Patent Application: US-68413591-A

Abstract:
the present invention provides the isolated dna sequence encoding the αb dimer subunit of the lysine - sensitive aspartokinase ii isozyme from the thermophilic methylotrophic bacillus sp . mga3 .

Description:
the invention will be described by reference to the following detailed examples , wherein the bacterial strains , vectors and recombinant plasmids used are summarized in table 1 , below . table 1__________________________________________________________________________bacterial strains and plasmidsstrain relevant markers reference or source__________________________________________________________________________escherichia colidh5αf &# 39 ; f &# 39 ; φ80dlaczδm15 δ ( laczya - argf ) u169 reca1 end bethesda research lab hsdr17 ( r . sub . k -, m . sub . k +) supe44λ . sup .- thi - 1 gyra rela1gif106m1 f . sup .- thra1101 supe44 λ . sup .- rpsl9 malt1 ( λ . sup . r ) xyl - 7 barbra bachman mtl - 2 ilva296 metl1000 arg - 1000 thi - 1 lysc1001bacillusmga3 -- atcc 53907mga3 s - 12 hse . sup .- r . s . hansonplasmidspuc19cm cm . sup . r j . fuchspbr322 tc . sup . r , ap . sup . r f . bolivar et al .. sup . bpaa8363 tc . sup . r , ak . sup .+ a this studypaa8671 cm . sup . r , ak . sup .+ this studypaa8802 cm . sup . r , ak . sup .- this study__________________________________________________________________________ . sup . a ak , aspartokinase activity . . sup . b f . bolivar et al ., gene , 2 , 95 ( 1977 ). strains of e . coli were grown at 37 ° c . in baffled erlenmeyer flasks ( bellco ) rotated at 280 - 320 rpm ( labline ) on soc medium ( d . hanahan , &# 34 ; techniques for transformation of e . coli ,&# 34 ; in dna cloning : a practical approach , d . m . glover , ed ., irl press , washington , d . c . ( 1985 ) at pages 109 - 135 ), or m9 medium ( t . maniatis et al ., molecular cloning : a laboratory manual , cold spring harbor laboratory , cold spring harbor , n . y . ( 1982 )). auxotrophic stains were implemented with 50 μg / ml of the appropriate amino acid . bacillus mga3 ( atcc 53907 , american type culture collection , rockville , md ., usa ) was grown at 53 ° c . in baffled flasks rotated at 350 rpm on my medium ( f . j . schendel et al ., cited supra ) containing 1 % methanol . solid media contained 15 g of agar ( sigma , st . louis , mo .) per liter of medium . selective media contained antibiotics at the following concentrations : 15 μg tetracycline per ml , 35 μg chloramphenicol per ml , 100 μg ampicillin per ml , and 50 μg streptomycin sulfate per ml . dna manipulations were carried out according to t . maniatis et al . ( cited supra ) unless otherwise stated . transformations of e . coli strains dh5αf &# 39 ; and gm2163 were carried out according to d . hanahan ( cited supra ). electrotransformation of e . coli strain gif106m1 was carried out using a gene pulser apparatus ( bio - rad lab ; richmond , calif .) at 12 . 5 kv per cm and 25 μfd capacitance . cells were allowed to recover for one hour in soc medium before plating . electrocompetent e . coli gif106m1 cells were prepared by growth in soc to mid - log phase . one liter of cells were harvested by centrifugation at 7 , 000 × g , washed twice with an equal volume of cold sterile water , and resuspended in 40 ml cold 10 % glycerol . the cells were harvested by centrifugation , resuspended in 2 ml cold 10 % glycerol , and 150 μl samples frozen in a dry - ice ethanol bath . the cells were then stored at - 80 ° c . until needed . restriction endonucleases , t4 dna ligase , amv reverse transcriptase , and bacterial alkaline phosphatase were purchased from bethesda research labs ( gaithersburg , md .) and used according to the instructions of the supplier . bacillus mga3 chromosomal dna was isolated from cells grown in my medium using the method of r . e . yasbin et al ., j . bacteriol ., 121 , 269 ( 1975 ). nested deletions were constructed by unidirectional exonuclease iii - s1 nuclease digestion ( erase - a - base , promega corp ., madison , wis .). the dna sequence was determined by the dideoxy - chain termination method of f . sanger et al ., pnas usa , 74 , 5463 ( 1977 ) for both strands using sequenase ( united states biochemicals , cleveland , ohio ). analysis of the dna sequence data was carried out using intellagenetics software ( university of minnesota molecular biology computing center ). total rna was isolated and primer extension was performed as described by f . m . ausubel et al ., in current protocols