Patent Application: US-53085100-A

Abstract:
the invention belongs to the field of biological engineering techniques and relates to a thermophilic alkaline phosphoesterase . the invention provides an amino acid sequence of a thermophilic alkaline phosphoesterase of the invention , as well as a dna fragment encoding the amino acid sequence . the present invention also includes methods for cloning an expression vector containing the dna fragment or a portion thereof and for producing the recombinant enzyme . the invention also relates to a method for tagging biological macromolecules utilizing the enzyme .

Description:
the presetn invention is further elucidated by the examples , which are provided to describe the specific embodiments of the invention but are not to be construed as limiting the invention in any way . thermus sp . fd3041 ( commercially available from fu hua co ., ltd ., shanghai , china ) was cultured in 200 ml of th liquid medium at 70 ° c . the bacteria cells were harvested by centrifugation , suspended in 12 ml of te buffer solution supplemented with 1 ml of te buffer containing 10 mg / ml lysozyme , and then incubated in a water bath for 2 hours at 37 ° c . 1 . 5 ml of te buffer containing 10 % sodium dodecyl sarcosinate ( sarcosyl ) and 1 mg / ml proteinase k was added and the resultant mixture was incubated at 37 ° c . for 1 hour . the mixture was extracted twice with phenol , and extracted twice with chloroform / isoamyl alcohol ( 24 : 1 ). 1 / 10 volume of 3 mol / l naac was added into the water phase . dna was precipitated with 2 volumes of ethanol . the flocculent precipitate was reeled up with a glass stick , vacuum dried , and then dissolved in 3 nm te buffer . 50 ul rnase a ( 10 mg / ml ) was added . the chromosome dna was extracted once with chloroform , precipitated with ethanol , and then dissolved in te buffer . 20 ug of chromosome dna of thermus sp . fd3041 was partially digested with enzyme sau3ai . the 3 - 10 kb dna fragments were recovered by using low melting - point agarose electrophoresis . the two bases of the cohesive ends were partially filled in by using klenow fragment and dgtp and datp , so as to avoid self - ligation . the vector puc118 was digested completely with enzyme sal i . the larger fragment was recovered and the two bases of the cohesive ends were filled in using klenow fragment and dctp and dttp . after filling - in , the cohesive ends of the chromosome dna and the vector dna were ligated together . after ligation with t4 ligase , the ligated dna was used to transform e . coli tg1 . the white recombinant transformants were picked on lb plates containing itpg , x - gal and ampicillin ( 100 ug / ml ). totally , 12 , 000 transformants were obtained , 85 % of which contained 3 - 10 kb inserted fragments as confirmed by identifying the extracted plasmid . thus , the chromosome gene library of thermus sp . fd3041 was constructed . the gene library was screened in situ by using the alkaline phosphatase color visualization method . the colonies were transferred onto a 3 mm filter paper . the paper was soaked in lysis buffer ( 1 mol / l diethanolamine , 1 % sds ) and incubated at 85 ° c . for 10 mins , and then soaked in reaction buffer ( 6 mol / l pnpp , 1 mol / l diethanolamine , 1 % sds ) at 70 ° c . for 10 mins . the positive colonies were those which turned yellow . after screening , five positive clones were isolated . for one clone ( ptap362 ), the physical map was constructed and tap activity was tested for partially deleted plasmids . the fd - tap was located in a 2 kb dna fragment . the dna sequence was determined by using sanger dideoxy - mediated chain - termination method , and a nucleotide sequence of 2030 bp was obtained ( fig1 ). according to computer analysis , the fd - tap gene was 1506 bp in length with 68 . 2 % of g + c % and encoded a proenzyme of 501 amino acid residues . for the third base of the codons , the g + c % was 92 . 7 %, which was consistent with the characteristics of thermophilic bacteria gene . the 26 amino acid residues at the n - terminus of the proenzyme formed a signal peptide sequence and the mature enzyme was composed of 475 amino acid residues . fig1 shows the dna sequence of the fd - tap gene and the amino acid sequence of its coded protein . primers were designed according to the sequences at the start codon and stop codon of fd - tap gene . nde i and bamh i site were introduced to the 5 ′ end of the primers , respectively . the sequence of the mature fd - tap gene was amplified by pcr , using ptap118b plasmid as template . after digestion , the gene was cloned into the high expression vector pjla503 , and vector pjla503 was used to transform e . coli strain mph44 , which was defective in phoa gene . on the lb plate containing ampicillin , the recombinant transformants were screened in situ by using color visualization method . 