Patent Application: US-55926095-A

Abstract:
the present invention describes the cloning and expression of a hyperthermostable xylose isomerase gene in an industrial host and the heat facilitated purification of the enzyme . the hyperthermostable enzyme has unique features sought by the fructose syrup industry .

Description:
the hyperthermostable enzyme from thermotoga neapolitana strain 5068 ( dsm no . 5068 .) is more stable at high temperatures ( 90 ° c .) than the enzymes from conventional or moderate thermophilic organisms . during the production of high - fructose corn syrup , the use of a highly thermostable xylose isomerase in the glucose isomerization process allows the reaction to proceed at higher temperatures , so that syrups with a higher fructose content can be obtained due to chemical equilibrium . the preferred method of producing the enzyme broadly comprises expressing an active and thermostable enzyme in a mesophilic organism which allows the addition of a heat treatment step , which improves dramatically the purification procedure . in an especially preferred practice of the method of the invention chromosomal dna from t . neapolitana strain 5068 is purified by the method of goldberg and ohman ( 2 ). the chromosomal dna is partially digested with the restriction enzyme sau3ai . the 3 - 7 kb fragments are isolated from a sucrose gradient ( 10 - 40 %), and ligated into plasmid vector puc18 , which is cut by bamhi and dephosphorylated with calf intestine alkaline phosphatase to form a hybrid plasmid . e . coli sure strain is transformed with the ligation mixture , and recombinants which contain the xylose isomerase gene are selected by colony hybridization using a pcr - generated homologous probe ( 3 ). lastly , positive clones are tested for xylose isomerase activity at 90 ° c . a further understanding of the invention can be obtained from the following description of the experimental work we performed . thermotoga neapolitana strain 5068 was used as a source of chromosomal dna to construct the library . escherichia coli sure strain ( e14 - ( mcra ), δ ( mcrcb - hsdsmr - mrr ) 171 , sbcc , recb , recj , umuc :: tn5 ( kan r ), uvrc , supe44 , lac , gyra96 , rela1 , thi - 1 , enda1 , [ f &# 39 ; proab , laci q zδm15 , tn10 , ( tet r )]) ( stratagene , la jolla , calif .) was used for the cloning experiments , and e . coli xyl - mutant hb101 ( f - , hsds20 , ara - 1 , reca13 , proa12 , lacy1 , galk2 , rpsl20 , mtl - 1 , xyl - 5 ) ( 4 ) was used for the purification of the recombinant xylose isomerase . plasmids puc18 ( pharmacia , piscataway , n . j .) and pbluescriptiiks + ( pbsiiks +) and ( stratagene , la jolla , calif .) were used as cloning vectors . plasmids constructed in this study are shown in fig1 . t . neapolitana cultures were grown in modified asw ( 5 ) at 80 ° c . e . coli cultures were grown in luria broth ( 10 g tryptone , 5 g yeast extract , 5 g nacl per liter ), except for the purification of the recombinant xylose isomerase , where terrific broth ( tb ) was used ( 6 ). the antibiotics ampicillin and kanamycin ( kan ) were used at 100 μg / ml and 25 μg / ml respectively . chromosomal dna from t . neapolitana strain 5068 was purified by the method of goldberg and ohman ( 2 ). the chromosomal dna was partially digested with the restriction enzyme sau3ai . the 3 - 7 kb fragments were isolated from a sucrose gradient ( 10 - 40 %), and ligated into plasmid vector puc18 , which was cut by bamhi and dephosphorylated with calf intestine alkaline phosphatase . e . coli ( sure strain ) was transformed with the ligation mixture by electroporation ( 3 ). plasmid dna purification , restriction analysis , pcr reaction , and colony and dna hybridization were performed by conventional techniques ( 6 ) ( 3 ). the following oligonucleotides ( obtained from the michigan state university macromolecular facility ) were used for pcr reactions : 5 &# 39 ;- cca agc ttn acn cay ccn gtn tty aar ga3 &# 39 ; ( a , encodes the peptide fthpvfkd ), where the aagctt sequence creates a hindiii site ; 5 &# 39 ;- gar ccn aar ccn aay gar ccg cgg - 3 &# 39 ; ( b , encodes the peptide epkpnep ), where the ccgcgg