Patent Application: US-67830496-A

Abstract:
the present invention relates to recombinant dna which encodes the sapi restriction endonuclease and modification methylase , and the production of sapi restriction endonuclease from the recombinant dna as well as to methods for cloning actinomycetes genes into suitable hosts such as e . coli .

Description:
the method described herein by which the sapi methylase genes and endonuclease gene are cloned and expressed is illustrated in fig1 and includes the following steps : 1 . the genomic dna of saccharopolyspora species was purified . 2 . the dna is digested partially with a restriction endonuclease such as sau3ai or nlaiii , or any of its isoschizomers , that generates a dna fragment ( s ) containing the entire sapi methylase gene . the dna fragments ranging between 2 - 20 kb were gel - purified . 3 . the sau3ai - digested genomic dna of step 2 was ligated into bamhi - cleaved / cip treated puc19 cloning vector . the nlaiii - digested genomic dna was ligated into sphi - cleaved / cip treated puc19 cloning vector . the resulting mixtures were used to transform an appropriate host , i . e . a hsdr - , mcrbc - , mrr - strain , such as e . coli strain rr1 . the dna / cell mixtures were plated on ampicillin selective media for transformed cells . after incubation , the transformed colonies were harvested together to form the primary cell library . 4 . the recombinant plasmids were purified in toto from the primary cell library to make primary plasmid library . the purified plasmid library was then digested to completion in vitro with sapi endonuclease , or any sapi isoschizomer . sapi endonuclease digestion causes the selective destruction of unmodified , non - methylase - containing clones , resulting in an increase in the relative frequency of sapi methylase - carrying clones . 5 . identification of sapi methylase clone : the digested plasmid library dna was transformed back into a host such as e . coli strain rr1 and transformed colonies were again obtained by plating on ampicillin plates . the colonies were picked and their plasmid dnas were prepared and analyzed for the presence of the sapi methylase gene by incubating purified plasmid dna in vitro with sapi endonuclease to determine whether it is resistant to sapi digestion . 6 . once it has been established that the methylase gene has been closed , the clone was analyzed by restriction mapping and deletion mapping . the entire insert was sequenced and one open reading frame corresponding the sapi m1 methylase gene was found . ( see fig3 seq id no : 1 ). 7 . to construct a genomic dna map adjacent to the m1 gene , two dna fragments from the m1 clone ( clai - smai fragment and clai - sphi fragment ) were used as probes in southern blots to detect genomic dna that had been digested by aatii , ecoo109i , ecori , kpni , pvui , smai , sphi , sspi , xbai , xmni , aflii , avrii , bsgi , bspei , bstbi , bsu36i , draiii , eagi , eco47iii , econi , msci , snabi , spei , or styi . the southern blots indicated that ecori ( 11 kb ), kpni ( 5 . 8 kb ), and smai ( 6 . 5 kb ) fragments were good candidates for clonging of sapi m2 gene and / or sapi restriction endonuclease gene . 8 . the genomic dna was digested with ecori , kpni , or smai . ecori fragments around 11 kb , kpni fragments about 5 . 8 kb , and smai fragments about 6 . 5 kb were gel - purified and ligated into ecori , kpni , or smai digested and cip treated puc19 vectors and the ligated dnas were transformed into rr1 competent cells to construct ecori , kpni , and smai genomic dna libraries . the library dnas were mixed together and digested with sapi restriction endonuclease and retransformed into rr1 competent cells to screen sapi resistant clones . 9 . three clones with 5 . 8 kb kpni fragment insert were isolated that showed partial resistance to sapi digestion . they were analysed by restriction mapping and deletion mapping . subclones were sequenced . an open reading frame was found to code for a second methylase ( m2 ). ( see fig4 seq id no : 2 ) 10 . the 5 . 8 kb kpni fragment insert contains the entire m2 gene and majority of m1 gene . the dna upstream of m2 was sequenced in the hope of locating an open reading frame . a total of 1731 bp of dna was sequenced upstream of m2 gene and this new sequence was compared with all known genes in genbank . an open reading frame was found that has homology to the abaa gene involved in antibiotics synthesis . it was concluded that sapi restriction endonuclease gene is not located upstream of m2 gene . 