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- Title
Directed evolution of an exoglucanase facilitated by a co-expressed β-glucosidase and construction of a whole engineered cellulase system in Escherichia coli.
- Authors
Liu, Min; Xie, Wenping; Xu, Haoming; Gu, Jiali; Lv, Xiaomei; Yu, Hongwei; Ye, Lidan
- Abstract
A novel high-throughput screening method is proposed for the directed evolution of exoglucanase facilitated by the co-expression of β-glucosidase, using the glucose released from filter paper as the screening indicator. Three transformants (B1, D6 and G10) with improved activity were selected from 4,000 colonies. The specific activities of B1, D6 and G10 for releasing glucose were, respectively, 1.4-, 1.3- and 1.6-fold higher than that of the wild type. The engineered exoglucanase gene was inserted into an expression vector carrying the previously engineered endoglucanase and β-glucosidase genes, and transformed into Escherichia coli to form a completely engineered cellulase system that showed 8.2-fold increase in glucose production (relative activity) compared to the cells equipped with wild-type enzymes. To our knowledge, this is the first report for directed evolution of an exoglucanase using insoluble cellulose as the screening substrate.
- Subjects
PROTEIN engineering research; EXOGLUCANASE; BETA-glucosidase; ESCHERICHIA coli; CELLULASE
- Publication
Biotechnology Letters, 2014, Vol 36, Issue 9, p1801
- ISSN
0141-5492
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10529-014-1541-2