sequence creates a sacii site ; 5 &# 39 ;- ggt cta gar aay tay gtn tty tgg ggn gg - 3 &# 39 ; ( c , encodes the peptide enyvfwgg ), where the tctaga sequence creates an xbai site . dna was recovered from agarose gels with the geneclean ii kit ( bio 101 , la jolla , calif .). plasmid ptne2 was stabilized by cloning the kan r cartridge from puc - 4k ( pharmacia , piscataway , n . j .) into the ptne2 unique sali site , giving rise to plasmid ptne2 :: kan . sequential deletions of ptne2 were created by the exonuclease iii digestion procedure of henikoff ( 7 ). sequences were determined , on both strands , by the dideoxy chain termination technique ( 8 ), using the sequenase version 2 . 0 kit ( u . s . biochemical corp ., cleveland , ohio ). the sequencing data were analyzed using the sequence analysis software package of the genetics computer group , version 5 ( university of wisconsin ) ( 9 ). hydrophobic cluster analysis ( hca ) of the amino acid sequences was performed as described by gaboriaud et al . ( 10 ) and lemesle - varloot et al . ( 11 ) with the hca plot program , version 2 , from doriane ( le chesnay , france ). for comparison purposes thermoanaerobacterium thermosulfurigenes 4b recombinant xylose isomerase was purified from e . coli hb101 carrying plasmid pcmg11 - 3 , as described by lee et al . ( 12 ), except that : i ) 50 mm mops ( 4 - morpholinepropanesulfonic acid ) ( ph7 . 0 ) containing 5 mm mgso 4 plus 0 . 5 mm cocl 2 was used as buffer ; ii ) a ( nh 4 ) 2 so 4 fractionation step was added after the heat treatment ( 13 ); iii ) ion exchange chromatography was performed on q - sepharose fast flow , and proteins were eluted with a linear nacl gradient ( 0 . 0 - 0 . 3m ). t . neapolitana recombinant xylose isomerase was purified from e . coli hb101 carrying plasmid ptne2 :: kan as described above , except that : i ) the cells were grown in tb supplemented with kan ; ii ) the cell extract was heat treated at 90 ° c . for 2 h 30 min in an oil shaking bath . protein concentration was determined routinely by the method of bradford ( 14 ), using the bio - rad protein reagent . bovine serum albumin was used as the standard . protein concentration of pure enzyme preparations was estimated at 280 nm , on denaturated enzyme . the extinction coefficient ( e = 52950 ) was calculated from the sequence , using the sequence analysis software package of the genetic computer group program . enzyme fractions were analyzed by sds - 12 % polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis , and visualized by coomassie blue staining . cell extracts prepared by sonication and purified preparations were used as enzyme sources . to determine the effect of temperature on glucose isomerase specific activity , glucose isomerase activity was measured by incubating the enzyme ( 0 . 02 - 0 . 1 mg / ml ) in 100 mm mops ( ph 7 . 0 at room temperature ), 1 mm cocl 2 and 0 . 8m glucose for 20 min . according to δpka / δt of mops buffer which is - 0 . 011 ( us biochemical , cleveland , ohio , catalog 1993 , p . 290 ), the ph was 6 . 3 at 90 ° c . the reaction was stopped by cooling the tubes in ice . the fructose was assayed by the cysteine - carbazole / sulfuric acid method ( 15 ). one unit of isomerase activity is defined as the amount of enzyme that produced 1 μmole of product / min under the assay conditions . the enzyme was incubated at different temperatures in the presence of 100 mm mops ( ph 7 . 0 ), 1 mm cocl 2 at room temperature for different periods of time . thermoinactivation was stopped by cooling the tubes in a water bath equilibrated at room temperature . the residual glucose isomerase activity was measured in the conditions described above . the effect of ph on glucose isomerase activity was measured using the standard protocol described above for enzyme assays , except that the mops buffer was substituted by acetate 100 mm ( ph 4 . 0 - 5 . 7 ), pipes ( piperazine - n , n &# 39 ;- bis -[ 2 - ethanesulfonic acid ]) 100 mm ( ph 6 . 0 - 7 . 5 ), or epps ( n -[ 2 - hydroxyethyl ] piperazine - n &# 39 ;-[ 3 - propanesulfonic acid ]) 100 mm ( ph 7 . 5 - 8 . 7 ). all phs were adjusted at room temperature , and the δpka / δt for acetate , pipes , and epps ( 0 . 