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Pozo-Dengra J, Martínez-Gómez AI, Martínez-Rodríguez S, Clemente-Jiménez JM, Rodríguez-Vico F, Las Heras-Vázquez FJ. Evaluation of substrate promiscuity of an L-carbamoyl amino acid amidohydrolase from Geobacillus stearothermophilus CECT43. Biotechnol Prog 2010; 26:954-9. [PMID: 20730754 DOI: 10.1002/btpr.410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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N-carbamoyl-amino-acid amidohydrolase (also known as N-carbamoylase) is the stereospecific enzyme responsible for the chirality of the D- or L-amino acid obtained in the "Hydantoinase Process." This process is based on the dynamic kinetic resolution of D,L-5-monosubstituted hydantoins. In this work, we have demonstrated the capability of a recombinant L-N-carbamoylase from the thermophilic bacterium Geobacillus stearothermophilus CECT43 (BsLcar) to hydrolyze N-acetyl and N-formyl-L-amino acids as well as the known N-carbamoyl-L-amino acids, thus proving its substrate promiscuity. BsLcar showed faster hydrolysis for N-formyl-L-amino acids than for N-carbamoyl and N-acetyl-L-derivatives, with a catalytic efficiency (k(cat)/K(m)) of 8.58 x 10(5), 1.83 x 10(4), and 1.78 x 10(3) (s(-1) M(-1)), respectively, for the three precursors of L-methionine. Optimum reaction conditions for BsLcar, using the three N-substituted-L-methionine substrates, were 65 degrees C and pH 7.5. In all three cases, the metal ions Co(2+), Mn(2+), and Ni(2+) greatly enhanced BsLcar activity, whereas metal-chelating agents inhibited it, showing that BsLcar is a metalloenzyme. The Co(2+)-dependent activity profile of the enzyme showed no detectable inhibition at high metal ion concentrations.
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- Joaquín Pozo-Dengra
- Dept. de Química-Física, Bioquímica y Química Inorgánica. Edificio C.I.T.E. I., Universidad de Almería, La Cañada de San Urbano, Almería, Spain
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Carbamoylases: characteristics and applications in biotechnological processes. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2009; 85:441-58. [DOI: 10.1007/s00253-009-2250-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2009] [Revised: 09/07/2009] [Accepted: 09/07/2009] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Martínez-Rodríguez S, García-Pino A, Las Heras-Vázquez FJ, Clemente-Jiménez JM, Rodríguez-Vico F, Loris R, García-Ruiz JM, Gavira JA. Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic studies of the recombinant L-N-carbamoylase from Geobacillus stearothermophilus CECT43. Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun 2008; 64:1135-8. [PMID: 19052368 PMCID: PMC2593709 DOI: 10.1107/s1744309108034830] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2008] [Accepted: 10/24/2008] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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N-Carbamoyl-L-amino-acid amidohydrolases (L-N-carbamoylases; EC 3.5.1.87) hydrolyze the carbon-nitrogen bond of the ureido group in N-carbamoyl-L-alpha-amino acids. These enzymes are commonly used in the production of optically pure natural and non-natural L-amino acids using the ;hydantoinase process'. Recombinant L-N-carbamoylase from Geobacillus stearothermophilus CECT43 has been expressed, purified and crystallized by hanging-drop vapour diffusion. X-ray data were collected to a resolution of 2.75 A. The crystals belonged to space group P2(1)2(1)2, with unit-cell parameters a = 103.2, b = 211.7, c = 43.1 A and two subunits in the asymmetric unit.
