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Herstellung und Charakterisierung einer rekombinanten, sequenzspezifischen Protease zur Generierung bioaktiver Peptide
(2009) Hug, Thomas; Fischer, Lutz
The aim of the present thesis was the production and biochemical characterization of a sequence specific microbial protease. This enzyme should be applied in food protein hydrolyzation in order to generate bioactive peptides. To determine the substrate specificity of serine protease PRT1 from Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris this strain was cultivated in a shaking flusk. After dialysis of the culture broth and addition of 1,10-phenantroline for metalloprotease PRT2 inactivation an enzyme activity of 0,34 nkat Caseine/mL was detected. The conversion of several chromogenic peptide substrates revealed that PRT1 does not offer a clear substrate specificity. The lysyl endopeptidase LysC from Lysobacter enzymogenes ssp. enzymogenes was obtained by cultivation of the wild type strain (ATCC 27796). In a bioreactor (1 L scale) a maximum protease activity of 0,084 nkat Tos-Gly-Pro-Lys-pNA/mL in the culture broth was detected after 45 h. The LysC gene was amplified by PCR using genomic template DNA and was cloned into the E. coli expression vector pET20b(+), leading to no detectable recombinant protease when expressed in E. coli BL21(DE3). Thus for the heterologous expression a synthetic gene construct was applied which was formerly described in literature. It contained a short N-terminal pro-sequence (MGSK) and a codon usage adapted to E. coli. The bioreactor cultivation (5 L scale) of E. coli BL21(DE3) pET20b-MGSK-LysC led to LysC inclusion bodies. The solubilization of the inclusion bodies and the following enzyme renaturation using L-arginine as an unspecific folding additive resulted in a maximum protease activity of 0,06 nkat Tos-Gly-Pro-Lys-pNA/L Culture 5h after IPTG induction. To increase the yield of recombinant protease activity the influence of the LysC propeptides on the in vitro renaturation of the protease was investigated. For this purpose both pro-peptide DNAs were sequenced, cloned and heterologously expressed in E. coli BL21(DE3). The addition of C-terminal and N-terminal propeptide to the LysC renaturation led to a maximum of 27fold (1.56 Μkat Tos-Gly-Pro-Lys-pNA/L Culture) LysC activity increasion compared to the L-arginine renaturation. As an alternative food-grade expression system the in the literature already established system of Lactobacillus plantarum NC8, L. sakei Lb790 and the E. coli-Lactobacillus shuttle vector pSIP409 was tested. However, the shaking flusk cultivations of neither L. plantarum NC8 pSIP409-MGSK-LysC nor L. sakei Lb790 pSIP409-MGSK-LysC led to detectable recombinant lysyl endopeptidase. As a possible reason therefor the different codon usage of E. coli and Lactobacillus was assumed. So expression experiments were performed using point mutated variants of the beta-galctosidase gene from Kluyveromyces lactis. It could be shown that the exchange of the serine codons tca/agt and tcc had a significant effect on the resulting enzyme activity. The exchange of three codons led to a decreation of beta-galactosidase activity of 38 %. The characterization of the recombinant lysyl endopeptidase LysC confirmed the high substrate specificity for lysine residues at P1 position. The pH and temperature optimum was 8.5 and 45°C, respectively. At 4°C and pH 9 the enzyme was stable for at least 20.5 h, whereas at 45°C only 40 % residual activity were detected after 1 h. An inhibiting effect on LysC was demonstrated for Ba2+, NH+ and PMSF. Hydrolysis of bovine caseine by LysC for generated the ACE inhibiting peptides EMPFPK, FALPQYLK, NMAINPSK and ALNEINQFYQK as well as the antioxidative VLPVPQK, which all were unambiguously identified by LC-ESI-MS/MS. Performing appropriate in vitro assays, the radical scavenging acticvity (IC50 = 4,85 Μg/mL), lipoxygenase inhibition (IC50 = 23,6 Μg/mL) and ACE inhibition (IC50 = 2,78 Μg/mL) of the caseine hydrolysate were quantified.
