A kind of method of producing adenosylmethionine with metabolic engineering bacteria
Technical field
The present invention relates to the correlation technique of biotechnology, metabolic engineering and fermentation engineering, specifically, the present invention relates to utilize biotechnology to make up the methanol yeast genetic engineering bacterium, (S-adenosyl-L-methionine, SAM) synthetic metabolism stream comes high yield SAM to utilize this genetic engineering bacterium to strengthen adenosylmethionine.
Background technology
Adenosylmethionine is an intermediary metabolism substance important in the organism, participates in numerous biological respinses.SAM is as the metabolic main methyl donor of organism; participated in the synthetic of important physiologically active substances such as creatine, suprarenin, epiphysin and choline directly; ribose, the proteinic modification that methylates have also been participated in; also be active precursor such as sulfocompounds such as gsh, halfcystine, taurine and coenzyme As, most important to safeguarding HUMAN HEALTH.SAM becomes the clinical prescription medicine from the eighties, and Germany, Italy and Spain have the Duo Jia pharmaceutical factory to produce, and are used for the treatment of liver disorder, sacroiliitis and dysthymia disorders etc.1999, U.S. FDA approved SAMe went on the market as healthcare products, rapidly the U.S. become one of best-selling nutritious prod (poplar is waited quietly. pharmacy progress, 2001,25 (3): 164~167).China is populous, liver dysfunction, arthritic that significant proportion is wherein arranged, in addition, with the quickening pace of modern life with the increase of operating pressure, the patients with depression showed increased, advantages such as SAM effect and side effect in health care is little have huge market outlook, and market demand will increase constantly.
SAM can extract from microbial fermentation, and chemosynthesis or enzymatic are synthetic to be obtained.Chemical method is synthetic distinct disadvantage such as productive rate is low, racemism, and seldom by practical application (Matos J R et al.Biotechnol Appl Biochem, 1987,9:39~52).Although enzyme process synthesizes reaction product purity height, cost is too high, generally only be used for the synthetic isotope mark SAM (Reed B R et al.1986, EP0189322).Some microorganisms can be by cellular metabolism, cylinder accumulation SAM.Especially some bacterial strains of belonging to of yeast Saccharomyces, in substratum, there is a certain amount of methionine(Met), just can in cell, transform and accumulate SAM (Shiozaki S et al.Agric Biol Chem, 1984,48 (9): 2293~2300) of higher concentration.Therefore, by fermentation, zymetology conversion, the extraction purifying SAM of microorganism, be the major industry production approach of present SAM.
The production of SAM is always based on fermentation (Shiozaki S, Yamada H et al., US4562149,1985 of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae in S accharomyces cerevisiae; Shiozaki S, Yamada H et al.Arig Biol Chem, 1989,53:3269~3274).In early days, SAM produces bacterium and obtains by screening wild bacterium separation on a large scale, Shiozaki is by screening 300 multi-strain bacteria strains, be separated to a strain Saccharomyces sake K-6 bacterium (Shiozaki S et al., Agric BiolChem, 1984,48 (9): 2293~2300), SAM that can output 1.55g/L when the 10ml substratum ferments in a small amount; Further optimize culture condition, this bacterium is cultivated SAM output after 7 days up to 10.8g/L (Shiozaki S et al.Journal of Biotechnology, 1986,4:345~354) in the 10L fermentor tank.This is the production peak of being found on various patents and the periodical at present.Although SAM content is very high in the brewing yeast cell, but because brewing yeast cell can not be with high density growth, the thalline output is lower in the unit's of making fermentation volume, and, for fermentation in wild yeast saccharomyces cerevisiae obtains high SAM output, must prolong fermentation period, can reduce fermented quality on the one hand, increase fermentation costs on the other hand greatly.
