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Kamarudheen N, Khaparde A, Gopal S, Rao KB. Unraveling a natural protease inhibitor from marine Streptomyces griseoincarnatus HK12 active against Chikungunya virus. Microbiol Res 2021; 252:126858. [PMID: 34509708 DOI: 10.1016/j.micres.2021.126858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2021] [Revised: 07/04/2021] [Accepted: 08/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Proteases play an indispensable role in the life cycles of several life-threatening organisms such as the ones causing malaria, cancer and AIDS. A targeted blockade of these enzymes could be an efficient approach for drug modeling against these causative agents. Our study was directed towards the extraction and characterization of a protease inhibitor having activity against Chikungunya virus (CHIKV). A protein-based protease inhibitor (PI) in Streptomyces griseoincarnatus HK12 with anti-viral activity against CHIKV was revealed when screened against two major proteases, papain and trypsin. The PI was efficiently extracted at 60 % ammonium sulfate saturation and purified by ion-exchange chromatography (CM-Sepharose) at 300 mM NaCl elution followed by SDS-PAGE (10 %). The protein was characterized by denaturing SDS-PAGE, reverse zymography, and MALDI-TOF peptide mass fingerprinting. The protein-based PI was studied to have a high molecular weight of 66-70 kDA. The PI was tested to supress the supress cytopathic effects (CPE) exerted by the clinically isolated virus in BHK21 cells. This was used as a measure to determine the antiviral activity. The PI exerted significant effects with an effective concentration calculated as EC50 11.21 μg/mL. The protein was found to be reported as the first of its kind which also stands out to be the first a natural protease inhibitor against the treatment of the chikungunya virus.
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- Neethu Kamarudheen
- Marine Biotechnology Laboratory, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Centre for Bio-separation Technology, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Virology, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, Andhra, India
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- Marine Biotechnology Laboratory, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.
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Dimitrova-Stefanova DB, Gocheva BT. Screening for production of proteinase inhibitors by Antarctic Streptomycetes. J Basic Microbiol 2018; 58:1033-1042. [PMID: 30238488 DOI: 10.1002/jobm.201800102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2018] [Revised: 07/02/2018] [Accepted: 09/01/2018] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Three out of 17 Streptomycetes strains - Streptomyces sp. 35 LBG09, Streptomyces sp. 36 LBG09, and Streptomyces sp. 39 LBG09, were selected based on the high production of proteinase inhibitors with trypsin serine proteinase activity. The strains were isolated from soil samples taken from the area around the Bulgarian station on Livingston Island, Antarctica. Biosynthesis of proteinase inhibitors by the promising strains started at different stages of their development but was generally not associated with the growth of the producers. Peak levels were reached in the stationary phase (96-120 h) of their cultivation. Inducing effects on strain development, biomass accumulation, and proteinase inhibitor biosynthesis were based on the composition of the nutrient medium: the polypeptones contained in Taguchi medium and glucose as a carbon source. The most productive out of the three strains was Streptomyces sp. 36 LBG09. Its maximum inhibitory activity was reached at 96 h in culturing media modified by three different carbon sources. The active proteinase inhibitor biosynthesis proceeded at pH values between 6.8 and 8.6 and the dynamics of production depended on the type of carbon source. Peak levels of extracellular protein and dry biomass were reached at 120 h in the stationary growth phase. The residual sugars were minimal at the end of the process when using soluble starch as a carbon source, and maximal when glucose was used.
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Kato JY, Hirano S, Ohnishi Y, Horinouchi S. TheStreptomycesSubtilisin Inhibitor (SSI) Gene inStreptomyces coelicolorA3(2). Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 2014; 69:1624-9. [PMID: 16116298 DOI: 10.1271/bbb.69.1624] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Streptomyces subtilisin inhibitors (SSIs) are produced by a wide variety of Streptomyces species. Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) contains two genes, SCO0762 and SCO4010, encoding an SSI-like protein. Of these two genes, SCO0762 was transcribed actively throughout growth. Gene disruption of SCO0762 (mutant DeltaSCO0762) resulted in overproduction of extracellular protease activity, showing that SCO0762 serves as a modulator of extracellular protease activities. Mutant DeltaSCO0762 showed no apparent phenotypic changes in morphological differentiation, forming aerial hyphae and spores in the same time course as the parental strain. SCO4010 appeared to be a pseudogene, because mutant DeltaSCO4010 showed the same protease activity as the parental strain, probably due to amino acid replacement of one (Arg-60) of the important residues for SSI activity, and because the transcription of this gene was extremely low.
