WO2004108942A1 - 新規なニトリルヒドラターゼ - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a technique for producing an amide compound from a tolyl compound by the enzyme-catalyzed action of a novel tolyl hydratase derived from a microorganism newly isolated from nature.
- the enzyme of the microorganism is used as a catalyst
- the method used is becoming mainstream.
- Such enzymes are generally called nitrile hydratases, but since the first report, a large number of enzymes have been discovered from various microorganisms.
- the genus Arthropacter Agricultural and Biological Chemistry Vol. 4 p. 2251-2252, 1980
- the genus Agrobacterium Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No.
- Rhodococcus genus Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 63-137688
- Hei 02-227069 JP 2002-369697, JP Hei 2-470
- Rhizobium lhizobium genus JP 05-23 6 9 7 7
- genus Pseudonocardia JP Hei 5-56684 Etc.
- These enzymes are diverse in their physicochemical properties based on the diversity of their amino acid sequences, and research has been conducted in line with various purposes.
- physicochemical properties as an example for which the elucidation of the stability to heat or an amidated compound or a nitrile compound etc. is progressing, there is a document related to a strain of Rhodococcus rhodochrous J1.
- the physicochemical properties of the enzyme it is desirable to have thermal stability, ditolyl hydratase as a substrate, and ditolyl hydratase which maintains high activity even in the presence of a high concentration of an amide compound as a product.
- the absolute value of these may vary depending on the embodiment of the enzyme used for the reaction and the kind of the tolyl compound, and an enzyme having all of them has not been found. Also, as a subject of improvement of physicochemical properties using evolutionary engineering etc. in the future, development of various enzymes with an unprecedented origin is desired.
- the object of the present invention is to isolate ditolyl hydratase having high stability to heat and high concentration compounds from the natural world, a method for producing the enzyme, and a corresponding amide compound from a nitril compound using the enzyme. It is to provide a manufacturing method. Further, the present invention provides the amino acid sequence and gene sequence of the enzyme, a recombinant plasmid containing the gene, a transformed strain containing the recombinant plasmid, a method of producing the enzyme using the transformed strain, and the trait It is an object of the present invention to provide a process for producing a corresponding amide compound from a ditolyl compound using a transformed strain. In addition, the amino acid sequence and gene sequence of a protein having an action of further activating the recombinant tolyl hydratase enzyme are also provided.
- the present inventors have studied diopylol as a microorganism having ditolylhydratase activity from the soil near the hot spring in Saitama Prefecture. It was found that Tinores ⁇ Samoglucosidesius (Geobacillus thermoglucosidasius).
- the microorganism of the genus Diobacterium has ditolyl hydratase and exhibits ditolyl hydratase activity, and the temperature of 65 ° C., which is usually used for culturing this microorganism, is the conventional ditolyl hydratase. This is above the normal culture temperature (45 ° C to 60 ° C) of the thermophilic bacterium carrying hydratase.
- a ditolyl hydratase enzyme was purified from the microorganism, and it was shown that its ditolyl hydratase activity has high stability to heat, high concentration ditryl compounds and amide compounds.
- the ditolyl hydratase gene was isolated from the chromosomal DNA of the microorganism, and the amino acid sequence and gene sequence were clarified for the first time. The homology with ditolyl hydratase was found to be very low.
- by simultaneously expressing an activation protein and a putative gene sequence existing downstream of the gene it has succeeded in creating a genetically modified strain that expresses a large amount of the enzyme, and the present invention is achieved. It came to
- the present invention provides the following.
- Molecular weight A protein composed of at least the following two types of subunits, and the molecular weight of each subunit by reduced SDS-polyacrylamide electrophoresis is as follows.
- the (f) 35 weight 0/0 of Akurironitoriru even acrylamide in an aqueous solution having an activity as a substrate.
- (C) A combination of a DNA containing the sequence of positions 695 to 1312 of the base sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3 in the sequence listing, and a DNA containing the sequence of position 1 681 of the base sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3 of the sequence listing. DNA characterized by consisting of.
- (D) A DNA comprising the sequence at positions 695-1312 of the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3 in the Sequence Listing, or one of the DNAs which hybridize under stringent conditions to the DNA.
- (C) A DNA comprising the sequence at positions 695-1312 of the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3 in the Sequence Listing, or one of the DNAs which hybridize under stringent conditions to the DNA.
- a DNA containing the sequence of positions 1255-1663 of the base sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3 in the sequence listing, or hybridizing to the DNA under stringent conditions and involved in the activation of nitrylhydratase Any one of the DNAs encoding the protein characterized by the feature is further characterized in that
- a method for producing a protein, or a treated product of a bacterial cell containing the protein which comprises culturing in a culture medium a microorganism which belongs to the genus Geobacillus and is capable of producing a protein having the following physicochemical properties. .
- Substrate specificity Activity is shown using acrylonitrile, adiponitrile, acetonitrile, isopropylonitrile, n -paleronitrile, n -butyronitrile, benzonitrile, hexaneditolyl as a substrate.
- Molecular weight A protein composed of at least the following two types of subunits, and the molecular weight of each subunit by reduced SDS-polyacrylamide electrophoresis is as follows.
- Molecular weight A protein composed of at least the following two types of subunits, and the molecular weight of each subunit by reduced SDS-polyacrylamide electrophoresis is as follows.
- the (f) 35 weight 0/0 of Akurironitoriru even acrylamide in an aqueous solution having an activity as a substrate.
- a protein comprising: an ⁇ -subunit containing the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 of the sequence listing, and a ⁇ -subunit containing the amino acid sequence described in SEQ ID NO: 2 of the sequence listing .
- a protein comprising: and a ⁇ -subunit encoded by one of the DNAs to be hybridized and having a tolyl hydratase activity.
- (C) above except in the case of (C) above.
- Molecular weight A protein composed of at least the following two types of subunits, which is a reduced SDS-polyacrylamide gel of each subunit: The molecular weight by motion is as follows
- Molecular weight A protein composed of at least the following two types of subunits, wherein the molecular weight of each subunit by reduced SDS-polyacrylamide electrophoresis is as follows:
- FIG. 1 shows the gene composition and the restriction enzyme map of the nitril hydratase / 3subunit, the ⁇ -subunit and the downstream gene group of the strain Diobacillus' thermo Dalcosidesius Q-6 (Geobacillus thermoglucosidas Q-6).
- having a tolyl hydratase activity means adding a water molecule to a tolyl compound, such as acetoamide in the case of acetonitrile, n-propioamide in the case of n-propioditolyl, and such as acrylamide in the case of acrylonitrile. It has an activity of converting it into an amide compound.
- the formed compound is separated by liquid chromatography, and then identified using gas chromatography Z mass spectrometry (GC, MS), infrared absorption spectrum (IR), nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum (NMR), etc. Do.
- Dorataze activity in the present invention include, for example, 0.1 weight 0/0 of nitrile compound solution (0. 0 5M-phosphate buffer pH7. 7) lm l in nitrile hydratase enzyme solution 1
- the reaction was stopped by adding 0 ⁇ l and keeping the reaction temperature at 27 to 60 ° C for 1 minute to 60 minutes, then adding 0.1 ml of IN HC1 to stop the reaction, and a portion of the reaction mixture was subjected to liquid chromatography. It can be analyzed graphically and the presence or absence of an amide compound can be assayed.
