期刊
ACS SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY
卷 8, 期 12, 页码 2651-2658出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.9b00362
关键词
protein-based materials; spider silk; split inteins; chain-growth polymerization; bioproduction; synthetic biology
资金
- AFOSR [FA95501510174]
- NASA [NNX15AU4SG]
- U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) [FA95501510174] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)
Microbially produced protein-based materials (PBMs) are appealing due to use of renewable feedstock, low energy requirements, tunable side-chain chemistry, and biodegradability. However, high-strength PBMs typically have high molecular weights (HMW) and repetitive sequences that are difficult to microbially produce due to genetic instability and metabolic burden. We report the development of a biosynthetic strategy termed seeded chain-growth polymerization (SCP) for synthesis of HMW PBMs in living bacterial cells. SCP uses split intein (SI) chemistry to cotranslationally polymerize relatively small, genetically stable material protein subunits, effectively preventing intramolecular cyclization. We apply SCP to bioproduction of spider silk in Escherichia coli, generating HMW spider silk proteins (spidroins) up to 300 kDa, resulting in spidroin fibers of high strength, modulus, and toughness. SCP provides a modular strategy to synthesize HMW, repetitive material proteins, and may facilitate bioproduction of a variety of high-performance PBMs for broad applications.
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