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- Jun-ya Kato
- Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan
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Kantyka T, Rawlings ND, Potempa J. Prokaryote-derived protein inhibitors of peptidases: A sketchy occurrence and mostly unknown function. Biochimie 2010; 92:1644-56. [PMID: 20558234 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2010.06.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2010] [Accepted: 06/08/2010] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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In metazoan organisms protein inhibitors of peptidases are important factors essential for regulation of proteolytic activity. In vertebrates genes encoding peptidase inhibitors constitute up to 1% of genes reflecting a need for tight and specific control of proteolysis especially in extracellular body fluids. In stark contrast unicellular organisms, both prokaryotic and eukaryotic consistently contain only few, if any, genes coding for putative peptidase inhibitors. This may seem perplexing in the light of the fact that these organisms produce large numbers of proteases of different catalytic classes with the genes constituting up to 6% of the total gene count with the average being about 3%. Apparently, however, a unicellular life-style is fully compatible with other mechanisms of regulation of proteolysis and does not require protein inhibitors to control their intracellular and extracellular proteolytic activity. So in prokaryotes occurrence of genes encoding different types of peptidase inhibitors is infrequent and often scattered among phylogenetically distinct orders or even phyla of microbiota. Genes encoding proteins homologous to alpha-2-macroglobulin (family I39), serine carboxypeptidase Y inhibitor (family I51), alpha-1-peptidase inhibitor (family I4) and ecotin (family I11) are the most frequently represented in Bacteria. Although several of these gene products were shown to possess inhibitory activity, with an exception of ecotin and staphostatins, the biological function of microbial inhibitors is unclear. In this review we present distribution of protein inhibitors from different families among prokaryotes, describe their mode of action and hypothesize on their role in microbial physiology and interactions with hosts and environment.
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- Tomasz Kantyka
- Department of Microbiology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
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Xu W, Huang J, Lin R, Shi J, Cohen SN. Regulation of morphological differentiation in S. coelicolor by RNase III (AbsB) cleavage of mRNA encoding the AdpA transcription factor. Mol Microbiol 2010; 75:781-91. [PMID: 20059679 PMCID: PMC2936110 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.07023.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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RNase III family enzymes, which are perhaps the most widely conserved of all ribonucleases, are known primarily for their role in the processing and maturation of small RNAs. The RNase III gene of Streptomyces coelicolor, which was discovered initially as a global regulator of antibiotic production in this developmentally complex bacterial species and named absB (antibiotic biosynthesis gene B), has subsequently also been found to modulate the cellular abundance of multiple messenger RNAs implicated in morphological differentiation. We report here that regulation of differentiation-related mRNAs by the S. coelicolor AbsB/RNase III enzyme occurs largely by ribonucleolytic cleavage of transcripts encoding the pleiotropic transcription factor, AdpA, and that AdpA and AbsB participate in a novel feedback-control loop that reciprocally regulates the cellular levels of both proteins. Our results reveal a previously unsuspected mechanism for global ribonuclease-mediated control of gene expression in streptomycetes.
