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- Title
Thermococcus sp. KS-1 PPIase as a fusion partner improving soluble production of aromatic amino acid decarboxylase.
- Authors
Koyanagi, Takashi; Hara, Ayumi; Kobayashi, Kanako; Habara, Yuji; Nakagawa, Akira; Minami, Hiromichi; Katayama, Takane; Misawa, Norihiko
- Abstract
Peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerase (PPIase, EC 5.2.1.8) catalyzes the racemization reaction of proline residues on a polypeptide chain. This enzyme is also known to function as a molecular chaperon to stabilize protein conformation during the folding process. In this study, we noted FK506 binding protein (FKBP)-type PPIase from a hyperthemophilic archaeon Thermococcus sp. strain KS-1 (PPIase KS−1) to improve the solubility of Pseudomonas putida aromatic amino acid decarboxylase (AADC) that is an indispensable enzyme for fermentative production of plant isoquinoline alkaloids. AADC fused N-terminally with the PPIase KS−1 (PPIase KS−1-AADC), which was synthesized utilizing Escherichia coli host, showed improved solubility and, consequently, the cell-free extract from the recombinant strain exhibited 2.6- to 3.4-fold elevated AADC activity than that from the control strain that expressed the AADC gene without PPIase KS−1. On the other hand, its thermostability was slightly decreased by fusing PPIase KS−1. The recombinant E. coli cells expressing the PPIase KS−1-AADC gene produced dopamine and phenylethylamine from L-dopa and phenylalanine by two- and threefold faster, respectively, as compared with the control strain. We further demonstrated that the efficacy of PPIase KS−1-AADC in solubility and activity enhancement was a little but obviously higher than that of AADC fused N-terminally with NusA protein, which has been assumed to be the most effective protein solubilizer. These results suggest that PPIase KS−1 can be used as one of the best choices for producing heterologous proteins as active forms in E. coli.
- Subjects
PEPTIDYLPROLYL isomerase; AMINO acids; RACEMIZATION; CARRIER proteins; ISOMERASES; PROTEIN conformation; PHENYLALANINE; ISOQUINOLINE alkaloids
- Publication
AMB Express, 2021, Vol 11, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2191-0855
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s13568-021-01340-3