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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2003

Secretion of active-form Streptoverticillium mobaraense transglutaminase by Corynebacterium glutamicum: processing of the pro-transglutaminase by a cosecreted subtilisin-Like protease from Streptomyces albogriseolus.

Yoshimi Kikuchi, Masayo Date, Kei-ichi Yokoyama, Yukiko Umezawa, Hiroshi Matsui

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

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36citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

36 citing papers in PubMed, 136 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yoshimi KikuchiInstitute of Life Sciences, Ajinomoto Co., Inc., Kawasaki 210-8681, Japan. yoshimi_kikuchi@ajinomoto.com
Masayo Date
Kei-ichi Yokoyama
Yukiko Umezawa
Hiroshi Matsui
Ajinomoto (Japan) · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The transglutaminase secreted by Streptoverticillium mobaraense is a useful enzyme in the food industry. A fragment of transglutaminase was secreted by Corynebacterium glutamicum when it was coupled on a plasmid to the promoter and signal peptide of a cell surface protein from C. glutamicum. We analyzed the signal peptide and the pro-domain of the transglutaminase gene and found that the signal peptide consists of 31 amino acid residues and the pro-domain consists of 45 residues. When the pro-domain of the transglutaminase was used, the pro-transglutaminase was secreted efficiently by C. glutamicum but had no enzymatic activity. However, when the plasmid carrying the S. mobaraense transglutaminase also encoded SAM-P45, a subtilisin-like serine protease derived from Streptomyces albogriseolus, the peptide bond to the C side of 41-Ser of the pro-transglutaminase was hydrolyzed, and the pro-transglutaminase was converted to an active form. Our findings suggest that C. glutamicum has potential as a host for industrial-scale protein production.

Indexed as

Amino Acid SequenceBase SequenceBiotechnologyCorynebacteriumMolecular Sequence DataPlasmidsProtein Sorting SignalsSequence Analysis, DNAStreptomycetaceaeTransglutaminasesProtein Sorting SignalsTransglutaminases

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PMID12514016
PMCPMC152470
OpenAlexW2032876859

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