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- Weijing Xu
- Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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Yan BQ, Chen XL, Hou XY, He H, Zhou BC, Zhang YZ. Molecular analysis of the gene encoding a cold-adapted halophilic subtilase from deep-sea psychrotolerant bacterium Pseudoalteromonas sp. SM9913: cloning, expression, characterization and function analysis of the C-terminal PPC domains. Extremophiles 2009; 13:725-33. [PMID: 19544039 DOI: 10.1007/s00792-009-0263-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2009] [Accepted: 06/04/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Only a few cold-adapted halophilic proteases have been reported. Here, the gene mcp03 encoding a cold-adapted halophilic protease MCP-03 was cloned from deep-sea psychrotolerant bacterium Pseudoalteromonas sp. SM9913, which contains a 2,130-bp ORF encoding a novel subtilase precursor. The recombinant MCP-03, expressed in Escherichia coli BL21 and purified from fermented broth, is a multi-domain protein with a catalytic domain and two PPC domains. Compared to mesophilic subtilisin Carlsberg, MCP-03 had characteristics of a typical cold-adapted enzyme (e.g., higher activity at low temperatures, lower optimum temperature and higher thermolability). MCP-03 also exhibited good halophilic ability with maximal activity at 3 M NaCl/KCl and good stability in 3 M NaCl. Deletion mutagenesis showed that the C-terminal PPC domains were unnecessary for enzyme secretion but had an inhibitory effect on MCP-03 catalytic efficiency and were essential for keeping MCP-03 thermostable.
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- Bing-Qiang Yan
- Marine Biotechnology Research Center, Shandong University, Jinan, People's Republic of China
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The filamentous bacterium Streptomyces coelicolor forms an aerial mycelium as a prerequisite to sporulation, which occurs in the aerial hyphae. Uncontrolled activity of the extracytoplasmic function sigma factor sigmaU blocks the process of aerial mycelium formation in this organism. Using a green fluorescent protein transcriptional reporter, we have demonstrated that sigU transcription is autoregulated. We have defined a sigmaU-dependent promoter sequence and used this to identify 22 likely sigmaU regulon members in the S. coelicolor genome. Since many of these genes encode probable secreted proteins, we characterized the extracellular proteome of a mutant with high sigmaU activity caused by disruption of rsuA, the presumed cognate anti-sigma factor of sigmaU. This mutant secreted a much greater quantity and diversity of proteins than the wild-type strain. Peptide mass fingerprinting was used to identify 79 proteins from the rsuA mutant culture supernatant. The most abundant species, SCO2217, SCO0930, and SCO2207, corresponded to secreted proteins or lipoproteins of unknown functions whose genes are in the proposed sigmaU regulon. Several unique proteases were also detected in the extracellular proteome of the mutant, and the levels of the protease inhibitor SCO0762 were much reduced compared to those of the wild type. Consequently, extracellular protease activity was elevated about fourfold in the rsuA mutant. The functions of the proteins secreted as a result of sigmaU activity may be important for combating cell envelope stress and modulating morphological differentiation in S. coelicolor.
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Hirano S, Kato JY, Ohnishi Y, Horinouchi S. Control of the Streptomyces Subtilisin inhibitor gene by AdpA in the A-factor regulatory cascade in Streptomyces griseus. J Bacteriol 2006; 188:6207-16. [PMID: 16923887 PMCID: PMC1595390 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00662-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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AdpA in the A-factor regulatory cascade in Streptomyces griseus activates a number of genes required for secondary metabolism and morphological differentiation, forming an AdpA regulon. The Streptomyces subtilisin inhibitor (SSI) gene, sgiA, in S. griseus was transcribed in response to AdpA, showing that sgiA is a member of the AdpA regulon. AdpA bound a single site upstream of the sgiA promoter at approximately position -70 with respect to its transcriptional start point. Mutational analysis of the AdpA-binding site showed that the AdpA-binding site was essential for transcriptional activation. Mutants in which sgiA was disrupted had higher trypsin, chymotrypsin, metalloendopeptidase, and total protease activities than the wild-type strain, which showed that SgiA modulated the activities of these extracellularly produced proteases. Because a number of genes encoding chymotrypsins, trypsins, and metalloendopeptidases, most of which are SSI-sensitive proteases, are also under the control of AdpA, the A-factor regulatory cascade was thought to play a crucial role in modulating the extracellular protease activities by triggering simultaneous production of the proteases and their inhibitor at a specific timing during growth. Mutants in which sgiA was disrupted grew normally and formed aerial hyphae and spores with the same time course as the wild-type strain. However, exogenous addition of purified SgiA to substrate mycelium grown on agar medium resulted in a delay in aerial mycelium formation, indicating that SgiA is involved in aerial hypha formation in conjunction with proteases.
