TY - JOUR
T1 - Secretion of active subtilisin YaB by a simultaneous expression of separate pre-pro and pre-mature polypeptides in Bacillus subtilis
AU - Chang, Young Chae
AU - Kadokura, Hiroshi
AU - Yoda, Koji
AU - Yamasaki, Makari
PY - 1996/2/15
Y1 - 1996/2/15
N2 - Alkaline elastase YaB, produced by alkalophilic Bacillus YaB, is an extracellular serine protease having 55% homology to subtilisin BPN' and thus could be called as subtilisin YaB. It is synthesized as a 378-amino acid preproenzyme and secreted into the culture medium as a 265-amino acid mature protease. To examine if the pro-peptide of subtilisin YaB functions in trans to guide the folding of secreted subtilisin YaB in vivo, we made genes encoding the pre-pro, pro and pre-mature portions and placed them under the control of the spac-I promoter on a multi-copy plasmid. When simultaneous expression in Bacillus subtilis of both the pre-pro and pre-mature genes was induced with 0.5 mM isopropyl-1-thio-β-D-galactopyranoside (IPTG), protease activity was detected in the medium. On the other hand, we could not detect protease activity when the expression of either the pre-mature gene alone or both the pro and pre-mature genes was induced. From these results, we concluded that the pro region functions in trans and outside the cells for the proper folding and activation of the enzyme.
AB - Alkaline elastase YaB, produced by alkalophilic Bacillus YaB, is an extracellular serine protease having 55% homology to subtilisin BPN' and thus could be called as subtilisin YaB. It is synthesized as a 378-amino acid preproenzyme and secreted into the culture medium as a 265-amino acid mature protease. To examine if the pro-peptide of subtilisin YaB functions in trans to guide the folding of secreted subtilisin YaB in vivo, we made genes encoding the pre-pro, pro and pre-mature portions and placed them under the control of the spac-I promoter on a multi-copy plasmid. When simultaneous expression in Bacillus subtilis of both the pre-pro and pre-mature genes was induced with 0.5 mM isopropyl-1-thio-β-D-galactopyranoside (IPTG), protease activity was detected in the medium. On the other hand, we could not detect protease activity when the expression of either the pre-mature gene alone or both the pro and pre-mature genes was induced. From these results, we concluded that the pro region functions in trans and outside the cells for the proper folding and activation of the enzyme.
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U2 - 10.1006/bbrc.1996.0256
DO - 10.1006/bbrc.1996.0256
M3 - Article
C2 - 8605010
AN - SCOPUS:0030000685
VL - 219
SP - 463
EP - 468
JO - Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
JF - Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
SN - 0006-291X
IS - 2
ER -