11 . inverse pcr was used to amplify dna sequences that are downstream of m1 gene . saccharopolyspora sp . genomic dna was digested with afliii , agei , asei , bglii , bsahi , bsrfi , bstyi , clai , ecori , kasi , kpni , mlui , ngomi , paer7i , ppu10i , or psti restriction enzymes or any other restriction enzymes that will give rise to reasonable size template dna ( less than 10 kb ) for inverse pcr reaction . the digested dna were self - ligated at a low dna concentration ( less than 2 microgram per ml ). the ligated circular dna was used as templates for inverse pcr reaction using a set of primers ( see example i , section 5 ) that annealed to the end of the sapi m1 gene . 12 . amplified products were found in afliii , agei , asei , bsahi , bsrfi , bstyi , clai , kasi , mlui , paer7i , and ppu10i digested and self - ligated dna templates used in inverse pcr . the inverse pcr products from clai ( 1 . 4 kb ) and nsii ( 1 . 6 kb ) reactions were treated with t4 polynucleotide kinase and t4 dna polymerase and cloned into hincii - cleaved / cip treated puc19 vector . the entire inserts were sequenced . one open reading frame which encoded the sapi endonuclease gene ( fig5 seq id no : 3 ) was found that runs in the opposite direction as compared to m1 gene . 13 . the sapi m1 and m2 genes were cloned into pacyc184 to premodify e . coli host . the entire open reading frame ( sapi endonuclease gene ) was amplified by pcr with two primers . an efficient ribosome binding site and 7 bp spacing were engineered before the atg start codon . the endonuclease gene was first cloned into high - copy - number expression vectors such as puc19 . but the clones were not stable . sapi endonuclease activity can be found from cell extract of 10 ml culture , but not from 500 ml culture . to stabilize the clone , the endonuclease gene was inserted into a modified t7 expression vector pet21t and transformed into sapi methylase modified cells . er2504 [ pacyc - sapim1 - m2 , pet21t - sapir ] ( neb # 998 ; new england biolabs , inc . ; beverly , mass .) produced about 20 , 000 units of sapi endonuclease activity per gram of wet e . coli cells . a sample of neb # 998 has been deposited under the terms and conditions of the budapest treaty with the american type culture collection on jul . 11 , 1996 and received atcc accession number 98102 . the following example is given to illustrate embodiments of the present invention as it is presently preferred to practice . it will be understood that this example is illustrative , and that the invention is not to be considered as restricted thereto except as indicated in the appended claims . the references cited above and below are herein incorporated by reference . 10 μg of saccharopolyspora sp . genomic dna was cleaved partially by 4 , 2 , 1 , 0 . 5 , 0 . 25 units of sau3ai at 37 ° c . for 30 min . the partilly digested dna was analysed by gel electrophoresis . it was found that 1 unit and 0 . 5 unit of sau3ai digestion gave rise to limited partial digestion . the partial digestion was repeated for 200 μg dna ( 10 μg dna in one tube , 20 digestions were performed ). genomic dna fragments in the range of 2 - 20 kb were gel purified by excision of dna from the agarose gel , freeze - thawing , and centrifugation . the supernatants containing dna was precipitated with 95 % ethanol . the pellet was washed with 70 % ethanol , dried , and resuspended in te buffer . the sau3ai partially digested saccharopolyspora sp . genomic dna was ligated into bamhi cleaved / cip treated puc19 dna at 16 ° c . onvernight . ligated dna was transformed into rr1 competent cells and plated on ampicillin plates . a total of about 5 × 10 4 cells were derived from the transformation . these cells were pooled together and inoculated into 1 liter lb broth plus ap and cultured overnight at 37 ° c . plasmid dnas were prepared from the primary cell library . 10 , 5 , 2 , 1 μg of plasmid dna were cleaved with sapi restriction endonuclease for four hours at 37 ° c . the sapi - digested dnas were retransformed into rr1 competent cells . plasmid dnas were isolated again from the surviving transformants and digested with sapi restriction enzyme to see if the plasmid dna is resistant to sapi digestion . 72 plasmids were checked for resistance to sapi digestion . one resistant clone (# 32 ) was found that carries about 1 . 