• 제목/요약/키워드: molecular chaperones

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Effect of Molecular Chaperones on the Soluble Expression of Alginate Lyase in E. coli

  • Shin, Eun-Jung;Park, So-Lim;Jeon, Sung-Jong;Lee, Jin-Woo;Kim, Young-Tae;Kim, Yeon-Hee;Nam, Soo-Wan
    • Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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    • 제11권5호
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    • pp.414-419
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    • 2006
  • When the alginate lyase gene (aly) from Pseudoalteromonas elyakovii was expressed in E. coli, most of the gene product was organized as aggregated insoluble particles known as inclusion bodies. To examine the effects of chaperones on soluble and nonaggregated form of alginate lyase in E. coli, we constructed plasm ids designed to permit the coexpression of aly and the DnaK/DnaJ/GrpE or GroEL/ES chaperones. The results indicate that coexpression of aly with the DnaK/DnaJ/GrpE chaperone together had a marked effect on the yield alginate lyase as a soluble and active form of the enzyme. It is speculated this result occurs through facilitation of the correct folding of the protein. The optimal concentration of L-arabinose required for the induction of the DnaK/DnaJ/GrpE chaperone was found to be 0.05mg/mL. An analysis of the protein bands on SDS-PAGE gel indicated that at least 37% of total alginate lyase was produced in the soluble fraction when the DnaK/DnaJ/GrpE chaperone was coexpressed.

Production of Soluble Human Granulocyte Colony Stimulating Factor in E. coli by Molecular Chaperones

  • PARK SO-LIM;SHIN EUN-JUNG;HONG SEUNG-PYO;JEON SUNG-JONG;NAM SOO-WAN
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • 제15권6호
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    • pp.1267-1272
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    • 2005
  • The effects of coexpression of GroEL/ES and DnaK/DnaJ/GrpE chaperones on the productivity of the soluble form of human granulocyte colony stimulating factor (hG-CSF) in E. coli were examined. Recombinant hG-CSF protein was coexpressed with DnaK/DnaJ/GrpE or GroEL/ES chaperones under the control of the araB or Pzt-1 promoter, respectively. The optimal concentration of L-arabinose for the expression of DnaK/DnaJ/GrpE was found to be 1 mg/ml. When L-arabinose was added at $OD_{600}$=0.2 (early-exponential phase), soluble hG-CSF production was greatly increased. In addition, it was observed that the DnaK/DnaJ/GrpE and GroEL/ES chaperones had no synergistic effects on preventing aggregation of hG-CSF protein. Consequently, by coexpression of the DnaK/DnaJ/GrpE chaperone, the signal intensity of the hG-CSF protein band in the soluble fraction of cell lysate was increased from $3.5\%\;to\;13.9\%$, and Western blot analysis also revealed about a 4-5-fold increase of production of soluble hG-CSF over the non-induction case of DnaK/DnaJ/GrpE.

Overproduction of the Escherichia coli Chaperones GroEL-GroES in Rhodococcus ruber Improves the Activity and Stability of Cell Catalysts Harboring a Nitrile Hydratase

  • Tian, Yuxuan;Yu, Chen, Huimin;Shen, Zhongyao
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • 제26권2호
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    • pp.337-346
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    • 2016
  • Three combinations of molecular chaperones from Escherichia coli (i.e., DnaK-DnaJ-GrpE-GroEL-GroES, GroEL-GroES, and DnaK-DnaJ-GrpE) were overproduced in E. coli BL21, and their in vitro stabilizing effects on a nitrile hydratase (NHase) were assessed. The optimal gene combination, E. coli groEL-groES (ecgroEL-ES), was introduced into Rhodococcus ruber TH3. A novel engineered strain, R. ruber TH3G was constructed with the native NHase gene on its chromosome and the heterologous ecgroEL-ES genes in a shuttle plasmid. In R. ruber TH3G, NHase activity was enhanced 37.3% compared with the control, TH3. The in vivo stabilizing effect of ecGroEL-ES on the NHase was assessed using both acrylamide immersion and heat shock experiments. The inactivation behavior of the in vivo NHase after immersion in a solution of dynamically increased concentrations of acrylamide was particularly evident. When the acrylamide concentration was increased to 500 g/l (50%), the remaining NHase activity in TH3G was 38%, but in TH3, activity was reduced to 10%. Reactivation of the in vivo NHases after varying degrees of inactivation was further assessed. The activity of the reactivated NHase was more than 2-fold greater in TH3G than in TH3. The hydration synthesis of acrylamide catalyzed by the in vivo NHase was performed with continuous acrylonitrile feeding. The final concentration of acrylamide was 640 g/l when catalyzed by TH3G, compared with 490 g/l acrylamide by TH3. This study is the first to show that the chaperones ecGroEL-ES work well in Rhodococcus and simultaneously possess protein-folding assistance functions and the ability to stabilize and reactivate the native NHases.