000 , - 0 . 0085 , and - 0 . 011 respectively ) ( 16 , usb catalog 1993 , p . 290 ) were taken into account for the results ( fig6 ). the effect of ph on enzyme stability was measured by incubating the enzyme ( 0 . 5 - 1 . 0 mg / ml ) at 90 ° c . for 30 min in acetate 100 mm ( ph 4 . 0 - 5 . 7 ), pipes 100 mm ( ph 6 . 0 - 7 . 5 ), or epps 100 mm ( ph 7 . 5 - 8 . 7 ), in the presence of 0 . 5 mm cocl 2 . the inactivation was stopped by cooling the tubes in a water bath equilibrated at room temperature . the residual glucose isomerase activity was measured at ph 7 . 0 , using the standard protocol . the enzyme was diluted ten - fold in the reaction mixture . the first attempts to clone t . neapolitana by complementation of a xyl - strain of e . coli were unsuccessful . this result was expected , since no xylose isomerase activity could be detected with the xylose isomerase purified from t . maritima , at temperatures compatible with e . coli growth ( 5 ). on the other hand , no hybridization signal could be detected in t . neapolitana genomic dna with the thermoanaerobacterium thermohydrosulfuricum 4b xyla gene as a probe . we therefore tried to amplify a dna fragment , internal to the t . neapolitana xyla gene , and use it as a probe to screen a plasmid library . to design primers for pcr , the amino acid sequences of the xylose isomerases from actinoplanes missouriensis ( 17 ), ampullariella ( 18 ), streptomyces rubuginosus ( 19 ), s . violaceoniger ( 20 ), bacillus subtilis ( 21 ), lactobacillus brevis ( 22 ), l . pentosus ( 23 ), thermoanaerobacterium thermosulfurigenes 4b , staphylococcus xylosus ( 24 ), and e . coli ( 25 ) have been aligned ( not shown ) to identify highly conserved regions . two main families of highly conserved enzymes were identified , the first included the streptomyces , ampullariella and a . missouriensis and the second included bacillus , the lactobacilli , and t . thermosulfurigenes . even if they were more related to family ii xylose isomerases , e . coli and s . xylosus enzymes still stood apart , and were not taken into account in the following . only the sequence epkpn / kep ( positions 232 to 238 in t . thermosulfurigenes enzyme ) was conserved among the proteins of the 2 families . the sequence enyvfwg ( positions 183 to 189 in t . thermosulfurigenes enzyme ) was conserved only in family ii , whereas the sequence fthpvfkd ( positions 94 to 100 in a . missouriensis enzyme ) was conserved only in family i . since we did not know to which family the t . neapolitana enzyme would belong , we designed two sets of primers to correspond to the 2 families . with primers a plus b we expected a 294 bp pcr product , and with primers c plus b we expected a 180 bp pcr product . with t . neapolitana genomic dna as the template , only the pcr reaction using primers c plus b gave rise to a single band of the expected size in a reproducible way . this pcr product has been cloned into the xbai - sacii sites of pbsiiks + and sequenced . it encodes a 54 residues polypeptide , 80 % identical to the part of t . thermosulfurigenes xylose isomerase chosen for the amplification . this pcr fragment was used as a probe to screen a t . neapolitana genomic library . among 15 , 000 clones that were screened by colony hybridization , only 6 hybridized strongly with the probe , and were completely isolated . restriction analysis of these clones revealed that they all overlapped . all of them showed xylose isomerase activity . one of them , clone ptne1 ( fig1 ), was chosen for further studies . additional hybridizations with restriction digests of ptne1 showed that a 750 bp ecori - bamhi fragment carried the homology with the pcr probe . several sub - clones were constructed , and tested for xylose isomerase activity ( fig1 ). compared to ptne1 , the same level of activity was detected with both ptne2 and 3 . since the insert was in opposite orientation in ptne2 and ptne3 , when referring to the lacz promoter , the xylose isomerase gene carried by the insert is probably expressed from its own promoter . no activity could be detected with r3 and r9 . the 2 . 