期刊
PROBIOTICS AND ANTIMICROBIAL PROTEINS
卷 13, 期 6, 页码 1780-1789出版社
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DOI: 10.1007/s12602-021-09797-1
关键词
Cecropin B; Antimicrobial peptide; Small ubiquitin-related modifier (SUMO); Codon optimization; Escherichia coli; Chloroplast
资金
- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Korea government (MSIT) [2019R1F1A1055818]
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2019R1F1A1055818] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
The study demonstrates that expressing Cecropin B in fusion with tags can improve its expression level and solubility, enhancing its bacteriolytic activity against bacteria. The most effective fusion protein is the 6xHisSUMO3xGly-cecropin B construct, which shows the highest activity against Bacillus subtilis at a certain concentration of the enzyme.
Current antibiotics have limited action mode, which makes it difficult for the antibiotics dealing with the emergence of bacteria resisting the existing antibiotics. As a need for new bacteriolytic agents alternative to the antibiotics, AMPs have long been considered substitutes for the antibiotics. Cecropin B was expressed in a fusion form to six-histidine and SUMO tags in Escherichia coli. Six-histidine tag attached to SUMO was for purification of SUMO-cecropin B fusion proteins and removal of the SUMO tag from cecropin B. Chimeric gene was constructed into pKSEC1 vector that was designed to be functional in both Escherichia coli and chloroplast. To maximize translation of the fusion protein, sequences were codon-optimized. Four different constructs were tested for the level of expression and solubility, and the construct with a linker, 6xHisSUMO3xGly-cecropin B, showed the highest expression. In addition, cleavage of the SUMO tag by SUMOase in the three fusion constructs which have no linker sequence (3xGly, three glycines) was not as efficient as the construct with the linker between SUMO and cecropin B. The cleaved cecropin B showed bacteriolytic activity against Bacillus subtilis at a concentration of 0.0625 mu g/mu L, while cecropin B fused to SUMO had no activity at a higher concentration, 0.125 mu g/mu L. As an expression system for AMPs in prokaryotic hosts, the use of tag proteins and appropriate codon-optimization strategy can be employed and further genetic modification of the fusion construct should help the complete removal of the tag proteins from the AMP in the final step of purification.
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