• 미생물학회지
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• 제46권4호
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• pp.383-388
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• 2010

알칼리성 단백질 분해효소 고생산 돌연변이 균주 Vibrio metschnikovii L12-23, N4-8, KS1으로부터 알칼리성 단백질 분해효소를 암호화하는 vapK (Vibrio alkaline protease K) 유전자들을 PCR에 의하여 분리한 다음 DNA shuffling, error-prone PCR 방법과 같은 분자진화 기술을 통해 고활성 단백질 분해효소를 생산하는 재조합 V. metschnikovii 균주를 제작하였다. DNA shuffling 방법을 통해 변형시킨 vapK-1 유전자와 이 유전자를 주형으로 error-prone PCR 기법을 통해 재 변형된 vapK-2 유전자를 cloning한 후 V. metschnikovii KS1 균주에 역도입하여 재조합 균주를 제조하였다. 재조합 균주들의 단백질 분해 능력을 조사한 결과 vapK-2 유전자가 2 copy 도입된 재조합 균주의 경우 야생형 균주인 V. metschnikovii RH530에 비해 43.6배 높은 단백질 분해활성을 보였으며 숙주인 V. metschnikovii KS1에 비해 약 3.9배 향상된 단백질 분해 활성을 확인할 수 있었다. 변형된 vapK-1과 vapK-2 유전자를 야생형 vapK 유전자의 염기서열을 비교 분석한 결과 단백질 분해 능력의 활성에 영향을 미치는 active site를 제외한 부분에서 변화가 일어났음을 확인 할 수 있었다. 변형된 유전자 vapK-1을 two copy를 포함한 재조합 플라스미드를 가진 V. metschnikovii KS1을 30 L fermentor로 배양 하였을 때 배양 후 35 시간에 18,000 PU/ml의 활성을 보였으며, 이는 향후 산업용 균주로서 사용될 수 있는 가능성을 제시하였다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.89-97
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• 2015

Bacillus subtilis HK176 with high fibrinolytic activity was isolated from cheonggukjang, a Korean fermented soyfood. A gene, aprE176, encoding the major fibrinolytic enzyme was cloned from B. subtilis HK176 and overexpressed in E. coli BL21(DE3) using plasmid pET26b(+). The specific activity of purified AprE176 was 216.8 ± 5.4 plasmin unit/mg protein and the optimum pH and temperature were pH 8.0 and 40℃, respectively. Error-prone PCR was performed for aprE176, and the PCR products were introduced into E. coli BL21(DE3) after ligation with pET26b(+). Mutants showing enhanced fibrinolytic activities were screened first using skim-milk plates and then fibrin plates. Among the mutants, M179 showed the highest activity on a fibrin plate and it had one amino acid substitution (A176T). The specific activity of M179 was 2.2-fold higher than that of the wild-type enzyme, but the catalytic efficiency (k_cat/K_m) of M179 was not different from the wild-type enzyme owing to reduced substrate affinity. Interestingly, M179 showed increased thermostability. M179 retained 36% of activity after 5 h at 45℃, whereas AprE176 retained only 11%. Molecular modeling analysis suggested that the 176^th residue of M179, threonine, was located near the cation-binding site compared with the wild type. This probably caused tight binding of M179 with Ca²⁺, whichincreased the thermostability of M179.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제20권10호
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• pp.1393-1396
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• 2010

The attachment of sugar to flavonoids enhances their solubility. Glycosylation is performed primarily by uridine diphosphate-dependent glycosyltransferases (UGTs). The UGT from Bacillus cereus, BcGT-1, transferred three glucose molecules into kaempferol. The structural analysis of BcGT-1 showed that its substrate binding site is wider than that of plant flavonoid monoglucosyltransferases. In order to create monoglucosyltransferase from BcGT-1, the error-prone polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was performed. We analyzed 150 clones. Among them, two mutants generated only kaempferol O-monoglucoside, albeit with reduced reactivity. Unexpectedly, the two mutants harbored mutations in the amino acids located outside of the active sites. Based on the modeled structure of BcGT-1, it was proposed that the local change in the secondary structure of BcGT-1 caused the alteration of triglucosyltransferase into monoglucosyltransferase.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.394-400
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• 2006

