title: Active lactonizing lipase (LipL) efficiently overproduced by Pseudomonas strains as heterologous expression hosts.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.
authors.forename: Ken
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Omori
authors.forename: Junko
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Isoyama-Tanaka
authors.forename: Fumio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ihara
authors.forename: Yasuhiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamada
authors.forename: Takuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nihira
mesh_terms: 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
chemical_list: 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