- the ditrilyl compound to be a substrate in the present invention is, for example, aliphatic 2-tolyl compounds such as acetonitrile, n-propioditolyl, n-butyronitrile, iso-peptronitrile, n-valeronitril, n-hexaneditolyl and the like 2-tolyl compounds containing a halogen atom such as 2-chloropropionitrile, acrylonitrile, crotononite Aliphatic ditolyl compounds containing unsaturated bonds such as lyl and metatallyronitrile, hydroxy tolyl compounds such as lactitol 2 trilyl and mandelonitrile, aminonitrile compounds such as 2-phenyldarinonitrile, and aromatic compounds such as benzonitrile and cyanopyridine And trinitrilyl compounds such as dinitrile compounds such as malonoditolyl, succinonitrile, adiponitrile and the
- the substrate specificity of the ditolyl hydratase of the present invention can be determined by measuring whether or not the substrate has ditolyl hydratase activity with respect to each substrate under various measurement conditions under the above-mentioned measurement conditions. it can. If substrate specificity is wide, increased the range of the corresponding amide compound kills with production, preferred, this enzyme is at least, ⁇ Tarironitoriru, adiponitrile, Asetonitoriru, I Su Wu Ciro nitrile, n - bar Reronitoriru, n- butyronitrile, benzonitrile Hexaneditolyl can be used as a substrate. .
- the tolyl hydratase of the present invention can be prepared by reducing SDS (sodium-dodecyl-sulfate) -polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and using a molecular weight of 250 500 ⁇ 20 00 and a molecular weight of 280 800 ⁇ 20 0 Two subunits of 0 are detected by staining with Coomassie single blue, the former being called the ⁇ subunit and the latter being called the subunit.
- SDS sodium-dodecyl-sulfate
- the ditolyl hydratase of the present invention Prior to the activity measurement, the ditolyl hydratase of the present invention, even after heat treatment at 70 ° C. for 30 minutes in the state of an aqueous solution not containing a stabilizer such as an organic acid, the activity before heating 3 It can retain 5% activity.
- the ditolyl hydratase of the present invention the ⁇ -substitute shown by the sequence of 250 amino acids shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 in the sequence listing and the SEQ ID NO: 2 in the sequence listing It is mentioned as a preferable example that it is constituted by / 3 subunit represented by a sequence of 6 amino acids.
- Metals and other peptides may be contained in addition to these two subunits. In particular, iron and cobalt are often contained as the metal.
- proteins containing either one of these subunits may also be used.
- amino acid sequences of individual subunits one or more amino acid substitutions, deletions or insertions may be made in the amino acid sequence as long as they form a complex with other subunits and have dithiolhydratase activity.
- post-translational modification is also expected depending on the type of host.
- the cysteine residue is often modified to cysteine sulfinic acid or cysteine sulfenic acid after translation.
- An amino acid sequence in which 1 to 30 amino acids of the amino acid sequence are substituted, deleted, inserted or post-translationally modified is also mentioned as a preferred example, more preferably 1 to 10, still more preferably One to five, most preferably one to three.
- the ditolyl hydratase enzyme having an amino acid sequence having such substitution, deletion or insertion is described in known site-directed mutagenesis methods, for example, in Molecular Cloning 2nd Edition, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (1989). It can be obtained by introducing it into a host microorganism and expressing it, as described later, using DNA in which substitution, deletion or insertion has been introduced at the corresponding site of the base sequence by the method of It is also possible to try to create mutant enzymes with industrially desirable properties such as improved organic solvent resistance and changes in substrate specificity. In view of the state of the art, when they have ditolylhydratase activity, they are intended to be included in the present invention.
- the ditrinorehydratase having the above-mentioned physicochemical properties is, for example, It can be obtained by culturing a microorganism belonging to the genus Tillus.
- the microorganism used in the present invention may be any microorganism which belongs to the genus Diobacterium and has a hydration activity to convert a ditolyl compound into an amide compound.
- the microorganism is not particularly limited to microorganisms derived from the genus Diobacillus, and includes the gene for nitryl hydratase derived from other microorganism strains, such as the Agrobacterium (Agrobacterium) genus, and the like. Achromobactei spp., Acacia spp. /. ⁇ Kacti (Acinetobacter) sp., Air mouth monas (Aeromonas sp.), Erterobacter sp., Erwinia sp., Xanthobacter sp., Klebsiella sp.
- Corynebacterium Corynebacterium
- Sinorhizobium Pseudomonas, Pseudomonas, Streptomyces, Nocardia, Bacillus, Micrococcus, Rhodococcus (Rhodococcus) genus, Rhodopseudomonas (Rhodopseudomonas) genus, Rhizobimu (Rhizobiu) m) genus, such as the genus Pseudonocardia.
- screening was performed by the following method.
- a culture vessel A portion of the culture broth is taken and placed in a general-purpose culture medium for growing microorganisms, for example, a liquid medium containing glycerol, polypeptone, yeast extract and the like as a main component, and at a culture temperature of 65 ° C. Incubate for about 7 days.
- a general-purpose culture medium for growing microorganisms for example, a liquid medium containing glycerol, polypeptone, yeast extract and the like as a main component, and at a culture temperature of 65 ° C. Incubate for about 7 days.
- Microorganisms can be isolated by spreading a part of the culture solution thus obtained on an agar plate medium containing the above-mentioned microorganism growth medium components and further culturing at 65 ° C. to form colonies. .
- the microorganism thus obtained is used as a test tube or a flask containing a liquid medium obtained by further adding a nitrile compound such as n-valeroditolyl or an amide compound such as methacrylamide to the above-mentioned medium components, for a suitable period of time. For example, it is grown by shaking culture at a culture temperature of 65.degree. C. for about 12 hours to about 7 days, and the target microorganism is grown based on the above-mentioned method for determining ditolyl hydratase activity.
- a nitrile compound such as n-valeroditolyl or an amide compound such as methacrylamide
- the strain D. dichobacillus thermodulcosicius Q-6 is recognized as a new strain.
- the properties of the strain Ziobacillus thermodulcosidisus Q-6 are as follows.
- Attitudes towards oxygen facultative anaerobic.
- the method for culturing the microorganism used in the method of the present invention is carried out according to a general method for culturing a microorganism, and either solid culture or liquid culture is possible.
- Bacillus thermodulcosicius (Geobacillus thermoglucosidasius) Since the microorganism is a facultative anaerobic microorganism, it can be cultured under the same culture conditions as a normal facultative anaerobe
- the culture temperature can be appropriately changed within the growth range of the microorganism, for example,
- the pH of the culture medium can be, for example, 4 to 9.
- H can be raised at a culture temperature in the range of 45 ° C. to 72 ° C., preferably, '55 ° C. to 70 ° C.
- the culture time varies depending on various conditions. , Usually about 1 day to about 7 days
- various culture media appropriately used include common carbon sources, nitrogen sources, organic or inorganic salts, etc. used for general microorganisms etc.
- carbon sources glycerol, glucose, sucrose, Sugar-tight, organic acids, animal and vegetable oils, etc.
- Nitrogen sources include yeast extract, peptone, malt extract, meat extract, urea, sodium nitrate, etc.
- ditolyl compounds such as n-valeronitrile, isovaleronitrile, crotononitrile and the like, and ad compounds such as methacrylamide and the like.
- an addition amount for example, an appropriate amount in the range of 0.01 g to 10 g may be added to the culture medium 11.
- Fe ions or Co ions be present at not less than 0.1.times.ug zml.
- each subunit is separated by reduced SDS-polyacrylamide electrophoresis, and then each band is cut out from the gel to obtain amino acids by protein sequencing. It is possible to determine part of the sequence.
- the present invention relates to DNA encoding ditolyl hydratase.
- a DNA containing the position 695-1 132 of the base sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3 in the sequence listing and a DNA containing the position 1- 6 8 1 of the base sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3 in the sequence listing For example, each of them encodes the ⁇ subunit and the] 3 subunit, but is not limited thereto, and it may be a DNA containing this nucleotide sequence.