The methanol yeast Pichia pastoris that develops rapidly at bioengineering field is used for the manufacture order cell protein the earliest in recent years, be compared to traditional yeast saccharomyces cerevisiae, Pichia pastoris has: (1) is the energy high-density growth in basic salt culture medium, and realizes high biological accumulation amount.Large scale fermentation can reach high cell density (dry cell weight of>130g/L) and biological transformation ratio (12g stem cell/Lh).(2) have powerful and stringent controlled promotor, can accurately control expression of exogenous gene.(3) expression strain is more stable, and expression plasmid is difficult for losing.These characteristics, especially high-density growth make it possess with extremely low cost and produce mesostate in the cell.Yet the intracellular SAM content of wild-type methanol yeast is extremely low.The development of genetic engineering technique and the progress of study metabolic pathways make that on purpose engineered cells becomes possibility.
Thank in the network at the sulfo-of organism, the biosynthesizing of SAM is synthetic through SAM synthetic enzyme [EC 2.5.1.6] catalysis by substrate L-Met and ATP.The isozyme that two kinds of SAM synthetic enzyme are arranged in the S.cerevisiae cell is SAM synthetase 1 and SAM synthetic enzyme 2, and the consistence of both aminoacid sequences is up to 92%.The SAM synthetase 1 is responsible for the most of SAM in the synthetic cell, suppresses phenomenon but the SAM synthetase 1 shows stronger product, and in the presence of excessive Met, transcribing of it is suppressed; SAM synthetic enzyme 2 then shows different control methods, it transcribe the inhibition that is not subjected to Met, before cell grew into stationary phase, SAM synthetic enzyme 2 amounts of genes encoding increased (ThomasD et al.Mol Gen Genet with growth, 1991,226:224~232).We believe the methanol yeast Pichia pastoris genetic engineering bacterium of the SAM synthetic enzyme 2 that makes up recombinant expressed S.cerevisiae source, help fermentative production SAM.
In about the existing report of Pichia pastoris, when expressing exogenous protein, alcohol oxidase 1 (AOX1) promotor is to use at most, higher one of expression efficiency, numerous protein has obtained successful expression (Joan L C, James M C.FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 2000,24:45~66).
According to above-mentioned technical thought, among Yuan of Shanghai Inst. of Biochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences one, Li Dongyang and Ji Xinsong provide a kind of method of producing adenosylmethionine, this method has been applied for Chinese patent, and number of patent application is 01132379.5, and the applying date is November 30 calendar year 2001.This invention utilizes methanol yeast to be the host bacterium, by cloning SAM synthetic enzyme 2 genes of known yeast saccharomyces cerevisiae, this enzyme gene is fitted into the expression vector of methanol yeast, and place under the AOX1 promoter regulation, this plasmid is transformed into the methanol yeast cell through after the linearizing, has obtained transformant.The reorganization bacterium that this method utilization obtains is expressed through methanol induction and produces SAM earlier through growing in glycerine.
But the AOX1 expression system is owing to the toxicity of methyl alcohol pair cell and the glycerine reasons such as inhibition to methanol induction, must be earlier in fermentor tank through glycerine vegetative period (seeing the embodiment 6 of this application) of 1-2 days, limit the quantity of subsequently and add glycerine and make cell grow into proper density, just add methyl alcohol at last and begin abduction delivering, the whole cycle reaches 7-12 days, the method of this abduction delivering, the difficult control of condition on the one hand, microbiological contamination easily; The later stage fermentation mass ratio that ferments on the other hand is relatively poor, and production cost is corresponding to higher.The 8 days SAM output of fermenting reaches 1.72g/l.
And Glycerose 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAP) is although promotor just is in the news recently, but because its fermentation condition is fairly simple, need not to induce, can the constitutive expression foreign protein make advantages such as fermentation period is relatively shorter, more and more receive publicity, for large-scale industrial production, particularly favourable (Hans RWaterham et al.Gene, 1997,186:37~44).And the expression of exogenous gene under the GAP regulation and control, only need to make sole carbon source with cheap carbon sources such as glycerine, reduce production costs greatly.
