Journal
JOURNAL OF ENZYME INHIBITION AND MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 31, Issue 6, Pages 1156-1161Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.3109/14756366.2015.1102137
Keywords
Carbonic anhydrases; enzyme kinetics; fusion protein; Malassezia; protonography
Funding
- Distinguished Scientist Fellowship Program (DSFP) at KSU
- FP7 EU project (Dynano)
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Malassezia yeasts are almost exclusively the single eukaryotic members of the fungal flora of the skin. Malassezia globosa and Malassezia restricta are found on the skin of practically all humans. Malassezia globosa is highly implicated in the pathogenesis of dandruff and its genome encodes for only one carbonic anhydrases (CAs, EC 4.2.1.1) belonging to the beta-class (MgCA). It has been indeed demonstrated that in many pathogenic microorganisms, CAs are essential for their life cycle and their inhibition can lead to growth impairment and defects. In the previous work, the recombinant MgCA was investigated for its inhibition profile with sulfonamides, which in models of dandruff infection were able to protect animals from the fungal infection, allowing us to propose this enzyme as a new antidandruff target. MgCA was cloned as GST-fusion protein, but the yield was rather low and the protein was often found in inclusion bodies. Here, we propose an alternative procedure consisting in cloning the recombinant MgCA as His-Tag fusion protein. This procedure resulted in a good method to express and purify the active recombinant MgCA, and the protein recovery was better with respect to that used for preparing MG-CA (beta-CA cloned as GST-fusion protein).
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