Patent Application: US-51021595-A

Abstract:
the present invention relates to the cloning and purification of a thermostable dna polymerase , bst polymerase i from bacillus stearothermophilus . more specifically , it provides a novel method for producing a truncated bst polymerase using recombinant dna and protein fusion techniques .

Description:
the preferred method described herein by which the large fragment of bst pol i is made includes the following steps : 1 . bst dna polymerase i is purified from bacillus stearothermophilus . this organism is a thermophilic bacterium , with a growth range between 45 ° c . and 70 ° c . after cell growth , bst dna polymerase i is purified using a multi - step process as follows : first , the cells are suspended in buffer a ( 20 mm kpo 4 buffer , ph 6 . 5 ; 1 mm edta ; 10 mm beta - mercaptoethanol ), sonicated and centrifuged . the kpo 4 concentration is adjusted to 200 mm in supernatant and the supernatant is then passed through a column which has a high affinity for nucleic acids such as deae sepharose column . the nucleic acids present in the supernatant solution bind to the deae and thereby are separated from the proteins which pass through the column at 200 mm kpo 4 salt concentration . the flow through proteins are applied to a heparin sepharose column . the column is washed and the dna polymerase enzyme activity eluted with a linear gradient such as 0 to 0 . 7 m kcl in buffer a . the peak dna polymerase activity is dialyzed in buffer b ( 20 mm tris - hcl , ph 7 . 4 ; 0 . 5 mm edta ; 10 mm beta - mercaptoethanol ) and applied to q - sepharose column . the enzyme activity is eluted with a linear gradient such as 0 . 025 to 1m kcl in buffer b . again , the peak dna polymerase activity is dialyzed and applied to a heparin tsk 1 column ( toso haas ). the enzyme is eluted with a linear gradient of 0 . 025 to 1m kcl in buffer b . the enzyme is about 95 % pure at this stage ( fig1 ). 2 . the bst pol i enzyme , prepared from step 1 , is subjected to electrophoresis and electroblotted according to the procedure of matsudaira , j . biol . chem . 262 : 10035 - 10038 ( 1987 ), the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference herein . the membrane is stained with comassie blue r - 250 and the major protein band of 90 kda is excised and subjected to sequential degradation according to the procedure of waite - rees et al , j . bacteriol ., 173 : 5207 - 5219 ( 1991 ), the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference herein . the first 21 residues of the 90 kda protein are met - lys - lys - lys - leu - val - leu - lle - asp - gly - asn - ser - val - ala - tyr - arg - ala - phe - phe - ala - leu ( seq id no : 3 ). to clone and express bst pol i gene in e . coli , a degenerated primer ( primer a ) which contains a restriction enzyme ( xbal ) cloning site and a ribosome binding site is made base on the amino acid sequence . 3 . to determine the 3 &# 39 ; end nucleotide sequence so that the bst pol i gene can be directly cloned by pcr , inverse pcr products are amplified from ngoml and sau3al cleaved / self - ligated b . stearothermophilus genomic dna template . the reaction which used ngoml digested , self - ligated bst dna as a template yields a fragment approximately 0 . 95 kb in size . the reaction which used sau3al digested / self - ligated bst dna as a template yields a fragment approximately 1 . 5 kb in size . the two amplified dna bands of 0 . 95 kb and 1 . 5 kb are excised from the agarose gel and subjected to dna sequencing directly . a stop codon ( taa ) was found 180 base pairs into the ngoml digested / self - ligated sequence , and is thought to be the stop codon of the bst dna polymerase i gene . another primer ( primer b ) that anneals to the 3 &# 39 ; end of the bst pol i gene and contains the notl cloning site is made . 4 . a pcr reaction is performed and a predicted 2 . 6 kb band is observed on agarose gel . the 2 . 6 kb fragment is purified from the gel and then digested with notl and xbal and cloned into notl / xbal digested pet - 21a vector ( novagen , madison , wis .). the recombinant plasmid which contains bst pol i gene is transformed into er2169 competent cells ( new england biolabs , beverly , mass .). a thermophilic dna polymerase activity at 65 ° c . ( about 30 , 000 u / gram host cell ) is observed in mesophilic e . coli host , indicating the success on cloning and expressing bst pol i gene . the nucleotide sequence of the entire bst pol i gene is determined ( fig2 ) which corresponds to a 2631 bp uninterrupted open reading frame ( orf ). the 2631 - bp gene codes for a 876 amino acid . protein with calculated molecular weight of 99 , 007 . 