The present invention be to Chinese Academy of Sciences's Shanghai biochemical research the improvement of 01132379.5 patent application, SAM synthetic enzyme 2 genes with Saccharomyces Cerevisiae in S accharomyces cerevisiae source place under the GAP promoter regulation first, integration is reconstituted in methanol yeast Pichia pastoris, with the genetic engineering bacterium fermentative production SAM of this constitutive expression.In the hope of providing a kind of not only high yield but also condition is simple, the method for the fermentative production SAM of the low and suitable industrial applications of cost.
Summary of the invention
The purpose of this invention is to provide a kind of simple, cycle weak point, high yield, low-cost fermentation production of adenosine methionine(Met) (S-adenosyl-L-methionine, method SAM).
The present invention designs two single-minded primers according to SAM synthetic enzyme 2 genes (login M23368) in the source of the S.cerevisiae among the GeneBank, and pcr amplification obtains this enzyme gene.SAM synthetic enzyme 2 genes that derive from yeast saccharomyces cerevisiae that the clone is obtained are fitted among the expression vector pGAPZ α A of methanol yeast, obtain expression plasmid pGAPZ α A-SAM2, make SAM synthetic enzyme 2 genes place under the control of promotor GAP.
The expression plasmid that more than obtains is through after the linearizing, and the method that transforms by protoplastis or electricity is transformed into methanol yeast Pichia pastoris host cell GS115.Promoter sequence in this expression plasmid or 3 ' end sequence by with Pichia pastoris chromosomal DNA homologous recombination, make SAM synthetic enzyme 2 gene integrations of external source go in the yeast chromosomal, and in reconstitution cell, stably obtain expressing.It is this that to be integrated in chromosomal recombinant expressed mode stronger than the stability of the plasmid expression form of duplicating separately, after even the experiment of Ohi shows this type of reorganization bacterium continuous passage through 83 generations, karyotype and expressing quantity all do not have obvious variation (H Ohi.yeast, 1998,14:895~903).
Because the expression plasmid that is integrated in the yeast contains the Zeocin resistant gene, make reorganization methanol yeast cell on the resistant panel that contains certain Zeocin concentration, to grow.We just utilize resistance screening to the positive colony cell very easily.
For filtering out the engineering bacteria of the present invention of high expression level, different strains to be cultivated in containing the fermention medium of an amount of methionine(Met), cell can utilize the methionine(Met) in the substratum to do substrate under the catalysis of SAM synthetic enzyme 2, synthetic and accumulation SAM in cell.Just screen according to expression amount and to obtain a plant height and produce bacterial strain.This bacterial strain has carried out preservation on June 10th, 2002 at China Committee for Culture Collection of Microorganisms common micro-organisms center, and preserving number is CGMCC No.0746, classification called after Pichiapastoris.
This high yield engineering bacterium fermentation condition is optimized, and the result shows that carbon source, pH and dissolved oxygen are bigger to the cumulative effect of SAM.As carbon source, add a certain amount of methionine(Met) with glycerine, and add a certain amount of glycerine during the fermentation, the 4 days SAM output of fermenting reaches 2.2g/L, is compared to unloaded contrast bacterium output and has improved more than 100 times.
Utilize method fermentative production SAM of the present invention, output is higher than the report of be correlated with patent and document both at home and abroad.And this method fermentation condition is simple, high yield, cost are low, is suitable for suitability for industrialized production.
Effect of the present invention:
One aspect of the present invention has overcome in the method for existing production SAM, the very high but very low shortcoming of thalline output SAM in the unit fermentation volume of SAM content in the brewing yeast cell.That utilizes that methanol yeast has can be in basic salt culture medium middle-high density growth, and realize high biological accumulation amount, large scale fermentation can obtain the characteristics of high cell density and biological transformation ratio, SAM synthetic enzyme 2 genes that derive from yeast saccharomyces cerevisiae are placed under the regulation and control of promotor GAP, recombinant expressed in the methanol yeast cell, make in the cell synthetic and accumulate a large amount of SAM.