- the present invention can be applied to a DNA consisting of a complementary nucleotide sequence to these sequences, as long as the DNA can be hybridized under stringent conditions as long as it has 2-tolyl hydratase activity.
- these DNAs can be used to express the nitril hydratase of the present invention.
- stringent conditions for example, conditions described in the manual (wash: 42 ° C., 0.5 ⁇ SSC) using ECL direct nucleic acid labeling and detection system, manufactured by Amman Pharmacia Biotech, Inc., for example. Primary wash buffer) is included.
- DNA that can be hybridized under stringent conditions include, for example, the 695 of the base sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3 of the sequence listing under the above-mentioned stringent conditions.
- 50 or 50, particularly preferably at least 100 consecutive base sequence sequences are exemplified as DNAs that are hybridized.
- the DNA encoding ditolyl hydrolase of the present invention can be obtained by the following method.
- genetic recombination technology, recombinant protein production technology, analysis methods known in the art are employed.
- the DNA encoding the ditolyl hydratase of the present invention may be prepared according to the sequence information such as the base sequence or amino acid sequence disclosed in the present specification, and optionally the amino acid sequence determined from the above-mentioned purified enzyme. It can be obtained from a microorganism containing the tolyl hydratase of the present invention, for example, Thermo-Dalcosidesius strain Q-6. An oligonucleotide synthesized according to the amino acid sequence is used as a probe, and a DNA fragment obtained by digesting chromosomal DNA of a microorganism containing ditolylhydratase with a restriction enzyme is introduced into a phage plasmid to transform the host.
- sequence information such as the base sequence or amino acid sequence disclosed in the present specification, and optionally the amino acid sequence determined from the above-mentioned purified enzyme. It can be obtained from a microorganism containing the tolyl hydratase of the present invention, for
- primers are prepared according to the amino acid sequence information and the like of the N-terminus of both subunits determined from the above-mentioned purified enzymes, and a part of the nitrylhydratase gene is subjected to Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR).
- PCR Polymerase Chain Reaction
- the obtained DNA is inserted into a plasmid vector, for example, pUC118, cloned and cloned, and the base sequence is prepared by a known method such as the procedure of Dideoxy 'terminator (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. USA, 74: 5463-5467, 1977). Can make decisions.
- the gene thus prepared is one which encodes the expression product in an E. coli host transformed with said gene using the activity measurement method described above to code for nitryl hydratase D It can confirm that it is NA.
- the present invention provides a recombinant vector characterized in that the above-mentioned DNA is linked to the vector.
- the recombinant vector is linked downstream of one region of a promoter suitable for the host microorganism so that the 5 'end of the DNA obtained by the above method can function, and if necessary, downstream thereof.
- a transcription termination sequence can be inserted and prepared into an appropriate expression vector.
- Suitable expression vectors are not particularly limited as long as they can be replicated and grown in a host microorganism.
- a host capable of inserting a gene into a chromosome it is not necessary to have an autonomously replicable region in the host.
- strong promoters such as lac, trp, tac, trc, T7, PL or the promoter of pinolevin acid oxidase gene (Patent Publication No. 2 575 0 6), etc.
- the including pUC based, pGEX series, pET series, pT7 series, pBluescript series, pKK system, P BS type, pBC system, including pCAL system can be selected from any vectors usually used in E. coli.
- the alpha subunit gene and the subunit gene may be expressed as cistrons independent of the respective promoters, or may be expressed as polycistrons by a common promoter.
- each variant gene may be on a separate batter.
- the activity of ditolyl hydratase is further enhanced by incorporating DN DN expressing the gene downstream of the ditolyl hydratase gene of the present invention into the above-mentioned ditolyl hydratase exchange vector.
- DN DN expressing the gene downstream of the ditolyl hydratase gene of the present invention
- each gene may be on a separate vector. Good.
- the present invention relates to a protein involved in the activation of ditolyl hydratase.
- Provide a coding DNA Specifically, although positions 1 to 3 of positions 5 to 5 of the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3 in the sequence listing are exemplified, it is not limited thereto, and it may be any DNA containing this base sequence. Just do it. Moreover, it is a DNA which can be hybridized under stringent conditions to DNA consisting of a nucleotide sequence complementary to these sequences, and as long as it is involved in ⁇ -conversion of ditolyl hydratase, Included in the invention. That is, these DNAs can be used to further activate ditolyl hydratase of the present invention.
- the protein involved in the activation of the ditolyl hydratase of the present invention is a protein represented by the sequence of 112 amino acids shown in SEQ ID NO: 4 of the sequence listing, but the protein of ditolyl hydratase
- the amino acid sequence may have an amino acid sequence having one or more amino acid substitutions, deletions or insertions in the amino acid sequence as long as it has the ability to be involved in activation, and depending on the type of host It is naturally expected that they will receive modifications.
- amino acid sequences amino acid sequences in which 1 to 25 amino acids are substituted, deleted, inserted or post-translationally modified are also mentioned as a preferred example, more preferably 1 to 10, still more preferably 1 to 10. The number is five, and most preferably 1 to 3.
- the present invention also provides a transformant characterized in that the above-mentioned DNA is introduced into a host cell and transformed.
- the transformant is transformed with the host cell using the expression vector prepared by the above method. It can be acquired by replacing it.
- Host cells include microorganisms, mammalian cells, and plant cells, but it is preferable to use microorganisms.
- Examples of the microorganism include E. coli as in the examples described later, but not particularly limited thereto. Bacillus, Pseudomonas, Corynebacterium, Prebibacterium, Streptococcus, Rhodococcus, Actinomycetes Yeast etc. are exemplified.
- a gene into a host microorganism for example, it may be introduced into a preferable host by any conventional method known in the art, such as transformation, transduction, junctional transfer, or electroporation. it can.
- a microorganism capable of producing the nitrile hydratase for example, a microorganism of the genus Geobacillus, particularly preferably
- the enzyme can be obtained by appropriately combining known purification methods from the culture of 'Sammo cholecystis strain Q-6.
- the gene for nitrylhydratase may be transformed or transformed. It can also be obtained from transformants.
- the transformant is generally cultured in a medium containing a nutrient source that can be assimilated by these microorganisms,
- a medium containing a nutrient source that can be assimilated by these microorganisms
- it can be cultured by the usual method for producing enzymes and antibiotics.
- Culture may usually be liquid culture or solid culture.
- carbohydrates such as glucose and sucrose; alcohols such as sorbitol and glycerol; organic acids such as citric acid and acetic acid; carbon sources such as soybean oil or mixtures thereof; nitrogenous such as yeast extract, meat extract, ammonium sulfate and ammonia Inorganic organic nitrogen sources; inorganic nutrient sources such as phosphate, magnesium, iron, cobalt, manganese, potassium and the like; and a medium in which vitamins such as biotin and thiamine are appropriately mixed are used. More preferably, Fe or Co ions should be present at 0.1 ⁇ g or more in such a medium component. Culture conditions are usually preferably performed under aerobic conditions. The culture temperature is not particularly limited as long as the host microorganism can grow.
- the reaction is carried out at 5 ° C. to 80 ° C., preferably 20 to 70 ° C., and more preferably 25 to 42.
- the pH during culture is not particularly limited as long as the host microorganism can grow. However, it is usually 113 to 9, preferably 115 to 8, and more preferably pH 6 to 7. What is done is illustrated.
- a ditolyl compound can be produced using the enzyme of the present invention.
- the degree of purification is not particularly limited unless the action of the enzyme of the present invention is inhibited, and in addition to the purified enzyme of the present invention, the enzyme-containing material
- microorganisms that produce the enzyme or transformants transformed by introducing the gene of the enzyme may be used.
- cells may be used, and the cells may be viable cells, or may be treated with a solvent such as acetone or toluene or subjected to a treatment such as lyophilization to obtain a compound.