67 , which agrees with the observed molecular mass of about 97 kda on 10 to 20 % polyacrylamide gradient gel ( fig1 ). 5 . it has been observed that digesting bst dna polymerase i with the protease subtilisin results in the production of the bst large fragment ( bst l . f .). bst l . f . is a truncated polymerase that lacks the 5 &# 39 ; to 3 &# 39 ; exonuclease domain and is a very useful enzyme in dna sequencing ( ye and hong , scientia sinica , 30 : 503 - 506 ( 1987 ), the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference herein ). although subtilisin can be used to generate the bst l . f ., the efficiency is low due to the non - specific degradation of bst polymerase by the subtilisin . in accordance with the present invention , it was discovered that making the bst l . f . directly from the bst pol i gene with deletion at 5 &# 39 ; end is more efficient than subtilisin digestion , which in turn , makes it more useful in applications such as dna sequencing and strand displacement amplification , walker et al ., supra . the original experiment to clone and express bst l . f ., however , failed . it is possible that the mrna being transcribed or the protein being translated from the truncated gene is unstable in vivo . it is also possible that the bst large fragment is exceptionally lethal to the e . coli host and that only mutants with low , or no polymerase activity were being selected for . to overcome the problems , the 5 &# 39 ; end truncated bst pol i gene was cloned into the pmal - c2 vector in hopes of stabilizing the transcribed mrna or of making the translated protein more stable or less lethal by creating an mbp - bst l . f . fusion protein . to define the n - terminal border of bst l . f ., purified bst dna polymerase i ( fig1 ) is digested with suitable amount of subtilisin and then the subtilisin - digested large fragment were subjected to electrophoresis on a tris - tricine 10 to 20 % polyacrylamide gradient gel ( novex , san diego , calif .) and electroblotted ( matsudaira , j . biol . chem , 262 : 10035 - 10038 ( 1987 ), the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference herein ). the protein band of approximately 67 kda corresponding to the bst l . f . was excised and subjected n - terminal protein sequencing ( waite - rees et al ., supra . the first 7 residues of the 67 kda protein corresponds to ala - glu - gly - glu - lys - pro - leu , ( seq id no : 4 ) showing that the subtilisin cleavage site is between ala 289 and ala 290 ( fig2 ). the large fragment &# 39 ; s n - terminal amino acid sequence matches the amino acid . sequence deduced from the cloned bst pol i gene ( fig2 ). based on this sequence , a primer ( primer c ), containing fspl restriction enzyme site , is designed to anneal to the bst pol i gene at position 868 to 890 which corresponds to the beginning of bst l . f . ( fig2 ). another primer ( primer d ), with xbal site , is designed to anneal to the 3 &# 39 ; end of the gene . pcr is performed to amplify the 5 &# 39 ; truncated bst pol i gene which encodes the bst large fragment . a 1 . 8 kb dna fragment is amplified , corresponding to the expected size of the bst large fragment . the 1 . 8 kb fragment is cleaved by fspl ( blunt end ) and xbal and then cloned into xmnl ( blunt end ) and xbal cleaved pmal - c2 vector ( new england biolabs , beverly , mass .). the cloned gene is inserted directly downstream of the pmal - c2 male gene ( from e . coli ), which encodes for the maltose - binding protein ( mbp ), resulting in the expression of an mbp - bst l . f . fusion protein ( fig3 ). the recombinant plasmid is transformed into e . coli rri cells ( new england biolabs , beverly , mass .). cells containing this plasmid are sonicated and centrifuged . again , a thermophilic dna polymerase activity at 65 ° c . ( about 130 , 000 u / gram host cell ) is observed in mesophilic e . coli host , indicating the mbp - bst fusion is active at 65 ° c . 