On the other hand, external source SAM synthetic enzyme 2 genes under the GAP regulation and control are constitutive expression in P.pastoris, do not need to induce, and, only use cheap glycerine as carbon source, expression condition is very simple, fermentation period is very short, stable yield, and this will reduce production costs greatly.The reorganization bacterium that we obtain, after having optimized fermentation condition, the 4 days SAM output of fermenting just reaches 2.2g/L.Volume productivity reaches 0.55g/L/d.Output and productive rate are higher than the report of relevant patent and document both at home and abroad.Application number is 01132379.5 patent application, ferments 8 days, and SAM output is 1.72g/L, and volume productivity is 0.22g/L/d.Therefore, utilize method fermentative production SAM of the present invention, output is higher, cost is lower, is more suitable for suitability for industrialized production.
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Fig. 1 is the synoptic diagram of recombinant expression plasmid.
Fig. 2 produces curve for the SAM of reorganization bacterium.
Embodiment
Experiment material and method:
1. bacterial strain and reagent
P.pastoris host bacterium GS115 (his4), expression plasmid of yeast pGAPZ α A are Invitrogen company product.Cloned plasmids pUCm-T carrier is preserved (as the T carrier) for this chamber.E.coli bacterial strain TG1 is in order to clone step.
Used T
4Dna ligase, Taq archaeal dna polymerase and restriction enzyme are all available from Takara company.Glue reclaims test kit available from Shanghai Zheng Gu biotech firm.Other all reagent are homemade or the import analytical reagent.
2. substratum
YPDS/Zeocin (10g/L yeast extract paste, 20g/L peptone, 20g/L glucose, 15g/L agar, 1mol/L sorbyl alcohol, 100mg/L Zeocin), YPD (10g/L yeast extract paste, the 20g/L peptone, 20g/L glucose), fermention medium A (10g/L yeast extract paste, the 10g/L peptone, 0.05mol/L potassium phosphate buffer pH6.0,13.4g/L YNB, 4 * 10
-4The g/L vitamin H, 30g/L glycerine), fermention medium B (10g/L yeast extract paste, 10g/L peptone, 0.05mol/L potassium phosphate buffer pH6.0,13.4g/L YNB, 4 * 10
-4The g/L vitamin H, 30g/L glycerine, 0.05mol/L L-methionine(Met))
3, conventional molecular biology operation
The extracting of S.cerevisiae genomic dna, gene clone are pressed the method (.1995 such as Ao Sibai, fine works molecular biology experiment guide, the third edition) of Ao Sibai etc. and are carried out.
The present invention can further illustrate by following embodiment:
The structure of the recombinant expressed SAM synthetic enzyme 2 plasmid pGAPZ α A-SAM2 of embodiment 1 methanol yeast
1, design of primers and PCR reaction
SAM synthetic enzyme 2 genes (accession number M23368) according to the source of the S.cerevisiae among the GeneBank, design two single-minded primers:
5’primer?TAT
TTCGAAACC
ATGGCCAAGAGCAAAACT
3’primer?GCGGCCGC
GAATTCAGCCTAGCATAAAGAAA
Comprise ribosome bind site at design gene 5 ' end primer, introduced a Nsp V restriction enzyme site simultaneously.Gene 3 ' end primer has comprised near the sequence the terminator codon TAG, and has introduced an EcoRI restriction enzyme site.
