Patent Application: US-25082403-A

Abstract:
the inventors have isolated novel genes with a high homology to the t . lanuginosus lipase gene and are thus well suited for use in gene shuffling . accordingly , the invention provides a method of generating genetic diversity into lipolytic enzymes by family shuffling of two or more homologous genes which encode lipolytic enzymes . the dna shuffling technique is used to create a library of shuffled genes , and this is expressed in a suitable expression system and the expressed proteins are screened for lipolytic enzyme activity . the expressed proteins may further be screened to identify lipolytic enzymes with improved properties . the invention also provides a polynucleotide comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a lipolytic enzyme and a lipolytic enzyme .

Description:
lipolytic enzyme genes of the invention may be derived from strains of talaromyces or thermomyces , particularly talaromyces thermophilus , thermomyces ibadanensis , talaromyces emersonii or talaromyces byssochlamydoides , using probes designed on the basis of the dna sequences in this specification . thus , genes and polypeptides shown in the sequence listing were isolated from the organisms indicated below . strains of escherichia coli containing the genes were deposited by the inventors under the terms of the budapest treaty with the dsmz — deutsche sammlung von microorganismen und zellkulturen gmbh , mascheroder weg 1b , d - 38124 braunschweig de as follows : gene and polypep - clone de - clone deposit source organism tide sequences posit no . date talaromyces thermophilus atcc seq id no : 3 and dsm 14051 8 feb . 10518 4 2001 thermomyces ibadanensis cbs seq id no : 5 and dsm 14049 8 feb . 281 . 67 = atcc 22716 6 2001 talaromyces emersonii uamh seq id no : 7 and dsm 14048 8 feb . 5005 = nrrl 3221 = atcc 16479 = 8 2001 imi 116815 = cbs 393 . 64 talaromyces byssochlamydoides seq id no : 9 and dsm 14047 8 feb . cbs 413 . 71 = imi 178524 = nrrl 10 2001 3658 the above source organisms are freely available on commercial terms from the following strain collections : atcc ( american type culture collection ), 10801 university boulevard , manassas , va . 20110 - 2209 , usa . cbs ( centraalbureau voor schimmelcultures ), uppsalalaan 8 , 3584 ct utrecht , the netherlands . uamh ( university of alberta mold herbarium & amp ; culture collection ), devonian botanic garden , edmonton , alberta , canada t6g 3gi . imi : international mycological institute , bakeham lane , englefield green , egham , surrey tw20 9ty , united kingdom . the polynucleotides to be used for recombination ( shuffling ) are two or more genes encoding lipolytic enzymes , including one with at least 90 % identity and one with 55 - 90 % identity to the t . lanuginosus lipase ( seq id no : 2 ). the poloynucleotides differ in at least one nucleotide . the starting material may include the mature part of two or more ( e . g . three , four or five ) of seq id no : 1 , 3 , 5 , 7 and / or 9 . it may also include genes encoding two or more ( e . g . three , four or five ) of variants of seq id no : 2 , 4 , 6 , 8 or 10 obtained by deleting , substituting and / or inserting one or more amino acids and / or by attaching a peptide extension at the n - and / or c - terminal . examples of variants of the t . lanuginosus lipase are described , e . g ., in u . s . pat . no . 5 , 869 , 438 , wo 9522615 , wo 9704079 and wo 0032758 , and similar variants can be made by altering corresponding amino acids in the other sequences . any introns present in the genes may optionally be removed before the shuffling . shuffling between two or more homologous input polynucleotides ( starting - point polynucleotides ) may involve fragmenting the polynucleotides and recombining the fragments , to obtain output polynucleotides ( i . e . polynucleotides that have been subjected to a shuffling cycle ) wherein a number of nucleotide fragments are exchanged in comparison to the input polynucleotides . dna recombination or shuffling may be a ( partially ) random process in which a library of chimeric genes is generated from two or more starting genes . a number of known formats can be used to carry out this shuffling or recombination process . the process may involve random fragmentation of parental dna followed by reassembly by pcr to new full length genes , e . g . as presented in u . s . pat . no . 