7 . the supernatant from step 6 is applied to an amylose affinity column ( detailed in example vi ). the nucleic acids and all the other host cell proteins , except mbp - bst fusion , pass through the column and thereby removed by washing the column with several column volumes of buffer c ( 200 mm nacl ; 20 mm tris - hcl , ph 7 . 4 ; 1 mm edta ; 1 mm dtt ). the mbp - bst l . f . fusion protein is eluted with 10 mm maltose in buffer c . the eluted fusion is further purified by a s - 100 size exclusion column to eliminate any free mbp . 8 . the purified mbp - bst fusion protein can be cleaved by factor xa protease ( new england biolabs # 800 - 10 ). after factor xa cleavage , the 110 kda mbp - bst l . f . fusion was degraded and gave rise to the expected 67 kda bst l . f . and the 40 kda mbp ( fig3 ). both mbp - bst l . f . fusion protein and the factor xa cleaved bst l . f . are active , but the factor xa cleaved bst l . f . ( 45 , 300 u / mg ) has about 7 - times higher specific activity the fusion ( 6 , 300 u / mg ). the heat - denaturation of the mesophilic mbp in mbp - bst fusion at 65 ° c . may be the reason of the low specific activity of the fusion . the cleaved bst l . f . should be preferred enzyme for production because its thermostability and higher specific activity . 9 . to remove the factor xa and cleaved free mbp , the factor xa digestion is heat - stressed by incubation at 65 ° c . for 20 minutes and then is applied to a source - q ( pharmacia biotech ) column which had been equilibrated to buffer e ( 50 mm nacl ; 20 mm tris - hcl ph 7 . 8 ; 0 . 1 mm edta ; 1 mm dtt ). the enzyme is eluted with a linear gradient from 50 mm to 600 mm nacl in buffer d . the bst l . f . is diluted with seven volumes of buffer f ( 20 mm kpo4 , ph 6 . 9 ; 0 . 1 mm edta ; 1 mm dtt ) and applied to a 1 cm × 10 cm heparin - tsk 5pw guard resin column which had been equilibrated to buffer g ( 50 mm nacl , 20 mm kpo4 , ph 6 . 9 ; 0 . 1 mm edta ; 1 mm dtt ). the enzyme is eluted with a linear gradient from 50 mm to 600 mm nacl in buffer f . the enzyme - containing fractions are examined by sds - page and found to have the expected molecular weight of 67 , 000 and over 90 % pure ( fig4 ). this recombinant bst l . f . has a specific activity of 100 , 800 u / mg . the recombinant bst l . f ., described here , is capable of doing strand displacement during replication and does not have either of the 5 &# 39 ; to 3 &# 39 ; and 3 &# 39 ; to 5 &# 39 ; exonuclease activity ( fig6 ), which differs from what is described in epicentre &# 39 ; s ( madison , wis .) catalog presenting that bst pol i has a 3 &# 39 ; to 5 &# 39 ; exonuclease activity . 10 . exonuclease activity assays are carried out to determine the directionality of the exonuclease activity associated with our bst dna polymerase i . linear puc19 dna substrate is prepared with 5 &# 39 ;- 32 p and 3 &# 39 ;- 3 h terminal labels and the solubilization of the two labels are monitored during incubation with bst polymerase i as well as vent , e . coli pol i and taq dna polymerases as contrals . vent has a 3 &# 39 ;- 5 &# 39 ; exonuclease and as a result , it solubilizes the 3 h label . taq has a 5 &# 39 ;- 3 &# 39 ; exonuclease , therefore it solubilizes the 32 p label . e . coli pol i has both 5 &# 39 ;- 3 &# 39 ; and 3 &# 39 ;- 5 &# 39 ; exonuclease , thus both 32 p and 3 h labels are solubilized during the incubation with e . coli pol i . like taq , only 32 p label is solubilized by incubation with bst pol i , indicating it contains the 5 &# 39 ;- 3 &# 39 ; exonuclease but lacks the 3 &# 39 ;- 5 &# 39 ; exonuclease activity ( fig5 ). the sequence data showes that bst pol i does not have the &# 34 ; dxe &# 34 ; exo i motif in the 3 &# 39 ;- 5 &# 39 ; exonuclease domain , which agreed with our exonuclease assay data . to further confirm that bst pol i lacks the 3 &# 39 ;- 5 &# 39 ; exonuclease activity , proofreading exonuclease assay is carried out using m13ssdna annealed with a primer which contains a g : a mismatch at 3 &# 39 ; end . vent dna polymerase with 3 &# 39 ; to 5 &# 39 ; exonuclease can efficiently remove the mismatched g and then extend the primer , resulting a higher relative polymerase activity ( fig6 vent exo + ). taq polymerase does not have 3 &# 39 ; to 5 &# 39 ; exonuclease , therefore can not correct the mismatch , resulting a 5 - fold lower relative polymerase activity ( fig6 taq ). like taq , bst has a lower relative polymerase activity , indicating that it lacks the 3 &# 39 ; to 5 &# 39 ; exonuclease activity which is required for removing the mismatched g so that the 3 &# 39 ; terminus can then be extended dna polymerase . the following examples are 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 . 