- cells with increased permeability may be an enzyme-containing material such as bacterial cell breakage or bacterial cell extract.
- the culture is separated into solid and liquid, and the obtained wet cells are subjected to buffer solution such as phosphate buffer or Tris-HCl buffer as needed.
- buffer solution such as phosphate buffer or Tris-HCl buffer as needed.
- the cells are suspended in water and then sonicated, treated with French press or powder treatment with glass beads, or treated with cell lysis enzymes such as lysozyme and the like, and the cell breakage treatment such as treatment is appropriately combined with the treatment.
- the enzyme can be extracted to obtain a crude solution containing nitrile hydratase. This crude enzyme-containing solution can be further purified, if necessary, by using known protein, enzyme isolation and purification means.
- an organic solvent such as acetone or ethanol is added to a crude enzyme-containing solution for fractional precipitation, or ammonium sulfate or the like is added for salting out, and a section containing nitrylhydratase is precipitated from an aqueous solution and recovered.
- An example is shown.
- purification can be performed by appropriately combining anion exchange, cation exchange, gel filtration, affinity chromatography using antibody and chelate, and the like.
- the cells or the treated product of the cells is suspended in an aqueous solution such as water or a buffer solution such as a phosphate buffer, and the reaction is allowed to proceed by adding an ethyl compound thereto.
- the concentration of the cells or treated cells thereof is 0.1% to 20% by weight, preferably 0.1% to 10% by weight.
- the upper limit of the reaction temperature is preferably 90 ° C., more preferably 85 ° C., more preferably 70 ° C.
- the lower limit of the reaction temperature is, for example, 1 ° C., preferably 4 ° C.
- the reaction pH can be, for example, 5 to 10, preferably 6 to 8, and the reaction time can be, for example, 1 to 72 hours.
- the amide compound can be formed and accumulated at a high concentration by gradually dropping the ditriyl compound.
- Example 1 Cell separation
- Isolated Isolated microorganism, was inoculated into liquid medium supplemented with n- Valero nitrile of 0.1 weight 0/0 to the medium of the same composition, by culturing for 24 hours at 6 5 ° C, two Trill assimilation A culture broth having high microorganisms was obtained. One ml of this culture broth was added to 9 ml of a 1.1 wt% acrylonitrile solution (0.05 M-phosphate buffer pH 7.7) to initiate a reaction at a reaction temperature of 27 ° C. After 10 minutes, the reaction was stopped by adding 1 ml of IN HC 1.
- a portion of the reaction mixture was analyzed by liquid chromatography (HPLC), and the presence or absence of acrylamide formation was assayed to screen microorganisms having nitrylhydratase activity.
- HPLC liquid chromatography
- a strain of D. subtilis S. modalicosidisus strain Q1 6 was obtained as a microorganism having a hydration activity for converting a two-tolyl compound into an amide compound.
- HITACHI D-7000 made by Hitachi
- the strain of the strain Diacillus thermochalcosidesius Q-6 obtained in Example 1 is applied to the agar plate medium containing the medium components used in Example 1, and culture is carried out at a plurality of different temperatures. I examined. The results are shown in Table 1.
- the strain D. dichobacillus' Thermo Dalcosidesius Q-6 showed normal breeding up to 70 ° C., and was able to grow at 72 ° C. table 1
- Example 3 Measurement of nitryl hydratase activity in the cells of Diobacillus thermodulcosicius Q-6 strain and its temperature dependency
- a sterile culture medium pH 7.0
- a culture solution of the strain Diobacillus thermodulcosicius Q-6 100 ml of a sterile culture medium (pH 7.0) containing 50 ⁇ l was placed in a 50 ml Erlenmeyer flask with 1 ml of a culture solution of the strain Diobacillus thermodulcosicius Q-6. Inoculated. This is cultured by rotary shaking at 20 ° O stroke / min for 1 day at 65 ° C. Body culture fluid was obtained. The cells are collected by centrifugation (10000 X g, 15 minutes) from 30 Om 1 of the cell culture of this D.bacillus thermoglucosidisius Q-6 strain, and the cells are collected with a 0.05 M phosphate buffer (pH 7.5). After washing, it was suspended in 5 Oml of the same buffer.
- the cell suspension thus prepared was reacted for 5 minutes according to the above-mentioned method to measure the hydration activity for converting the ditolyl compound into an amide compound.
- the unit of enzyme activity (unit) is defined as 1 unit (hereinafter referred to as U) of converting acrylonitrile to acrylamide in 1 minute.
- the activity (UZ mg) was 9.37 U / mg.
- the ditolyl hydratase activity was similarly determined under the conditions of 50 ° C., 60 ° C. and 70 ° C., and is shown in Table 2. As a result, when the cells were used in the reaction, the optimum temperature was around 60 ° C., and it showed particularly high activity at high temperatures.
- Table 2 Table 2
- Example 4 Thermostability of nitryl hydratase in cells of Diobacillus thermodulcosicius Q-6 strain
- the cells obtained by the culture method of Example 3 were used. It was suspended in distilled water so as to be U / ml, kept warm at a predetermined temperature for 30 minutes, and the residual activity was measured. Add 0.5 ml of incubation solution to 0.5 ml of 1 wt.% Solution in aqueous solution (0. 05 M potassium phosphate buffer, H7.5) and stir at 27 ° C. While the reaction started. After 5 minutes, the reaction was stopped by adding 100 / x L of 1 N hydrochloric acid.
- the activity after storage treatment with respect to the activity before storage treatment was calculated, and is shown in Table 3 as a conversion value based on the activity before storage treatment (100). From the results, it can be said that the enzyme activity of nitryl hydratase in the cells of the strain Diobacillus thermodulcosicius Q-6 is stably maintained even at high temperature, and 80% even at high temperature of 70 ° C. The above activity can be maintained, and even at a high temperature of 80 ° C., 30% or more activity can be maintained.
- Example 5 Reaction using various nitrile compounds as a substrate
- ORF 2 tolyl hydratase alpha subunit
- ORF 1 j3 subunit
- ORF 3 nitryl hydratase activating factor
- the cells obtained by cultivating D. bacillus thermodulcosicius Q-6 are cleaved, precipitated with ammonium sulfate, anion exchange column chromatography, D EAE column, hydroxyapatite column, gel filtration It was dialyzed by romatography, and the ditolyl hydratase enzyme was purified.
- Oligonucleotide degeneracy for gene amplification Primers were prepared, and degenerate PCR was performed using chromosome DNA extracted from the cells as a template to perform amplified PCR, to obtain an amplified DNA fragment. The amplified DNA fragment was cloned, and the nucleotide sequence of the insert fragment was determined.
- the amino acid sequence deduced from the base sequence is compared with the N-terminal amino acid sequence of the tolyl hydratase ⁇ - subunit and the sub-unit purified from the Bacillus subtilis Thermodulcosicius Q-6 strain, and the cloned sequence is a tortrylhydrator I confirmed that I was working on Ze.
- Oligonucleotide degenerate primers for gene amplification were prepared from sequences with high homology in downstream genes of various known ditolyl hydratase ⁇ subunits, and degenerate PCR was performed using chromosomal DN ⁇ extracted from the cells as a template. , Amplified DNA fragments were obtained. Amplified DNA fragment of the ⁇ subunit of the resulting strain was cloned and the nucleotide sequence was determined.
- the ditolyl hydratase alpha subunit and the j3 subunit of the strain Diobacillus thermochalcosidesius Q-6 obtained as described above were introduced into an appropriate expression vector.
- Appropriate host bacteria were transformed using the constructed expression plasmid. Examples of hosts include Rhodococcus, Coryne, and E. coli. Preferably, a host without an amidase is preferred. Furthermore, it was confirmed that acrylamide was formed by contacting atarironitrile with cells obtained by culturing the obtained transformant, and comparing the formation efficiency and nitrylhydratase activity.