The total DNA of extracting S.cerevisiae genome karyomit(e) (.1995 such as Ao Sibai, fine works molecular biology experiment guide, the third edition), with the S.cerevisiae chromosomal DNA is template, add a certain amount of primer, Taq archaeal dna polymerase and dNTP mixture, carry out pcr amplification, PCR reaction conditions such as table 1:
Table 1
Step | Temperature | Time | Cycle number |
Initial sex change | ??94℃ | ??5min | ????1 |
Sex change | ??94℃ | ??30sec | ????5 |
Annealing | ??42℃ | ??30sec |
Extend | ??72℃ | ??3min |
Sex change | ??94℃ | ??30sec | ????30 |
Annealing | ??55℃ | ??1min |
Extend | ??72℃ | ??3min |
Extend at last | ??72℃ | ??10min | ????1 |
2, the clone of PCR product
The PCR product adopts the Shanghai DNA of Zheng Gu biotech firm glue to reclaim the pcr amplified fragment that test kit reclaims the 1200bp size after 1% agarose electrophoresis.Be convenient later operation, with the PCR product subclone that reclaims to the pUCm-T carrier.The plasmid pUCm-SAM2 that obtains after with the two enzymes of Nsp V and EcoRI the SAM2 gene being cut out, is fitted into methanol yeast plasmid pGAPZ α A, obtains expression plasmid pGAPZ α A-SAM2.
The expression plasmid pGAPZ α A-SAM2 (seeing accompanying drawing 1) that obtains all can be obtained fragment about 1200bp through Nsp V and EcoRI double digestion and pcr amplification, consistent with theoretical SAM2 gene.Show after the order-checking that the SAM2 gene order of delivering among itself and the GeneBank is identical.
Embodiment 2 expresses the structure of the reconstitution cell of external source SAM synthetic enzyme 2
1, electricity transforms the preparation of methanol yeast cell
GS115 is in 50ml YPD substratum in inoculation, and 28~30 ℃ are cultured to OD
600Be 1.3~1.5,0~4 ℃, the centrifugal 10min of 4000rpm, bacterial sediment is respectively washed once with the freezing sorbyl alcohol of the freezing sterilized water of 50ml, the freezing sterilized water of 25ml and 2ml 1M respectively, wash equal 0~4 ℃ of back at every turn, the centrifugal 10min of 4000rpm also collects thalline, and is at last that the centrifugal somatic cells is resuspended with the freezing sorbyl alcohol of 100 μ l 1M, promptly obtains the electric shock competent cell.
2, recombinant expression plasmid pGAPZ α A-SAM2 electricity transformed competence colibacillus yeast cell
With the about 10 μ g of the recombinant expression plasmid pGAPZ α A-SAM2 Avr II linearization for enzyme restriction that builds, ethanol sedimentation reclaims linear DNA and is dissolved in the 10 μ l sterilized waters, simultaneously empty carrier pGAPZ α A plasmid is also reclaimed in contrast with identical linearization for enzyme restriction.Above-mentioned linearizing DNA is mixed with 80 μ l GS115 electricity transformant respectively, adopt Bio-Rad electricity conversion instrument GenePulser electric shock to transform, electric conversion condition is: voltage 1500V, electric capacity 25 μ F, resistance 200 Ω.Transform the sorbyl alcohol that adds the precooling of 1ml 1M ice bath in the cup to electricity immediately, and electric converted product transferred to respectively in the aseptic Eppendorf tube, 28~30 ℃ of insulation 1h, add the 0.5mlYPD substratum, 28~30 ℃ of insulation 1.5h, the centrifugal 5min of 6000rpm with 80 μ l supernatant re-suspended cells, coats the YPDS/Zeocin flat board.28~30 ℃ of cultivations are up to single bacterium colony occurring.
3, the multiple sieve of resistant strain
From the YPDS/Zeocin flat board that grows bacterium colony, to put successively with aseptic toothpick and to receive on the fresh YPDS/Zeocin flat board, 28~30 ℃ of cultivations are until single bacterium colony occurring.
SAM in the embodiment 3 in a small amount quick extracting cells
The centrifugal collection of the fermented liquid of known cell concn adds isopyknic 20% perchloric acid in 4 ℃ of extractings more than one hour, and 12000rpm with the membrane filtration of supernatant with 0.2 μ m, therefrom gets 20 μ l after centrifugal 5 minutes, the quantitative SAM of last sample HPLC.