5 , 605 , 793 , u . s . pat . no . 5 , 811 , 238 , u . s . pat . no . 5 , 830 , 721 , u . s . pat . no . 6 , 117 , 679 . in - vitro recombination of genes may be carried out , e . g . as described in u . s . pat . no . 6 , 159 , 687 , wo98 / 41623 , u . s . pat . no . 6 , 159 , 688 , u . s . pat . no . 5 , 965 , 408 , u . s . pat . no . 6 , 153 , 510 . the recombination process may take place in vivo in a living cell , e . g . as described in wo 97 / 07205 and wo 98 / 28416 . the parental dna may be fragmented by dna &# 39 ; se i treatment or by restriction endonuclease digests as descriobed by kikuchi et al ( 2000a , gene 236 : 159 - 167 ). shuffling of two parents may be done by shuffling single stranded parental dna of the two parents as described in kikuchi et al ( 2000b , gene 243 : 133 - 137 ). a particular method of shuffling is to follow the methods described in crameri et al , 1998 , nature , 391 : 288 - 291 and ness et al . nature biotechnology 17 : 893 - 896 . another format would be the methods described in u . s . pat . no . 6 , 159 , 687 : example 1 and 2 . the lipolytic enzyme obtained by the invention is able to hydrolyze carboxylic ester bonds and is classified as ec 3 . 1 . 1 according to enzyme nomenclature 1992 , academic press , inc . it may particularly have activity as a lipase ( triacylglycerol lipase ) ( ec 3 . 1 . 1 . 3 ), phospholipase a1 ( ec 3 . 1 . 1 . 32 ), phospholipase a2 ( ec 3 . 1 . 1 . 4 ), cholesterol esterase ( ec 3 . 1 . 1 . 13 ) and / or galactolipase ( ec 3 . 1 . 1 . 26 ). the thermostability was evaluated by means of differential scanning calorimetry ( dsc ). the denaturation peak ( t d ) when heated at 90 deg / hr at ph 5 is slightly above 75 ° c . for the lipolytic enzyme from t . ibadanensis , compared to slightly above 70 ° c . for the prior - art t . lanuginosus lipase . the lipolytic enzyme from t . ibadanensis has optimum activity at alkaline ph ( similar to the t . lanuginosus lipase ) and has an isoelectric point of about 4 . 3 ( slightly lower than the t . lanuginosus lipase ). the best alignment of the mature parts of seq id no : 2 , 4 , 6 , 8 and 10 is achieved by inserting a gap of one amino acid between q249 and p / g250 of seq id no : 2 , 4 and 6 . this alignment defines corresponding amino acids . the degree of homology may be determined by means of computer programs known in the art , such as gap provided in the gcg program package ( program manual for the wisconsin package , version 8 , august 1994 , genetics computer group , 575 science drive , madison , wis ., usa 53711 ) ( needleman , s . b . and wunsch , c . d ., ( 1970 ), journal of molecular biology , 48 , 443 - 45 ), using gap with the following settings for polypeptide sequence comparison : gap creation penalty of 3 . 0 and gap extension penalty of 0 . 1 . the determination of homology may also be made using align from the fasta package version v20u6 . align is a needleman - wunsch alignment ( i . e . global alignment ), useful for both protein and dna alignments . the default scoring matrices blosum50 and the identity matrix are used for protein and dna alignments respectively . the penalty for the first residue in a gap is − 12 for proteins and − 16 for dna . while the penalty for additional residues in a gap is − 2 for proteins and − 4 for dna . the homologies discussed in this specification may correspond to at least 60 % identity , in particular to at least 70 % or at least 80 % identity , e . g . at least 90 % or at least 95 % identity . depending on the substrate specificity , the enzyme of the invention can be used , e . g ., in filtration improvement , vegetable oil treatment , baking , detergents , or preparation of lysophospholipid . thus , it may be used in known