in molecular biology , john wiley & amp ; sons , n . y . ( 1987 ). for the isolation of rna , e . coli was grown in soc and b . mga3 was grown in minimal methanol media ( f . s . schendel et al ., cited supra ). total rna was isolated from e . coli as described by f . m . ausubel et al ., cited supra , and from b . mga3 as described by h . shimotsu et al ., j . bacteriol ., 166 , 461 ( 1986 ). a 24 - mer oligonucleotide complementary to the coding strand base pairs 383 - 406 was endlabeled with 32 p and used as the primer . the products were analyzed on a 6 % polyacrylamide - urea gel . a chromosomal library of bacillus mga3 dna was constructed by partial digestion of the bacillus mga3 chromosomal dna with psti followed by ligation with the psti digested , alkaline phosphatase treated vector , pbr322 . the ligation reaction was electrotransformed into e . coli gif106m1 cells and tetracycline - resistant transformants selected on soc medium . the tetracycline - resistant colonies were scraped off the soc plates , washed twice with ssc , then plated onto m9 medium . aspartokinase ii positive clones were identified by their ability to grow on m9 medium lacking lysine , threonine , and methionine . aspartokinase ii was assayed by measuring the amount of aspartyl - β - hydroxamate formed as described by m . j . m . hitchcock et al ., biochem . biophys . acta , 445 , 350 ( 1976 ). determination of the apparent k i for lysine inhibition was carried out with partially purified aspartokinase ii from e . coli / paa8671 . cells were broken in a french press pressure cell at 16 , 000 psi , cell debris removed by centrifugation at 40 , 000 × g for 1 hour , and the supernatant fractionated between 35 - 50 % saturation with ammonium sulfate . the sample was desalted on sephadex g - 25 , and apparent k i for lysine determined by varying the amount of lysine added to the assay in the presence of saturating amounts of aspartate and atp . determination of the n - terminal sequence of aspartokinase was carried out by automated edman degradation at the university of minnesota microchemical facility . approximately 1 nmol of aspartokinase was run on a 14 % sds gel ( u . k . laemmuli , nature , 227 , 680 ( 1970 )) to separate the α and β subunits , then electroblotted onto applied biosystems ( forest city , calif .) problot pvdf membrane , following the manufacturer &# 39 ; s instructions . the membrane was stained for 15 seconds with coomassie blue r - 250 ( icn , cleveland , ohio ), destained with 50 % methanol , and the bands corresponding to the α and β subunits excised and submitted for sequencing . recent work in b . subtilis has demonstrated the existence of three aspartokinase isozymes that differ in their feedback inhibition and repression ( l . m . graves et al ., cited supra ). in order to determine the number of aspartokinase isozymes present in the thermophilic methylotroph b . mga3 , assays of cell extracts were carried out in the presence of lysine , threonine , or diaminopimelate alone or in combination , in accord with the methodology of j .- j . zhang et al ., j . bacteriol ., 172 , 701 ( 1990 ). the results of these assays are shown in table 2 , and are consistent with the presence of three isozymes ; one inhibited by diaminopimelate , one inhibited by lysine alone , and one inhibited by lysine plus threonine . table 2______________________________________inhibition of aspartokinase frombacillus mga3 by amino acidsamino acid inhibition ( 5 mm ) (%) ______________________________________none 100 . sup . alysine 42lysine + threonine 85diaminopimelate 12diaminopimelate + lysine 55diaminopimelate + lysine + threonine 98______________________________________ . sup . a corresponds to a specific activity of 0 . 011 u / mg protein . 2 . cloning the structural gene coding for aspartokinase ii from bacillus sp . mga3 previous studies by m . y . chen et al ., j . biol . chem ., 262 , 8787 ( 1987 ) showed that the gene coding for aspartokinase ii from bacillus subtilis complemented e . coli gif106m1 , which lacks all three aspartokinase isozymes , ( j . theze et al ., j . bacteriol ., 117 , 133 ( 1974 )), by restoring its ability to grow on minimal medium lacking lysine , threonine and methionine . to obtain the gene coding for aspartokinase from the thermophilic methylotroph bacillus sp . mga3 , a chromosomal library was constructed by partial psti digestion of the mga3 chromosome . the fragments generated were cloned into pbr322 , and used to transform e . coli gif106m1 to impart tetracycline resistance . after plating onto minimal medium , 40 clones were identified that restored the ability of e . coli gif106m1 to grow on minimal medium lacking lysine , threonine and methionine . analysis of 16 of these clones showed that they all shared a common 2 . 