1 . determination of the bst pol i gene &# 39 ; s 3 &# 39 ;- end using inverse pcr restriction digests were performed in separate tubes using 1 . 2 μg of b . stearothermophilus genomic dna per reaction . 50 u of sau3al ( new england biolabs , # 169 ) was added to a mix which contained the dna in 45 μl of nebuffer sau3al ( new england biolabs nebuffer sau3al = 100 mm nacl , 10 mm bis tris propane - hcl , 10 mm mgcl 2 , 1 mm dithiothreitol , ph 7 . 0 @ 25 ° c .). 50 u of ngoml ( new england biolabs , # 564 ) was added to a mix which contained the dna in 45 μl of nebuffer 4 ( new england biolabs nebuffer 4 = 50 mm potassium acetate , 20 mm tris - acetate , 10 mm magnesium acetate , 1 mm dithiotheitol , ph 7 . 9 @ 25 ° c .). the sau3al reaction contained 100 μg / ml bsa . the final volume for both reactions were 50 μl . both digests were incubated for one hour at 37 ° c . restriction enzyme was removed from the digests by extraction with phenol ( once ) and chloroform ( twice ). the dna was precipitated by adding 5 μl of 3 m sodium acetate and 100 μl of 95 % ethanol / 5 % isopropanol to each digest and collected by centrifugation . the dna was resuspended in separate tubes in 500 μl of t4 dna ligase buffer ( new england biolabs t4 dna ligase buffer = 50 mm tris - hcl ph 7 . 8 , 10 mm mgcl 2 , 10 mm dithiothreitol , 1 mm atp , 25 μg / μl bsa ) and 3 , 000 u of t4 dna ligase ( new england biolabs , # 202 ) was added . both ligations were incubated overnight at 16 ° c . followed by 72 ° c . for 20 minutes . the self - ligated bst genomic dna was then used as the templates in inverse pcr reactions aimed at locating the 3 &# 39 ; end of the dna polymerase gene . pcr reactions were performed in separate tubes using 10 ng of each digested and self - ligated dna , 200 μm dntps , 50 ng of the forward primer ( 5 &# 39 ; gatttagcggcacggct gaaagaa3 &# 39 ; ( seq id no : 5 ) and 50 ng of the reverse primer ( 5 &# 39 ; ctgcaaaactgcggac gttga3 &# 39 ; ( seq id no : 6 ) in 49 . 5 μl of thermopol buffer ( new england biolabs thermopol buffer = 10 mm kcl , 20 mm tris - hcl ph 8 . 8 @ 25 ° c ., 10 mm ( nh 4 ) 2 so 4 , 2 mm mgso 4 , 0 . 1 % triton x - 100 ). the forward and reverse primers anneal to bst genomic dna 55 base pairs away from each other and are designed to extend dna in opposite directions . the dna sequence which the primers were designed from came from a 642 base pair fragment of the bst dna polymerase i gene which had previously been cloned into the pgem - t vector ( promega , # a362a ( promega , madison , wis .)) and sequenced ( sanger , et al ., pnas , 74 : 5463 - 5467 ( 1977 ), the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference herein ). 2 . 5 u of taq dna polymerase ( perkin elmer , n801 - 0046 ( perkin elmer , branchburg , n . j .)) were added to each reaction bringing the final volume up to 50 μl . four additional pcr reactions were also performed , using 10 ng of each template in the same reaction mixture that was just described . however , for these reactions , each of the two primers was incubated separately with the two dna templates ( 4 reactions ). products of these reactions would represent background created by the same primer annealing in two locations and amplifying the region in between . the initial segment for all pcr reactions consisted of one cycle for 2 minutes at 94 ° c . the segments of each subsequent pcr cycle were the following : 0 . 5 minutes at 94 ° c ., 1 min at 62 ° c . and 2 minutes at 72 ° c . for 20 cycles and 0 . 5 minutes at 94 ° c ., 1 minute at 62 ° c . and 4 minutes at 72 ° c . for 10 cycles . the last segment consisted of one cycle for 2 minutes at 72 ° c . and 10 minutes at 25 ° c . 20 μl of each 50 μl reaction were removed and subjected to agarose gel electrophoresis with ethidium bromide present in order to determine if amplification had occurred . the reaction which used sau3al digested , self - ligated bst dna as a template yielded an amplified fragment of approximately 1 . 5 kb in size . the reaction which used ngoml digested , self - ligated bst dna as a template yielded an amplified fragment of approximately 0 . 