- colony hybridization is performed using the DNA fragment obtained above as a probe to clone peripheral genes including downstream genes of ditolyl hydratase alpha subunit and subunit of the strain of Diobacillus thermochalcosidesius Q-6. did.
- downstream genes were coexpressed with nitryl hydratase alpha subunit and subunit and compared for nitryl hydratase activity. As a result, it was found that the downstream gene is a gene involved in activation that significantly increases di-yl hydratase activity.
- Example 6 Dibacillus thermothalcosideus Q-Purification of a ditolyl hydratase enzyme from strain 6-
- the ditolyl hydratase active fraction was purified by cultivating Dibacillus thermochalcosidesius Q-6 and applying it to various columns.
- the method for measuring the ditolylhydratase activity fraction in chromatography was performed as follows. To the eluate of each fraction diluted with HEPES buffer (100 mM, H 7.2), 1% by weight of phthalonitrile was added and reacted at 27 for 1 minute. The reaction was stopped by adding IN HC1 to a 10 liquid% reaction solution, and the formed acrylamide concentration was measured by the HPLC analysis method described in Example 1.
- n-parellonitrile glycerol 0.2% by weight, citric acid trisodium dihydrate 0.2 0/0, potassium dihydrogen phosphate 0.1% by weight, potassium hydrogen phosphate 0.1 wt%, Poripe Easthampton 0.1 wt 0/0, yeast extract 0.1 weight 0/0 sodium chloride 0.1 weight 0/0, n - Valero nitrile 0.1 wt 0/0, 0.02 wt% of magnesium sulfate heptahydrate, iron sulfate
- n-parellonitrile glycerol 0.2% by weight, citric acid trisodium dihydrate 0.2 0/0, potassium dihydrogen phosphate 0.1% by weight, potassium hydrogen phosphate 0.1 wt%, Poripe Easthampton 0.1 wt 0/0, yeast extract 0.1 weight 0/0 sodium chloride 0.1 weight 0/0, n - Valero nitrile 0.1 wt 0
- (F) bacillus thermothalcosidesius strain Q-6 was inoculated in 0.003% by weight of heptahydrate and 0.002% by weight of cobalt chloride hexahydrate, and cultured at 65 ° C. for 24 hours.
- a 96 well 2 ml deep bottom plate (CO STAR) was used. After completion of the culture, the cells were collected by centrifugation at 8000 g for 10 minutes, and 3 g of the obtained wet cells were resuspended in 20 mL of HEPES buffer (100 mM, pH 7.2).
- the cells were disrupted using an ultrasonic disrupter under cooling, and ammonium sulfate (30% saturation concentration) was added to the disrupted cells and gently stirred at 4 ° C. for 30 minutes, 20000 g, 10 minutes. Centrifugation was performed to obtain a supernatant. Ammonium sulfate (70% saturation concentration) was added to the supernatant of the centrifugation and gently stirred for 30 minutes at 4 ° C, and then the precipitate obtained by centrifugation at 20000 g for 10 minutes was added to 9 ml of HE PES buffer (100 mM) , PH
- 0.1 M phosphate aqueous solution (PH 7.2) was used as a developing solution, and the fraction was eluted by increasing potassium phosphate linearly from 0.01 M to 0.3 M, and the ditolyl hydratase activity was A fraction containing was obtained.
- Gel filtration chromatography (Pharmacs Biosciences, Inc .; Superde X 200 HR 10 /) using the fraction as a developing solution of 0.5 M aqueous sodium phosphate solution (PH 7.2) containing 0.1 M of 15 30) to obtain a ditolyl hydratase active fraction.
- the following example was carried out using the ditolyl hydratase active fraction of gel filtration chromatography thus obtained.
- Example 7 Reaction temperature dependency of ditolyl hydratase in ditolyl hydratase active fraction purified from Diobacillus thermodulcosidesius Q-6 strain
- tolyl hydratase active fraction solution (3.2 mg ZmL, 0.05 M phosphate buffer (pH 7.5)) derived from D. dichobacillus thermodulcosidesius strain Q-6, the reaction temperature shown in Table 5 was used.
- the nitril hydratase activity to convert the trileucine compound into an amide compound was measured. 1 mL of 0.5 wt 0/0 Akuriro nitriles solution (0. 05M potassium phosphate buffer, pH 7. 5) was added with nitrile hydratase active fraction solution, the reaction with stirring at the temperature It started. After 2 minutes, the reaction was stopped by adding 100 / x L 1 N hydrochloric acid.
- the unit of enzyme activity is defined as the activity to convert 1 ⁇ umol of acrylonitrile to acrylamide in 1 minute as 1 unit (hereinafter referred to as U), and the hydration activity per unit weight of enzyme (UZmg) Is shown in Table 5. From this result, the activity of ditolyl hydratase in the ditolyl hydratase active fraction purified from Diobacillus' Thermo Dalcosidesius Q-6 strain increases with the increase of the reaction temperature up to a high temperature of 60 ° C. The optimum temperature is considered to be in the vicinity of 60 ° C., as in the case of using the cells in the reaction, and exhibits a very high ditolyl hydratase activity even at a high temperature of 70 ° C. Table 5
- Example 8 Thermostability of ditolyl hydratase purified from Diobacillus thermodulcosidesius Q-6 strain
- the activity (residual activity) after storage treatment relative to the activity before storage treatment is calculated, and is shown in Table 6 as a conversion value based on the activity before storage treatment (100). From this result, the enzyme activity of nitryl hydratase in the aqueous solution in the nitril hydratase active fraction purified from Dibacillus * salmon glucosidisius Q-6 strain is stably retained even at high temperature. However, the activity of 60% or more can be maintained even at a high temperature of 60 ° C., and the activity of 35% or more can be maintained even at a high temperature of 70 ° C. Table 6
- Example 9 Atalilonitrile concentration dependence and concentration tolerance of ditolyl hydratase purified from Diobacillus thermodulcosidesius Q-6 strain
- Example 10 Acrylamide tolerance of nitril hydratase purified from Diobacillus thermodulcosidesius Q-6 strain
- ditolyl hydratase active fraction solution (3.2 mg / mL, 0.05 M phosphate buffer ( ⁇ 7 ⁇ 5)) of 0.5 weight 0/0 acrylonitrile and 35 weight 0/0 Akurirua including Mi de solution (0. 05 ⁇ potassium phosphate buffer, ⁇ 7. 5) of the The reaction solution was added to 1 ml, and the reaction was carried out for 10 minutes while stirring at 27 ° C., and the concentration of acrylate in the reaction solution was quantified by HPLC, and all acrylates were converted to acrylates.
- the eluate of the dibutyl hydratase active fraction in gel filtration chromatography obtained according to Example 6 was subjected to reduction type SDS-polyacrylamide electrophoresis under reducing conditions. After electrophoresis, protein staining with Coomassie Brilliant Blue (CB B) was carried out, and as a result of decolorization, two major bands having molecular weights of about 25 K Dalton and about 28 K Dalton were confirmed. These two major purified proteins are transferred to a PVDF membrane (MILLI PORE) using a blotter (BIO-RAD), and stained with CBB to adsorb the two bands of interest. Portions were cut from the PVD F membrane.
- MILLI PORE a PVDF membrane
- BIO-RAD blotter
- the N-terminal amino acid sequences of the two proteins were decoded using a fully automatic protein primary structure analyzer P P S Q 2 3 A (Shimadzu Corporation).