2 kb psti fragment . one of these clones , paa8363 , was used for further characterization . in order to determine if the restored ability to grow in the absence of lysine , threonine , and methionine was due to aspartokinase , enzymatic analysis of cell extracts was carried out , with the results shown in table 3 . table 3______________________________________expression of aspartokinase activity in e . coli aspartokinase activitystrain plasmid ( u / mg of protein ) ______________________________________dh5αf &# 39 ; none 0 . 0021 . sup . agif106m1 none 0 . 0002 . sup . bgif106m1 pbr322 0 . 0002 . sup . bgif106m1 puc19cm 0 . 0001 . sup . bgif106m1 paa8363 0 . 022 . sup . agif106m1 paa8363 0 . 021 . sup . bgif106m1 paa8802 0 . 0001 . sup . b______________________________________ . sup . a cells were grown in minimal m9 medium lacking lysine , threonine , and methionine . . sup . b cells were grown in minimal m9 medium containing lysine , threonine and methionine . as shown in table 3 , significant levels of aspartokinase activity were only found in the wild type e . coli dh5αf &# 39 ; and in gif106m1 cells carrying the plasmid paa8363 . no repression of aspartokinase activity was observed when the cells were grown in the presence of 50 μg / ml of lysine , threonine , and methionine ( table 3 ). assays were performed in the presence of threonine , methionine , lysine , and diaminopimelate alone , and in combination , but only lysine was shown to inhibit enzyme activity , with an apparent k i of 100 μm . inactivation of the aspartokinase activity was carried out by subcloning the 2 . 2 kb psti fragment into the psti site of puc19cm , followed by removal of a 0 . 6 kb avai fragment from paa8671 . the resulting clone , paa8802 , was examined for aspartokinase activity ( table 3 ) as well as ability to support growth of gif106m1 on minimal medium lacking lysine , threonine , and methionine . no significant aspartokinase activity was detected , and paa8802 would not support growth of e . coli gif106m1 on minimal medium lacking lysine , threonine , and methionine . the approximate location of the aspartokinase gene and control regions on the 2 . 2 kb psti fragment was determined by creating a series of unidirectional deletions , and testing each of these for their ability to support growth of gif106m1 on a minimal medium lacking lysine , threonine , and methionine . aspartokinase activity was lost when deletions were made 420 base pairs from the 3 &# 39 ; end of the fragment , and 350 base pairs from the 5 &# 39 ; end . the entire 2 . 2 kb psti fragment was sequenced ( fig2 ). the nucleotide sequence ( seq . i . d . no . 1 ) revealed one major open reading frame starting at base pair 790 , however , there is no potential ribosome binding site preceding this possible start site . a preferred translation start site is apparent at position 664 , where a gtg is preceded by a potential ribosome binding site ( aaggga ) underlined in fig2 ). this translational start site was in complete agreement with the n - terminal amino acid sequence of the α subunit as shown in fig3 ( a ). a second start site preceded by a potential ribosome binding site , aggagg , was found in the same reading frame beginning at base pair 1399 . this smaller open reading frame may correspond to the smaller β subunit of aspartokinase . as shown in fig3 ( b ), this second translational start site was in complete agreement with the n - terminal sequence of the β subunit . a stop codon was found at base pair 1897 resulting in predicted molecular weights for the α and β subunits of 44 , 313 and 17 , 899 , respectively , and these were in good agreement with the values obtained by sds gel electrophoresis of 45 , 000 and 18 , 000 , respectively . the native molecular weight of aspartokinase was found to be 122 , 000 by gel filtration on sephacryl - 300 , which is in good agreement with the predicted molecular weight of 124 , 424 for an α 2 β 2 tetramer . the transcription initiation site was found by primer extension to correspond to the ` a ` residue at position 297 in both the b . mga3 and from the cloned gene in e . coli dh5αf &# 39 ;/ paa8671 . the sequences tatgct and atgaca near the - 10 and - 35 regions correspond to a putative aspartokinase promoter ( boxed in fig2 ). two regions of dyad symmetry with δg &# 39 ; s of - 18 . 