The Hsp90 chaperone machinery: from structure to drug development

  • Hahn, Ji-Sook
    • BMB Reports
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    • 제42권10호
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    • pp.623-630
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    • 2009
  • Hsp90, an evolutionarily conserved molecular chaperone, is involved in the folding, stabilization, activation, and assembly of a wide range of 'client' proteins, thus playing a central role in many biological processes. Especially, several oncoproteins act as Hsp90 client proteins and tumor cells require higher Hsp90 activity than normal cells to maintain their malignancy. For this reason, Hsp90 has emerged as a promising target for anti-cancer drug development. It is still largely unknown how Hsp90 can recognize structurally unrelated client proteins. However, recent progress in structural studies on Hsp90 and its interaction with various co-chaperones has broadened our knowledge of how the Hsp90 ATPase activity, which is essential for its chaperone function, is regulated and coupled with the conformational changes of Hsp90 dimer. This review focuses on the roles of various Hsp90 co-chaperones in the regulation of the Hsp90 ATPase cycle, as well as in the selection of client proteins. In addition, the current development of Hsp90 inhibitors based on the structural information will be discussed.

GRP94는 thyroglobulin의 folding에 관여한다. (Overexpression of ER Resident Molecular Chaperones and Characterization of Their Interaction with Thyroglobulin in FRTL5 cells.)

  • Seong, Yeon-Mun;Shong, MinHo;Kwon, O-Yu
    • 생명과학회지
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    • 제9권1호
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    • pp.76-83
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    • 1999
  • Endoplasmic reticulum (ER)내에 단백질의 folding과 안정화에 관여하는 단백질을 molecular cha-perone이라고 한다. GRP94 역시 ER내에 존재하는 molecular chaperone으로 알려지고 있지만 갑상선세포에서 단백질의 folding에 관여한다는 증거는 아직 불충분하다. 본 설험은 molecular chaperone을 세포내에서 overexpression시킬 수 있는 system을 확립하였다. 그 중에서 GRP94가 단백질의 folding에 직접적으로 관여한다는 증거를 얻기 위하여, endogenous GRP94를 code한 cDNA를 overexpression vector에 의해서 forced expression시킴으로 신생thyroglobulin의 folding에 직접적으로 관여하는 증거를 immun-oprecipitation으로 증명하였다.

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Biochemical Analysis of a Cytosolic Small Heat Shock Protein, NtHSP18.3, from Nicotiana tabacum

  • Yu, Ji Hee;Kim, Keun Pill;Park, Soo Min;Hong, Choo Bong
    • Molecules and Cells
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    • 제19권3호
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    • pp.328-333
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    • 2005
  • Small heat shock proteins (sHSPs) are widely distributed, and their function and diversity of structure have been much studied in the field of molecular chaperones. In plants, which frequently have to cope with hostile environments, sHSPs are much more abundant and diverse than in other forms of life. In response to high temperature stress, sHSPs of more than twenty kinds can make up more than 1% of soluble plant proteins. We isolated a genomic clone, NtHSP18.3, from Nicotiana tabacum that encodes the complete open reading frame of a cytosolic class I small heat shock protein. To investigate the function of NtHSP18.3 in vitro, it was overproduced in Escherichia coli and purified. The purified NtHSP18.3 had typical molecular chaperone activity as it protected citrate synthase and luciferase from high temperature-induced aggregation. When E. coli celluar proteins were incubated with NtHSP18.3, a large proportion of the proteins remained soluble at temperatures as high as $70^{\circ}C$. Native gel analysis suggested that NtHSP18.3 is a dodecameric oligomer as the form present and showing molecular chaperone activity at the condition tested. Binding of bis-ANS to the oligomers of NtHSP18.3 indicated that exposure of their hydrophobic surfaces increased as the temperature was raised. Taken together, our data suggested that NtHSP18.3 is a molecular chaperone that functions as a dodecameric complex and possibly in a temperature-induced manner.