applications of lipolytic enzymes by analogy with the prior art , e . g . : in the pulp and paper industry , to remove pitch or to remove ink from used paper . wo 9213130 , wo 9207138 , jp 2160984 a , ep 374700 . an enzyme with lipase activity may be used for fat hydrolysis and for modification of triglycerides and for production of mono - and diglycerides . an enzyme with lipase activity may be used for interesterification of bulk fats , production of frying fats , shortenings and margarine components . an enzyme with phospholipase activity ( a1 , a2 ) may be used for degumming of vegetable oils and for lysophospholipid production . an enzyme with lysophospholipase activity can be used to improve the filterability of an aqueous solution or slurry of carbohydrate origin by treating it with the variant . this is particularly applicable to a solution or slurry containing a starch hydrolysate , especially a wheat starch hydrolysate since this tends to be difficult to filter and to give cloudy filtrates . the treatment can be done in analogy with ep 219 , 269 ( cpc international ). the lipolytic enzyme produced by the invention may be used as a detergent additive , e . g . at a concentration ( expressed as pure enzyme protein ) of 0 . 001 - 10 ( e . g . 0 . 01 - 1 ) mg per gram of detergent or 0 . 001 - 100 ( e . g . 0 . 01 - 10 ) mg per liter of wash liquor . the detergent composition of the invention may for example be formulated as a hand or machine laundry detergent composition including a laundry additive composition suitable for pre - treatment of stained fabrics and a rinse added fabric softener composition , or be formulated as a detergent composition for use in general household hard surface cleaning operations . in a laundry detergent , the variant may be effective for the removal of fatty stains , for whiteness maintenance and for dingy cleanup . a laundry detergent composition may be formulated as described in wo 97 / 04079 , wo 97 / 07202 , wo 97 / 41212 , pct / dk wo 98 / 08939 and wo 97 / 43375 . the detergent composition of the invention may particularly be formulated for hand or machine dishwashing operations . e . g . as described in gb 2 , 247 , 025 ( unilever ) or wo 99 / 01531 ( procter & amp ; gamble ). in a dishwashing composition , the variant may be effective for removal of greasy / oily stains , for prevention of the staining / discoloration of the dishware and plastic components of the dishwasher by highly colored components and the avoidance of lime soap deposits on the dishware . the detergent composition of the invention may be in any convenient form , e . g ., a bar , a tablet , a powder , a granule , a paste or a liquid . a liquid detergent may be aqueous , typically containing up to 70 % water and 0 - 30 % organic solvent , or non - aqueous . the detergent composition comprises one or more surfactants , which may be non - ionic including semi - polar and / or anionic and / or cationic and / or zwitterionic . the surfactants are typically present at a level of from 0 . 1 % to 60 % by weight , e . g . 0 . 5 - 40 %, such as 1 - 30 %, typically 1 . 5 - 20 %. the lipolytic enzyme can be used in the preparation of dough and baked products made from dough , such as bread and cakes , e . g . to increase dough stability and dough handling properties , or to improve the elasticity of the bread or cake . thus , it can be used in a process for making bread , comprising adding it to the ingredients of a dough , kneading the dough and baking the dough to make the bread . this can be done in analogy with u . s . pat . no . 