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- Setsu Hirano
- Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agriculture and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
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Angelova L, Dalgalarrondo M, Minkov I, Danova S, Kirilov N, Serkedjieva J, Chobert JM, Haertlé T, Ivanova I. Purification and characterisation of a protease inhibitor from Streptomyces chromofuscus 34-1 with an antiviral activity. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2006; 1760:1210-6. [PMID: 16730414 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2006.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2006] [Revised: 03/01/2006] [Accepted: 03/01/2006] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The aim of this study was to purify and characterise a novel protease inhibitor (PISC-2002) isolated from culture supernatants of Streptomyces chromofuscus. PISC-2002 was purified by anion-exchange chromatography, and RP-HPLC analysis. PISC-2002 had a molecular mass of 11.2 kDa and a high content of hydrophobic amino acids and proline. N-terminal sequence gave two sequences differing by one residue. The main sequence is ASLPAVSALVLTV and the shorter sequence is SLPAVSALVLTV. This shows its homology to Streptomyces subtilisin inhibitor family. Besides its large spectrum of powerful inhibitory activities against various serine proteases, PISC-2002 displayed significant antiviral effect against influenza virus A/Rostock/34 (H7N7).
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- Lidiya Angelova
- Department of Microbiology, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Fernández-Abalos JM, Reviejo V, Díaz M, Rodríguez S, Leal F, Santamaría RI. Posttranslational processing of the xylanase Xys1L from Streptomyces halstedii JM8 is carried out by secreted serine proteases. MICROBIOLOGY (READING, ENGLAND) 2003; 149:1623-1632. [PMID: 12855715 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26113-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The xylanase Xys1L from Streptomyces halstedii JM8 is known to be processed extracellularly, to produce a protein of 33.7 kDa, Xys1S, that retains catalytic activity but not its cellulose-binding capacity. This paper demonstrates that at least five serine proteases isolated from Streptomyces spp. have the ability to process the xylanase Xys1L. The genes of two of these extracellular serine proteases, denominated SpB and SpC, were cloned from Streptomyces lividans 66 (a strain commonly used as a host for protein secretion), sequenced, and overexpressed in S. lividans; both purified proteases were able to process Xys1L in vitro. Three other previously reported purified Streptomyces serine proteases, SAM-P20, SAM-P26 and SAM-P45, also processed Xys1L in vitro. The involvement of serine proteases in xylanase processing-degradation in vivo was demonstrated by co-expression of the xylanase gene (xysA) and the gene encoding the serine protease inhibitor (SLPI) from S. lividans. Co-expression prevented processing and degradation of Xys1L and resulted in a threefold increase in the xylanase activity present in the culture supernatant. SpB and SpC also have the capacity to process other secreted proteins such as p40, a cellulose-binding protein from S. halstedii JM8, but do not have any clear effect on other secreted proteins such as amylase (Amy) from Streptomyces griseus and xylanase Xyl30 from Streptomyces avermitilis.
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- José M Fernández-Abalos
- Instituto de Microbiología Bioquímica/Departamento de Microbiología y Genética, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)/Universidad de Salamanca, Edificio Departamental, Campus Miguel de Unamuno, 37007 Salamanca, Spain
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- Instituto de Microbiología Bioquímica/Departamento de Microbiología y Genética, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)/Universidad de Salamanca, Edificio Departamental, Campus Miguel de Unamuno, 37007 Salamanca, Spain
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- Instituto de Microbiología Bioquímica/Departamento de Microbiología y Genética, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)/Universidad de Salamanca, Edificio Departamental, Campus Miguel de Unamuno, 37007 Salamanca, Spain
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- Instituto de Microbiología Bioquímica/Departamento de Microbiología y Genética, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)/Universidad de Salamanca, Edificio Departamental, Campus Miguel de Unamuno, 37007 Salamanca, Spain
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- Instituto de Microbiología Bioquímica/Departamento de Microbiología y Genética, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)/Universidad de Salamanca, Edificio Departamental, Campus Miguel de Unamuno, 37007 Salamanca, Spain