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- Sergio Martínez-Rodríguez
- Departamento Química Física, Bioquímica y Química Inorgánica, Universidad de Almería, Almería, Spain
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Interactions, VIB, Brussels, Belgium
- Structural Biology Brussels, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium
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- Departamento Química Física, Bioquímica y Química Inorgánica, Universidad de Almería, Almería, Spain
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Interactions, VIB, Brussels, Belgium
- Structural Biology Brussels, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium
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- Laboratorio de Estudios Cristalográficos, IACT (CSIC–Universidad de Granada), Granada, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Estudios Cristalográficos, IACT (CSIC–Universidad de Granada), Granada, Spain
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Tashima I, Yoshida T, Asada Y, Ohmachi T. Purification and characterization of a novel L-2-amino-Delta2-thiazoline-4-carboxylic acid hydrolase from Pseudomonas sp. strain ON-4a expressed in E. coli. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2006; 72:499-507. [PMID: 16550379 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-005-0290-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2005] [Revised: 12/01/2005] [Accepted: 12/04/2005] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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L-2-Amino-Delta2-thiazoline-4-carboxylic acid hydrolase (ATC hydrolase) was purified and characterized from the crude extract of Escherichia coli, in which the gene for ATC hydrolase of Pseudomonas sp. strain ON-4a was expressed. The results of SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and gel filtration on Sephacryl S-200 suggested that the ATC hydrolase was a tetrameric enzyme consisted of identical 25-kDa subunits. The optimum pH and temperature of the enzyme activity were pH 7.0 and 30-35 degrees C, respectively. The enzyme did not require divalent cations for the expression of the activity, and Cu2+ and Mn2+ ions strongly inhibited the enzyme activity. An inhibition experiment by diethylpyrocarbonic acid, 2-hydroxy-5-nitrobenzyl bromide, and N-bromosuccinimide suggested that tryptophan, cysteine, or/and histidine residues may be involved in the catalytic site of this enzyme. The enzyme was strictly specific for the L-form of D,L-ATC and exhibited high activity for the hydrolysis of L-ATC with the values of Km (0.35 mM) and Vmax (69.0 U/mg protein). This enzyme could not cleave the ring structure of derivatives of thiazole, thiazoline, and thiazolidine tested, except for D,L- and L-ATC. These results show that the ATC hydrolase is a novel enzyme cleaving the carbon-sulfur bond in a ring structure of L-ATC to produce N-carbamoyl-L-cysteine.
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- Isamu Tashima
- Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture and Life Science, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki 036-8561, Japan
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Martínez-Rodríguez S, Clemente-Jiménez JM, Rodríguez-Vico F, Las Heras-Vázquez FJ. Molecular Cloning and Biochemical Characterization of L-N-Carbamoylase from Sinorhizobium meliloti CECT4114. J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol 2005; 9:16-25. [PMID: 16254442 DOI: 10.1159/000088142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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An N-carbamoyl-L-amino acid amidohydrolase (L-N-carbamoylase) from Sinorhizobium meliloti CECT 4114 was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli. The recombinant enzyme catalyzed the hydrolysis of N-carbamoyl alpha-amino acid to the corresponding free amino acid, and its purification has shown it to be strictly L-specific. The enzyme showed broad substrate specificity, and it is the first L-N-carbamoylase that hydrolyses N-carbamoyl-L-tryptophan as well as N-carbamoyl L-amino acids with aliphatic substituents. The apparent Km values for N-carbamoyl-L-methionine and tryptophan were very similar (0.65 +/- 0.09 and 0.69 +/- 0.08 mM, respectively), although the rate constant was clearly higher for the L-methionine precursor (14.46 +/- 0.30 s(-1)) than the L-tryptophan one (0.15 +/- 0.01 s(-1)). The enzyme also hydrolyzed N-formyl-L-methionine (kcat/Km = 7.10 +/- 2.52 s(-1) x mM(-1)) and N-acetyl-L-methionine (kcat/Km = 12.16 +/- 1.93 s(-1) x mM(-1)), but the rate of hydrolysis was lower than for N-carbamoyl-L-methionine (kcat/Km = 21.09 +/- 2.85). This is the first L-N-carbamoylase involved in the 'hydantoinase process' that has hydrolyzed N-carbamoyl-L-cysteine, though less efficiently than N-carbamoyl-L-methionine. The enzyme did not hydrolyze ureidosuccinic acid or 3-ureidopropionic acid. The native form of the enzyme was a homodimer with a molecular mass of 90 kDa. The optimum conditions for the enzyme were 60 degrees C and pH 8.0. Enzyme activity required the presence of divalent metal ions such as Ni2+, Mn2+, Co2+ and Fe2+, and five amino acids putatively involved in the metal binding were found in the amino acid sequence.
