title: The polyester polyurethanase gene (pueA) from Pseudomonas chlororaphis encodes a lipase.
abstract: A gene (pueA, polyurethane esterase A) encoding an extracellular polyurethanase (PueA) was cloned from Pseudomonas chlororaphis into Escherichia coli. The enzyme secreted from E. coli showed esterase activity when assayed with p-nitrophenyl acetate. Subcloning of a 3. 2-kb SalI-EcoRI fragment into a T7 RNA polymerase expression vector (pT7-6) produced a (35)S-labeled protein of 65 kDa. Nucleotide sequencing of pueA showed an open reading frame encoding a 65-kDa protein of 617 amino acid residues, with the serine hydrolase consensus sequence GXSXG. PueA was over-expressed using the pT7-6 vector transformed into E. coli BL21(DE3) and was purified in one step using Sephadex G-75.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Southeastern Louisiana University, SLU 10736, Hammond, LA, USA.
authors.forename: R V
authors.initials: RV
authors.lastname: Stern
authors.forename: G T
authors.initials: GT
authors.lastname: Howard
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics; D015723:Gene Library; D008049:Lipase / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D011140:Polyurethanes / Q000378:metabolism*; D011549:Pseudomonas / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D011140:Polyurethanes; C408182:pueA protein, Pseudomonas chlororaphis; D008049:Lipase