5 kb genomic dna insert . the entire insert was sequenced using deletion clones and primer walking with custom primers . it was found that the insert contains the sapi methylase gene ( m1 ). the predicted amino acid ( aa ) sequence contains conserved n 4 cytosine methylase motifs of vxdpxggxgt ( seq id no : 4 ) and sppf . the dna coding sequence and predicted aa sequence are shown in fig3 . one clai - smai dna fragment encoding the c - terminus of m1 methylase from the m1 clone was used as a probe in the southern blot to detect genomic dna that had been digested by aatii , ecoo109i , ecori , kpni , pvui , smai , sphi , sspi , xbai , xmni . aflii , avrii , bsgi , bspei , bstbi , bsu36i , draiii , eagi , eco47iii , econi , msci , muni , ncoi , ndei , nrui , pflmi , pmli , rsrii , sacii , snabi , spei , or styi . the endonuclease digested genomic dna was subjected to electrophoresis in a 0 . 8 % agarose gel . the dna was denatured and transferred to a nitrocellulose membrane by blotting . the dna in the membrane was hybridized with biotinylated clai - smai fragment probe at 65 ° c . overnight . the hybridized dna was detected by neblot ® phototope detection system . ( new england biolabs , inc . beverly , mass .) the same genomic dna membrane was stripped and reprobed with a clai - sphi dna probe coding for the n - terminus of sapi methylase mi . the southern blots indicated that ecori ( 11 kb ), kpni ( 5 . 8 kb ), and smai ( 6 . 5 kb ) fragments were good candidates for cloning of surrounding dna encoding sapi m2 gene and / or sapi retriction endonuclease gene . saccharopolyspora sp . genomic dna was cleaved with ecori , kpni , or smai . the digested dna was subjected to electrophoresis in a 0 . 8 % agarose gel . ecori fragments about 11 kb , kpni about 5 . 8 kb , and smai fragments about 6 . 5 kb were gel - purified and ligated into ecori , kpni , and smai digested and cip - treated puc19 vector . the ligated dna was transformed into rr1 competent cells . about 6 , 000 colonies were pooled together and inoculated into 500 ml lb broth plus ap and cultured overnight . plasmid dnas were prepared from the mixed primary cell libraries . 10 , 5 , 2 , 1 μg of plasmid dna were cleaved with sapi restriction endonuclease for four hours at 37 ° c . the sapi - digested dnas were retransformed into rr1 competent cells . the transformants were used for colony hybridization using m1 dna probe . plasmid dnas were isolated from positive clones and digested with sapi restriction enzyme to see if the plasmid dna is resistant to sapi digestion . isolates # 5 , # 18 , and # 32 were partially resistant to sapi digestion and contains the 5 . 8 kb kpni genomic insert . restriction mapping , deletion mapping , and dna sequencing indicated that the insert carries a second methylase gene m2 and majority of m1 . the coding sequence and predicted aa sequence of m2 is shown in fig4 . sapi m2 methylase also contains conserved n 4 cytosine methylase motifs : vxdpxggxgt ( seq id no : 4 ) and sppy . the extra dna upstream of m2 is about 3 . 3 kb . the dna adjacent to m2 was sequenced in the hope of finding open reading frames that might be sapi endonuclease gene . a total of 1731 bp of dna was sequenced and this sequence was used to search homology to all known genes in genbank . one open reading frame upstream of m2 was found to have similarity to a gene that is involved in antibiotics synthesis . it was concluded that this open reading frame upstream of m2 gene is not sapi restriction endonuclease gene . 4 . cloning of part of sapi restriction endonuclease gene by construction partial nlaiii library . since the sapi endonuclease gene is most likely located downstream of m1 gene , we tried to clone larger dna fragments carrying both m1 and sapi endonuclease gene . saccharopolyspora sp . genomic dna was partially digested with nlaiii restriction endonuclease . genomic dna fragments ranging from 3 - 20 kb were gel - purified and inserted into sphi - digested and cip - treated puc19 . the ligated dna was used to transform rr1 competent cells . plasmid dnas were prepared from the primary cell library . 10 , 5 , 2 , 1 μg of plasmid dna were cleaved with sapi restriction endonuclease for four hours at 37 ° c . the sapi - digested dnas were retransformed into rr1 competent cells . plasmid dnas were isolated and digested with sapi restriction enzyme to see if the plasmid dna is resistant to sapi digestion . after screening 153 plasmid isolates , puc19 - genomic inserts # 9 , # 13 , # 14 , # 59 , # 83 , # 84 , # 88 , # 109 , # 118 , # 123 , # 126 , # 133 , # 148 were found to be resistant to sapi digestion . restriction mapping indicated that # 13 , # 14 , and ## 59 carry the same inserts and the dna downstream of m1 methylase gene was sequenced . the insert of # 13 contains extra dna that extended the m1 insert further out 657 bp . but this 657 bp is not large enough to encode the entire sapi restriction endonculease gene . # 13 did not displayed any detectable sapi restriction endonuclease activity in cell extract . 