• KSBB Journal
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.27-32
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• 2016

Several CoA transferases from Clostridium beijerinckii, C. perfringens and Klebsiella pneumoniae were examined for biosynthesis of lactate-containing polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) in recombinant Escherichia coli XL1-Blue strain. The CB3819 gene and the CB4543 gene from C. beijerinckii, the pct gene from C. perfringens and the pct gene from K. pneumoniae, which encodes putative CoA transferase gene, respectively, was co-expressed with the Pseudomonas sp. MBEL 6-19 phaC1437 gene encoding engineered Pseudomonas sp. MBEL 6-19 PHA synthase 1 ($PhaC1_{Ps6-19}$) to examine its activity for the construction of key metabolic pathway to produce poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-lactate) [P(3HB-co-LA)]. The recombinant E. coli XL1-Blue expressing the phaC1437 gene and CB3819 gene synthesized poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) [P(3HB)] homopolymer to the P(3HB) content of 60.5 wt% when it was cultured in a chemically defined medium containing 20 g/L of glucose and 2 g/L of sodium 3-hydroxybutyrate. Expression of the phaC1437 gene and CB4543 gene in recombinant E. coli XL1-Blue also produced P(3HB) homopolymer to the P(3HB) content of 51.2 wt% in the same culture condition. Expression of the phaC1437 gene and the K. pneumoniae pct gene in recombinant E. coli XL1-Blue could not result in the production of PHAs in the same culture condition. However, the recombinant E. coli XL1-Blue expressing the phaC1437 gene and the C. perfringens gene could produce poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-lactate [P(86.4mol%3HB-co-13.7 mol%LA) up to the PHA content of 10.6 wt% in the same culture condition. Newly examined CoA transfereases in this study may be useful for the construction of engineered E. coli strains to produce PHA containing novel monomer such lactate.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물공학회 2001년도 추계학술발표대회
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• pp.70-73
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• 2001

Isopentenyl diphosphate (IPP) is the common, five-carbon building block in the biosynthesis of all isoprenoids. IPP in Escherichia coli is synthesized through the non-mevalonate pathway. The first reaction of IPP biosynthesis in E. coli is the formation of 1-deoxy-D-xylulose-5-phosphate(DXP), catalyzed by DXP synthase and encoded by dxs. The second reaction in the pathway is the reduction of DXP to 2-C-methyl-D-erythritol-4-phosphate, catalyzed by DXP reductoismerase and encoded by dxr. To determine if one of more of the reactions in the non-mevalonate pathway controlled flux to IPP, dxs and dxr were placed on several expression vectors under the control of three different promoters and transformed into three E. coli strains ($DH5{\alpha}$, XL1-Blue, and JM101) that had been engineered to produce lycopene, a kind of isoprenoids. Lycopene production was improved significantly in strains transformed with the dex expression vectors. At arabinose concentrations between 0 and 1.33 mM, cells expressiong both dxs and from $P_{BAD}$ on a midium-copy plasmid produced 1.4 -2.0 times more lycopene than cells expressing dxs only. However, at higher arabinose concentrations lycopene production in cell expressing both dxs and dxr was lower than in cells expression dxs only. A comparison of the three E. coli strains trasfomed with the arabinose-inducible dxs on a medium-copy plasmid revealed that lycopene production was highest in XL1-Blue.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2002

토양으로부터 phytate 분해능이 뛰어난 phytate를 생산하는 균주를 분리 동정한 결과 Escherichia coli로 동정되었고, E. coli WC7으로 명명하였다. 이 균주가 생산하는 phytase를 ammonium sulfate 침전, Phenyl-Sepharose, DEAE-Sepharose, CM-Sepharose, Resoure S, Mono S 컬럼 크로마토그래피를 이용한 분리정제를 수행하여 정제도 1,250 배, 수율 30%로 정제하였고 640 Unit/mg의 비활성을 얻었다. 또한 정제된 phytase는 SDS-PAGE에서 분자량 45kDa인 단일 subunit로 이루어진 단일효소임을 확인하였다. E. coli WC7 phytase의 최적 pH는 5.0, 최적 온도는 $60^{\circ}C$였으며, pH 2.0-12까지 안정하였다. 열안정성에서는 $60^{\circ}C$이상에서 급격한 활성의 감소를 보여 초기 활성의 20% 활성만을 나타내었다. Phytase의 N-말단 아미노산 서열은 Ser-Glu-Pro-Clu-Leu-Lys-Leu-Glu-Ser-Val-Val이었으며 이는 E. coli 유래의 pH 2.5 acid phosphatase와 아주 큰 유사성을 보였다. S. coli WC7 phytase의 유전자를 확보하기 위해 E. coli acid phosphatase의 DNA sequence를 바탕으로 한 primer들을 이용하여 PCR 클로닝을 수행하였으며 증폭된 PCR fragment를 pUC19 벡터에 클로닝 하고 DNA 염기서열을 결정하였다. 그 결과 1.2 kbp의 WC7 phytase 유전자의 ORF를 확인하였으며 432개의 아미노산으로 이루어진 분자량 44,716 Da의 단백질을 확인 할 수 있었다. 대부분의 acid phosphatase 효소들의 active site라고 추정되는 active site motif인 RHGXRXP가 N-terminal 쪽에 존재하고 있었다. pUEP를 이용하여 E. coli XL1-Blue에서 phytase를 발현시켰을 때 효소의 생산량이 17.5 U/ml로서 원균주의 23배 활성을 가졌으며,효소의 비활성 및 pH 안정성 측면에서 높은 산업적 이용가능성을 볼 때 사료첨가제 효소로의 개발을 기대할 수 있을 것이라 판단된다.

• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.145-149
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• 2004

The expression of a fusion protein comprised of the B. thuringiensis crystal protein, Cry1Ac, and enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) in Escherichia coli XLl-blue was examined. Three recombinant plasmids were transformed into E. coli XL1-blue and named as ProAc/Ec, MuEGFP/Ec and ProMu-EGFP/Ec, respectively. All transformants were observed by light and fluorescence microscopy at mid-log phase. The expression in E. coli transformants, ProMu-EGFP/Ec and MuEGFP/Ec, exhibited bright enough fluorescence to be observed. Furthermore, ProMu-EGFP/Ec produced fluorescent inclusions, which may have been recombinant crystals between EGFP and Cry1Ac while MuEGFP/Ec expressed soluble EGFP in cell. In SDS-PAGE, ProAc/Ec had 130 kDa crystal protein band and MuEGFP/Ec had thick 27 kDa EGFP band. However, ProMu-EGFP/Ec had about 150 kDa fusion protein band. Accordingly, these results indicated that a fusion protein between the B. thuringiensis crystal protein and a foreign protein under the lacZ promoter was successfully expressed as granular structure in E. coli. It is suggested that the E. coli expression system by N-terminal fusion of B. thuringiensis crystal protein may be useful as excellent means for fusion expression and characterization of B. thuringiensis fusion crystal protein.

• BMB Reports
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• 제36권5호
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• pp.493-498
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• 2003

The scFv antibody towards the Burkholderia pseudomallei exotoxin was previously constructed by phage display and exhibited good specificity towards the exotoxin. We report here the optimization of the scFv expression in an E. coli expression system. Four different E. coli strains (ER2537, TG1, HB2151, and XL1-Blue) were examined for optimal expression of the scFv protein. Two types of carbon source (i.e. 0.2% glucose and 0.2% glycerol) were also tested for their ability to induce the scFv expression. Cells that carried the scFv construct were grown at $30^{\circ}C$ and induced with 0.05 mM IPTG. The expression was then monitored by SDS-PAGE, Western blotting, and indirect ELISA. The Western blot profile showed different levels of the scFv expression among the host strains; XL1-Blue exhibited the highest level of the scFv protein expression. Glycerol at a concentration of 0.2% (v/v) significantly increased the scFv protein expression level when compared to 0.2% (w/v) glucose. Further optimization demonstrated that the scFv protein expression in XL1-Blue was the most optimal with a glycerol concentration as low as 0.05%. However, by indirect ELISA, only the scFv protein that was expressed in 0.2% (v/v) glycerol exhibited high specificity towards the Burkholderia pseudomallei exotoxin.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.147-149
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• 1996

Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) was synthesized and accumulated intracellularly to a high concentration (7 g/l) by cultivating recombinant Escherichia coli XL1-Blue (pSYLl05) in a complex medium containing 20 g/l glucose. The morphology of PHB granules was examined by transmission electron microscopy. The PHB granules synthesized in recombinant E. coli were much larger than reported values for wild type microorganisms, and were often irregularly shaped. Some cells were apparently extruding PHB into the medium, which suggests that PHB granules maintain some fluidity and cells become fragile due to PHB accumulation.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.722-725
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• 1999

