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Identification and Characterization of a Bacterial Glutamic Peptidase View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Copenhagen University Research Information System Identification and characterization of a bacterial glutamic peptidase Jensen, Kenneth; Østergaard, Peter R.; Wilting, Reinhard ; Lassen, Søren F. Published in: BMC Biochemistry DOI: 10.1186/1471-2091-11-47 Publication date: 2010 Document version Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record Citation for published version (APA): Jensen, K., Østergaard, P. R., Wilting, R., & Lassen, S. F. (2010). Identification and characterization of a bacterial glutamic peptidase. BMC Biochemistry, 11(47). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2091-11-47 Download date: 07. Apr. 2020 Jensen et al. BMC Biochemistry 2010, 11:47 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2091/11/47 RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Identification and characterization of a bacterial glutamic peptidase Kenneth Jensen1,2*, Peter R Østergaard1, Reinhard Wilting1, Søren F Lassen1 Abstract Background: Glutamic peptidases, from the MEROPS family G1, are a distinct group of peptidases characterized by a catalytic dyad consisting of a glutamate and a glutamine residue, optimal activity at acidic pH and insensitivity towards the microbial derived protease inhibitor, pepstatin. Previously, only glutamic peptidases derived from filamentous fungi have been characterized. Results: We report the first characterization of a bacterial glutamic peptidase (pepG1), derived from the thermoacidophilic bacteria Alicyclobacillus sp. DSM 15716. The amino acid sequence identity between pepG1 and known fungal glutamic peptidases is only 24-30% but homology modeling, the presence of the glutamate/ glutamine catalytic dyad and a number of highly conserved motifs strongly support the inclusion of pepG1 as a glutamic peptidase. Phylogenetic analysis places pepG1 and other putative bacterial and archaeal glutamic peptidases in a cluster separate from the fungal glutamic peptidases, indicating a divergent and independent evolution of bacterial and fungal glutamic peptidases. Purification of pepG1, heterologously expressed in Bacillus subtilis, was performed using hydrophobic interaction chromatography and ion exchange chromatography. The purified peptidase was characterized with respect to its physical properties. Temperature and pH optimums were found to be 60°C and pH 3-4, in agreement with the values observed for the fungal members of family G1. In addition, pepG1 was found to be pepstatin-insensitive, a characteristic signature of glutamic peptidases. Conclusions: Based on the obtained results, we suggest that pepG1 can be added to the MEROPS family G1 as the first characterized bacterial member. Background throughput screening is often the first choice because Biotech industries are becoming more and more suc- optimization of an existing enzyme to an industrial pro- cessful in providing enzymatic solutions to an ever cess is much simpler than in silico design. The high- increasing number of industrial processes. The combina- throughput screening is performed at conditions made tion of high-throughput screening methods and the low to mimic the industrial process in order to find existing cost of full genome sequencing has greatly sped up the enzymes already able to cope with the industrial envir- process of identifying and isolating genes that match the onment. Again, these study enzymes are often found in criteria for a given industrial process. Besides being able microorganisms that are able to grow in extreme condi- to catalyze the enzymatic reaction in the industrial pro- tions. By taking advantage of the many published and cess, the enzymes must also be able to survive the often freely available genomes, it is often possible to make an harsh industrial conditions. One of the frequently educated guess of which microorganisms would be required capabilities of an industrial enzyme is the interesting to screen for a certain enzyme. Screening of ability to function at high temperatures in either an such microorganisms will often provide an extensive acidic or alkaline environment. Enzymes with such battery of enzymes optimized for the selected screening properties can either be designed in silico or by conditions. high-throughput screening of microorganisms. High- A soil screening conducted by Novozymes A/S resulted in the discovery of a novel strain of Alicycloba- * Correspondence: [email protected] cillus (WO 2005/066339). The thermoacidophilic bacter- 1Novozymes A/S, 2880 Bagsværd, Denmark ial strain was isolated at low pH (approx. 