Patent Application: US-53160195-A

Abstract:
a recombinant β - amylase which is superior to the original recombinant β - amylase in thermostability has been obtained by a site - directed mutagenesis with the recombinant β - amylase gene coding 531 amino acid residues . substitutions were met 181 of said enzyme with leu , ser 291 with ala , ile 293 with val , ser 346 with pro , ser 347 with pro , gln 348 with asp and ala 372 with ser .

Description:
the invention will now be described in further detail with reference to specific examples , however , it is understood that the scope of the present invention is not to be construed as being limited to them in any way . base substitution of the recombinant wild - type β - amylase expression vector by site - directed mutagenesis . the site - directed mutagenesis was done using a transfer site - directed mutagenesis kit ( clontech laboratories ). using the following four mutagenesis primers 5 &# 39 ;- agctggagagttgaggtaccc - 3 &# 39 ; ( for met 181 to leu ; seq id no : 4 ), 5 &# 39 ;- aatcaagatcgctggcgttcactggtg - 3 &# 39 ; ( for ser 291 to ala and ile 293 to val ; seq id no : 5 ), 5 &# 39 ;- ttcggagcaacccccggacgcgatgagcgca - 3 &# 39 ; ( for ser 346 to pro , ser 347 to pro and gln 348 to asp ; seq id no : 6 ) and 5 &# 39 ;- cctaaatgtgtcatgcgaaaa - 3 &# 39 ; ( for ala 372 to ser ; seq id no : 7 ) and the selection primer 5 &# 39 ;- ggttgagtattcaccagtc - 3 &# 39 ; ( seq id no : 8 ), the site - directed mutagenesis was done according to the manual provided with the kit to obtain the recombinant β - amylase ( sevenfold - mutant β - amylase ) expression vector ( pbeta92 / sevenfold - mutant ) as shown in seq id no : 3 . dna sequence confirmed that , as shown in seq id no : 2 in the sequence list , a 541 was substituted with t , t 871 with g , a 877 with g , ag 1036 - 1037 with cc , t 1039 with c , c 1042 with g , g 1044 with c and g 1114 with t . consequently , it was confirmed that the expression vector pbeta92 / sevenfold - mutant is encoding the recombinant β - amylase as shown in seq id no : 1 of the sequence list . escherichia coli jm109 harboring the expression vector pbeta92 / sevenfold - mutant was grown in a liquid medium ( containing 1 % tryptone , 0 . 5 % yeast extract , 1 % nacl , 0 . 005 % ampicillin na and 0 . 1 mm isopropyl β - d - thiogalactopyranoside in 400 ml of water , ph 7 . 0 ) at 37 ° c . for 24 h . after centrifugation to remove the culture medium , packed cells were suspended in a lysozyme solution ( 0 . 025 % lysozyme , 20 mm tris - hcl and 30 mm nacl , ph 7 . 5 ) for 30 min on ice , and disrupted by sonication ( 50 w , 30 sec ) followed by centrifugation . to the above crude extract was added solid ammonium sulfate to 30 % saturation . after the precipitate was removed by centrifugation , the supernatant was loaded onto a butyl toyopearl 650s ( toso ) column ( 2 . 5 × 18 . 5 cm ). the active fractions which were eluted with 50 mm acetate buffer ( ph 5 . 5 ) were collected and dialyzed against 15 mm tris - hcl ( ph 8 . 0 ). the dialyzed solution was centrifuged to remove insoluble materials and then loaded onto a deae - toyopearl 650s ( toso ) column ( 2 . 5 × 18 . 5 cm ). the active fractions which were eluted with 15 mm tris - hcl ( ph 8 . 0 )/ 50 mm nacl were collected , and added solid ammonium sulfate to 70 % saturation . the precipitate formed were collected by centrifugation , dissolved in 50 mm acetate buffer ( ph 5 . 5 ) and then dialyzed against the same buffer . then the dialyzed solution was loaded onto a toyopearl hw - 50s ( toso ) column ( 1 . 5 × 48 . 5 cm ). the active fractions which were eluted with 50 mm acetate buffer ( ph 5 . 5 ) were combined as the purified preparation of the recombinant β - amylase . on sds - polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis the purified preparation showed a single protein band at an apparent molecular weight of 56 , 000 which migrated to almost the same position as the original recombinant β - amylase . comparison of the enzymatic properties of the sevenfold - mutant β - amylase with those of the original recombinant β - amylase revealed that both enzymes were similar except for the optimum temperature , thermostability and ph stability . results of studies on the optimum temperature are shown in fig1 . in contrast to the barley β - amylase and the original recombinant β - amylase which showed the maximum activity at 55 ° c . and almost no activity at 65 °- 70 ° c . the sevenfold - mutant β - amylase was found to show the maximum activity at 65 ° c . and a significant activity even at 70 ° c . it was also confirmed that the sevenfold - mutant β - amylase was significantly improved in thermostability as compared with the soybean β - amylase which showed the maximum activity at 60 ° c . from heat - inactivation curves shown in fig2 temperatures at which 50 % of the initial activity was lost during a 30 min heating time were found as follows : ______________________________________barley β - amylase → 56 . 8 ° c . original recombinant β - amylase → 57 . 4 ° c . sevenfold - mutant β - amylase → 69 . 0 ° c . soybean β - amylase → 63 . 2 ° c . ______________________________________ the results indicate that the thermostability of the sevenfold - β - amylase was improved by 11 . 6 ° c . than that of the original recombinant β - amylase , and furthermore by 5 . 8 ° c . than that of the soybean β - amylase . a great deal improvement of the sevenfold - mutant β - amylase in the thermostability was confirmed by the fact that , while the original recombinant β - amylase was almost completely inactivated by treatment at 62 . 5 ° c . for 30 min , the sevenfold - mutant β - amylase was not inactivated at all by the same treatment . as to the ph stability , as shown in fig3 while the barley b - amylase and the original recombinant b - amylase were stable in the ph range of 3 . 5 - 9 . 5 , the sevenfold - mutant β - amylase was stable in the ph range of 3 . 5 - 12 . 5 , indicating a significant improvement in the stability of the latter β - amylase in the alkaline ph range . the present invention has made it possible to produce a recombinant β - amylase with improved thermostability as well as improved enzyme stability in the alkaline ph range . __________________________________________________________________________sequence listing ( 1 ) general information :( iii ) number of sequences : 8 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 1 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 531 amino acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : protein ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 1 : 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seq id no : 6 : ttcggagcaacccccggacgcgatgagcgca31 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 7 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 21 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : other nucleic acid ( a ) description : / desc =&# 34 ; synthetic dna &# 34 ;( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 7 : cctaaatgtgtcatgcgaaaa21 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 8 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 19 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : other nucleic acid ( a ) description : / desc =&# 34 ; synthetic dna &# 34 ;( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 8 : ggttgagtattcaccagtc19__________________________________________________________________________