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Li Y, Long G, Yang X, Hu X, Feng Y, Tan D, Xie Y, Pu J, Liao F. Approximated maximum adsorption of His-tagged enzyme/mutants on Ni2+-NTA for comparison of specific activities. Int J Biol Macromol 2014; 74:211-7. [PMID: 25542175 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2014.12.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2014] [Revised: 12/02/2014] [Accepted: 12/03/2014] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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By approximating maximum activities of six-histidine (6His)-tagged enzyme/mutants adsorbed on Ni2+-NTA-magnetic-submicron-particle (Ni2+-NTA-MSP), a facile approach was tested for comparing enzyme specific activities in cell lysates. On a fixed quantity of Ni2+-NTA-MSP, the activity of an adsorbed 6His-tagged enzyme/mutant was measured via spectrophotometry; the activity after saturation adsorption (Vs) was predicted from response curve with quantities of total proteins from the same lysate as the predictor; Vs was equivalent of specific activity for comparison. This approach required abundance of a 6His-tagged enzyme/mutant over 3% among total proteins in lysate, an accurate series of quantities of total proteins from the same lysate, the largest activity generated by enzyme occupying over 85% binding sites on Ni2+-NTA-MSP and the minimum activity as absorbance change rates of 0.003 min(-1) for analysis. The prediction of Vs tolerated errors in concentrations of total proteins in lysates and was effective to 6His-tagged alkaline phosphatase and its 6His-tagged mutant in lysates. Notably, of those two 6His-tagged enzymes, Vs was effectively approximated with just one optimized quantity of lysates. Hence, this approach with Ni2+-NTA-MSP worked for comparison of specific activities of 6His-tagged enzyme/mutants in lysates when they had sufficient abundance among proteins and activities of adsorbed enzymes were measurable.
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- Yuanli Li
- Unit for Analytical Probes and Protein Biotechnology, Key Laboratory of Medical Laboratory Diagnostics of the Education Ministry, College of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Unit for Analytical Probes and Protein Biotechnology, Key Laboratory of Medical Laboratory Diagnostics of the Education Ministry, College of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Unit for Analytical Probes and Protein Biotechnology, Key Laboratory of Medical Laboratory Diagnostics of the Education Ministry, College of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Unit for Analytical Probes and Protein Biotechnology, Key Laboratory of Medical Laboratory Diagnostics of the Education Ministry, College of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Unit for Analytical Probes and Protein Biotechnology, Key Laboratory of Medical Laboratory Diagnostics of the Education Ministry, College of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Unit for Analytical Probes and Protein Biotechnology, Key Laboratory of Medical Laboratory Diagnostics of the Education Ministry, College of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Unit for Analytical Probes and Protein Biotechnology, Key Laboratory of Medical Laboratory Diagnostics of the Education Ministry, College of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Unit for Analytical Probes and Protein Biotechnology, Key Laboratory of Medical Laboratory Diagnostics of the Education Ministry, College of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Unit for Analytical Probes and Protein Biotechnology, Key Laboratory of Medical Laboratory Diagnostics of the Education Ministry, College of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China.
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Optimizing heterologous protein production in the periplasm of E. coli by regulating gene expression levels. Microb Cell Fact 2013; 12:24. [PMID: 23497240 PMCID: PMC3605120 DOI: 10.1186/1475-2859-12-24] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2013] [Accepted: 03/05/2013] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background In Escherichia coli many heterologous proteins are produced in the periplasm. To direct these proteins to the periplasm, they are equipped with an N-terminal signal sequence so that they can traverse the cytoplasmic membrane via the protein-conducting Sec-translocon. For poorly understood reasons, the production of heterologous secretory proteins is often toxic to the cell thereby limiting yields. To gain insight into the mechanism(s) that underlie this toxicity we produced two secretory heterologous proteins, super folder green fluorescent protein and a single-chain variable antibody fragment, in the Lemo21(DE3) strain. In this strain, the expression intensity of the gene encoding the target protein can be precisely controlled. Results Both SFGFP and the single-chain variable antibody fragment were equipped with a DsbA-derived signal sequence. Producing these proteins following different gene expression levels in Lemo21(DE3) allowed us to identify the optimal expression level for each target gene. Too high gene expression levels resulted in saturation of the Sec-translocon capacity as shown by hampered translocation of endogenous secretory proteins and a protein misfolding/aggregation problem in the cytoplasm. At the optimal gene expression levels, the negative effects of the production of the heterologous secretory proteins were minimized and yields in the periplasm were optimized. Conclusions Saturating the Sec-translocon capacity can be a major bottleneck hampering heterologous protein production in the periplasm. This bottleneck can be alleviated by harmonizing expression levels of the genes encoding the heterologous secretory proteins with the Sec-translocon capacity. Mechanistic insight into the production of proteins in the periplasm is key to optimizing yields in this compartment.
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Zhang H, Li Z, Qian Y, Zhang Q, Du P, Gan R, Ye Q. Cultivation of recombinant Escherichia coli for secretory production of human epidermal growth factor under control of PL promoter. Enzyme Microb Technol 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.enzmictec.2006.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Prochazkova K, Osicka R, Linhartova I, Halada P, Sulc M, Sebo P. The Neisseria meningitidis outer membrane lipoprotein FrpD binds the RTX protein FrpC. J Biol Chem 2004; 280:3251-8. [PMID: 15525636 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m411232200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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At conditions of low iron availability, Neisseria meningitidis produces a family of FrpC-like, type I-secreted RTX proteins of unknown role in meningococcal lifestyle. It is shown here that iron starvation also induces production of FrpD, the other protein expressed from a gene located immediately upstream of the frpC gene in a predicted iron-regulated frpDC operon. We found that FrpD is highly conserved in a set of meningococcal strains representative of all serogroups and does not exhibit any similarity to known sequences of other organisms. Subcellular localization and [3H]palmitic acid labeling in Escherichia coli revealed that FrpD is synthesized with a type II signal peptide for export across the cytoplasmic membrane and is, upon processing to a lipoprotein, sorted to the outer bacterial membrane. Furthermore, the biological function of FrpD appears to be linked to that of the RTX protein FrpC, because FrpD was found to bind the amino-proximal portion of FrpC (first 300 residues) with very high affinity (apparent Kd approximately 0.2 nM). These results suggest that FrpD represents an rtx loci-encoded accessory lipoprotein that could be involved in anchoring of the secreted RTX protein to the outer bacterial membrane.