4 kb sali - xbai insert of ptne2 has been sequenced . one open reading frame ( orf ) of 1332 nt , encodes a 444 aa polypeptide ( calculated molecular weight : 50 , 892 ), 70 % identical to the 4b xylose isomerase . this orf is preceded by a shine - dalgarno sequence , ggaggt , which exactly matches the t . maritima 16s rrna sequence 3 &# 39 ;- ccucca - 5 &# 39 ; ( 26 ). a potential promoter , ttgaa (- 35 ) tataat (- 10 ), corresponding to the consensus defined for t . maritima ( 27 ) is present 63 bp upstream of the atg start codon . an inverted repeat located 213 pb downstream of xyla might be involved in termination of transcription . no homology was found upstream and downstream of xyla with e . coli xylb . the genetic organization of the xylose metabolism genes therefore seems different from what has been described in other microorganisms , where xyla and xylb are usually co - transcribed . the overall g + c content of xyla is 47 % ( thermotogales have a genomic g + c content of 40 to 46 %). the g + c content in codon position 3 is 59 % ( it is 60 % for t . maritima ompα ); this content is 15 % higher than what is expected in an organism with 46 % genomic g + c . the t . neapolitana xylose isomerase clearly belongs to the xylose isomerase family of type ii , including the enzymes from e . coli , b . subtilis , c . thermohydrosulfuricum , and t . thermosulfurigenes strain 4b . enzymes of type i are shorter by 40 to 50 residues at the n - terminal . the catalytic triad ( his101 , asp104 , asp339 ), as well as almost all the other residues involved either in substrate or metal binding are conserved among the two protein families . since plasmid ptne2 was unstable in e . coli hb101 , reliable amounts of t . neapolitana xylose isomerase were purified from hb 101 ( ptne2 :: kan ) cultures , grown in the presence of kanamycin . heat treatment of the cell extracts for 2 h 30 min at 90 ° c . was a highly efficient step . the main contaminating protein was further removed by ammonium sulfate fractionation , and a last step of ion exchange chromatography allowed to purify the protein to homogeneity ( not shown ). the purified xylose isomerase is a tetramer composed of identical subunits of 50 , 000 da . the cloned xylose isomerase is optimally active at temperatures as high as 94 °- 100 ° c . by the exercise of the method of the present invention a highly thermostable and thermophilic xylose isomerase has been cloned from the hyperthermophile t . neapolitana 5068 . this enzyme clearly belongs to the xylose isomerase family ii . although 70 % identical to the thermoanaerobacterium thermosulfurigenes 4b enzyme and , according to the hca comparison , showing highly conserved secondary structures , the thermotoga xylose isomerase is unexpectedly optimally active at temperatures 15 ° c . higher than the 4b enzyme ( 95 ° c . versus 80 ° c .). representative of the plasmids and viral vectors which can be used in the method of the present invention are the following : puc plasmids and derivatives like ptz18 - 19 , pbluescript , with high plasmid copy number per cell ( 200 - 300 ); pbr322 and derivatives , with lower copy number ( 20 - 50 ); plasmids with low copy number ( 5 - 10 ) like pmmb67eh ( furste et al ., 1986 ) ( 28 ); and plasmids able to replicate in b . subtilis or other food - safe strains . in general any plasmid can be used in which the gene can be inserted ; which is stable when transformed into a bacteria and which will cause the bacteria to express the enzyme in a recoverable form . representative of the bacteria which can be employed in addition to the hb101 strain of e . coli are the following : other e . coli strains ( no background glucose isomerase activity originating from e . coli can be detected after the heat treatment included in our protocol ); b . subtilis strains , and other food - safe bacterial strains . it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that a number of changes and modifications can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention . therefore , it is intended that the invention only be limited by the claims . 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