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A Cold-Adapted Carbohydrate Esterase from the Oil-Degrading Marine Bacterium Microbulbifer thermotolerans DAU221: Gene Cloning, Purification, and Characterization
1Department of Biotechnology, Dong-A University, Busan 604-714, Republic of Korea, 2Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Dong-A University, Busan 604-714, Republic of Korea
J. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 2014; 24(7): 925-935
Published July 28, 2014 https://doi.org/10.4014/jmb.1402.02033
Copyright © The Korean Society for Microbiology and Biotechnology.
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- Laemmli UK. 1970. Cleavage of structural proteins during the assembly of the head of bacteriophage T4. Nature 227:680-685.
- Lemak S, Tchigvintsev A, Petit P, Flick R, Singer AU, Brown G, et al. 2012. Structure and activity of the coldactive and anion-activated carboxyl esterase OLEI01171 from the oil-degrading marine bacterium Oleispira antarctica. Biochem. J. 445: 193-203.
- Liang WQ, Wang ZY, Li H, Wu PC, Hu JM, Luo N, et al. 2005. Purification and characterization of a novel pyrethroid hydrolase from Aspergillus niger ZD11. J. Agric. Food Chem. 53: 7415-7420.
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Copyright © The Korean Society for Microbiology and Biotechnology.
A Cold-Adapted Carbohydrate Esterase from the Oil-Degrading Marine Bacterium Microbulbifer thermotolerans DAU221: Gene Cloning, Purification, and Characterization
Yong-Suk Lee 1, Jae Bok Heo 2, Je-Hoon Lee 1 and Yong-Lark Choi 1*
1Department of Biotechnology, Dong-A University, Busan 604-714, Republic of Korea, 2Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Dong-A University, Busan 604-714, Republic of Korea
Abstract
A cold-adapted carbohydrate esterase, CEST, belonging to the carbohydrate esterase family 6,
was cloned from Microbulbifer thermotolerans DAU221. CEST was composed of 307 amino acids
with the first 22 serving as a secretion signal peptide. The calculated molecular mass and
isoelectric point of the mature enzyme were 31,244 Da and pH 5.89, respectively. The catalytic
triad consisted of residues Ser37, Glu192, and His281 in the conserved regions: GQSNMXG,
QGEX(D/N), and DXXH. The three-dimensional structure of CEST revealed that CEST
belongs to the α/β-class of protein consisted of a central six-stranded β-sheet flanked by eight
α-helices. The recombinant CEST was purified by His-tag affinity chromatography and the
characterization showed its optimal temperature and pH were 15°C and 8.0, respectively.
Specifically, CEST maintained up to 70% of its enzyme activity when preincubated at 50°C or
60°C for 6 h, and 89% of its enzyme activity when preincubated at 70°C for 1h . The results
suggest CEST belongs to group 3 of the cold-adapted enzymes. The enzyme activity was
increased by Na+ and Mg2+ ions but was strongly inhibited by Cu+ and Hg2+ ions, at all ion
concentrations. Using p-nitrophenyl acetate as a substrate, the enzyme had a Km of 0.278 mM
and a kcat of 1.9 s-1. Site-directed mutagenesis indicated that the catalytic triad (Ser37, Glu192,
and His281) and Asp278 were essential for the enzyme activity.
Keywords: Cold-adapted enzyme, carbohydrate esterase, Microbulbifer thermotolerans, purification, esterase, marine bacterium
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- Al Khudary R, Venkatachalam R, Katzer M, Elleuche S, Antranikian G. 2010. A cold-adapted esterase of a novel marine isolate, Pseudoalteromonas arctica: gene cloning, enzyme purification and characterization. Extremophiles 14: 273-285.
- Altschul SF, Madden TL, Schaffer AA, Zhang Z, Miller W, Lipman DJ. 1997. Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programs. Nucleic Acids Res. 25: 3389-3402.
- Aurilia V, Parracino A, Saviano M, Rossi M, D’Auria S. 2007. The psychrophilic bacterium Pseudoalteromonas halosplanktis TAC125 possesses a gene coding for a cold-adapted feruloyl esterase activity that shares homology with esterase enzymes from γ-proteobacteria and yeast. Gene 397: 51-57.
- Ay F, Karaoglu H, Inan K, Canakci S, Belduz AO. 2011. Cloning, purification and characterization of a thermostable carboxylesterase from Anoxybacillus sp. PDF1. Protein Expr. Purif. 80: 74-79.
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- Biely P. 2012. Microbial carbohydrate esterases deacetylating plant polysaccharides. Biotechnol. Adv. 30: 1575-1588.