BAEC세포에서의 Laminin 이형체 Subunit의 회합에 관한 연구 (Subunit Assembly of Laminin Variants in Cultured BAEC)

  • 전훈;임강현
    • 동의생리병리학회지
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    • 제16권4호
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    • pp.680-683
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    • 2002
  • Bovine aortic endothelial cells(BAEC) produce two variant forms of laminin with a subunit composition of AB1B2 and A'B1B2. Analyses of the intracellular assembly of these subunits revealed that the B1B2 dimer formed first, and that A or A' joined to form the AB1B2 or A'B1B2 trimer. Angiostatic steroids shifted the relative size of the A and A' monomer pool in BAEC, and competition between the A and A' subunits in joining the B1B2 dimer produced AB1B2 and A'B1B2 in different ratios. This result suggests that subunit replacement is the general mechanism for producing laminin variants by various cells for tissue morphogenesis. When laminin subunits in BAEC were cross-linked with dithio-bis-succinimidylpropionate(DSP) and immunoprecipitated with anti-Iaminin antiserum, monomeric A,A',B1 and B2 monomers and the B1B2 dimer migrated as extremely large molecules in sodium dodecyl sulfate gel electrophoresis under nonreducing conditions. When the crosslinking disulfide bonds were cleaved under reducing conditions, they migrated as the usual subunits. This result suggests that molecular chaperones were involved in the process of the assembly and replacement of laminin subunits.

Search for Novel Stress-responsive Protein Components Using a Yeast Mutant Lacking Two Cytosolic Hsp70 Genes, SSA1 and SSA2

  • Matsumoto, Rena;Rakwal, Randeep;Agrawal, Ganesh Kumar;Jung, Young-Ho;Jwa, Nam-Soo;Yonekura, Masami;Iwahashi, Hitoshi;Akama, Kuniko
    • Molecules and Cells
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    • 제21권3호
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    • pp.381-388
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    • 2006
  • Heat shock proteins (Hsp) 70 are a ubiquitous family of molecular chaperones involved in many cellular processes. A yeast strain, ssa1/2, with two functionally redundant cytosolic Hsp70s (SSA1 and SSA2) deleted shows thermotolerance comparable to mildly heatshocked wild type yeast, as well as increased protein synthesis and ubiquitin-proteasome protein degradation. Since mRNA abundance does not always correlate well with protein expression levels it is essential to study proteins directly. We used a gel-based approach to identify stress-responsive proteins in the ssa1/2 mutant and identified 43 differentially expressed spots. These were trypsin-digested and analyzed by nano electrospray ionization liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (nESI-LC-MS/MS). A total of 22 non-redundant proteins were identified, 11 of which were confirmed by N-terminal sequencing. Nine proteins, most of which were up-regulated (2-fold or more) in the ssa1/2 mutant, proved to be stress-inducible proteins such as molecular chaperones and anti-oxidant proteins, or proteins related to carbohydrate metabolism. Interestingly, a translational factor Hyp2p up-regulated in the mutant was also found to be highly phosphorylated. These results indicate that the cytosolic Hsp70s, Ssa1p and Ssa2p, regulate an abundance of proteins mainly involved in stress responses and protein synthesis.

샤페론단백질동시발현기술을이용하여 Helicobacter pylori 유래의 fucosyltransferase의수용성생산 (Soluble Expression of the Fucosyltransferase Gene from Helicobacter pylori in Escherichia coli by Co-expression of Molecular Chaperones)

  • 이아름;이령;신소연;문진석;엄현;한남수
    • 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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    • 제43권3호
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    • pp.212-218
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    • 2015
  • Fucosyltransferase는 퓨코실화된 올리고당을 생성하는데 필수적인 효소로서, GDP-β-L-fucose로 부터 fucose를 수용체로 전이시켜 알파 글리코사이드 결합을 형성하는 과정을 촉매한다. 하지만 Escherichia coli 에서 발현시켰을 때, 대부분의 경우 inclusion body를 형성하여 비활성으로 생성되었다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 Helicobacter pylori 26695에서 유래한 α1,2-fucosyltransferase (FucT2) 유전자의 수용성 발현을 위하여, E. coli에서 샤페론 단백질인 GroEL, GroES, DnaK, DnaJ, GrpE과 함께 동시발현시켰다. SDS-PAGE 분석결과, 5가지 샤페론 단백질과 함께 발현되었으며, 수용성 FucT2 단백질이 증가하였고 효소활성은 5배 증가하였다. 결론적으로, 샤페론 동시발현기술을 이용하여 대장균에서 FucT2 수용성 생산을 증가시킬 수 있었으며 본 수용성 효소는 퓨코실화된 올리고당을 효율적으로 생산하는데 이용될 수 있다.