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Purification and Characterization of an Insect Antibacterial Peptide, Defensin, Expressed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Saccharomyces cerevisiae에서 발현한 곤충 항균펩티드, defensin의 정제 및 특성 조사

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Abstract

We investigated the biochemical properties of insect defensin expressed and secreted from Saccharomyces corevisiae. The defensin showed extremely high resistance to boiling for up to 30 min and to pH values tested from 2.0 to 12.0. The treatment of defensin with various proteases abolished antibacterial activity. However, amylases, cellulase, lipase and catalase had no effect on the activity. The defensin was purified to homogeneity through ammonium sulfate concentration of culture supernatant, SP-Sepharose column chromatography and RP-HPLC. Tricin-SDS-PAGE analysis revealed that the molecular weight of the defensin was about 4.0 kDa. The antibacterial activity of the purified defensin was verified by renaturation of stained gel and gel pouring assay using Micrococcus luteus as a test organism.

S. cerevisiae에서 glucoamylase 유전자의 promoter와 signal sequence 그리고 MF$\alpha$1의 prosequence를 이용하여 합성 곤충 defensin를 발현하고 항균활성을 보유한 형태로 분비하는데 성공하였다. Defensin의 여러 생화학적인 특성을 조사한 결과 열 안정성이 높아 10$0^{\circ}C$에서 30분간 가열하여도 항균활성을 온전히 유지하였으며 조사한 pH 영역, 2.0-12.0에서 항균활성의 변화가 없었다. 또한 여러 단백질 분해효소를 처리하면 항균활성이 완전히 사라졌으나 전분질 분해효소, 섬유소분해효소 및 지질분해효소의 처리는 항균 활성에 전혀 영향이 없었다. 황산암모늄침전, SP-Sepharose column cormatography, RP-HPLC 등의 조작을 통해 defensin을 순수한 형태로 정제하였으며 Tricine-SDS-PAGE를 통해 분자량이 약 4.0 kDa임을 확인하였고 정제한 defensin은 항균활성을 보유하였다.

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