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- Instituto de Microbiología Bioquímica/Departamento de Microbiología y Genética, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)/Universidad de Salamanca, Edificio Departamental, Campus Miguel de Unamuno, 37007 Salamanca, Spain
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Arisawa A, Matsufuji M, Nakashima T, Dobashi K, Isshiki K, Yoshioka T, Yamada S, Momose H, Taguchi S. Streptomyces serine protease (DHP-A) as a new biocatalyst capable of forming chiral intermediates of 1,4-dihydropyridine calcium antagonists. Appl Environ Microbiol 2002; 68:2716-25. [PMID: 12039725 PMCID: PMC123970 DOI: 10.1128/aem.68.6.2716-2725.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Streptomyces viridosporus A-914 was screened as a producer of an enzyme to effectively form chiral intermediates of 1,4-dihydropyridine calcium antagonists. The supernatant liquid of the growing culture of this strain exhibited high activity for enantioselective hydrolysis of prochiral 1,4-dihydropyridine diesters to the corresponding (4R) half esters. The responsible enzyme (termed DHP-A) was purified to apparent homogeneity and characterized. Cloning and sequence analysis of the gene for DHP-A (dhpA) revealed that the enzyme was a serine protease that is highly similar in both structural and enzymatic feature to SAM-P45, which is known as a target enzyme of Streptomyces subtilisin inhibitor (SSI), from Streptomyces albogriseolus. In a batch reaction test, DHP-A produced a higher yield of a chiral intermediate of 1,4-dihydropyridine than the commercially available protease P6. Homologous or heterologous expression of dhpA resulted in overproduction of the enzyme in culture supernatants, with 2.4- to 4.2-fold higher specific activities than in the parent S. viridosporus A-914. This indicates that DHP-A is suitable for use in reactions forming chiral intermediates of calcium antagonists and suggests the feasibility of developing DHP-A as a new commercial enzyme for use in the chiral drug industry.
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- Akira Arisawa
- Bioresource Laboratories, Mercian Corporation, Fujisawa, Kanagawa 251-0057, Japan.
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Taguchi S, Arakawa K, Yokoyama K, Takehana S, Takagi H, Momose H. Overexpression and purification of microbial pro-transglutaminase from Streptomyces cinnamoneum and in vitro processing by Streptomyces albogriseolus proteases. J Biosci Bioeng 2002; 94:478-81. [PMID: 16233337 DOI: 10.1016/s1389-1723(02)80228-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2002] [Accepted: 08/19/2002] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Processing and activation of the precursor of an extracellular Streptomyces transglutaminase were achieved by using three Streptomyces proteases (SAM-P20, SAM-P26 and SAM-P45), all of which are widely distributed in Streptomyces. The use of these proteases would allow us to develop a production process for the active form of this enzyme in recombinant bacteria.
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- Seiichi Taguchi
- School of Agriculture, Meiji University, 1-1-1 Higashi-mita, Tama-ku, Kawasaki, Kamagawa 214-8571, Japan.
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TAGUCHI SEIICHI, ARAKAWA KUMIKO, YOKOYAMA KEIICHI, TAKEHANA SHINO, TAKAGI HIROSHI, MOMOSE HARUO. Overexpression and Purification of Microbial Pro-Transglutaminase from Streptomyces cinnamoneum and in vitro Processing by Streptomyces albogriseolus Proteases. J Biosci Bioeng 2002. [DOI: 10.1263/jbb.94.478] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Taguchi S, Ogawa T, Endo T, Momose H. Identification of a structural gene encoding a metallothionein-like domain that includes a putative regulator protein for Streptomyces protease gene expression. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 1998; 62:2476-9. [PMID: 9972278 DOI: 10.1271/bbb.62.2476] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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An open reading frame (termed ORF-PR) encoding a metallothionein-like domain-including protein was found upstream of a previously identified Streptomyces chymotrypsin-type protease gene (sam-P20). Promoter and terminator activities of ORF-PR were detected using the promoterless Streptomyces tyrosinase gene as a reporter gene and expression of ORF-PR was supposed to occur before that of sam-P20 gene. Frameshift mutation analysis showed that the ORF-PR product might act as a repressive regulator of the sam-P20 gene.
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- S Taguchi
- Department of Biological Science and Technology, Science University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan.