Filamentation-suppressed recombinant Escherichia coli strain harboring the Alcaligenes latus polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) biosynthesis genes and the E. coli ftsZ gene was constructed and cultivated for the production of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) [P(3HB)] with high concentration and high content. By the pH-stat fed-batch culture of this recombinant E. coli strain XL1-Blue(pJC5), the final cell concentration and P(3HB) concentration obtained in 44.25h were 172.2g cell dry weight/l and 141.9g P(3HB)/l, respectively, resulting in productivity of 3.21g P(3HB)/l-h. More importantly, the P(3HB) content obtained was 82.4 wt %, which was significantly higher than that obtained with the recombinant E. coli harboring only the PHA biosynthesis genes.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.657-663
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• 1996

Pseudomonas sp. P20 isolated from the polluted environment is capable of degrading biphenyl and 4-chlorobiphenyl. The pcbABCD genes responsible for degradation of biphenyl and 4-chlorobiphenyl were cloned using pBluescript SK(+) from the chromosomal DNA of Pseudomonas sp. P20 to construct pCK1 and pCK102, harbouring pcbABCD and pcbCD, respectively. The 2, 3-DHBP dioxygenase gene, pcbC, was cloned again from pCK102 by using pKT230 which is known as a shuttle vector and pKK1 hybrid plasmid was constructed. The E. coli KK1 transformant obtained by transforming the pKK1 into E. coli XL1-Blue showed 2, 3-DHBP dioxygenase activity. The specific 2, 3-DHBP dioxygenase activity of E. coli KK1 was similar to that of the E. coli CK102, but much higher than those of the natural isolates, Pseudomonas sp. DJ-12 and Pseudomonas sp. P20.

• 한국생명과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생명과학회 2001년도 제34회 학술심포지움
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• pp.3-8
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• 2001

Isopentenyl diphosphate (IPP) is the common, five-carbon building block in the biosynthesis of all carotenoids, IPP in Escherichia coli is synthesized through the non-mevalonate pathway. The first reaction of IPP biosynthesis in E. coli is the formation of 1-deoxy-D-xylulose-5-phosphate (DXP), catalyzed by DXP synthase and encoded by dxs. The second reaction in the pathway is the reduction of DXP to 2-C-methyl-D-erythritol-4-phosphate, catalyzed by DXP reductoisomerase and encoded by dxr. To determine if one or more of the reactions in the non-mevalonate pathway controlled flux to IPP, dxs and dxr were placed on several expression vectors under the control of three different promoters and transformed into three E. coli strains (DH5(, XL1-Blue, and JM101) that had been engineered to produce lycopene. Lycopene production was improved significantly in strains transformed with the dxs expression vectors. When the dxs gene was expressed from the arabinose-inducible araBAD promoter (PBAD) on a medium-copy plasmid, lycopene production was 2-fold higher than when dxs was expressed from the IPTG-inducible trc and lac promoters (Ptrc and Plac, respectively) on medium-copy and high-copy plasmids, Given the low final densities of cells expressing dxs from IPTG-inducible promoters, the low lycopene production was probably due to the metabolic burden of plasmid maintenance and an excessive drain of central metabolic intermediates. At arabinose concentrations between 0 and 1.33 mM, cells expressing both dxs and dxr from PBAD on a medium-copy plasmid produced 1.4 - 2.0 times more lycopene than cells expressing dxs only. However, at higher arabinose concentrations lycopene production in cells expressing both dxs and dxr was lower than in cells expressing dxs only. A comparison of the three E. coli strains transformed with the arabinose-inducible dxs on a medium-copy plamid revealed that lycopene production was highest in XL1-Blue.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.40-46
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• 1994

Polychlorinaed biphenyls(PCBs) 와 biphenyl을 분해하는 Pseudomonas sp. DJ-12에서는 그 초기 분해과정에 pcb ABCD 유전자들이 관여하고 있음이 밝혀졌다. 그 중 pcbCD와 pcdD 유전자를 E. coli XL1-Blue에 클로닝하여 E. coli CU103 과 CU105 균주를 각각 제조하였다. E. coli CU103은 2,3-dehydroxybuphenyl dioxygenase(2,3-DHBP)와 meta-cleavage compound(MCP) hydrolase를 생성하여 2,3-dihydroxybiphenyl을 benzoate로 변환시켜 주었다. E. coli CU1 과 CU103 에서 pcbC 유전자의 산물인 2,3-DHBP dioxygense의 활성도는 Pseudomonas sp. DJ-12에서 보다 약 17배 높았으며, E. coli CU105에서 pcbD의 산물인 MCP hydrolase는 약 3배 더 높게 나타났다.