sequence analysis, and expression in Escherichia coli of a gene coding for an enzyme from Bacillus circulans K-1 that degrades guar gum
1998
Yoshida, S. (Konoike Construction Co. Ltd., Tsukuba, Ibaraki (Japan)) | Sako, Y. | Uchida, A.
A 2,048-bp nucleotide sequence containing a gene coding for an enzyme that degraded guar gum from Bacillus circulans K-1 was identified by polymerase chain reaction walking. This G-gene consisted of 1,551 nucleotides coding for a protein with Mr 55,242. The enzyme was overexpressed in Escherichia coli JM109 cells by the cloning the G-gene downstream of the lac Z promoter of pUC19. The molecular mass of recombinant G-enzyme estimated by SDS-PAGE was 63kDa, close to that from strain K-1. Analysis of the recombinant enzyme showed GalNAc, Xyl, GlcNAc, Man, Glc, and Gal to account for 1.7, 14.4, 6.1, 3.2, 54.2, and 10.4%, respectively, of the total monosaccharides. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of this enzyme with staining gave a red band. The results suggested that the sugars accounted for the differences in the molecular masses. The recombinant enzyme had two kinds of N-terminal sequences. Thr-Met-Ile-Thr-Pro-Ser-Phe-Ala-Ser-Gly-Phe-Try-Val-Ile and Ile-Thr-Pro-Ser-Phe-Ala-Ser-Gly-Phe-Tyr-Val-Ile-Gly-Thr. Comparison of the these sequences with the deduced N-terminal sequence coded for the G-gene showed that the amino acid, first Met, of the lac Z gene or the next residues Thr-Met in the recombinant enzyme were absent in the native enzyme. Methionines near and at the N-terminus of the mature protein probably were digested by methionine aminopeptidases of E. coli after translation. The properties of recombinant G-enzyme were similar to those of the enzyme from K-1 cell
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