title: Development of innovative pediocin PA-1 by DNA shuffling among class IIa bacteriocins.
abstract: Pediocin PA-1 is a member of the class IIa bacteriocins, which show antimicrobial effects against lactic acid bacteria. To develop an improved version of pediocin PA-1, reciprocal chimeras between pediocin PA-1 and enterocin A, another class IIa bacteriocin, were constructed. Chimera EP, which consisted of the C-terminal half of pediocin PA-1 fused to the N-terminal half of enterocin A, showed increased activity against a strain of Leuconostoc lactis isolated from a sour-spoiled dairy product. To develop an even more effective version of this chimera, a DNA-shuffling library was constructed, wherein four specific regions within the N-terminal half of pediocin PA-1 were shuffled with the corresponding sequences from 10 other class IIa bacteriocins. Activity screening indicated that 63 out of 280 shuffled mutants had antimicrobial activity. A colony overlay activity assay showed that one of the mutants (designated B1) produced a >7.8-mm growth inhibition circle on L. lactis, whereas the parent pediocin PA-1 did not produce any circle. Furthermore, the active shuffled mutants showed increased activity against various species of Lactobacillus, Pediococcus, and Carnobacterium. Sequence analysis revealed that the active mutants had novel N-terminal sequences; in active mutant B1, for example, the parental pediocin PA-1 sequence (KYYGNGVTCGKHSC) was changed to TKYYGNGVSCTKSGC. These new and improved DNA-shuffled bacteriocins could prove useful as food additives for inhibiting sour spoilage of dairy products.
authors.affiliation: Saitama Industrial Technology Center North Institute, 2-133 Suehiro, Kumagaya, Saitama 360-0031, Japan. tominaga@saitama-itcn.jp
authors.forename: Tatsuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tominaga
authors.forename: Yoshinori
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hatakeyama
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001430:Bacteriocins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D032621:DNA Shuffling / Q000379:methods*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009154:Mutation; D000070017:Pediocins; D010376:Pediococcus / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D001430:Bacteriocins; D000070017:Pediocins; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; C074288:pediocin PA-1