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Characterization of a phosphotriesterase-like lactonase from Sulfolobus solfataricus and its immobilization for disruption of quorum sensing.

ABSTRACT: SsoPox, a bifunctional enzyme with organophosphate hydrolase and N-acyl homoserine lactonase activities from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus, was overexpressed and purified from recombinant Pseudomonas putida KT2440 with a yield of 9.4 mg of protein per liter of culture. The enzyme has a preference for N-acyl homoserine lactones (AHLs) with acyl chain lengths of at least 8 carbon atoms, mainly due to lower K(m) values for these substrates. The highest specificity constant obtained was for N-3-oxo-decanoyl homoserine lactone (k(cat)/K(m) = 5.5 × 10(3) M(-1)·s(-1)), but SsoPox can also degrade N-butyryl homoserine lactone (C(4)-HSL) and N-oxo-dodecanoyl homoserine lactone (oxo-C(12)-HSL), which are important for quorum sensing in our Pseudomonas aeruginosa model system. When P. aeruginosa PAO1 cultures were grown in the presence of SsoPox-immobilized membranes, the production of C(4)-HSL- and oxo-C(12)-HSL-regulated virulence factors, elastase, protease, and pyocyanin were significantly reduced. This is the first demonstration that immobilized quorum-quenching enzymes can be used to attenuate the production of virulence factors controlled by quorum-sensing signals.

SUBMITTER: Ng FS

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3067241 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Characterization of a phosphotriesterase-like lactonase from Sulfolobus solfataricus and its immobilization for disruption of quorum sensing.

Ng Filomena S W FS Wright Daniel M DM Seah Stephen Y K SY

Applied and environmental microbiology 20101223 4

SsoPox, a bifunctional enzyme with organophosphate hydrolase and N-acyl homoserine lactonase activities from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus, was overexpressed and purified from recombinant Pseudomonas putida KT2440 with a yield of 9.4 mg of protein per liter of culture. The enzyme has a preference for N-acyl homoserine lactones (AHLs) with acyl chain lengths of at least 8 carbon atoms, mainly due to lower K(m) values for these substrates. The highest specificity constant ...[more]

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Project description:BACKGROUND:Thermostable phosphotriesterase-like lactonases (PLLs) are able to degrade organophosphates and could be potentially employed as bioremediation tools and bioscavengers. But nowadays their manufacturing in high yields is still an issue that limits their industrial applications. In this work we aimed to set up a high yield production and purification biotechnological process of two recombinant PLLs expressed in E. coli, the wild type SacPox from Sulfolobus acidocaldarius and a triple mutated SsoPox C258L/I261F/W263A, originally from Sulfolobus solfataricus. To follow this aim new induction approaches were investigated to boost the enzyme production, high cell density fermentation strategies were set-up to reach higher and higher enzyme yields up to 22-L scale, a downstream train was studied to meet the requirements of an efficient industrial purification process. RESULTS:Physiological studies in shake flasks demonstrated that the use of galactose as inducer increased the enzyme concentrations up to 4.5 folds, compared to the production obtained by induction with IPTG. Optimising high cell density fed-batch strategies the production and the productivity of both enzymes were further enhanced of 26 folds, up to 2300 U·L-?1 and 47.1 U·L-?1·h-?1 for SacPox and to 8700 U·L-?1 and 180.6 U·L-?1·h-?1 for SsoPox C258L/I261F/W263A, and the fermentation processes resulted scalable from 2.5 to 22.0 L. After being produced and extracted from the cells, the enzymes were first purified by a thermo-precipitation step, whose conditions were optimised by response surface methodology. A following ultra-filtration process on 100 and 5 KDa cut-off membranes drove to a final pureness and a total recovery of both enzymes of 70.0?±?2.0%, suitable for industrial applications. CONCLUSIONS:In this paper, for the first time, a high yield biotechnological manufacturing process of the recombinant enzymes SacPox and SsoPox C258L/I261F/W263A was set-up. The enzyme production was boosted by combining a new galactose induction approach with high cell density fed-batch fermentation strategies. An efficient enzyme purification protocol was designed coupling a thermo-precipitation step with a following membrane-based ultra-filtration process.

Project description:BackgroundSuperparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (MNP) offer several advantages for applications in biomedical and biotechnological research. In particular, MNP-based immobilization of enzymes allows high surface-to-volume ratio, good dispersibility, easy separation of enzymes from the reaction mixture, and reuse by applying an external magnetic field. In a biotechnological perspective, extremophilic enzymes hold great promise as they often can be used under non-conventional harsh conditions, which may result in substrate transformations that are not achievable with normal enzymes. This prompted us to investigate the effect of MNP bioconjugation on the catalytic properties of a thermostable carboxypeptidase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus (CPSso), which exhibits catalytic properties that are useful in synthetic processes.ResultsCPSso was immobilized onto silica-coated iron oxide nanoparticles via NiNTA-His tag site-directed conjugation. Following the immobilization, CPSso acquired distinctly higher long-term stability at room temperature compared to the free native enzyme, which, in contrast, underwent extensive inactivation after 72 h incubation, thus suggesting a potential utilization of this enzyme under low energy consumption. Moreover, CPSso conjugation also resulted in a significantly higher stability in organic solvents at 40°C, which made it possible to synthesize N-blocked amino acids in remarkably higher yields compared to those of free enzyme.ConclusionsThe nanobioconjugate of CPSso immobilized on silica-coated magnetic nanoparticles exhibited enhanced stability in aqueous media at room temperature as well as in different organic solvents. The improved stability in ethanol paves the way to possible applications of immobilized CPSso, in particular as a biocatalyst for the synthesis of N-blocked amino acids. Another potential application might be amino acid racemate resolution, a critical and expensive step in chemical synthesis.

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Characterization of a phosphotriesterase-like lactonase from Sulfolobus solfataricus and its immobilization for disruption of quorum sensing.

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Characterization of a phosphotriesterase-like lactonase from Sulfolobus solfataricus and its immobilization for disruption of quorum sensing.

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