title: Reconstitution of active mycobacterial binuclear iron monooxygenase complex in Escherichia coli.
abstract: Bacterial binuclear iron monooxygenases play numerous physiological roles in oxidative metabolism. Monooxygenases of this type found in actinomycetes also catalyze various useful reactions and have attracted much attention as oxidation biocatalysts. However, difficulties in expressing these multicomponent monooxygenases in heterologous hosts, particularly in Escherichia coli, have hampered the development of engineered oxidation biocatalysts. Here, we describe a strategy to functionally express the mycobacterial binuclear iron monooxygenase MimABCD in Escherichia coli. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoretic analysis of the mimABCD gene expression in E. coli revealed that the oxygenase components MimA and MimC were insoluble. Furthermore, although the reductase MimB was expressed at a low level in the soluble fraction of E. coli cells, a band corresponding to the coupling protein MimD was not evident. This situation rendered the transformed E. coli cells inactive. We found that the following factors are important for functional expression of MimABCD in E. coli: coexpression of the specific chaperonin MimG, which caused MimA and MimC to be soluble in E. coli cells, and the optimization of the mimD nucleotide sequence, which led to efficient expression of this gene product. These two remedies enabled this multicomponent monooxygenase to be actively expressed in E. coli. The strategy described here should be generally applicable to the E. coli expression of other actinomycetous binuclear iron monooxygenases and related enzymes and will accelerate the development of engineered oxidation biocatalysts for industrial processes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Toshiki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Furuya
authors.forename: Mika
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hayashi
authors.forename: Kuniki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kino
mesh_terms: D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D004795:Enzyme Stability; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D015870:Gene Expression; D007501:Iron / Q000378:metabolism*; D060847:Metabolic Engineering; D006899:Mixed Function Oxygenases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D009097:Multienzyme Complexes / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D009161:Mycobacterium / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D012995:Solubility
chemical_list: D009097:Multienzyme Complexes; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D007501:Iron; D006899:Mixed Function Oxygenases
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