Mobile signals in plant parasitism
(2024) Greifenhagen, Anne; Schaller, Andreas
Close to two percent of all flowering plants evolved parasitism, with some parasitic species, like Striga spp. from the Orobanchaceae family, posing a prevailing threat to crop yield. Parasitic weed management is challenging and requires a deeper understanding of the complex parasite-host relationship (Section 1.1). Parasitic plants infect and parasitize host plants through a multicellular feeding organ, the haustorium. This organ may either develop from the root tip as a single terminal haustorium or emerge multiple times along the growing roots, called lateral haustoria. In both cases, protohaustoria develop into mature haustoria that enable the withdrawal of water and nutrients. Parasitism depends on parasite and host endogenous signaling but also on communication between both partners (Section 1.2). This is similar to the development of other plant organs like lateral roots and symbiotic nodules, whose number is adjusted by an autoregulation of nodulation (AON) system. The induction of parasitic organs by pathogenic nematodes, but in particular also by parasitic plants, involves the manipulation, neofunctionalization, and interspecific exchange of mobile signals (Section 1.3). However, most of these molecular cues remain elusive in the parasitic plant-host plant interaction. This work aimed to address the biogenesis and function of parasite-derived endogenous and interspecific mobile signals involved in early till late stages of parasitism in the model system Phtheirospermum japonicum infecting Arabidopsis thaliana (Section 1.4). Transcriptome and genome studies on parasitic plants paved the way to unravel signaling cues contributing to parasitism. The evolution of parasitism correlates with the expansion of certain gene families followed by their parasitism-related neofunctionalization as seen for the KARRIKIN-INSENSITIVE 2 ‘divergent’-type (KAI2d) gene family in parasitic plants of the Orobanchaceae. Likewise, subtilisin-like serine protease (subtilase, SBT) genes in P. japonicum and Striga underwent an expansion, and some show haustorium tip-specific expression. The proteolytic activity of PjSBTs is required for proper haustorium formation and development. Despite their importance, no substrates of PjSBTs have been identified. In this work, PjSBT1.2.3 was found to be co-expressed with CLAVATA3(CLV)/EMBRYO-SURROUNDING REGION-related 3 (PjCLE3) during infection in the same domain of the haustorium. PjSBT1.2.3 cleaved PjCLE3 in vitro, thereby releasing the bioactive mature PjCLE3 peptide (Section 2.1, Fig.2.1.1). Sensing host-derived haustorium-inducing factors (HIFs) initiates haustorium organogenesis. In the absence of a host, the synthetic mature PjCLE3 induced protohaustorium formation similar to a host-derived benzoquinone HIF. Combined treatment of both HIFs potentiated their activity (Section 2.1, Fig.2.1.2). Pj cle3 knock-out hairy roots (HRs) formed fewer haustoria, particularly due to the absence of secondary protohaustoria (Section 2.1, Fig.2.1.3). These data demonstrate the existence of an autoregulation of haustoria formation (AOH) system as part of which the PjSBT1.2.3-PjCLE3 module, in analogy to AON, regulates the number of P. japonicum lateral haustoria. During the early stages of parasitism, the parasitism-related PjSBT1.2.3-PjCLE3 module promotes protohaustorium formation by sensitizing the parasite root for host-derived HIFs (Section 3.1). A homologous SBT-CLE module also exists in Striga, even though the parasite forms a terminal haustorium. Striga CLE2s are identical to host CLEs and this mimicry might improve nutrient allocations from the host during later stages of parasitism (Section 2.1, Fig.S2.1.2; Section 3.2). Similarly, parasite-derived cytokinin (CK) translocates through the haustorium inducing host hypertrophy, a swelling of host tissue above the infection site, thereby potentially benefiting parasite nutrient acquisition. In agrobacteria and plants, isopentenyltransferases (IPTs) synthesize CK precursors. Similar to SBTs and KAI2ds from parasitic plants, P. japonicum and S. hermonthica IPT1 genes exist as multiple copies, with one copy, PjIPT1a showing specific expression at the tip of haustoria (Section 2.2, Fig.2.2.1, Fig.2.2.2). Bioinformatic tools predicted a chloroplast transit peptide (CTP) for PjIPT1s, but PjIPT1-GFP fusions localized to cytoplasm and nucleus suggesting the CTP to be non-functional (Section 2.2, Fig.2.2.2, Fig.S2.2.2). To test substrate specificity and activity of both PjIPT1 copies, isoprenylation-activity was probed in vitro. PjIPT1b used both AMP and ATP as substrates, whereas PjIPT1a displayed a higher affinity for AMP, indicating that PjIPT1b may be the canonical, whereas PjIPT1a is the parasitism-related IPT (Section 2.2, Fig.2.2.4). This is further supported by the observation that CRISPR/Cas9-mediated mutation of PjIPT1a abolishes CK responses in the infected host (Section 3.3, Section 2.2, Fig.2.2.3). SBT-CLE, IPT-CK together with KAI2ds all have in common that their parasitism-related function may evolutionally result from gene duplication combined with neofunctionalization. Targeting duplicated and neofunctionalized genes may prove to be a promising strategy to combat parasitic weeds. (Sections 3.4, 3.5).