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Suzuki M, Taguchi S, Yamada S, Kojima S, Miura KI, Momose H. A novel member of the subtilisin-like protease family from Streptomyces albogriseolus. J Bacteriol 1997; 179:430-8. [PMID: 8990295 PMCID: PMC178713 DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.2.430-438.1997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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We previously isolated three extracellular endogenous enzymes from a Streptomyces albogriseolus mutant strain which were targets of Streptomyces subtilisin inhibitor (SSI) (S. Taguchi, A. Odaka, Y. Watanabe, and H. Momose, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 61:180-186, 1995). In the present study, of the three enzymes the largest one, with a molecular mass of 45 kDa (estimated by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis), termed SAM-P45, has been characterized in detail. The entire gene encoding SAM-P45 was cloned as an approximately 10-kb fragment from S. albogriseolus S-3253 genomic DNA into an Escherichia coli host by using a shuttle plasmid vector. The amino acid sequence corresponding to the internal region of SAM-P45, deduced from the nucleotide sequence of the gene, revealed high homology, particularly in three regions around the active-site residues (Asp, His, and Ser), with the amino acid sequences of the mature domain of subtilisin-like serine proteases. In order to investigate the enzymatic properties of this protease, recombinant SAM-P45 was overproduced in Streptomyces coelicolor by using a strong SSI gene promoter. Sequence analysis of the SAM-P45 gene and peptide mapping of the purified SAM-P45 suggested that it is synthesized as a large precursor protein containing a large C-terminal prodomain (494 residues) in addition to an N-terminal preprodomain (23 and 172 residues). A high proportion of basic amino acids in the C-terminal prodomain was considered to serve an element interactive with the phospholipid bilayer existing in the C-terminal prodomain, as found in other membrane-anchoring proteases of gram-positive bacteria. It is noteworthy that SAM-P45 was found to prefer basic amino acids to aromatic or aliphatic amino acids in contrast to subtilisin BPN', which has a broad substrate specificity. The hydrolysis by SAM-P45 of the synthetic substrate (N-succinyl-L-Gly-L-Pro-L-Lys-p-nitroanilide) most preferred by this enzyme was inhibited by SSI, chymostatin, and EDTA. The proteolytic activity of SAM-P45 was stimulated by the divalent cations Ca2+ and Mg2+. From these findings, we conclude that SAM-P45 interacts with SSI and can be categorized as a novel member of the subtilisin-like serine protease family.
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- M Suzuki
- Department of Biological Science and Technology, Science University of Tokyo, Noda-shi, Chiba, Japan
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Kuramoto A, Lezhava A, Taguchi S, Momose H, Kinashi H. The location and deletion of the genes which code for SSI-like protease inhibitors in Streptomyces species. FEMS Microbiol Lett 1996; 139:37-42. [PMID: 8647372 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1996.tb08176.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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The genes coding for the protease inhibitors, SSI and API-2c', have been analyzed by comparing DNA macrorestriction patterns of Streptomyces albogriseolus S-3253 and S. griseoincarnatus KTo-250 with those of inhibitor-deficient mutants. The mutants were found to suffer from chromosomal deletions rather than plasmid loss which resulted in the loss of the relevant genes. Hybridization experiments indicated that the ssi homologs in S. lividans and S. coelicolor A3(2) are located near the end of the linear chromosome.
