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http://dx.doi.org/10.5352/JLS.2006.16.2.360

Screening of Fibrinolytic Enzymes from Soil Metagenome Library  

Lee Sun-Yi (Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, Pusan National University)
Kim Bo-Hye (Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, Pusan National University)
Kang Ju-Hyung (Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, Pusan National University)
Cho Hyo-Jin (Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, Pusan National University)
Kong Eun-Hee (Department of Family Medicine, Kosin University Gospel Hospital)
Moon Sang-Wook (Fermentech Co. Ltd., Technology Innovation Center, Cheju National University)
Kim Yeong-Jin (Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, Pusan National University)
Ahn Soon-Cheol (Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, Pusan National University)
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Journal of Life Science / v.16, no.2, 2006 , pp. 360-364 More about this Journal
Abstract
Fibrin clots of blood vessels are one of the serious factor caused cardiovascular disease. The development of a antithrombotic and thrombolysis solvent is necessary to prevent and treat these diseases. It has been reported that a strong fibrin-specific fibrinolytic enzyme was produced from a Korean fermented soybean paste similar to Japanese miso. We have been screened the known or novel fibrinolytic enzymes by activity-based and sequence-based screening from soil DNA metagenome library containing all kinds of environmental genomic DNA. The activity-based screening was determined the protease activity on 0.5% skim milk. For sequence-based screening, we designed a set of primer expanding gene sequence of fibrinolytic enzyme, performed PCR and selected clones showing the expected size of amplicons from metagenome library. Transformation of the gene encoding fibrinolytic enzyme was carried out with commercial vectors and their transformants were selected. Finally, we found 15 positive clones from metagenome library. Then each of sequences were analyzed and identified as similar or known the clones of nattokinase. We are going to perform full sequence of each clones, ligate with expression vector, transform into competent cells and then determine activity of expressed enzymes.
Keywords
Fibrin; fibrinolytic; soil metagenome; screening; protease;
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