Active lactonizing lipase (LipL) efficiently overproduced by Pseudomonas strains as heterologous expression hosts.
Pseudomonas sp. strain 109 secretes lactonizing lipase (LipL), which catalyzes efficient intramolecular transesterification of omega-hydroxyfatty acid esters to form macrocyclic lactones. Because Escherichia coli was found to be unsuitable as an expression host due to the predominant formation of inactive LipL-inclusion bodies and a lack of proper secretion machinery which is also required for the formation of active LipL, Pseudomonas strains were surveyed as expression hosts. Pseudomonas sp. strain 109, an original LipL producer, showed a 7.1-fold higher level of active LipL when the lipL gene under the control of tac-lacUV5 tandem promoter was introduced together with a limL gene encoding a LipL-specific chaperon. Pseudomonas aeruginosa ADD 1976 containing a T7 RNA polymerase gene in the chromosome and plasmid-borne lipL-limL genes under the control of T7 promoter showed a 13-fold higher level of active LipL. Several combinations in the number of lipL and/or limL genes on the plasmid were investigated, and (lipL)3-limL was found to be most efficient, yielding a 67-fold greater production of active LipL than that obtained by the wild-type Pseudomonas sp. strain 109.
Omori
Ken
K
Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.
Isoyama-Tanaka
Junko
J
Ihara
Fumio
F
Yamada
Yasuhiro
Y
Nihira
Takuya
T
D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000235:genetics; D001483:Base Sequence; D001709:Biotechnology / Q000379:methods*; D012321:DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases / Q000235:genetics; D018628:Gene Dosage; D015870:Gene Expression; D008049:Lipase / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000235:genetics; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010957:Plasmids / Q000235:genetics; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D011549:Pseudomonas / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics; D024363:Transcription Initiation Site; D015533:Transcriptional Activation; D014764:Viral Proteins / Q000235:genetics
D001426:Bacterial Proteins; C092194:LimL protein, Pseudomonas; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D014764:Viral Proteins; C062210:bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase; D012321:DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases; D008049:Lipase; C120013:lactonizing lipase protein, Pseudomonas