95 kb in size . the two fragments did not correspond to any fragment created in the 4 background reactions . the pcr reactions , using both the forward and reverse primers to amplify both templates separately , were repeated . the same pcr conditions were used as before , but each reaction was carried out in 8 separate tubes using identical reagents in a 50 μl reaction volume . all 400 μl of each reaction was subjected to agarose gel electrophoresis on a 1 % low temperature melting agarose gel in tae buffer ( 40 mm tris - acetate ; 1 mm edta ) with ethidium bromide present . the appropriate bands ( 1 . 5 kb for sau3al and 0 . 95 for ngoml ) were excised and heated to 65 ° c . in separate tubes . after the agarose was melted , 50 μl of β - agarose i buffer was added ( new england biolabs β - agarose i buffer = 10 mm bis tris - hcl , ph 6 . 5 , 1 mm na 2 edta ) and the tubes were cooled to 40 ° c . 4 u of β - agarose i were added to each reaction ( new england biolabs , # 392 ). β - agarose i treatment was for one hour at 40 ° c . the β - agarose and dna polymerase were removed by extraction with phenol ( once ) and chloroform ( twice ). dna was precipitated by adding 50 μl of 3m sodium acetate and 1000 μl of 95 % ethanol / 5 % isopropanol and collected by centrifugation . each dna pellet was resuspended in 50 μl 1xte ( 10 mm tris - hcl , ph 8 . 0 , 1 mm edta ) and 1 μl samples were subjected to agarose gel electrophoresis in order to determine dna concentration . both dna fragments were sequenced ( sanger , et al ., pnas , 74 : 5463 - 5467 ( 1977 ), the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference herein ) using the forward primer , which was expected to extend dna towards the 3 &# 39 ; end of the polymerase gene . a stop codon ( taa ) was found 180 base pairs into the ngoml digested , self - ligated sequence . 2 μg of bst dna polymerase i were subjected to electrophoresis on a tris - tricine 10 to 20 % polyacrylamide gradient gel ( novex , san diego , calif .) and electroblotted ( matsudaira , biol . chem , 262 : 10035 - 10038 ( 1987 ), the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference herein ). the membrane was stained with comassie blue r - 250 and the protein band of approximately 97 kda was excised and subjected to sequential degradation ( waite - rees et al , j . bacteriol ., 173 : 5207 - 5219 ( 1992 ), the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference herein ). the first 7 residues of the 97 kda protein corresponded to met - lys - lsy - lys - leu - val - leu ( seq id no : 7 ). primers were designed based on the n - terminal amino acid . sequence of bst dna polymerase i ( 5 &# 39 ; wtgaaraaraarctngt nyt 3 &# 39 ; ( seq id no : 8 )) and the sequence of the 3 &# 39 ; end of the gene obtained from inverse pcr ( 5 &# 39 ; tcttatttngcatcataccatgt 3 &# 39 ; ( seq id no : 9 )). 150 ng of bst genomic dna , 100 pmoles of each primer and 200 μm dntps were added to 98 μl of thermopol buffer . one μl ( 5 u ) of taq dna polymerase and i μl ( 0 . 05 u ) of deep vent dna polymerase ( new england biolabs , # 258 ) were added to initiate the pcr reaction ( 94 ° c . 0 . 5 min ., 45 ° c . 1 min ., 72 ° c . 3 min ., 35 cycles ). 15 μl were removed and subjected to agarose gel electrophoresis with ethidium bromide present . a 2 . 6 kb fragment was amplified , corresponding to the expected size of the bst dna polymerase i gene . the remaining 85 μl were subjected to gel electrophoresis on a 1 % low temperature melting agarose gel in tae buffer with ethidium bromide and the 2 . 6 kb fragment was excised . the slice containing the dna was treated with β - agarose i , extracted with phenol and chloroform and precipitated with ethanol and sodium acetate all as described before . the dna pellet was resuspended in te buffer . restriction mapping of the 2 . 6 kb fragment was performed to determine the presence of unique restriction sites so that primers could be designed with these sites , allowing the entire fragment to be cloned into a vector . ncol , notl and xbal did not cut the dna fragment so two primers were designed , the first annealing to the 3 &# 39 ; end of the fragment and containing ncol and notl sites ( 5 &# 39 ; tccatggcggccgctcttatttn gcatcataccatgt3 &# 39 ; ( seq id no : 10 ) and the second annealing to the 5 &# 39 ; end of the fragment , containing an xbal site ( 5 &# 39 ; attctagaggaaa cagaccwtgaaraaraarctngtnyt3 &# 39 ; ( seq id no : 11 )). a pcr reaction was performed , using the exact conditions used to amplify the 2 . 