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- Sergio Martínez-Rodríguez
- Departamento de Química-Física, Bioquímica y Química Inorgánica, I. Universidad de Almería, La Cañada de San Urbano, Almería, España
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Ohmachi T, Narita M, Kawata M, Bizen A, Tamura Y, Asada Y. A novel N-carbamoyl-l-amino acid amidohydrolase of Pseudomonas sp. strain ON-4a: purification and characterization of N-carbamoyl-l-cysteine amidohydrolase expressed in Escherichia coli. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2004; 65:686-93. [PMID: 15300419 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-004-1687-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2004] [Revised: 06/02/2004] [Accepted: 06/11/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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N-carbamoyl-L-cysteine amidohydrolase (NCC amidohydrolase) was purified and characterized from the crude extract of Escherichia coli in which the gene for NCC amidohydrolase of Pseudomonas sp. strain ON-4a was expressed. The enzyme was purified 58-fold to homogeneity with a yield of 16.1% by three steps of column chromatography. The results of gel filtration on Sephacryl S-300 and SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis suggested that the enzyme was a tetramer protein of identical 45-kDa subunits. The optimum pH and temperature of the enzyme activity were pH 9.0 and 50 degrees, respectively. The enzyme required Mn(2+) ion for activity expression and was inhibited by EDTA, Hg(2+) and sulfhydryl reagents. The enzyme was strictly specific for the L-form of N-carbamoyl-amino acids as substrates and exhibited high activity in the hydrolysis of N-carbamoyl-L-cysteine as substrate. These results suggested that the NCC amidohydrolase is a novel L-carbamoylase, different from the known L-carbamoylases.
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- Tetsuo Ohmachi
- Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture and Life Science, Hirosaki University, 3 Bunkyo-cho, Hirosaki 036-8561, Japan.
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Morin A, Huysveld N, Braun F, Dimova D, Sakanyan V, Charlier D. Hyperthermophilic Thermotoga arginine repressor binding to full-length cognate and heterologous arginine operators and to half-site targets. J Mol Biol 2003; 332:537-53. [PMID: 12963366 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-2836(03)00951-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The degree of sequence conservation of arginine repressor proteins (ArgR) and of the cognate operators (tandem pairs of 18 bp imperfect palindromes, ARG boxes) in evolutionarily distant bacteria is unusually high, and the global mechanism of ArgR-mediated regulation appears to be similar. However, here we demonstrate that the arginine repressor from the hyperthermophilic bacterium Thermotoga neapolitana (ArgR(Tn)) exhibits characteristics that clearly distinguish this regulator from the well-studied homologues from Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis and B.stearothermophilus. A high-resolution contact map of ArgR(Tn) binding to the operator of the biosynthetic argGHCJBD operon of Thermotoga maritima indicates that ArgR(Tn) establishes all of its strong contacts with a single ARG box-like sequence of the operator only. Protein array and electrophoretic mobility-shift data demonstrate that ArgR(Tn) has a remarkable capacity to bind to arginine operators from Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria, and to single ARG box-bearing targets. Moreover, the overall effect of L-arginine on the apparent K(d) of ArgR(Tn) binding to various cognate and heterologous operator fragments was minor with respect to that observed with diverse bacterial arginine repressors. We demonstrate that this unusual behaviour for an ArgR protein can, to a large extent, be ascribed to the presence of a serine residue at position 107 of ArgR(Tn), instead of the highly conserved glutamine that is involved in arginine binding in the E.coli repressor. Consistent with these results, ArR(Tn) was found to behave as a superrepressor in E.coli, inhibiting growth in minimal medium, even supplemented with arginine, whereas similar constructs bearing the S107Q mutant allele did not inhibit growth. We assume that ArgR(Tn), owing to its broad target specificity and its ability to bind single ARG box sequences, might play a more general regulatory role in Thermotoga
