期刊
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING
卷 112, 期 4, 页码 822-826出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/bit.25478
关键词
synonymous codon; functional expression; aggregation-prone protein; Escherichia coli
资金
- Intelligent Synthetic Biology Center of Global Frontier Project
- Technology Development Program to Solve Climate Changes on Systems Metabolic Engineering for Biorefineries
- Joint Degree and Research Center Program
- KRIBB [2011-0031944, NRF-2012M1A2A2026563]
Recent studies using heterologous protein expression systems suggest that synonymous codons affect not only the expression but also the properties of the expressed protein. However, practical application of this information is challenging, and to date, efforts to employ bioinformatics tools to design synonymous codon mixes have been only marginally successful. Here, we sought to enhance the functional expression of heterologous protein in Escherichia coli through completely random substitution of the first ten codons with synonymous codons, using a previously isolated exocellulase CelEdx-SF301 as the model protein. Synonymous codon variants were generated by PCR using forward primers with mixed nucleotides at the third position in each codon and a conventional reverse primer. The resulting PCR products were inserted upstream of the fluorescent protein mCherry without linkers. After transformation and cultivation, colonies exhibiting red fluorescence were selected, and the activity of SF301-mCherry fusion proteins was tested. Synonymous codon variant fusion proteins exhibited 35- to 530-fold increases in functional expression compared with wild-type controls. Unlike results from other reports, we found that the stability of mRNA secondary structure in the 5' untranslated region and codon rarity were not correlated with functional expression level. Our work demonstrates that a completely random mixed of synonymous codons effectively enhances functional expression levels without the need for amino acid substitutions. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 2015;112: 822-826. (c) 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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