6 kb fragment but substituting the original primers with those containing the restriction enzyme sites . 6 identical tubes containing a total of 600 μl pcr reaction mixture were used . all 600 μl were subjected to gel electrophoresis on a 1 % low temperature melting agarose gel and the 2 . 6 kb amplified dna fragment excised from the gel . the agarose - embedded dna was dialyzed against 1 ml of nebuffer 2 ( new england biolabs nebuffer 2 = 10 mm tris - hcl , 10 mm mgcl 2 , 50 mm nacl , 1 mm dtt , ph 7 . 9 @ 25 ° c .) for 45 minutes at 4 ° c . the agarose was then placed in a new tube and melted at 65 ° c . for 10 min . the molten agarose was cooled to 37 ° c . and 7 μl of 10 mg / ml bsa , 3 . 5 u β - agarose i ( new england biolabs , beverly , mass .) and 100 u of xbal ( new england biolabs , beverly , mass .) were added . after 1 hour incubation at 37 ° c ., 5m nacl and 1m tris , ph 8 . 0 were added so that the final concentrations of 100 mm and 50 mm respectively . 100 u of notl ( new england biolabs , beverly , mass .) were then added to the xbal digestion and incubated at 37 ° c . for one more hour . 1 μg of pet - 21a ( novagen , madison , wis . ), which contains a t7 promoter , was digested in 45 μl of nebuffer 2 ( new england biolabs , beverly , mass .) with 25 u of notl and 50 u of xbal at 37 ° c . for 1 hour . the reactions were extracted with phenol and chloroform , precipitated with sodium acetate and ethanol , as described before , and resuspended in 60 μl 1xte . 400 ng of xbal / notl digested pcr product were ligated to 100 ng of xbal / notl digested pet - 21a in 45 μl t4 dna ligase buffer . 5 , 000 u of t 4 dna ligase were added , to make the final volume 50 μl , and the reaction was incubated at 16 ° c . for 4 hours . 100 μl of cacl competent ( maniatis , et al ., molecular cloning : a laboratory manual ( 1982 ), the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference herein ) rri cells ( new england biolabs ) were transformed with 10 l of ligation mix and incubated overnight on lb ( lauria broth , 1 liter : 10 g tryptone , 5 g yeast extract , 170 mm nacl , 0 . 5 mm glucose , 0 . 5 mm mgcl 2 , ph 7 . 2 ) plates with ampicillin ( 100 μg / ml ) at 37 ° c . colonies were picked and mini - plasmid preparations ( wizard minipreps , dna purification system , promega , madison , wis .) screened for a 2 . 6 kb insert . 5 out of the 38 transformants screened contained the correct insert and 1 μl of mini - prep dna from one of the transformants with the correct insert was used to transform 50 μl of cacl competent er2169 cells ( new england biolabs , beverly , mass . ), which are capable of t7 rna polymerase production upon induction with iptg . the cells were spread on an lb plate with ampicillin ( 100 μg / ml ) and incubated overnight at 37 ° c . one colony was picked and grown at 37 ° c . in 20 ml of lb with ampicillin ( 100 μg / ml ) until a reading of klett 200 was obtained . iptg was added to a final concentration of 0 . 5 mm and the cells were grown for an additional 2 hours at 37 ° c . the cells were harvested by centrifugation , resuspended in 10 ml of sonication buffer ( 50 mm nacl , 10 mm tris ph 7 . 4 , 0 . 1 mm edta , 1 mm 2 - mercaptoethanol ) and lysed by sonication . the lysate was separated by centrifugation and incubated at 65 ° c . for 20 minutes to denature any dna polymerase contributed by the e . coli host cells . denatured protein was pelleted by centrifugation and the supernatant was assayed for bst dna polymerase i activity by quantifying the incorporation of 3 h dttp in primed m13mp18 ( new england biolabs , beverly , mass .) single stranded dna . 5 μl of the supernatant were incubated at 65 ° c . for 5 minutes with 45 μl of bst polymerase assay mix , which included 2 . 86 mm m13 single stranded dna with primer # 1224 ( new england biolabs , beverly , mass .) annealed to it , 200 μm datp , dctp , dgtp , 100 μm 3 h dttp , 100 μg / ml bsa , 20 mm tris ph 8 . 8 , 50 mm kcl and 10 mm mgcl 2 . 