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- Amélie Morin
- Laboratoire de Biotechnologie, FRE CNRS 2230 Unité Biocatalyse, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université de Nantes, 2 rue de la Houssinière, 44322, Nantes, France
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Hu HY, Hsu WH, Chien HR. Characterization and phylogenetic analysis of a thermostable N-carbamoyl- l-amino acid amidohydrolase from Bacillus kaustophilus CCRC11223. Arch Microbiol 2003; 179:250-7. [PMID: 12605292 DOI: 10.1007/s00203-003-0524-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2002] [Revised: 01/16/2003] [Accepted: 01/21/2003] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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A thermostable N-carbamoyl- l-amino acid amidohydrolase ( l-N-carbamoylase) gene composed of an 1,230-bp ORF encoding a 44.3-kDa protein was cloned from the thermophile Bacillus kaustophilus CCRC11223. This l-N-carbamoylase contained six cysteine residues that form three disulfide bridges. The purified l-N-carbamoylase was stringently l-specific and exhibited high activity in the hydrolysis of N-carbamoyl- l-homophenylalanine. N-carbamoyl derivatives of beta-alanine, beta-aminoisobutyric acids, l-tryptophan, and d-specific amino acids were not recognized as substrates. The l-N-carbamoylase required the divalent metal ions Mn(2+), Co(2+), and Ni(2+) for increasing activity. The pH and temperature optima of the enzyme were pH 7.4 and 70 degrees C, respectively. This enzyme was completely thermostable at 50 degrees C for 36 days in the presence of d- and/or l-specific substrates. Phylogenetic analysis of the available amino acid sequences of N-carbamoyl and N-acyl amino acid amidohydrolases from the three main kingdoms of life showed that they can be divided into four distinct families. The B. kaustophilus enzyme could be classified into the family of l-N-carbamoylases and some beta-ureidopropionases, but did not hydrolyze beta-ureidopropionates.
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- Hui-Yu Hu
- Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Hung Kuang Institute of Technology, 433, Taichung, Taiwan
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Shiba T, Takeda K, Yajima M, Tadano M. Genes from Pseudomonas sp. strain BS involved in the conversion of L-2-amino-Delta(2)-thiazolin-4-carbonic acid to L-cysteine. Appl Environ Microbiol 2002; 68:2179-87. [PMID: 11976087 PMCID: PMC127550 DOI: 10.1128/aem.68.5.2179-2187.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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DL-2-amino-Delta(2)-thiazolin-4-carbonic acid (DL-ATC) is a substrate for cysteine synthesis in some bacteria, and this bioconversion has been utilized for cysteine production in industry. We cloned a DNA fragment containing the genes involved in the conversion of L-ATC to L-cysteine from Pseudomonas sp. strain BS. The introduction of this DNA fragment into Escherichia coli cells enabled them to convert L-ATC to cysteine via N-carbamyl-L-cysteine (L-NCC) as an intermediate. The smallest recombinant plasmid, designated pTK10, contained a 2.6-kb insert DNA fragment that has L-cysteine synthetic activity. The nucleotide sequence of the insert DNA revealed that two open reading frames (ORFs) encoding proteins with molecular masses of 19.5 and 44.7 kDa were involved in the L-cysteine synthesis from DL-ATC. These ORFs were designated atcB and atcC, respectively, and their gene products were identified by overproduction of proteins encoded in each ORF and by the maxicell method. The functions of these gene products were examined using extracts of E. coli cells carrying deletion derivatives of pTK10. The results indicate that atcB and atcC are involved in the conversion of L-ATC to L-NCC and the conversion of L-NCC to cysteine, respectively. atcB was first identified as a gene encoding an enzyme that catalyzes thiazolin ring opening. AtcC is highly homologous with L-N-carbamoylases. Since both enzymes can only catalyze the L-specific conversion from L-ATC to L-NCC or L-NCC to L-cysteine, it is thought that atcB and atcC encode L-ATC hydrolase and N-carbamyl-L-cysteine amidohydrolase, respectively.