50 % of the transformants were positive for fd - tap expression . for the recombinant plasmid in one clone ( ptap 503 , fig2 ), its dna sequence was determined and the results showed that there was no mutation in the gene . e . coli mph44 ( ptap503 ) was cultured in liquid medium at 30 ° c . and then induced at 42 ° c . for 10 hours . sds - page results showed an expressed enzyme of about 53 kda . the recombinant protein was about 10 % of the total proteins . e . coli mph44 strain ( ptap503 ) was inoculated into 2 × yt medium containing ampicillin 100 ug / ml . the bacteria was cultured in a shaker overnight at 30 ° c . to form a stock culture . this stock culture ( 2 % of the final volume ) was transferred into 2 × yt medium and cultured in a shaker at 30 ° c . until the a 600 , was 0 . 4 - 0 . 6 , and then further cultured at 42 ° c . for 10 hours . bacteria cells were harvested by centrifugation and suspended in buffer a ( 50 mmol / l tris ph 8 . 8 , glycerol , 10 mmol / l β - mercaptoethanol ). the cells were lysed by supersonication in ice - water bath ( total time = 400 seconds , pulse time = 1 second , interval time = 1 second , output power = 25 %). the lysate was centrifuged for 15 minutes at 15 , 000 rpm . the precipitate was discarded and the supernatant was collected . pei was slowly added into the supernatant so that the final concentration pei was 0 . 04 % to remove the nucleic acids . after further centrifugation for 15 min at 15 , 000 rpm , the precipitate was discarded . to the supernatant , nacl was added so that the final concentration of nacl was 0 . 8 mmol / l . the supernatant was denatured by incubating in water bath at 70 ° c . for 30 minutes , centrifuged again for 15 minutes at 15 , 000 rpm to get rid of the non - thermotolerante contaminant proteins and the supernatant was collected . the solid ammonium sulfate was gradually added into the supernatant to reach the saturation concentration of 60 % with stirring for 1 hour at 4 ° c . the supernatant was centrifuged for 20 minutes at 12 , 000 rpm . the supernatant was discarded and the precipitate was dissolved in ⅛ volume of buffer b ( 10 mmol / l na 2 hpo 4 — nah 2 po 4 , ph 6 . 8 , glycerol , 10 mmol / l β - mercaptoethanol ), and then dialyzed against the same buffer at 4 ° c . for desalting . after dialysis , the protein sample was subject to ion - exchange chromatography using cm sepharose flast flow column . after the sample was loaded , the column was eluted with buffer b until a280 nm absorbance was back to basal level . the elution was further performed with nacl linear gradient solution ( 0 ˜ 0 . 5 mol / l ). the eluate fractions were collected with 1 . 5 ml per tube . the purity of the protein was analyzed using sds - page . the purified protein peak fractions were pooled , lyophilized and stored at − 20 ° c . 10 ul of enzyme solution was added into 1000 ul reaction system ( 6 mmol / l pnpp , 1 mol / l diethanolamine , ph 11 . 6 ). after incubating at 70 ° c . for 10 minutes , 990 μl of trichloroacetic acid was added to stop the reaction . the absorbance at 405 nm ( od 405 ) of the resultant product was determined on uv260 apparatus . the unit of enzyme activity was defined as follows : one unit was defined as the amount of enzyme required to produce 1 μmol / l npp per minute at 70 ° c ., ph 11 . 6 . enzyme unit = a405 × 2 /( 18 . 8 × 10 ), in which 2 stands for total reaction volume , 10 for reaction time and the molar extinction coefficient of npp at 405 nm is 18 . 8 × 10 6 . thermo - tolerance : the enzyme was solved in a system ( 50 mmol / l tris , ph 8 . 8 , 25 ° c .). after incubating at 95 ° c . for 30 minutes , the enzyme activity remained more than 90 % ( fig4 ). the primers were designed according to the sequences at different positions of fd - tap gene . the dna fragments with different sizes were amplified : 79 → 1506 , 79 → 1416 , 79 → 960 , 271 → 480 , 271 → 330 . ndei site was introduced to the 5 ′ end of upstream primers , stop codon and bamh i site were introduced to downstream primers . the desired fragments were amplified by pcr , using ptap118b plasmid as template . these amplified dna fragments were cloned into high expression vector pjla503 , which was used to transform e . coli mph44 . the transformants were screened to obtain the positive colonies containing the dna fragments mentioned above . expression of the protein was induced and the recombinant polypeptides were isolated and purified . the enzymological properties of said polypeptieds were studied . the results showed that these polypeptides had properties and characteristics similar to those of the intact fd - 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