- P P S Q 2 3 A a fully automatic protein primary structure analyzer
- the N-terminal amino acid sequence of a protein having a molecular weight of 25 K daltons is the sequence described in SEQ ID NO: 23 in the sequence listing
- the N-terminal amino acid sequence of a protein having a molecular weight of 28 K daltons is The sequence of SEQ ID NO: 24 in the sequence listing.
- the polypeptide chain of 25K Dalton is ditolyl hydratase ⁇ -subunit and the polypeptide chain of 28 2 Dalton is ditolylhydratase] 3 subunit It showed homozygosity at a low level, suggesting that it encodes the protein.
- Primer 1 (a F 1) described in SEQ ID NO: 5 in Sequence Listing, Primer 2 (a F 2) described in SEQ ID NO: 6 in Sequence Listing, Primer 1 described in SEQ ID NO: 7 in Sequence Listing (a F 3) Primer 4 (o; R 1) described in SEQ ID NO: 8 in Sequence Listing, Primer 5 (a R 2) described in SEQ ID NO: 9 in Sequence Listing, SEQ ID NO: 10 in Sequence Listing Primer 6 (aR 3) described in SEQ ID NO: 11; Primer 7 ( ⁇ : 1) described in SEQ ID NO: 11; Primer 8 (/ 3 F 2) described in SEQ ID NO: 12 in Sequence Listing; Sequence number of sequence listing: Primer 9 F 3 listed in 1 3; Bra listed in sequence listing SEQ ID NO: 1 4 1 1 (j3 R 1), Primer 1 1 (/ 3 R 2) described in SEQ ID NO: 15 in the Sequence Listing, Primer 1 2 (/ 3 R 3) described in Sequence Listing SEQ ID NO: 16 ).
- y represents c or t
- r represents a or g
- m represents a or c
- k represents g or t
- s represents c or g
- w represents a or t
- d represents a, g or t
- n represents a, c, g or t.
- primers were prepared in consideration of the chromosomal position of the gene encoding the ⁇ subunit and the [3 subunit].
- Diobacillus ⁇ thermodulcosidesius Q-6 strain was cultured and recovered in the same manner as in Example 6; en om ic-tip S yst em (500 / G) kit was used to extract chromosomal DNA from cells.
- Degenerate PCR was carried out using 0.1 ⁇ g of chromosomal DNA of the strain Diobacillus thermodulcosicus Q-6 dissolved in TE solution as a template.
- the degenerate PCR is a combination of the primers 1 to 6 listed in SEQ ID NO: 5 to 10 in the sequence listing, and the primers 7 to 1 2 listed in SEQ ID NO: 1 1 to 16 in the sequence listing, 36 Did.
- Primer 5 (aR 2) described in SEQ ID NO: 9 of the Sequence Listing and SEQ ID NO: The combination of primer 7 F 1) described in 1 1 and the sequence of primer 5 (aR 2) described in SEQ ID NO: 9 of the sequence listing and the primer 1 shown in SEQ ID NO: 12 of the sequence listing 8 (F 2 Only in the case of PCR performed by the combination of), amplification of a DNA fragment of about 700 bp was confirmed.
- the cells were cultured at 37 ° C. in C1, 2.0 weight 0 / o Bacto Ag ar (pH 7.5)), and transformants were selected in ampicillin.
- Plasmid DNA is extracted by a conventional method from a transformant cultured in LB medium containing ampicillin, and an insert sequence of about 700 bp is used, and the sequences of the SP 6 and T 7 promoters on the vector are used as primers. The nucleotide sequence was decoded using this.
- ORF 1 an open reading frame of 681 bp (hereinafter referred to as ORF 1) was confirmed in the amplified DNA fragment. It was 13 bp between the translation stop codon of ORF 1 and the translation initiation codon ATG of the next open reading frame (hereinafter referred to as ORF 2).
- ORF 2 The N-terminal 25 amino acid sequence deduced from the nucleotide sequence of ORF 1 and the 25 amino acid sequence at the N-terminal side of the 28 K Dalton polypeptide chain purified above were completely identical. The sequence corresponds to the 1st to 25th sequences of the amino acid sequence described in SEQ ID NO: 2 of the sequence listing.
- the amino acid sequence of ORF 1 has a low homology with the amino acid sequence of the [3] subunit of the known ditolyl hydratase, suggesting that it encodes the protein.
- the ditolyl hydratase subunit of Dichobacillus' Thermo Dalcosidesius Q-6 strain encodes 226 amino acids, and the degree of identity of the amino acid sequence with the protein having homology in the existing data base is in descending order , Klebsiella spp. Strain MC 12609 with ditolyl hydratase subunit and 43%, and aglobobacterium 2 Nytrilhydratase / 3 subunit with 42%, oral Solanum CGAO 09 strain Nitrylhydratase Subunit and 40% and very low ,.
- thermophilic bacterium Bacillus BR 4 4 9 strain there is a high degree of agreement of 85.6% between dithryl hydratase ⁇ -subunit of the thermophilic bacterium Bacillus BR 4 4 9 strain and ditorinorehydratase / 3 subunit of the thermophilic bacterium Bacillus smithii S C_ J 0 5-1 strain. have. Also, the amino acid sequence of the N-terminus deduced from the nucleotide sequence of ORF 2 and the amino acid sequence of the N-terminus of the 25 K dalton polypeptide chain purified above were completely identical.
- oligonucleotide primers for PCR amplification were prepared in the ditrinorehydratase j3 subunit of the strain Diobacillus thermodulcosicius Q-6, which had been sequenced in advance.
- Degenerate PCR was carried out by using 0.1 g of chromosomal DNA of the strain D. dichobacillus thermodulcosicus Q-6 as a template.
- PCR is carried out under the following conditions: Primers 13 and 14 described in SEQ ID NOs: 17 and 18 in Sequence Listing, and Primers 15 and 16 described in SEQ ID NOs: 18 and 19 in Sequence Listing at an entertaining temperature of 50 degrees. I did four combinations. As a result, it was approximately 0. 0 by PCR performed by a combination of Primer 13 (p R 1) described in SEQ ID NO: 17 in Sequence Listing and Primer 15 (Q 6 Ap os F) described in SEQ ID NO: 18 in Sequence Listing. The presence of the 8 kb amplified DNA product was confirmed.
- SEQ ID NO: 19 were combined with Primer 15 (Q 6 Ap os F) and amplified by degenerate PCR 0.8
- the kb DNA fragment is excised from agarose gel, the DNA is extracted by a conventional method, incorporated into pGEM-T Vector (P rome ga), transformed into E. coli strain JM109, and then combined with 50 ⁇ g / ml of ampicillin. I chose a substitute.
- the transformant was cultured in LB medium containing ampicillin, plasmid DNA was extracted by a conventional method, and the nucleotide sequence of the about 0.8 kb insert portion was decoded. As a result, an 618 bp open reading frame (hereinafter referred to as 0 RF 2) was identified.
- the 29 amino acid sequence N-terminal side deduced from the nucleotide sequence of ORF 2 and the 29 amino acid sequence N-terminal side of the 25 K Dalton polypeptide chain purified above are completely identical, It corresponds to the 1st to 29th sequences of the amino acid sequence described in SEQ ID NO: 1 of the column listing.
- the amino acid sequence of ORF 2 shows low homology with the amino acid sequence of known tolyl hydratase alpha subunit, suggesting that it encodes the protein.
- the ditolyl hydratase alpha subunit of the strain D. bacillus thermodulcosidisus strain Q-6 encodes 205 amino acids and is homologous in the existing database The degree of identity of the amino acid sequence with the protein having sex is, in order from the highest,
- Example 1 2 Expression of the expression vector in the expression vector of ditolyl hydratase ⁇ -subunit and / 3 subunit part of Diobacillus thermodulcosidesius Q-6 strain, and expression in E. coli
- oligonucleotide primers for amplifying dithiol hydratase subunits and subunits by PCR were prepared.
