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Overexpression and Purification of Bacillus subtilis Glutamyl-tRNA Synthetase in Escherichia coli  

Oh, Jong-Shin (Department of Food Science and Technology, Dongguk University)
Yoon, Jang-Ho (Department of Food Science and Technology, Dongguk University)
Hong, Kwang-Won (Department of Food Science and Technology, Dongguk University)
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Applied Biological Chemistry / v.45, no.4, 2002 , pp. 190-194 More about this Journal
Abstract
Expression of Bacillus subtilis glutamyl-tRNA synthetase (GluRS) in Escherichia coli is lethal for the host, probably because this enzyme misaminoacylates ${tRNA_l}^{Gln}$ with glutamate in vivo. In order to overexpress B. subtilis GluRS, encoded by the gltX gene, in E. coli, this gene was amplified from B. subtilis 168 chromosomal DNA using PCR method and the entire coding region was cloned into a pET11a expression vector so that it was expressed under the control or the T7 Promoter. The resulting recombinant pEBER plasmid was transformed into E. coli Novablue (DE3) bearing the T7 RNA polymerase gene for expression. After IPTG treatment, the overproduced enzyme was purified using ammonium sulfate fractionation, Source Q anion exchange chromatography, Superdex-200 gel filtration, and Mono Q anion exchange chromatography. The purified enzyme yielded 18-fold increase in specific activity over the crude cell extract and its molecular weight was approximately 55 kDa on SDS-PAGE.
Keywords
Bacillus subtilis; glutamyl-tRNA synthetase; overexpression; purification;
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