이 연구의 최종 목표는 방향성 분자진화기술(directed molecular evolution)을 이용한 음이온에 안정한 papain의 개발이다. 음이온 안정성 papain 생산을 위한 유전자의 방향성 분자진화 방법 개발이 이루어졌으며 분자진화된 음이온 안정성 papain의 스크리닝 방법 개발됐다. 분자진화된 papain의 아미노산 서열 및 특성 분석과 분자진화된 재조합 papain의 생산방법 확립되었다. 분자진화된 재조합 papain의 formulation 및 제품 적용화 기술 개발이다. 연구 결과 Papain petidase IV 유전자의 확보 및 발현 균주 개발하였고 음이온 안정성 papain 유전자를 얻기 위한 분자진화의 방법 개발 및 조건 확립하였다. 분자진화 방법으로 error prone PCR 방법 확립, DNA shuffling을 통한 mutagenesis 방법 확립, staggered extension process 방법 확립 및 분자 진화된 음이온성 안정성 papain의 효율적 스크리닝 방법 개발하였다. Skim milk agar plate 이용, 활성 및 안정성이 뛰어난 개량형 papain을 Filter paper방법을 이용하여 screening 방법을 개발하였다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.1064-1069
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• 2008

Levan fructotransferase (LFTase) preferentially catalyzes the transfructosylation reaction in addition to levan hydrolysis, whereas other levan-degrading enzymes hydrolyze levan into a levan-oligosaccharide and fructose. Based on sequence comparisons and enzymatic properties, the fructosyl transfer activity of LFTase is proposed to have evolved from levanase. In order to probe the residues that are critical to the intramolecular fructosyl transfer reaction of the Microbacterium sp. AL-210 LFTase, an error-prone PCR mutagenesis process was carried out, and the mutants that led to a shift in activity from transfructosylation towards hydrolysis of levan were screened by the DNS method. After two rounds of mutagenesis, TLC and HPLC analyses of the reaction products by the selected mutants revealed two major products; one is a di-D-fructose-2,6':6,2'-dianhydride (DFAIV) and the other is a levanbiose. The newly detected levanbiose corresponds to the reaction product from LFTase lacking transferring activity. Two mutants (2-F8 and 2-G9) showed a high yield of levanbiose (38-40%) compared with the wild-type enzyme, and thus behaved as levanases. Sequence analysis of the individual mutants responsible for the enhanced hydrolytic activity indicated that Asn-85 was highly involved in the transfructosylation activity of LFTase.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.882-889
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• 2021

In order to use an enzyme industrially, it is necessary to increase the activity of the enzyme and optimize the reaction characteristics through molecular evolution techniques. We used the error-prone PCR method to improve the reaction characteristics of LipCA lipase discovered in Antarctic Croceibacter atlanticus. Recombinant Escherichia coli colonies showing large halo zones were selected in tributyrin-containing medium. The lipase activity of one mutant strain (M3-1) was significantly increased, compared to the wild-type (WT) strain. M3-1 strain produced about three times more lipase enzyme than did WT strain. After confirming the nucleotide sequence of the M3-1 gene to be different from that of the WT gene by four bases (73, 381, 756, and 822), the secondary structures of WT and M3-1 mRNA were predicted and compared by RNAfold web program. Compared to the mean free energy (MFE) of WT mRNA, that of M3-1 mRNA was lowered by 4.4 kcal/mol, and the MFE value was significantly lowered by mutations of bases 73 and 756. Site-directed mutagenesis was performed to find out which of the four base mutations actually affected the enzyme expression level. Among them, one mutant enzyme production decreased as WT enzyme production when the base 73 was changed (T→ C). These results show that one base change at position 73 can significantly affect protein expression level, and demonstrate that changing the mRNA sequence can increase the stability of mRNA, and can increase the production of foreign protein in E. coli.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제32권8호
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• pp.1041-1046
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• 2022