- Bitto E, Bingman CA, McCoy JG, Allard STM, Wesenberg E, Phillips Jr GN. 2005. The structure at 1.6 Å resolution of the protein product of the At4g34215 gene from Arabidopsis thaliana. Acta Crystallogr. D Biol. Crystallogr. D61: 1655-1661.
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- Gerday C, Aittaleb M, Bentahir M, Chessa JP, Claverie P, Collins T, et al. 2000. Cold-adapted enzymes: from fundamentals to biotechnology. Trends Biotechnol. 18: 103-107.
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- Kulakova L, Galkin A, Nakayama T, Esaki N. 2004. Coldactive esterase from Psychrobacter sp. Ant300: gene cloning, characterization, and the effects of Gly → Pro substitution near the active site on its catalytic activity and stability. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 169: 59-65.
- Laemmli UK. 1970. Cleavage of structural proteins during the assembly of the head of bacteriophage T4. Nature 227:680-685.
- Lemak S, Tchigvintsev A, Petit P, Flick R, Singer AU, Brown G, et al. 2012. Structure and activity of the coldactive and anion-activated carboxyl esterase OLEI01171 from the oil-degrading marine bacterium Oleispira antarctica. Biochem. J. 445: 193-203.
- Liang WQ, Wang ZY, Li H, Wu PC, Hu JM, Luo N, et al. 2005. Purification and characterization of a novel pyrethroid hydrolase from Aspergillus niger ZD11. J. Agric. Food Chem. 53: 7415-7420.
- Lopez-Cortes N, Reyes-Duarte D, Beloqui A, Polaina J, Ghazi I, Golishina OV, et al. 2007. Catalytic role of conserved HQGE motif in the CE6 carbohydrate esterase family. FEBS Lett. 581: 4657-4662.
- Margesin R, Feller G. 2010. Biotechnological applications of psychrophiles. Environ. Technol. 31: 835-844.
- Miyazaki M, Nogi Y, Ohta Y, Hatada Y, Fujiwara Y, Ito S, Horikoshi K. 2008. Microbulbifer agarlyticus sp. nov. and Microbulbifer thermotolerans sp. nov., agar-degrading bacteria isolated from deep-sea sediment. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 58: 1128-1133.
- Ohgiya S, Hoshino T, Okuyama H, Tanaka S, Ishizaki K. 1999. Biotechnology of enzymes from cold-adapted microorganisms, pp. 17-34. In Margesin R, Schinner F (eds.). Biotechnological Applications of Cold-Adapted Organisms, Heidelberg, SpringerVerlag.
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- Ohta Y, Nogi Y, Miyazaki M, Li Z, Hatada Y, Ito S, Horikoshi K. 2004. Enzymatic properties and nucleotide and amino acid sequences of a thermostable β-agarase from the novel marine isolate, JAMB-A94. Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem. 68: 1073-1081.
- Park IH, Kim SH, Lee YS, Lee SC, Zhou Y, Kim CM, et al. 2009. Gene cloning, purification, and characterization of a cold-adapted lipase produced by Acinetobacter baumannii BD5. J. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 19: 128-135.
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- Salameh MA, Wiegel J. 2007. Purification and characterization of two highly thermophilic alkaline lipases from Thermosyntropha lipolytica. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 73: 7725-7731.
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- Weisburg WG, Barns SM, Pelletire DA, Lane DJ. 1991. 16S ribosomal DNA amplication for phylogenetic study. J. Bacteriol. 173: 697-703.
- Wei Y, Schottel JL, Derewenda U, Swenson L, Patkar S, Derewenda S. 1995. A novel variant of the catalytic triad in the Streptomyces scabies esterase. Nature 2: 218-223.
- Winkler UK, Stuckman M. 1979. Glycogen, hyaluronate and some other polysaccharides greatly enhance the formation of exolipase by Serratia marcescens. J. Bacteriol. 138: 663-679.
- Yoshida S, Mackie RI, Cann IKO. 2010. Biochemical and domain analyses of FSUAxe6B, a modular acetyl xylan esterase, identify a unique carbohydrate binding module in Fibrobacter succinogenes S85. J. Bacteriol. 192: 483-493.
- Zhai Y, Li K, Song JL, Shi YH, Yan YC. 2012. Molecular cloning, purification and biochemical characterization of a novel pyrethroid-hydrolyzing carboxylesterase gene from Ochrobactrum anthropi YZ-1. J. Hazard. Mater. 221-222: 206212.