5 . cloning the remainder of sapi endonuclease gene by inverse pcr . inverse pcr was used to amplify dna sequences that are downstream of m1 gene . saccharopolyspora sp . genomic dna was digested with afliii , agei , asei , bglii , bsahi , bsrfi , bstyi , clai , ecori , kasi , kpni , mlui , ngomi , paer7i , ppu10i , or psti restriction enzymes . the digested dnas were self - ligated at a low dna concentration ( ligation reaction : 20 μl of digested dna , about 1 μg , 50 μl 10 × ligation buffer , 5 μl of t4 dna ligase , 425 μl of sterile distilled water , 16 ° c . overnight ). the ligated circular dna was purified by phenol - chcl 3 extraction and ethanol precipitation and used as templates for inverse pcr reaction using a set of primers that annealed to the end of the sapi m1 gene . the primer sequences used in inverse pcr were : the inverse pcr reaction conditions were 95 ° c . for 1 min , 60 ° c . for 1 min , and 72 ° c . for 2 min , running 30 cycles . inverse pcr products were found in afliii , agei , asei , bsahi , bsrfi , bstyi , clai , kasi , mlui , paer7i , and ppu10i digested and self - ligated dna templates . the inverse pcr products from clai ( 1 . 4 kb ) and nsii ( 1 . 6 kb ) reactions were treated with t4 polynucleotide kinase and t4 dna polymerase and cloned into hincii - cleaved / cip treated puc19 vector . the entire inserts were sequenced using deletion clones and custom primers . one open reading frame was found that runs in the opposite direction as compared to m1 gene . the dna coding sequence and the predicated aa sequence are shown fig5 . the sapi m1 gene was subloned into pr976 ( tc r , a pacyc184 derivative , fig6 ) and the m2 gene was cloned into plg339 ( kn r , a psc101 derivative , stoker et al ., gene 18 : 335 - 341 ). both pr976 - m1 and plg339 - m2 were transformed into e . coli to premodify host chromosome . the sapi endonuclease gene was amplified by pcr and ligated into puc19 . a low level of sapi expression was achieved in e . coli [ pr976 - m1 , plg339 - m2 , puc19 - sapir ], but the strain was not stable . sapi activity was detected only in 10 ml culture . sapi activity was lost in 500 ml culture . 7 . expression of sapi endonuclease gene in a low copy number plasmid pr976 under p tac promoter control . since sapi expression in a high copy number plasmid such as puc19 was not stable , it was thought that expression on a low copy number plasmid may stablize the expression . e . coli competent cell was transformed with puc19 - m1 and plg339 - m2 to modify the host dna . sapi endonuclease gene was amplified by pcr and inserted into the psti site of pr976 . the strain e . coli [ puc19 - m1 , plg339 - m2 , pr976 - sapir ] produced about 1000 units of sapi per gram of wet e . coli cells , a 3 - fold overproduction than the native strain . again the strain was not stable because it reduced the activity in large cell culture . this instability was probably caused by the under - methylation and constitutive endonuclease expression from the p tac promotor . because the sapi expression clone was not stable , it was thought that overexpression sapi methylase genes m1 and m2 may help to alleviate the problem . an efficient ribosome binding site ggaggt and 6 bp spacing aaataa were engineered in front of m2 gene by pcr and the gene was inserted into puc19 - sapim1 . the resulting plasmid was puc19 - sapim1 - m2 ( there is one sapi site in the vector ). when this plasmid was isolated and digested with sapi , only about 70 % of dna was resistant to sapi digestion , indicating poor sapi methylase expression / instability of sapi methylase proteins in vivo . to compare the sapi methylase modification level in vivo , the m1 and m2 genes were also cloned into pacyc184 . the resulting plasmid was pacyc184 - sapim1 - m2 . this plasmid and puc19 was co - transformed into e . coli cells . plasmid dna mixture was isolated from the cells and subjected to sapi digestion ( there is one sapi site in puc19 , no sapi site in pacyc184 - sapim1 - m2 ). it was found that about 70 % of puc19 dna was resistant to sapi digestion , indicating that the methylase expression from a high copy number plasmid and a low copy number plasmid resulted in the similar level of sapi site modification . 