• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.206-212
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• 1999

The gene orf7(oxi III) was expressed using an E. coli system in anticipation that it would encode dTDP-glucose 4,6-dehydratase which is involved in the biosynthesis of the olivose moiety of chlorothricin produced from Streptomyces antibioticus Tu99. The solubility of the expressed protein increased up to 20% under optimal induction conditions. The expressed protein was purified from the E. coli BL 21(DE3) cell lysate by a 28.5-fold purification in two chromatography steps with a 38% recovery to near homogeneity. The molecular weight and N-terminal amino acid sequence of the purified protein correlated with the predicted mass and sequence deduced from the orf7 gene. The purified protein was a homodimer with a subunit relative molecular weight of 38,000 Dalton. The expressed protein was found to exhibit dTDP-glucose 4,6-dehydratase activity and be highly specific for dTDP-glucose as a substrate. The values of K'm and V'max for dTDP-glucose were 28 $\mu$M and 295 nmol $min^{-1} (mg protein)^{-1}$, respectively. dTTP and dTDP were strong inhibitors of this enzyme.$NAD^+$, the coenzyme for dTDP-glucose 4,6-dehydratase, was tightly bound to the expressed protein.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물공학회 2000년도 추계학술발표대회 및 bio-venture fair
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• pp.749-754
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• 2000

알려진 dTDP-D-glucose 4,6-dehydratase의 amino acid 서열로 부터 primer를 제작하여 내열성 균주인 Thermus caldophilus GK24에서 colony hybridization 과정을 거쳐 dTDP-D-glucose 4,6-dehydratase를 포함하는 cosmid DNA를 얻었다. 유전자 분석을 위해 cosmid DNA를 subclone 하여 작은 크기로 분리하였다. 분리된 cosmid를 pSMTC-1 으로 명명하고 pSMTC-1를 BamHI으로 반응시켜 BamHI 단편 모두를 pGEM 7(+)를 이용하여 subclone 하였다. 각각의 이름은 크기에 따라 pKCB10(1.2kb-BamHI), pKCB20(1.6kb-BamHI), pKCB30(2.Ikb-BamHI), pKCB40(2.5kb-BamHI), pKCB50(2.5kb-BamHI), pKCB60(2.7kb-BamHI), pKCB70(3.4kb-BamHI), pKCB80(4.4kb-BamHI), pKCB90(7.0kb-BomHI) 으로 명명하였다. 각각의 subclone된 유전자를 분석하기 위해 Erase-a-base 방법을 이용하여 template를 준비하였고 이를 자동 염기서열 분석기를 이용하여 염기서열을 분석하였다. 염기서열분석 결과 pKCB80(4.2kb)에 dTDP-D-glucose synthase(orfA) 유전자를 비롯하여 dTDP-D-glucose 4,6-dehydratase(orfB), orfC (dTDP-4-keto-L-rhamnose reductase) 그리고 orfD(dTDP-4-keto-6-deoxy-D-glucose 3,5-epimerase)와 유사한 유전자들이 있음이 확인 되었고 dTDP-L-rhamnose의 생합성 과정을 예상할 수 있었다.