4 , 567 , 046 ( kyowa hakko ), jp - a 60 - 78529 ( qp corp . ), jp - a 62 - 111629 ( qp corp . ), jp - a 63 - 258528 ( qp corp .) or ep 426211 ( unilever ). the lipolytic enzyme may be used together with an anti - staling amylase , particularly an endo - amylase such as a maltogenic amylase in analogy with wo 99 / 53769 ( novo nordisk ). thus , the lipolytic enzyme may be incorporated in a flour composition such as a dough or a premix for dough . the aspergillus oryzae expression plasmid pcahj 483 ( wo 98 / 00529 ) consists of an expression cassette based on the aspergillus niger neutral amylase ii promoter fused to the aspergillus nidulans triose phosphate isomerase non translated leader sequence ( pna2 / tpi ) and the a . niger amyloglycosidase terminator ( tamg ). also present on the plasmid is the aspergillus selective marker amds from a . nidulans enabling growth on acetamide as sole nitrogen source . these elements are cloned into the e . coli vector puc19 ( new england biolabs ). the ampicillin resistance marker enabling selection in e . coli of this plasmid was replaced with the ura3 marker of saccharomyces cerevisiae that can complement a pyrf mutation in e . coli , the replacement was done in the following way : the puc19 origin of replication was pcr amplified from pcahj483 with the primers 142779 ( seq id no : 35 ) and 142780 ( seq id no : 36 ). primer 142780 introduces a bbul site in the pcr fragment . the expand pcr system ( roche molecular biochemicals , basel , switserland ) was used for the amplification following the manufacturers instructions for this and the subsequent pcr amplifications . the ura3 gene was amplified from the general s . cerevisiae cloning vector pyes2 ( invitrogen corporation , carlsbad , calif ., usa ) using the primers 140288 ( seq id no : 37 ) and 142778 ( seq id no : 38 ). primer 140288 introduces an ecori site in the pcr fragment . the two pcr fragments were fused by mixing them and amplifying using the primers 142780 and 140288 in the splicing by overlap method ( horton et al ( 1989 ) gene , 77 , 61 - 68 ). the resulting fragment was digested with ecori and bbui and ligated to the largest fragment of pcahj 483 digested with the same enzymes . the ligation mixture was used to transform the pyrf e . coli strain db6507 ( atcc 35673 ) made competent by the method of mandel and higa ( mandel , m . and a . higa ( 1970 ) j . mol . biol . 45 , 154 ). transformants were selected on solid m9 medium ( sambrook et . al ( 1989 ) molecular cloning , a laboratory manual , 2 . edition , cold spring harbor laboratory press ) supplemented with 1 g / l casaminoacids , 500 μg / l thiamine and 10 mg / l kanamycin . a plasmid from a selected transformant was termed pcahj 527 . the pna2 / tpi promoter present on pcahj527 was subjected to site directed mutagenises by a simple pcr approach . nucleotide 134 - 144 was altered from seq id no : 39 to seq id no : 40 using the mutagenic primer 141223 ( seq id no : 41 ). nucleotide 423 - 436 was altered from seq id no : 42 to seq id no : 43 using the mutagenic primer 141222 ( seq id 44 ). plasmid peni1861 was made in order to have the state of the art aspergillus promoter in the expression plasmid , as well as a number of unique restriction sites for cloning . a pcr fragment ( app . 620 bp ) was made using pmt2188 ( see above ) as template and the primers 051199j1 ( seq id 45 ) and 1298taka ( seq id 46 ). the fragment was cut bsshii and bgl ii , and cloned into peni11849 which was also cut with bsshii and bgl ii . the cloning was verified by sequencing . plasmid peni1902 was made in order to have a promoter that works in both e . coli and aspergillus . this was done by unique site elimination using the “ chameleon double stranded site - directed mutagenesis kit ” as recommended by stratagene ®. plasmid peni1861 was used as template and the following primers with 5 ′ phosphorylation were used as selection primers : 177996 ( seq id 47 ), 135640 ( seq id 48 ) and 135638 ( seq id 49 ). the 080399j19 primer ( seq id no : 50 ) with 5 ′ phosphorylation was used as mutagenic primer to introduce a − 35 and − 10 promoter consensus sequence ( from e . coli ) in the aspergillus expression promoter . introduction of the mutations was verified by sequencing . plasmid peni1960 was made using the gateway vector ™ conversion system ( lifetechnology ® cat no . 11828 - 019 ) by cutting peni1902 with bamhi , filling the dna ends using klenow fragment polymerase and nucleotides ( thus making blunt ends ) followed by ligation to reading frame a gateway ™ pcr fragment . the cloning in the correct orientation was confirmed by sequencing . ypg : 4 g / l yeast extract , 1 g / l kh2po4 , 0 . 