- Primer 1 7 (Q 6 ab-F 1 1 T) described in the sequence listing SEQ ID NO: 2 1; primer 1 8 described in the sequence listing SEQ ID NO: 2 2 (Q 6 ⁇ a a 1 1 1 R 1 -B g 1 II-T).
- Primer 17 of SEQ ID NO: 21 in the sequence listing is designed to have a translational initiation codon of ditolylhydratase of Dibacillus thermodulcocisius Q-6 strain and a 3 subunit in restriction enzyme site N de I. did.
- the primer 18 described in SEQ ID NO: 22 in the sequence listing is a restriction enzyme B g 1 II immediately below the translation termination codon of the ditolylhydratase ⁇ subunit of Dibacillus ⁇ p. The site has been introduced.
- the chromosomal DNA of the strain D. bacillus thermochalcosisus Q-6 was used as a template, and PCR was carried out using 100 pmo 1 each of primers 17 and 18 described in SEQ ID NOS: 21 and 22 in the sequence listing.
- the insert and the vector were subjected to ligation reaction according to a conventional method to transform E. coli JM109 strain, plasmid DNA was extracted from a transformant selected by kanamycin resistance, and a plasmid into which the insert had been introduced was selected. From the above, an expression plasmid was obtained in which the ditolyl hydratase ⁇ subunit and the subunit portion of the strain Diobacillus thermodulcosidesius Q-6 were introduced as inserts. These completed plasmids are hereinafter referred to as pET- 2 6 b (+) '_ and £ 2 _ 2 8 & (+)-jS.
- E. coli strain BL 21 (DE 3) L ys E of Novagene is transformed with the expression plasmid p ET 2 26 b (+) _ j 3 CK and p ET 2 8 a (+) — ⁇ a Then, the ditolyl hydratase of Dibacillus' thermoglucosidisius Q-6 strain] 3 subunit and the protein of alpha subunit were coexpressed as a polycistron by the ⁇ 7 promoter. Using each expression plasmid, transform E.
- coli BL 21 (DE 3) Lys E strain manufactured by No Vagene into a competent cell, and use LB agar medium containing SO ⁇ ug / ml force namycin (0.5 wt% Pact yeast extract, 1 wt 0/0 Pact tryptone, 0.5 weight 0/0 N a C 1, 2. 0 weight 0/0 Ag ar;. pH7 5) transformation on The treated bacterial solution was seeded, cultured at 30 ° C. overnight, and selected with kanamycin. The transformant was inoculated into 2 ml of LB medium containing 30 ⁇ g / ml kanamycin, and shake culture was performed at 30 ° C. and 200 rpm.
- SO ⁇ ug / ml force namycin 0.5 wt% Pact yeast extract, 1 wt 0/0 Pact tryptone, 0.5 weight 0/0 N a C 1, 2. 0 weight 0/0 Ag ar;. pH7
- TBS buffer pH 7.5
- E. coli cells expressing ditolyl hydratase derived from D. dichobacillus thermodulcosicius Q-6.
- the solution was redissolved in and diluted to an OD of 0.2 to prepare a reaction solution of a final concentration of 0.2% by weight acrylonitrile solution.
- the reaction was carried out with stirring at 27 ° C., and after 30 minutes, the reaction was stopped by adding 100 N hydrochloric acid.
- the unit of enzyme activity is defined as one unit (hereinafter referred to as U) which converts acrylodithiol of ⁇ ⁇ to acrylamide in 1 minute, and the hydration activity per unit weight of wet cell ( UZmg) is shown in Table 8.
- U one unit which converts acrylodithiol of ⁇ ⁇ to acrylamide in 1 minute
- UZmg hydration activity per unit weight of wet cell
- Example 1 3 Acquisition of a ditolylhydratase peripheral gene from Geobacillus thermoglucosidisius Q-6 strain by colony hybridisation
- a fluorescently labeled probe was prepared by follows the Roche DIG Manual for the method of preparation.
- the chromophoric DNA of the strain Diobacillus thermodulcosicus Q-6 prepared in Example 1 was digested with various restriction enzymes and subjected to 1% by weight agarose gel electrophoresis.
- the DNA in the agarose gel was transferred to a nylon membrane Hybond-N + (Amersham), and then the chromophore Southern hybridization was performed using the previously prepared fluorescence-labeled DIG probe. 1 ml of hybridization buffer (1 ml) per membrane on which DNA has been transferred and immobilized Weight percent skim milk, 0.1 weight.
- wash buffer (0. 3% by weight with 100m 1) Menprene was washed 5 times in Twaen 20, 0.1 M maleate buffer containing 0.1 M N aCl; pH 5. 5) to wash away unbound antibody.
- equilibration treatment for 2 minutes in the detection buffer 0.1 M T ris _HC 1, 0.1 M Na C 1, pH 9.5
- 1 ml of the detection buffer is used.
- the pUC1 18 plasmid vector DNA used for ligation was digested with the restriction enzyme H ind III and then purified by phenol Z chromatography and ethanol precipitation, followed by alkaline phosphatase (Takara) 5
- the terminal was subjected to dephosphorylation treatment, phenol-no-mouth-form treatment and ethanol precipitation were again carried out, agarose gel electrophoresis was applied, and agarose gel electrophoresis was carried out, and repurification from agarose gel was used.
- Amersham's Nying membrane H y b o n d-N + was gently placed on the petri dish on which the colony had been grown, and gently removed from the rear end using a tweezers for 1 minute. After immersing the detached membrane with the cell surface on top for 7 minutes in a denaturing solution (0.5 M NaOH aqueous solution containing 1.5 M NaCI), neutralize the solution (1.5 M). The substrate was immersed for 3 minutes in 0.5 M Tris HCl aqueous solution containing 1 mM Na 2 Cl and 1 mM EDTA ⁇ 2 N a; pH 7.2), and then immersed for a further 3 minutes in fresh neutralization solution. Next, wash the membrane once with 2 X SSC solution (containing 8.
- hybrida See Chillon buffer (1 weight 0 /. Skim milk per 10 m 1 on one of the fixed Menpuren of DNA, 0. 1 weight 0 / ON_ lauroylsarcosine, 0.02 wt 0 / 0 SDS, 50 weight 0/0 dipped formamide 5 XSSC) containing, was carried out for 2 hours pre hybrida See Chillon at 42 ° C. 100 ng of the fluorescently labeled probe prepared in the same manner as above is heat denatured by boiling at 95 ° C. for 10 minutes and quenching, added to prehybridization buffer, and hybridized overnight at 42 ° C.
- the hybridized membrane was washed twice at room temperature with 2 X SSC containing 15 Om 1 of 0.1 weight 0 / o SDS. Then 1 x S containing 150 m 1 of 0.1 wt% SDS heated to 65 ° C Two 5 min washes in SC. Then, after washing for 5 minutes with 10 O 1 M maleate buffer (adjusted to pH 7.5 with 0.1 M maleic acid, 0.1 M 5 M N a C l, N a OH), 5 Om 1 Blocking solution (0.3 wt./w. Tw een 20, 0.1 M N a C 1 and 1 wt. 0 / o 0.1 M male acid buffer containing skimming milk; pH 7.5). Blocking at room temperature for 30 minutes.
- Anti-digoxigenin-AP was diluted with 25 ml of blocking solution to 75 mU / m 1, antibody reaction was performed for 30 minutes at room temperature, and 100 ml of wash buffer (0.3 weight was used. 0/0 Tw een 2 0, 0. 1 5M N a C 1 0. 1M maleate buffer containing; the membrane was washed 5 times in p H 7. 5), to wash away unbound antibody.