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- Toshikazu Shiba
- Division of Molecular Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8628, Japan.
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Biagini A, Puigserver A. Sequence analysis of the aminoacylase-1 family. A new proposed signature for metalloexopeptidases. Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 2001; 128:469-81. [PMID: 11250542 DOI: 10.1016/s1096-4959(00)00341-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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The amino acid sequence analysis of the human and porcine aminoacylases-1, the carboxypeptidase S precursor from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the succinyl-diaminopimelate desuccinylase from Escherichia coli, Haemophilus influenzae and Corynebacterium glutamicum, the acetylornithine deacetylase from Escherichia coli and Dictyostelium discoideum and the carboxypeptidase G(2) precursor from Pseudomonas strain, using the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) and the Position-Specific Iterated BLAST (PSI-BLAST), allowed us to suggest that all these enzymes, which share common functional and biochemical features, belong to the same structural family. The three amino acid blocks which were found to be highly conserved, using the CLUSTAL W program, could be assigned to the catalytic active site, based on the general three-dimensional structure of the carboxypeptidase G(2) from the Pseudomonas strain precursor. Six additional proteins with the same signature have been retrieved after performing two successive PSI-BLAST iterations using the sequence of the conserved motif, namely Lactobacillus delbrueckii aminoacyl-histidine dipeptidase, Streptomyces griseus aminopeptidase, Saccharomyces cerevisiae aminopeptidase Y precursor, two Bacillus stearothermophilus N-carbamyl-L-amino acid amidohydrolases and Pseudomonas sp. hydantoin utilization protein C. The three conserved amino acid motifs corresponded to the following blocks: (i) [S, G, A]-H-x-D-x-V; (ii) G-x-x-D; and (iii) x-E-E. This new sequence signature is clearly different from that commonly reported in the literature for proteins belonging to the ArgE/DapE/CPG2/YscS family.
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- A Biagini
- Institut Méditerranéen de Recherche en Nutrition, UMR Université Aix-Marseille III-INRA, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques de Saint-Jérôme, 13397 Marseille Cedex 20, France.
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Savchenko A, Weigel P, Dimova D, Lecocq M, Sakanyan V. The Bacillus stearothermophilus argCJBD operon harbours a strong promoter as evaluated in Escherichia coli cells. Gene 1998; 212:167-77. [PMID: 9611259 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1119(98)00174-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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We have shown that the B. stearothermophilus argCJBD genes form a single operon. In B. stearothermophilus, a specific repressor governs operon expression by binding to the argCo operator site overlapping the Parg promoter sequence (Dion et al., 1997). Therefore, the enzymatic and transcriptional analyses performed in this work did not reflect the potential strength of Parg in the native host. For evaluation of the Parg promoter strength, E. coli was used as a host since its own ArgR repressor does not interact with the B. stearothermophilus heterologous operator. Parg-promoted argC gene expression dramatically increased, reaching up to 38% of the total protein in E. coli cells. An AT-rich sequence upstream of a -35 site of Parg was found to be indispensable for the promoter strength. Plasmids carrying the B. stearothermophilus argCJBD operon linked with its Parg/argCo region were unstable in E. coli. Stabilization of plasmids was achieved by repression of B. stearothermophilus arg genes through the action of the B. subtilis AhrC repressor.
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- A Savchenko
- Unité de Recherche sur la Biocatalyse, Laboratoire de Biotechnologie, Faculté des Sciences et des Techniques, Université de Nantes, 2, rue de la Houssinière, F-44322, Nantes, Cedex 03, France
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