5 g / l mgso4 - 7aq , 5 g / l glucose , ph 6 . 0 . strains of thermomyces ibadanensis , talaromyces emersonii , talaromyces byssochlamydoides , and talaromyces thermophilus were used as a genomic dna supplier . each strain was cultivated in 100 ml of ypg at appropriate temperature for several days . mycelia was harvested and ground in liquid n 2 . it was suspended with 2 ml of 50 mm tris - hcl ( ph8 . 0 ) buffer including 100 mm nacl , 25 mm edta , and 1 % sds and then 12 μl of proteinase k ( 25 mg / ml ) was added . the suspension was incubated at 65 ° c . for 30 - 60min . phenol extraction was done to remove proteins and dna was precipitated by 0 . 7 volume of isopropanol . the precipitate was dissolved with sterilized water and rnase was added . after phenol / isoamylalcohol extraction , dna was precipitated by etoh . pcr reactions on each genomic dna was done with hl 2 and hl12 ( seq id no : 51 and 52 ) or hl2 and hl6 ( seq id no : 51 and 53 ) designed based upon alignment lipases . reaction components ( 2 . 6 ng / μl of genomic dna , 250 mm dntp each , primer 250 nm each , 0 . 1 u / μl of taq polymerase in 1 × buffer ( roche diagnostics , japan )) were mixed and submitted for pcr under the following conditions . step temperature time 1 94 ° c . 1 min 3 50 ° c . 1 min 4 72 ° c . 2 min 5 72 ° c . 10 min 6 4 ° c . forever 540 bp of fragment and 380 bp of fragment were amplified from primer sets of hl2 / hl12 and hl2 / hl6 , respectively . they were gel - purified with gfx ™ pcr dna and gel band purification kit ( amersham pharmacia biotech ) each dna was sequenced and compared to the lipase , showing that a clone encodes the internal part of the lipase . all lipase genes were cloned using la pcr ™ in vitro cloning kit ( takara ) according to the manufacturer &# 39 ; s instructions . thus , genomic dna was cut with various restriction enzymes and each dna was ligated with the appropriate cassette of the kit . each ligation solution was applied to pcr with the primers of the one designed from internal sequence and a cassette primer of the kit . amplified dan fragment was sequenced . this step was repeated till orf was determined . the fidelity of la - taq polymerase of the kit is not good so in order to get the right sequence whole gene was amplified by expand high fidelity polymerase according to the manufacturer &# 39 ; s instructions . amplified dna fragment was gel - purified with gfx ™ pcr dna and gel band purification kit ( amersham pharmacia biotech ) and ligated into a pt7blue vector or pst blue - 1 acceptor vector ( novagen ) with ligation high ( toyobo , japan ). the ligation mixtures were transformed into e . coli jm109 or dh5α . the sequence of four plasmids of each gene was determined and their sequence were compared . the sequence of majority is defined as the right nucleotide sequence . 3 different pcr reaction were run using pwo polymerase in the following reaction 94 ° c . 5 min , 30 * ( 94 ° c . 30 sec ., 50 ° c . 30 sec , 72 ° c . 2 min ), 72 ° c . 5 min ). in each case , the template was a plasmid harboring a lipolytic enzyme gene prepared as in example 1 , and the following primers were used : a : plasmid with gene from talaromyces thermophilus and oligo 051200j1 / 051200j8 ( seq id no : 11 and 18 ). b : plasmid with gene from talaromyces emersonii and oligo 051200j9 / 051200j16 ( seq id no : 19 and 26 ). c : plasmid with gene from thermomyces ibadanensis and oligo 051200j17 / 051200j24 ( seq id no : 27 and 34 ). the pcr fragments were run and purified from a 1 % agarose gel and cloned into peni1960 ( see above ) using gateway cloning as recommended by the supplier ( life technologies ) and transformed into e . coli dh10b ( life technologies , gaithersburg , md .) and sequenced , thus creating peni 2146 ( talaromyces emersonii lipase gene ), peni2147 ( thermomyces ibadanensis lipase gene ) and peni2148 ( talaromyces thermophilus lipase gene ). these were transformed into jal250 ( described in wo 00 / 39322 ) and lipase activity identified as mentioned in pat wo 00 / 24883 . 