6 and - 11 . 1 kcal are found in the intervening sequence between transcription initiation and the translation start site ( fig2 ), and the second region contains a series of t residues following the hairpin loop typical of a rho - independent terminator . another region of dyad symmetry with a δg - 23 . 2 kcal occurs distal to the coding region , but lacks a run of t residues following the hairpin loop common to rho - independent terminators . sequence data are now available for six microbial aspartokinase isozymes , three e . coli ( m . cassan et al ., j . biol . chem ., 261 1052 ( 1986 ) ( k12 ); m . katinka et al ., pnas usa , 73 , 5730 ( 1980 ); m . m . zakin et al ., j . biol . chem ., 258 , 3028 ( 1983 )), the bacillus subtilis aspartokinase ii ( n . y . chen et al ., cited supra ), and saccharomyces cerevisiae ( j . a . rafalsk et al ., j . biol . chem ., 263 , 2146 ( 1988 ). the deduced amino acid sequence for b . mga3 aspartokinase ii ( seq . i . d . no . 2 ) was compared with the proposed alignment for the b . subtilis aspartokinase ii , and the three e . coli aspartokinase isozymes , the s . cerevisiae isozyme and the e . coli isozymes , the s . cerevisiae isozyme , and the e . coli isozyme . some similarity exists between the deduced amino acid sequence of b . mga3 aspartokinase and the b . subtilis aspartokinase ii , with 76 % of amino acid residues being identical . when the amino acid sequence of b . mga3 aspartokinase is compared with the three e . coli aspartokinases and the s . cerevisiae enzyme , less similarity is found . only 29 , 23 , 20 , and 17 % of its amino acid residues are identical to those of e . coli aspartokinase iii , i , ii and the s . cerevisiae aspartokinase , respectively . these findings support the assignment of mga3 to the genus bacillus , as discussed by f . j . schendel et al ., cited supra . complementation of the e . coli strain gif106m1 , a mutant in all three aspartokinase isozymes , resulted in the selection of only the gene coding for aspartokinase ii from b . mga3 , and neither of the genes coding for aspartokinase i or iii . this is probably due to the inability of e . coli to recognize either the bacillus promoters or shine - dalgarno sequences for these two isozymes ( l . band et al ., dna , 3 , 17 ( 1984 ); g . lee et al ., mol . gen . genet ., 180 , 57 ( 1980 )). the proposed - 10 , tatgct , and - 35 regions , atgaca , are similar to the compiled - 10 , tataat , and - 35 , ttgaca , regions from several b . subtilis genes ( as reported by c . p . moran et al ., mol . gen . genet ., 186 , 339 ( 1982 )), and to the - 10 , taaaat , and - 35 , ttgtcc , regions of the b . subtilis aspartokinase ii gene ( n . y . chen et al ., j . biol . chem ., 262 , 8787 ( 1987 )). the expression of the gene coding for aspartokinase ii in e . coli results from transcription initiation at the same site as in b . mga3 , and is probably due to the similarity of the - 10 and - 35 regions to the consensus sequences of e . coli - 10 , tataat , and - 35 , ttgaca , regions . in addition , the proposed shine - dalgarno sequences for the aspartokinase ii α and β subunits , aaggga and aggagg , respectively , are both very similar to the consensus sequence , aaggag , of b . subtilis ( c . p . moran et al ., mol . gen . genet ., 186 , 339 ( 1982 )). these proposed ribosome binding sites are also very similar to the e . coli consensus sequence , aggagg ( j .- c . patte et al ., biochem . biophys . acta ., 136 , 245 ( 1967 )). the large , & gt ; 300 nucleotides , intervening sequence that exists between the transcription initiation and translation start sites ( fig2 ), may function in the control of aspartokinase ii expression in the presence of lysine . unlike the control sequence for the b . subtilis aspartokinase ii , that contains characteristics similar to attenuators from several e . coli amino acid biosynthetic operons , as shown by r . kolter et al ., ann . rev . genet ., 16 , 113 ( 1982 ), no open reading frame preceded by a ribosome binding site that contained a lysine rich peptide was found . this also explains why attenuation of aspartokinase ii was not observed when e . coli gif106m1 / paa8363 was grown in the presence of lysine ( table 3 ). in contrast , growth inhibition due to 22 μm lysine wa observed with e . coli gif106m1 carrying