4.5) and high Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © 2010 Jensen et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Jensen et al. BMC Biochemistry 2010, 11:47 Page 2 of 12 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2091/11/47 temperature (60°C). The genus was identified by 16 S thereby bringing the total number of Ascomycete pep- rRNA analysis and showed a significant phylogenetic tidases down to fifty-four. The G1 peptidases are found distance from the previously known strains of Alicyclo- in the following Ascomycete orders: Eurotiales, Pezi- bacillus (WO 2005/066339). The strain was deposited in zales, Sordariales, Leotiales, Diaporthales, Dothideales the DMSZ bacteria collection as Alicyclobacillus sp. and Pleosporales, with the vast majority of G1 pepti- DSM 15716. A gene for a putative G1 peptidase was dases originating from the Eurotiales order (Additional identified in a gene library screening for secreted file 1 Table S1). Of the remaining six ORFs in pepti- enzymes using Transposon Assisted Signal Trapping dase family G1, five are from bacteria and one is from (TAST) [1] of Alicyclobacillus sp. DSM 15716 (WO archaea. In addition, blast searches at NCBI identified 2005/066339). one more archaeal and three more bacterial G1 pepti- The peptidase showed significant sequence similarity dase homologs. A bootstrapped unrooted maximum to the peptidase family G1 [2], a family otherwise likelihood phylogenetic tree (disregarding the non-pep- thought to be limited to the filamentous fungal species tidase homologues) showed a clear distinction between of the Ascomycota phylum [3]. The characterized pro- Ascomycete and bacterial/archaeal pepG1 peptidases. teins known to be part of the G1 family are aspergillo- The Ascomycete cluster A can be subdivided into two glutamic peptidase (AGP) from Aspergillus niger [4], major clusters, termed B and C (Figure 1). All G1 pep- scytalidoglutamic peptidase (SGP) from Scytalidium lig- tidases derived from the Eurotiales and Leotiales orders nicolum [5], acid peptidases B and C (EapB and EapC) had at least one paralog in each major cluster, as indi- from Cryphonectria parisitica [6], Penicillium marneffei cated in Additional file 1 Table S1. This strongly indi- acid proteinase (PMAP-1) [7], Talaromyces emersonii cates that gene duplication took place before species glutamic peptidase 1 (TGP1) [8] and BcACP1 from differentiation in the Eurotiales and Leotiales.Each Botryotinia fuckeliana [9]. species, primarily in the Eurotiales, contains numerous Based on sequence homology, five bacterial and a sin- paralogs [3] (i.e. seven in Talaromyces stipitatus and P. gle archaeal protein have been annotated as putative G1 marneffei), which appears to be the result of extensive peptidases at the MEROPS peptidase database, but bio- gene duplications within the species as many of the chemical characterizations have not been carried out to paralogs exhibit very high sequence similarity. The confirm their function [2]. Structural homology to fun- bootstrap confidence levels of the internal nodes of the gal G1 peptidases and conservation of the catalytic resi- Ascomycete clusters were in general above 0.7, indicat- dues indicate that pepG1 from Alicyclobacillus sp.DSM ing that the members of the different clusters are 15716 could be a bacterial G1 peptidase. In order to grouped correctly together. As expected, the bacterial further examine its properties, we have amplified pepG1 and archaeal peptidase G1 orthologs were found to from Alicyclobacillus sp. DSM 15716 genomic DNA and cluster separately from the Ascomycetes, supported by heterologously expressed it in B. subtilis. Following puri- a bootstrap confidence value of 0.7 (Figure 1). The fication, pepG1 was characterized according to its physi- archaeal G1 peptidases were clustered together, but do cal properties, such as pH and temperature optimum not appear to be as divergent from the bacterial G1 and the effects of various protease inhibitors were deter- peptidases as could be expected. A plausible explana- mined. Based on these results, we suggest that pepG1 tion could be that “housekeeping genes” from archaea can be annotated as a G1 peptidase. are bacterial in origin [10], although this assumption is still heavily debated. Another possibility could be that Results and discussion the introduction of G1 peptidases into archaea was Phylogenetic analysis of peptidase family G1 facilitated by ancient horizontal gene transfer events. Previously, only G1 peptidases derived from filamentous Low bootstrap values prevent deduction of the mutual fungi have been characterized and the peptidase family relationship between the bacterial G1 peptidases from G1 was thought to be limited to filamentous
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