4 pcr reactions were run using pwo polymerase and peni2148 as template ( 94 ° c . 5 min , 30 * ( 94 ° c . 30 sec , 50 ° c . 30 sec , 72 ° c . 1 min ), 72 ° c . 5 min ) and the following oligoes : the specific bands were run and purified from a 1 . 5 % agarose gel . equal amounts of pcr fragments were mixed along with pwo polymerase , buffer , dntp , oligo 051200j1 and 051200j8 ( seq id no : 11 and 18 , total of 50 μl , as recommended by the supplier boehringer mannheim ) and a second pcr was run ( 94 ° c . 5 min , 30 * ( 94 ° c . 30 sec ., 50 ° c . 30 sec , 72 ° c . 2 min ), 72 ° c . 5 min ). the correct band size was checked on a 1 . 5 % agarose gel ( app . 900 bp ) and the rest of the pcr - fragment was purified using biorad spin columns ( cat no . 732 - 6225 ). the pcr - fragment was cloned into peni1960 cut with scal ( in order to cleave in the ccdb gene ) using gateway cloning as recommended by the supplier ( life technologies ) and transformed into e . coli dh10b and sequenced , thus creating intron - less talaromyces thermophilus lipase gene . 4 pcr reactions were run using pwo polymerase and peni2146 as template ( 94 ° c . 5 min , 30 * ( 94 ° c . 30 sec , 50 ° c . 30 sec , 72 ° c . 1 min ), 72 ° c . 5 min ) and the following oligoes : the specific bands were run and purified from a 1 . 5 % agarose gel . equal amounts of pcr fragments were mixed along with pwo polymerase , buffer , dntp , oligo 051200j9 and 051200j16 ( seq id no : 19 and 26 , total of 50 μl , as recommended by the supplier ) and a second pcr was run ( 94 ° c . 5 min , 30 * ( 94 ° c . 30 sec , 50 ° c . 30 sec , 72 ° c . 2 min ), 72 ° c . 5 min ). the correct band size was checked on a 1 . 5 % agarose gel ( app . 900 bp ) and the rest of the pcr - fragment was purified using biorad spin columns . the pcr - fragment was cloned into and cloned into peni1960 cut scal using gateway cloning as recommended by the supplier ( life technologies ) and transformed into e . coli dh10b and sequenced , thus creating an intron - less talaromyces emersonii lipase gene . 4 pcr reactions were run using pwo polymerase and peni12147 as template ( 94 ° c . 5 min , 30 * ( 94 ° c . 30 sec , 50 ° c . 30 sec , 72 ° c . 1 min ), 72 ° c . 5 min ) and the following oligoes : the specific bands were run and purified from a 1 . 5 % agarose gel . equal amounts of pcr fragments were mixed along with pwo polymerase , buffer , dntp , oligo 051200j17 and 051200j24 ( seq id no : 27 and 34 , total of 50 μl , as recommended by the supplier ) and a second pcr was run ( 94 ° c . 5 min , 30 * ( 94 ° c . 30 sec ., 50 ° c . 30 sec , 72 ° c . 2 min ), 72 ° c . 5 min ). the correct band size was checked on a 1 . 5 % agarose gel ( app . 900 bp ) and the rest of the pcr - fragment was purified using biorad spin columns . the pcr - fragment was cloned into and cloned into peni1960 cut scal using gateway cloning as recommended by supplier ( life technologies ) and transformed into e . coli dh10b and sequenced , thus creating intron - less thermomyces lbadanensis lipase gene . plasmids containing dna sequences encoding lipolytic enzymes are mixed in equimolar amounts . the following components where mixed in a microtube : 2 μl plasmid mixture ( 0 . 15 μg / μl ), specific primers flanking the gene ( 1 pmol / μ ), 2 μl 2 . 5 mm dntp , 2 . 5 mm mgcl2 , 2 μl 10 * taq buffer ( perkin elmer ), 0 . 5 μl taq enzyme in a total volume of 20 μl . the tube is set in a perkin elmer 2400 thermocycler . the following pcr - program is run :( 94 ° c ., 5 minutes ) 1 cycle : ( 94 ° c ., 30 seconds , 70 ° c ., 0 seconds ) 99 cycles ( 72 ° c ., 2 minutes , 4 ° c . indefinite ) 1 cycle . the pcr - reaction is run on a 1 . 