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- A Kuramoto
- Department of Fermentation Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Hiroshima University, Japan
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Butler MJ, Aphale JS, Binnie C, DiZonno MA, Krygsman P, Soltes G, Walczyk E, Malek LT. Cloning and analysis of a gene from Streptomyces lividans 66 encoding a novel secreted protease exhibiting homology to subtilisin BPN'. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 1996; 45:141-7. [PMID: 8920189 DOI: 10.1007/s002530050662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Amino-terminal degradation has been observed for many of the secreted heterologous proteins produced by S. lividans 66. We, therefore, set out to characterize the relevant proteinases and their genes. A tripeptide chromogenic substrate was used to identify a gene that was shown to encode a secreted protein which removed tripeptides from the amino terminus of extracellular proteins (tripeptidyl aminopeptidase, Tap; Butler et al. 1995). This activity was removed by a homologous gene deletion replacement and the ability of the S. lividans strain to remove N-terminal tripeptides was greatly reduced, but still significant. When the tap-deleted strain was used as a host for the rescreening of a S. lividans 66 genomic DNA library, a number of other genes encoding proteases with aminopeptidase activities were discovered. One clone (P5-4) produced a 45-kDa secreted protein (Ssp), which showed activity against Ala-Pro-Ala-beta-naphthylamide (APA-beta NH-Nap) substrate. Further analysis of the cloned DNA showed an open-reading frame encoding a protein larger than 45 kDa. Direct Edman degradation of the secreted protein confirmed that it was encoded within the cloned DNA and probably processed from a larger precursor. Protein sequence analysis revealed a striking homology to subtilisin BPN' in three regions around the active-site residues suggesting that the protein is a serine protease. As expected, the protease activity was inhibited by phenylmethylsulphonyl fluoride. Mutant strains with most of the ssp gene deleted exhibited reduced activity against APA-beta NH-Nap substrate compared to their non-deleted parental strains.
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- M J Butler
- Cangene Corporation, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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Taguchi S, Kojima S, Miura K, Momose H. Taxonomic characterization of closely related Streptomyces spp. based on the amino acid sequence analysis of protease inhibitor proteins. FEMS Microbiol Lett 1996; 135:169-73. [PMID: 8595854 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1996.tb07984.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Amino acid sequences of protease inhibitors (Streptomyces subtilisin inhibitor-like proteins) widely distributed in Streptomyces were compared to clarify the taxonomic status of three strains of Streptomyces spp., S. coelicolor A3(2), S. lividans 66 and S. coelicolor Müller, which are closely related by conventional taxonomical procedures. The sequence comparison indicated that S. coelicolor A3(2) is distinct from the type strain S. coelicolor Müller, but belongs to the same taxon as S. lividans 66.
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- S Taguchi
- Department of Biological Science and Technology, Science University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan
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Taguchi S, Suzuki M, Kojima S, Miura K, Momose H. Streptomyces serine protease (SAM-P20): recombinant production, characterization, and interaction with endogenous protease inhibitor. J Bacteriol 1995; 177:6638-43. [PMID: 7592444 PMCID: PMC177519 DOI: 10.1128/jb.177.22.6638-6643.1995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Previously, we isolated a candidate for an endogenous target enzyme(s) of the Streptomyces subtilisin inhibitor (SSI), termed SAM-P20, from a non-SSI-producing mutant strain (S. Taguchi, A. Odaka, Y. Watanabe, and H. Momose, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 61:180-186, 1995). In this study, in order to investigate the detailed enzymatic properties of this protease, an overproduction system of recombinant SAM-P20 was established in Streptomyces coelicolor with the SSI gene promoter. The recombinant SAM-P20 was purified by salting out and by two successive ion-exchange chromatographies to give a homogeneous band by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Partial peptide mapping and amino acid composition analysis revealed that the recombinant SAM-P20 was identical to natural SAM-P20. From the results for substrate specificity and inhibitor sensitivity, SAM-P20 could be categorized as a chymotrypsin-like protease with an arginine-cleavable activity, i.e., a serine protease with broad substrate specificity. For proteolytic activity, the optimal pH was 10.0 and the optimal temperature was shifted from 50 to 80 degrees C by the addition of 10 mM calcium ion. The strong stoichiometric inhibition of SAM-P20 activity by SSI dimer protein occurred in a subunit molar ratio of these two proteins of about 1, and an inhibitor constant of SSI toward SAM-P20 was estimated to be 8.0 x 10(-10) M. The complex formation of SAM-P20 and SSI was monitored by analytical gel filtration, and a complex composed of two molecules of SAM-P20 and one dimer molecule of SSI was detected, in addition to a complex of one molecule of SAM-P20 bound to one dimer molecule of SSI. The reactive site of SSI toward SAM-P20 was identified as Met-73-Val-74 by sequence analysis of the modified form of SSI, which was produced by the acidification of the complex of SSI and SAM-P20. This reactive site is the same that toward an exogenous target enzyme, subtilisin BPN'.
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- S Taguchi
- Department of Biological Science and Technology, Science University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan
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