40 μl of the reaction were spotted onto filter paper ( whatman , 024 - 1030 ) and the filter paper was washed 3 times with 10 % trichloroacetic acid and once with 100 % isopropanol . the filter was dried and incorporation of 3 h dttp was quantified by liquid scintillation counting . it was determined that one gram of induced er2169 cells produced approximately 30 , 000 u of bst dna polymerase i . cloning of 5 &# 39 ;- end truncated bst pol i gene which encodes the bst large fragment 50 μg of bst dna polymerase i were digested with subtilisin ( 75 ng / μl final concentration ) at room temperature for 5 minutes in the presence of 140 mm k 2 po 4 , 3 mm β - mercaptoethanol , 30 mm ammonium sulfate and 125 μg calf thymus dna . the digestion was stopped by the addition of phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride at a final concentration of 2 . 4 mg / ml . the subtilisin - digested bst l . f . produced was quantified by electrophoresis on a 4 - 20 % sds - page gradient gel ( daiichi integrated separation systems , natick , mass .). 2 μg of the subtilisin - digested bst polymerase i was subjected to electrophoresis on a tris - tricine 10 to 20 % polyacrylamide gradient gel ( novex , san diego , calif .) and electroblotted ( matsudaira , j . biol . chem , 262 : 10035 - 10038 ( 1987 ), the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference herein ). the n - terminal amino acid . sequence of this 67 kda large fragment was determined as described before . the first 7 residues of the 67 kda protein corresponded to ala - glu - gly - glu - lys - pro - leu ( seq id no : 12 ), indicating the n - terminal border of bst l . f . is between ala289 and ala290 ( fig2 ). based on this information , a primer was designed ( 5 &# 39 ; aatttgcgcag aaggggagaaaccgcttga3 &# 39 ; ( seq id no : 14 )) to anneal to the downstream of the border of the bst l . f . the primer was designed with an fspl cleavage site so that it could be digested with fspl and ligated into the xmnl site of the pmal - c2 vector . another primer , with an xbal cleavage site , was designed ( 5 &# 39 ; tattctag atcttatttggcatcatac catgt3 &# 39 ; ( seq id no : 14 )) to anneal to the 3 &# 39 ; end of bst pol i gene . pcr was performed to amplify the bst large fragment gene . 1 . 6 μg of bst genomic dna were added to 392 μl of thermopol buffer plus 400 ng of each primer and 200 μm dntps . 40 u of taq dna polymerase ( perkin elmer , branchburg , n . j .) and 0 . 4 u deep vent dna polymerase ( new england biolabs , beverly , mass .) were added to the reaction . pcr was carried out as following : 94 ° c . 0 . 5 min ., 50 ° c . 1 min ., 72 ° c . 3 min . for 18 cycles . a 1 . 8 kb fragment was amplified , corresponding to the expected size of the bst dna large fragment gene . the remaining pcr product was purified and cleaved with fspl and xbal . 195 ng of the fspl / xbal digested pcr product were ligated to 75 ng of the xmnl / xbal digested pmal - c2 in 45 μl t4 dna ligase buffer ( new england biolabs , beverly , mass .). 5 , 000 u of t4 dna ligase were added and the reaction was incubated at 16 ° c . for 4 hours . 100 μl of cacl competent ( maniatis , et al ., molecular cloning : a laboratory manual ( 1982 ), the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference herein ) rri cells ( new england biolabs , beverly , mass .) were transformed with 10 μl of ligation mixture and incubated overnight on lb plates with ampicillin ( 100 μg / ml ) at 37 ° c . correct insert was screened through mini - plasmid preparations . 2 out of the 16 transformants screened contained the 1 . 8 kb expected insert . the cloned gene was inserted directly downstream of the pmal - c2 male gene ( from e . coli ), which encodes for the maltose - binding protein ( mbp ), resulting in the expression of an mbp - bst l . f . fusion protein upon induction with iptg . the recombinant plasmid with the right construct was used to transform 50 μl of cacl competent tb1 cells ( new england biolabs , beverly , mass .). 20 ml of lb with ampicillin ( 100 μg / ml ) was inoculated with a single colony from the transformation plate . iptg was added to 0 . 5 mm when the culture reached klett 200 and the cells were grown for an additional 2 hours at 37 ° c . the cells were harvested by centrifugation , resuspended in 10 ml of sonication buffer and lysed by sonication . the lysate was separated by centrifugation and incubated at 65 ° c . for 20 minutes to denature any dna polymerase contributed by the host cells . denatured protein was pelleted by centrifugation and the supernatant was assayed for bst polymerase activity as described in example i . it was determined that one gram of transformed tb1 cells produced approximately 130 , 000 u of bst large fragment . a sample of the fusion construct containing bsti l . f . has been deposited under the budapest treaty at the americant type culture collection on aug . 