5 % agarose gel . a dna - band of the specific expected size is cut out of the agarose gel and purified using jetsorb ( from genomed inc .). the purified pcr - product is cloned into a ta - vector ( from invitrogen ( the original ta cloning kit ). the ligated product is transformed into a standard escherichia coli strain ( dh5a ). the shuffled sequences can then be subcloned from the e . coli ta vector into the yeast vector pjsoo26 ( wo 9928448 ) as a bamhi - xbal fragment ( see wo 97 / 07205 ), and e . g . screened for new shuffled sequences with improved properties , e . g . improved performance in detergents ( see wo 97 / 07205 ). pcr products of lipolytic enzyme genes are generated as in the previous example and pooled in equimolar amounts . the following mixture is generated in a suitable tube : 1 μl pcr mixture ( 0 . 1 μg ), decamer random primer ( 300 pmol ), 2 μl 10 * klenow buffer ( promega ), 0 . 25 mm dntp , 2 . 5 mm mgcl2 in a total volume of 20 μl . the mixture is set in a pe2400 thermocycler where the following program is run : 96 ° c ., 5 minutes , 25 ° c . 5 minutes , 0 . 5 ml klenow enzyme is added , 25 ° c . 60 minutes , 35 ° c . 90 minutes . this procedure generates a high number of small dna polymers originating from all parts of the gene . 10 μl pcr mixture ( 0 . 25 mm dntp , 1 μl 10 * taq buffer ( perkin elmer ), 2 . 5 mm mgcl2 , 0 . 5 μl taq enzyme ) is added to the 10 μl in the tube in the thermocycler . then the following standard pcr - program is run : ( 94 ° c ., 5 minutes ) 1 cycle , ( 94 ° c 30 seconds , 45 ° c ., 30 seconds , 72 ° c . 30 seconds ) 25 cycles , 72 ° c . 7 minutes , 4 ° c . indefinite . the pcr products are run on a 1 . 5 % agarose gel . a clear unbiased smear is seen . dna between 400 and 800 bp is isolated from the gel . half of the purified pcr product is mixed in a tube with two specific primers ( 40 pmol ) flanking the gene of interest , 0 . 25 mm dntp , 2 μl 10 * taq buffer , 2 . 5 mm mgcl2 . then the following standard pcr - program is run : ( 94 ° c ., 5 minutes ) 1 cycle , ( 94 ° c . 30 seconds , 50 ° c ., 30 seconds , 72 ° c . 30 seconds ) 25 cycles , 72 ° 0 c . 7 minutes , 4 ° c . indefinite . the pcr product is run on a 1 . 5 % agarose gel . a band of the expected size is isolated . additional pcr is run using specific primers ( as mentioned above ) in order to amplify the pcr - product before cloning . the pcr - product and the desired vector are cut with the appropriate restriction enzymes ( bamhi / xhoi ). the vector and the pcr product are run on a 1 . 5 % agarose gel , and purified from the gel . the cut pcr - product and the cut vector are mixed in a ligase buffer with t4 dna ligase ( promega ). after overnight ligation at 16 ° c . the mixture is transformed into e . coli strain dh5a . a number of lipase genes with homology to the thermomyces lanuginosus lipase gene were cloned . these genes were cloned as genomic dna and were thus known to contain introns . the intention was to shuffle these genes in order to obtain chimeric genes . in order to obtain the highest possible quality of library , the introns had to be removed . this was done by creating dna oligo &# 39 ; s matching each flank of an exon as well as having a dna sequence , which is homologous to the next neighbour exon . these oligoes were used in standard pcr ( as known to a person skilled in the art ), thus creating pcr fragments covering each and every exon ( coding sequence ) in the gene . these pcr fragments were purified from a 1 % agarose gel . the pcr fragments were assembled into a full length gene , in a second pcr using the dna oligoes flanking the whole gene , as primers . the pcr fragment - containing the full length intron - less gene encoding the lipase was cloned into peni 1960 as described in pat . appl . pct / dk02 / 00050 . [ 0137 ] talaromyces thermophilus : 051200j1 , 051200j2 , 051200j3 , 051200j4 , 051200j5 , 051200j6 , 051200j7 and 051200j8 ( seq id no : 11 - 18 ), thus creating peni2178 , when cloned into peni1960 . [ 0138 ] talaromyces emersonii : 051200j9 , 051200j10 , 051200j11 , 051200j12 , 051200j13 , 051200j14 , 051200j15 and 051200j16 ( seq id no : 19 - 26 ), thus creating peni2159 , when cloned into peni1960 . [ 0139 ] thermomyces ibadanensis : 051200j17 , 051200j18 , 051200j19 , 051200j20 , 051200j21 , 051200j22 , 051200j23 and 051200j24 ( seq id no : 27 - 34 ), thus creating peni2160 , when