Nucleoside deoxyribosyltransferase (NDT) is an enzyme that replaces the purine or pyrimidine base of 2'-deoxyribonucleoside. This enzyme is generally used in the nucleotide salvage pathway in vivo and synthesizes many nucleoside analogs in vitro for various biotechnological purposes. Since NDT is known to exhibit relatively low reactivity toward nucleoside analogs such as 2'-fluoro-2'-deoxynucleoside, it is necessary to develop an enhanced NDT mutant enzyme suitable for nucleoside analogs. In this study, molecular evolution strategy via error-prone PCR was performed with ndt gene derived from Lactobacillus leichmannii as a template to obtain an engineered NDT with higher substrate specificity to 2FDU (2'-fluoro-2'-deoxyuridine). A mutant library of 214 ndt genes with different sequences was obtained and performed for the conversion of 2FDU to 2FDA (2'-fluoro-2'-deoxyadenosine). The E. coli containing a mutant NDT, named NDT^L59Q, showed 1.7-fold (at 40℃) and 4.4-fold (at 50℃) higher 2FDU-to-2FDA conversions compared to the NDT^WT, respectively. Subsequently, both NDT^WT and NDT^L59Q enzymes were over-expressed and purified using a His-tag system in E. coli. Characterization and enzyme kinetics revealed that the NDT^L59Q mutant enzyme containing a single point mutation of leucine to glutamine at the 59^th position exhibited superior thermal stability with enhanced substrate specificity to 2FDU.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물공학회 2003년도 생물공학의 동향(XII)
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• pp.445-449
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• 2003

As for the purpose, we first introduce an random mutation into wild-type gene to expand a mutation space, and then further recombine the mutant genes by staggered extension process PCR. As a result, we obtained the best clones 6-52 that showed a high activity and stability, from a round of error prone and staggered extension process PCR. The purified enzyme showed a similar pH stability to the wild-type enzyme and reveal a slightly high optimum pH at 12. In the optimum temperature, an identical dependency was also showed and a quite high stability in the thermal stability was obtained. Along with this, the enzyme was also stable at a reaction that supplement with a 15 % of ethanol as an additive. The addition of other solvents and surfactants did not improve the reaction and thus resulted in a similar profile to those of wild-type enzyme. The specific activity on the target compound rac-ketoprofen ethyl ester was calculated to be about 85, 000 unit, and the kinetic constants Km and Vmax were determined to be 0.2 mM and 90 mM/mg-protein/min respectively. The deduced amino acid alignment with the wild type enzyme revealed five mutations at L120P, I208V, T249A, D287H and T357A. Based on these observations, the site directed mutagenesis to delineate the mutagenic effect is under progress.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물공학회 2003년도 생물공학의 동향(XIII)
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• pp.480-484
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• 2003

A stereoselective-hydrolysing enzyme was cloned from Pseudomonas fluorescens KCTC1767 which had high enantiomeric activity toward (S)-ketoprofen ethyl ester. Analyses of typical properties resulted in low thermostability and substrate specificity. A round error-prone PCR and StEP(STaggered Extension Process) was adopted to evolute this character. As a result, the best clone 6-52 was selected which was represented to increased thermostability(40 fold) compared to wild type enzyme in $50^{\circ}C$. Additionally, specific activity toward (S)-ketoprofen ethyl ester and p-nitrophenyl derivatives improved 3 fold and 1.5 fold, respectively. DNA sequence analyses was showed some exchanged amino acid residue that was L120p, 1208v, T249A, D287H and T357A. Which the 120th's leucine substituted for proline was presumed structurally important residue concerning with catalytic activity.

• 한국미생물생명공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국미생물생명공학회 2000년도 Proceedings of 2000 KSAM International Symposium and Spring Meeting
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• pp.168-171
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• 2000

The thermal stability and catalytic activity of phospholipase A$_1$ from Serratia sp. MK1 were improved by an evolutionary molecular engineering. Two thermostable mutants were isolated after sequential rounds of error-prone PCR to introduce random mutations and filter-based screening of the resultant mutant library, and identified as having six (mutant TA3) and seven (mutant TA13) amino acid substitutions, respectively. Different types of the substitutions were found in two mutants, resulting in the increase of nonploar residues (mutant TA3) or changes between side chains within polar or charged residues (mutant TA13). The wild-type and mutant enzymes were purified, and the effect of temperature on their stability and catalytic activity was investigated. The T$\sub$m/ values of TA3 and TA13 were increased by 7 and 11$^{\circ}C$, respectively. Thus, evolutionary molecular engineering was found to be an effective and efficient approach to increasing thermostability without compromising enzyme activity.