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- Katerina Prochazkova
- Institute of Microbiology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Videnska 1083, CZ-142 20 Prague 4, Czech Republic
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Qi HY, Hyndman JB, Bernstein HD. DnaK promotes the selective export of outer membrane protein precursors in SecA-deficient Escherichia coli. J Biol Chem 2002; 277:51077-83. [PMID: 12403776 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m209238200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Consistent with many other results indicating that SecA plays an essential role in the translocation of presecretory proteins across the Escherichia coli inner membrane, we previously found that a approximately 95% depletion of SecA completely blocks the export of periplasmic proteins in vivo. Surprisingly, we found that about 25% of the outer membrane protein (OMP) OmpA synthesized after SecA depletion was gradually translocated across the inner membrane. In this study we analyzed the export of several other OMPs after SecA depletion. We found that 25-50% of each OMP as well as an OmpA-alkaline phosphatase fusion protein was exported from SecA-deficient cells. This partial export was completely abolished by the SecA inhibitor sodium azide and therefore still required the participation of SecA. Examination of a variety of OmpA derivatives, however, ruled out the possibility that OMPs are selectively translocated in SecA-deficient cells because SecA binds to their N termini with unusually high affinity. Export after SecA depletion was observed in cells that lack SecB, the primary targeting factor for OMPs, but was abolished by partial inactivation of DnaK. Furthermore, OmpA could be isolated in a stable complex with DnaK. The data strongly suggest that OMPs require only a relatively low level of translocase activity to cross the inner membrane because they can be preserved in a prolonged export-competent state by DnaK.
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- Hai-Yan Qi
- Genetics and Biochemistry Branch, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1810, USA
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Kadokura H, Kawasaki H, Yoda K, Yamasaki M, Kitamoto K. Efficient export of alkaline phosphatase overexpressed from a multicopy plasmid requires degP, a gene encoding a periplasmic protease of Escherichia coli. J GEN APPL MICROBIOL 2001; 47:133-141. [PMID: 12483555 DOI: 10.2323/jgam.47.133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Escherichia coli DegP is an inducible serine protease which is involved in the breakdown of abberant proteins arising in the periplasmic compartment. Overexpression of alkaline phosphatase (PhoA) increased transcription of degP by twofold. To examine the significance of its induction, we overexpressed PhoA in a mutant strain deficient in the degP gene. Upon PhoA overexpression, the degP mutant produced a smaller amount of active PhoA, about one half of the enzymatic activity of its isogenic wild-type strain, and accumulated a larger amount of its precursor, indicating that degP is required for efficient export of overexpressed PhoA. Pulse-chase experiment showed that PhoA overexpression in the absence of degP causes a severe defect in the export of several proteins tested. Examination of the synthesis and the accumulation of the phoA gene products revealed that a part of them, synthesized in the wild-type strain, undergoes relatively rapid proteolysis and that degP is necessary for such a process. From these results, we discuss a possible role of DegP in facilitating protein export under stress conditions.
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- Hiroshi Kadokura
- Department of Biotechnology, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
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Thorstenson YR, Zhang Y, Olson PS, Mascarenhas D. Leaderless polypeptides efficiently extracted from whole cells by osmotic shock. J Bacteriol 1997; 179:5333-9. [PMID: 9286985 PMCID: PMC179401 DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.17.5333-5339.1997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Three molecular foldases, DsbA, DsbC, and rotamase (ppiA), exhibited the unusual property of accumulating in an osmotically sensitive cellular compartment of Escherichia coli when their signal sequences were precisely removed by mutation. A mammalian protein, interleukin-1 (IL-1) receptor antagonist, behaved in a similar fashion in E. coli when its native signal sequence was deleted. These leaderless mutants (but not two control proteins overexpressed in the same system) were quantitatively extractable from whole cells by a variety of methods generally employed in the recovery of periplasmic proteins. A series of biochemical and genetic experiments showed that (i) leaderless DsbA (but not the wild type) was retained in a nonperiplasmic location; (ii) beta-galactosidase fusions to leaderless DsbA (but not to the wild type) exhibited efficient alpha complementation; (iii) none of the leaderless mutant proteins were substantially associated with cell membranes, even when they were overexpressed in cells; and (iv) leaderless DsbA was not transported to an osmotically sensitive compartment via a secA- or ftsZ-dependent mechanism. The observation that these proteins transit to some privileged cellular location by a previously undescribed mechanism(s)--absent their normal mode of (signal sequence-dependent) translocation--was unexpected. DsbA, rotamase, and IL-1, whose tertiary structures are known, appear to be structurally unrelated proteins. Despite a lack of obvious homologies, these proteins apparently have a common mechanism for intracellular localization. As this (putative) bacterial mechanism efficiently recognizes proteins of mammalian origin, it must be well conserved across evolutionary boundaries.
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- Y R Thorstenson
- Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, Celtrix Pharmaceuticals, Santa Clara, California 95054, USA
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