9 . expression of sapi endonuclease gene in a modified t7 expression vector . two primers were made to amplify the sapi endonuclease gene . the primer sequences are : 5 &# 39 ; cgctctaga ( xbai site ) ggaggt ( ribosome binding site ) taaata ( spacing ) atgcggaggcttgctacacaacgacgc 3 &# 39 ; ( seq id no : 7 ) the sapi endonuclease gene was amplified from saccharopolyspora sp . genomic dna with taq dna polymerase plus vent ® dna polymerase ( 50 : 1 ratio ) under the pcr condition 95 ° c ., 1 min , 60 ° c ., 1 min , 72 ° c ., 1 min 30 sec for 20 cycles . the pcr dna was purified by phenol - chcl 3 extraction and ethanol precipitation and resuspended in te buffer . the dna was digested with bamhi and xbai restriction endonucleases and ligated into a modified t7 expression vector pet21t . the expression vector pet21t contains transcription terminators upstream of the t7 promotor to further reduce the basal level of expression under non - induced condition ( pet21t was constructed and provided by h . kong , new england biolabs , inc ., beverly , mass .). the ligated dna was used to transform sapi methylase modified cell er2504 [ pacyc - sapim1 - m2 ]. er2504 is a bl21 ( λde3 ) derivative that is also tona - and dnasi - . e . coli cells er2504 [ pacyc - sapim1 - m2 , pet21t - sapir ] were grown in lb broth to late log phase ( about 150 klett units ) and iptg was added to a final concentration of 0 . 5 mm to induce endonuclease production . iptg - induction and cell culture continued for 3 hours . cells were harvested by centrifugation and resuspended in sonication buffer ( 10 mm β - mercaptoethanol , 50 mm tris - hcl ph 7 . 5 ). cells were lysed by addition of lysozyme and sonication . cell debris was removed by centrifugation and the supernatant was assayed for sapi activity on λdna . the strain produced about 20 , 000 units of sapi restriction endonuclease per gram of wet e . coli cells . it still produces sapi endonuclease in cells cultured in a 100 liter fermentor . the recombinant sapi restriction endonuclease was purified by chromatography through heparin - sepharose column , phosphocellulose column , and q - separose hplc . the purified enzyme was assayed on λ dna and puc19 substrate . __________________________________________________________________________sequence listing ( 1 ) general information :( iii ) number of sequences : 8 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 1 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 1131 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : genomic dna ( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : coding sequence ( b ) location : 1 ... 1128 ( d ) other information :( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 1 : 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( 2 ) information for seq id no : 4 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 10 amino acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : peptide ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 4 : valxaaaspproxaaglyglyxaaglythr1510 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 5 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 23 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : single - stranded dna ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 5 : taagctatcttggtcagtcaaag23 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 6 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 24 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : single - stranded dna ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 6 : aacaggagatgatgtttagttgta24 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 7 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 27 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : unknown ( d ) topology : unknown ( ii ) molecule type : single - stranded dna ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 7 : atgcggaggcttgctacacaacgacgc27 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 8 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 27 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : unknown ( d ) topology : unknown ( ii ) molecule type : single - stranded dna ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 8 : tcagtccagtggtagtgcttcatcgag27__________________________________________________________________________