2 , 1995 and received atcc accession number 69877 . 64 grams of the enzyme bearing cells ( neb # 956 ) were thawed and resuspended in buffer c ( 200 mm nacl ; 20 mm tris - hcl , ph 7 . 4 ; 1 mm edta ; 1 mm dtt ). the cells were ruptured by sonicating for 8 minutes . the extract was centrifuged in a beckman j2 - 21 centrifuge at 4 c at 12 , 000 rpm for 30 minutes . the supernatant fluid was decanted . the supernatant fluid from step 1 was applied to a 200 ml amylose ( neb # 800 - 21 ) column which had been equilibrated with buffer c . the column was washed with 2200 ml of buffer c , and the enzyme was eluted with 800 ml buffer c containing 10 mm maltose . the protein peak fractions were pooled and concentrated by dialysis into buffer d ( 500 mm nacl ; 20 mm tris - hcl , ph 7 . 4 ; 0 . 1 mm edta ; 1 mm dtt ; 50 % glycerol ). the pool from the previous step was applied to a 5 cm × 90 cm s - 100 ( pharmacia biotech ., piscataway , n . j .) column which had been equilibrated in buffer d . the enzyme was eluted by applying 2 , 000 ml of s buffer . the enzyme - containing fractions were determined by sds - page and were pooled and dialyzed into buffer e ( 50 mm nacl ; 20 mm tris - hcl ph 7 . 8 ; 0 . 1 mm edta ; 1 mm dtt ). step 4 : cleavage of the fusion protein by factor xa protease . 200 mg of enzyme from the previous step ( in 150 ml ) were incubated with 2 mg of factor xa ( new england biolabs # 800 - 10 ) for 22 hours at 4 ° c . the 150 ml cleavage product from step 4 was then heat - stressed by incubation at 65 ° c . for 20 minutes , followed by chilling to 4 ° c . the pool from the previous step was applied to a 1 . 6 cm × 10 cm source - q ( pharmacia biotech ., piscataway , n . j .) column which had been equilibrated to buffer e . the enzyme was eluted with a 150 ml linear gradient from 50 mm to 600 mm nacl in the same buffer . the enzyme - containing fractions were determined by sds - page and were pooled . the pool from the previous step was diluted with seven volumes of 20 mm kpo4 ( ph 6 . 9 ), 0 . 1 mm edta , 1 mm dtt and applied to a 1 cm × 10 cm heparin - tsk 5pw guard resin column which had been equilibrated to buffer g ( 50 mm nacl , 20 mm kpo4 , ph 6 . 9 ; 0 . 1 mm edta ; 1 mm dtt ). the enzyme was eluted with a 100 ml linear gradient from 50 mm to 600 mm nacl in h buffer . the enzyme - containing fractions were determined by sds - page ( fig4 ) and were pooled and dialyzed against 20 volumes of storage buffer ( 50 mm kcl , 10 mm tris - hcl ( ph 7 . 5 ), 0 . 1 mm edta , 1 mm dtt ). the enzyme preparation was substantially pure and free from other contaminating enzymes / proteins and contained no detectable exonuclease activities as determined by incubating 1 , 000 units in a 50 ul reaction in optimal reaction conditions for 4 hours . __________________________________________________________________________sequence listing ( 1 ) general information :( iii ) number of sequences : 14 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 1 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 2631 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : unknown ( d ) topology : unknown ( ii ) molecule type : dna ( genomic )( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : cds ( b ) location : 1 .. 2631 ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 1 : 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base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : double ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : dna ( genomic )( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 13 : aatttgcgcagaaggggagaaaccgcttga30 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 14 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 32 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : double ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : dna ( genomic )( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 14 : tattctagatcttatttggcatcataccatgt32__________________________________________________________________________