- the confirmed positive clone is inoculated from the petri dish into LB liquid medium containing ampicillin, cultured with shaking at 37 ° C. and 250 rpm, and the cells are recovered by centrifugation. Plasmid DNA was extracted by the method. The plasmid DNA was digested with restriction enzyme HindIII and then subjected to 1.5% by weight agarose gel electrophoresis to confirm the size of the inserted fragment, which was about 2.3 kb in size. In addition, several fragments of PCR and restriction enzymes were used to ensure that the insert fragment contained the di-tolyl hydratase ⁇ subunit portion of the strain Diobacillus thermodulcosicius Q-6. Confirmed by the digestion pattern.
- the plasmid obtained from the above was named as pUC1 18-Q6Hin 2.3, and the entire base sequence of the inserted fragment was determined.
- a restriction enzyme map and gene configuration of the ditolyl hydratase and downstream gene group of Diobacillus' thermo Dalcosidesius Q-6 strain are shown in FIG.
- ORF 3 an open lidin frame consisting of a base sequence of 339 bp is identical to the 5 'end side downstream of the ditolyso rehydratase ⁇ subunit ( ⁇ RF 2). It was confirmed that it exists in the direction. It was 12 bp between the translation stop codon of ORF 2 and the translation start codon of ORF 3 and 145 bp between the translation stop codon of ORF 3 and the translation start codon of OR F located further downstream. ORF 3 encodes 112 amino acids and has very low homology with the following proteins in the existing data base.
- the matching ratio of amino acids with highly homologous sequences in the existing database is: P 12 K and 31% of Bacillus BR 4 4 9 strains; Rhodococcus rhodochrous; 1 1 111 1 It was 31%, 31% of Nh 1 E and 22% of Phenococci rhodochrous J 1 strain, and P 16 of C. thudnocardia thermophila J CM 3095 strain.
- Example 14 Construction of expression plasmids of ditolyl hydratase ⁇ -subunit of the strain Diobacillus thermodulcosicius Q-6 and the downstream portion of ORF3
- p ET-26 b (+) mono- ⁇ and p ET _ 28 a (+)-] 3 ⁇ plasmid is digested with the enzyme P indase H ind III, dephosphorylated and phenol chloroform extracted Dephosphorylation treatment was carried out.
- the digested product was subjected to 1% by weight agarose gel electrophoresis, and a DNA fragment of about 6.1 Kb was extracted by a conventional method.
- This DNA fragment includes the pET vector and the H ind III restriction enzyme site located at the 60th amino acid of ditolyl hydratase subunit of Dibacillus thermodulcosidis strain Q-6 and ⁇ subunit. It is done.
- the pUC1 18-Q6Hin2.3 plasmid was digested with restriction enzyme HindIII and subjected to 1% by weight agarose electrophoresis to extract an insert DNA of about 2.3 kb.
- This insert was ligated with the previously extracted fragment to transform E. coli JM 09 strain, and a plasmid containing insert DNA was selected from transformants selected for kanamycin resistance.
- the pET-26b (+) and pET-28a (+) vectors can be used as vectors for ditolylhydratase alpha subunit and subunit and downstream of the strain Diobacillus thermodulcosicius Q-6.
- a plasmid containing the gene ORF 3 and the downstream region was obtained.
- the plasmid thus completed is hereinafter referred to as pET- 26 b (+) —] 3 ⁇ 12 and p ET ⁇ 28 a (+) 1/3 ⁇ 12.
- Ditolyl hydratase a subunit of Geobacillus thermodulcosicius Q-6 strain, ⁇ -subunit and ⁇ -subunit of the downstream gene ORF 3 translation stop codon are introduced to co-express the three proteins.
- An expression plasmid was constructed.
- the previously constructed plasmid pET-26 b (+) — j3 ⁇ ; 12 was digested with restriction enzymes Nde I and B g III and subjected to 1.5% by weight agarose gel electrophoresis, ⁇ - subunit, ⁇
- the 1. 7 kb gene fragment containing up to the translation stop codon of the subunit and downstream gene ORF 3 was extracted by a conventional method.
- the expression vector p ET- 26 b a (+) ⁇ Pi p ET- 28 a (+), was digested with Nd e I ⁇ Pi B a mH I, subjected to 1 weight 0/0 Agarosugeru electrophoresis, 5.
- the gene fragment of the 3 kb vector part was extracted by a conventional method.
- the ligation reaction was carried out according to a conventional method, using the 1.7 kb gene fragment including the a subunit, the ⁇ subunit and the translation stop codon of the downstream gene ORF 3 which were previously extracted from these vectors as inserts.
- the end digested with B g 1 II restriction enzyme and the end digested with B am H I restriction enzyme are attached.
- coli strain JM109 was transformed with the solution after ligation reaction, plasmid DNA was extracted from the transformant selected by kanamycin resistance, and the plasmid into which the insert was introduced was selected. From the above, ditolyl hydratase subunits of the strain Diobacillus' Thermo dal cosidisius Q-6 strain, j3 subunits Partial and downstream gene ORF 3 was introduced as an insert to obtain an expression plasmid in which the three proteins co-expressed.
- the plasmids of interest are hereinafter referred to as pET- 26 b (+)-j3 ⁇ 1 and p ET-28 a (+)-/ 3 a 1.
- Example 15 Nitrilhydratase activity of Diobacillus thermodulcosidius Q-6 strain co-expressed with downstream gene in E. coli
- E. coli strain BL 21 (DE 3) Lys E of Novagene Co. was transformed with the expression plasmid p ET-26 b (+) a and p ET-28 a (+)- ⁇ a
- the proteins of ditolyl hydratase subunits and alpha subunits of the strain Diobacillus thermodulcosicius Q-6 were coexpressed with the ⁇ 7 promoter.
- the transformant was inoculated into 2 ml of LB medium containing 30 ⁇ g / ml kanamycin, and shake culture was performed at 30 ° C. and 200 rpm.
- cells of E. coli having the tolyl hydratase expression from D. bacillus thermodulcosidisus strain Q-6 are expressed as iso-HC 1 and 15 mM Na C of 20 ⁇ ⁇ . Resuspend in 1 TBSS buffer (pH 7.5), dilute to an OD of 0.2, and final concentration. A reaction solution of 2% by weight total solution was prepared. The reaction was carried out with stirring at 27 ° C., and after 10 minutes, the reaction was stopped by adding 10 O ⁇ uL of 1 N hydrochloric acid after 30 minutes.
- the unit of enzyme activity (unit) is defined as the activity of converting 1 ⁇ of acrylonitrile into acrylamide per minute as 1 unit (hereinafter referred to as U), and the hydration activity per wet cell weight ( U Zmg) is shown in Table 9.
- U the activity of converting 1 ⁇ of acrylonitrile into acrylamide per minute
- U Zmg the hydration activity per wet cell weight
- E. coli solution (2 OmM) which has an expression vector; p ET26 b (+) —] 3 ⁇ and which expresses the ditollhydratase of Dibacillus thermodulcocisius Q-6 strain.
- Incubation treatment was carried out at 30, 65, and 70 ° C for 30 minutes with Tris_HC1 and TBS buffer (pH 7.5) containing 15 ⁇ lM NaC1.
- the solution was cooled on ice and kept at 27 ° C. to make the temperature constant, and then the activity of nitrylhydratase 14 was measured at a reaction temperature of 27 ° C.
- the composition of the present invention exhibits high stability to heat and high concentrations of ditolyl and amide compounds, and has the effect of efficiently converting the totolyl compounds into the corresponding amide compounds.
- the composition of the present invention can be suitably used in the field of converting a ditolyl compound into the corresponding amide compound even in reactions under high temperature and high ditolyl compound concentration or high amide compound concentration.
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