cloned into peni1960 . [ 0140 ] talaromyces byssochlamydoides : 080201p1 , 080201p2 , 080201p3 , 080201p4 , 080201 p5 , 080201p6 , 080201p7 and 080201p8 ( seq id no : 54 - 61 ), thus creating peni2230 when cloned into peni1960 . a method using dutp and uracil - dna glycosylase was employed in order to make dna fragments in sufficient quantities for dna shuffling . the 3 genes t . lanuginosus , t . thermophilus and t . ibadanensis are quite homologous to each other ( thus named group a ) as are t . emersonii and t . byssochlamydoides ( named group b ). thus in order to improve recombination between the two groups the following pcr scheme ( see fig1 ) was employed , using the following templates : peni2178 , peni2159 , peni2160 , peni2230 , and the t . lanuginosus gene cloned into peni1902 ( cut bamhi and sacii ) ( pat . pct / dk02 / 00050 ). the following oligonucleotides are shown in fig1 : 1298 - taka , 19670 , 19672 , 115120 and 050401p6 ( seq id no : 62 - 65 and 68 ). 050401p1 ( seq id no : 66 ) hybridises to 5 ′ t . lanuginose lipase gene . 030501 p1 ( seq id no : 67 ) hybridises to 5 ′ of the other 4 lipase genes . the final pcr fragment was cut first with bsteii and then with sfil , as was the vector peni2376 . peni2376 is a derivative of peni1861 ( pat . pct / dk02 / 00050 ). the vector and pcr - fragment was purified from a 1 % gel and ligated o / n . the ligated dna pool was transformed into electro - competent e . coli dh10b , thus creating a library of app . 700 . 000 independent clones . this library can be screened for activity towards various substrates such as lecithin , dgdg , triglycerides such as tributyrine , olive oil , pnp - valerate or pnp - palmitate at different conditions such as high ph , low ph , high temperature , in presences of detergent , in the presence of ions or in the absence of ions . this can be done in order to find , e . g ., a thermo - stable lipase , a detergent phospholipase , a detergent lipase with first - wash performance , and no activity at neutral ph and so forth . dna - oligoes : 1298 - taka : gcaagcgcgcgcaatacatggtgttttgatcat 19670 : ccccatcctttaactatagcg 19672 : ccacacttctcttccttcctc 115120 : gctttgtgcagggtaaatc 050401p1 : cggccgggccgcggaggccagggatccaccatgaggagctcccttgtgctg 030501p1 : cggccgggccgcggaggccacaagtttgtacaaaaaagcagg ( hybridises to 5 ′ of the other 4 lipase genes ) 050401p6 : cggccgggtcaccccccatcctttaactatagcg lipolytic enzymes from thermomyces ibadanensis and talaromyces thermophilus were prepared as described above , purified and used for characterization the specific lipase activity was determined by the lu method described in wo 0032758 , and the amount of enzyme protein was determined from the optical density at 280 nm . the specific activity was found to be 3181 lu / mg for the th . ibadanensis lipase and 1000 lu / mg for the tal . thermophilus lipase . the ph - activity relation was found by determining the lipase by the lu method at ph 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 and 10 . both enzymes were found to have the highest lipase activity at ph 10 . the th . ibadanensis lipase showed a broad optimum with more than 50 % of maximum activity in the ph range 6 - 10 whereas the tal . thermophilus lipase showed a stronger activity drop at lower ph with less than 30 % of maximum activity at ph 5 - 8 . the thermostability was determined by differential scanning calorimetry ( dsc ) at ph 5 ( 50 mm acetate buffer ), ph 7 ( 50 mm hepes buffer ) and ph 10 ( 50 mm glycine buffer ) with a scan rate of 90 ° c ./ hr . the temperature at the top of the denaturation peak ( t d ) was found to be as follows : t d (° c .) ph t . ibadanesis t . thermophilus 5 74 * 72 * 7 72 75 10 64 69 purified lipolytic enzymes from t . ibadanensis and t . thermos were tested by incubating with lysolecithin as substrate at ph 5 and 7 , and the extent of reaction was followed by use of nefa kit . the results were that the enzyme from t . ibadanensis showed high lysophospholipase activity at ph 5 and some activity at ph 7 . 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