High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) standard measure of embodiment 4 SAM
Sulphur atom in the SAM molecule has positive charge, and this characteristic makes it to come analyzing and testing with ion exchange column.(4.6 * 250mm), moving phase is strong cation type ion exchange column Hypercil 10 SCX: 0.5M formic acid (pH4.0), flow velocity 2.0ml/min, the optical density(OD) of detection 254nm.Adopt external standard method, promptly the typical curve of doing according to the peak area of the SAM standard substance of different concns comes quantitatively.
The mensuration of embodiment 5 SAM synthetic enzyme vigor
In 10mL fermention medium A (10g/L yeast extract paste, 10g/L peptone, 0.05mol/L potassium phosphate buffer pH6.0,13.4g/L YNB, 4 * 10
-4The g/L vitamin H, 30g/L glycerine) cultivate after 5 days for 28~30 ℃ in, centrifugal collection thalline (4000rpm * 10min, 4 ℃), and use lysis buffer---50mM potassium phosphate buffer (pH7.4), 5% glycerine (V/V), the mercaptoethanol of 5mM and the EDTA of 1mM (methyl-phenoxide of adding 1mM and the PMSF of 1mM are as proteinase inhibitor) clean once.Add the long-pending pickling glass pearl of thalline monoploid and the lysis buffer of 4 times of volumes, handled lysing cell 10 minutes in 0~4 ℃ with ultrasonic wave (in maximum output, 50% work period).Granulated glass sphere and cell relic are through 0~4 ℃, and 10000rpm removed in centrifugal 15 minutes.Crude extract is through 0~4 ℃, and 12000rpm after centrifugal 30 minutes, keeps supernatant.
Set the reaction mixture of 1ml, wherein contain the L-methionine(Met) of 20mM, the ATP of 20mM, the reduced glutathion of 8mM, the MgCl of 20mM
2, the KCl of 100mM, the Tris-HCl of the pH7.4 of 150mM and an amount of cell pyrolysis liquid were 37 ℃ of incubations 60 minutes.The reaction that does not add the L-methionine(Met) is as blank.After reaction finished, 20% perchloric acid solution that adds 1ml stopped the centrifugal precipitation of removing.The gained supernatant is analyzed the content of SAM by HPLC.
Through 5 days cultivation, the enzyme activity of measuring the reorganization bacterium can reach 0.41 gram SAM/ hour/rise cell pyrolysis liquid, be compared to host bacterium GS115 less than 0.01 gram SAM/ hour/rise cell pyrolysis liquid, vigor has improved more than 40 times (table 2) at least.As seen, just because of external source SAM synthetic enzyme 2 expression of gene, improved reorganization bacterium SAM synthetic enzyme vigor.
The comparison of SAM output and SAM synthetic enzyme 2 vigor in table 2 reorganization bacterium and the wild mycetocyte
Wild bacterium reorganization bacterium SAM output (grams per liter)<0.001 0.041SAM synthetic enzyme vigor (restrain SAM/ hour/rise cell pyrolysis liquid)<0.01 0.41
Embodiment 6 reorganization bacterium fermentative production SAM
With the Pichia pastoris transformant inoculation 3ml YPD test tube that filters out, 28~30 ℃ of 300r/min overnight incubation contain in the 50mL centrifuge tube of 10mL fermention medium B with the access of 1% inoculum size.28~30 ℃ of 300r/min cultivate.Add glycerine to 0.1% since the 48th hour every 24h, cultured continuously 6 days.SAM is accumulation faster in the reorganization bacterium, and 96h can reach 2.2g/L, and decline is arranged subsequently slightly, is compared to the highest only 0.019g/L of unloaded contrast bacterium, and output has improved more than 100 times of (see figure 2).