a single copy plasmid containing the gene encoding the b . subtilis aspartokinase ii ( n . y . chen et al ., j . biol . chem ., 263 , 9526 ( 1988 )). while part of this inhibition may have been due to feedback inhibition , since the aspartokinase ii from b . subtilis had a k i 100 μm ( 30 ), it is likely that some of the growth inhibition resulted from attenuation of the aspartokinase gene . site - directed mutants were constructed by in vitro second strand synthesis ( altered sites , promega corp ., madison , wis .) or by the method of t . a . kunkel et al ., pnas usa , 82 , 488 ( 1985 ) ( muta - gene , bio - rad , richmond , calif .) using a mismatched oligonucleotide primer of 18 - 24 base pairs . a 19 base pair primer corresponding to the sequence 5 &# 39 ;- ttttgttctaatgttactt was used to change the ` t ` and ` g ` at positions 1400 and 1401 to ` a ` and ` t ` respectively . this results in an amino acid change from methionine to leucine at position 246 in the protein sequence . in addition , this amino acid substitution eliminates the initiation codon for the synthesis of the β subunit resulting the synthesis of only the α subunit . analysis of cell extracts containing this altered ( α 2 ) enzyme revealed that the aspartokinase activity and inhibition by lysine was essentially identical to the wild type ( α 2 β 2 ) protein . this result was similar to the result obtained by chen and paulus , cited above . in vitro plasmid mutagenesis was carried out using hydroxylamine as described by c . wolf et al ., j . bacteriol ., 170 , 4509 ( 1988 ). one μg of paa8671 dna was treated with 100 ul of 0 . 4 m hydroxylamine in 0 . 5 m potassium phosphate ( ph 6 . 0 ) for 36 hours at 37 ° c . the sample was then dialyzed for 12 hours against 4 l of 1 mm edta ( ph 7 . 0 ). electrocompetent e . coli gif106m1 cells were then transformed by electroporation with 1 ul of the dialyzed sample . the cells were allowed to recover for 1 hour in soc , then plated onto minimal media containing 10 g / l lysine , and grown for 24 hours at 37 ° c . ten colonies were selected , grown at 37 ° c . for 16 hours in tb containing 35 ug / ml chloramphenicol . the cells were collected by centrifugation , suspended in 50 mm potassium phosphate , and sonicated for 30 seconds to disrupt the cells . aspartokinase ii enzyme assays were preformed in the presence and absence of 100 mm lysine . two clones , 9234 and 9236 , showed decreased sensitivity to lysine with apparent k i &# 39 ; s of 10 and 100 mm , respectively , compared to a k i of 100 um for wild type enzyme . the dna coding for these altered enzymes was sequenced and only a single base pair change was found in each case . in paa9234 , a ` t ` replaces the ` c ` at position 1790 resulting in a single amino acid change from a serine to leucine at position 376 of the protein sequence . in paa9236 , a ` t ` replaces the ` c ` at position 1730 resulting in a single amino acid change from an alanine to a valine at position 356 of the protein sequence . from the results of these mutagenesis experiments , specific mutations in the α subunit alone should result in altered lysine feedback inhibition in a wide variety of transformants . the invention has been described with reference to various specific and preferred embodiments and techniques . however , it should be understood that many variations and modifications may be made while remaining within the spirit and scope of the invention . __________________________________________________________________________sequence listing ( 1 ) general information :( iii ) number of sequences : 2 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 1 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 2223 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : genomic dna ( vi ) original source : 2 . 2 kb pst frag . of paa8671 ( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : aspartokinase ii gene ( b ) location : 1 to 2223 ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 1 : ttacgccaagcttgcatgcctgcagcgaatccaagatgaagtgcacagatttgcgattac60tttccaccgtcaattgcgggggaaaaatgcttttcaatcgttattgga cgatataccagg120aattggtgaaaaacggaaaaaactgcttcttaaacaatttggttccgtaaaaaaaatgaa180ggaagcaacaatggcggaaattacatctgtcggcattccggcaaatgttgcaaaagaatt240gatgaaaaagttgcatgaatgacat tgtcataaatcaggtcgtatgctatactgaaaaaa300attttatagtgtaatcactttagagcattaaagtgaagatagaggtgcgaacttcatcag360taaaagcttggagaagaatgagcttcaatgaaaagctttgaaagggaacgttcgccgaag420tg 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