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ArticleJournal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology2012

Enhanced production of α-cyclodextrin glycosyltransferase in Escherichia coli by systematic codon usage optimization.

Hua Liu, Jianghua Li, Guocheng Du, Jingwen Zhou, Jian Chen

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Article in Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Hua LiuNational Engineering Laboratory for Cereal Fermentation Technology-NELCF, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Road, Wuxi 214122, Jiangsu, China.
Jianghua Li
Guocheng Du
Jingwen Zhou
Jian Chen
Jiangnan University · CNEast China University of Science and Technology · CN

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Abstract

Enhancing the production of α-cyclodextrin glycosyltransferase (α-CGTase) is a key aim in α-CGTase industries. Here, the mature α-cgt gene from Paenibacillus macerans JFB05-01 was redesigned with systematic codon optimization to preferentially match codon frequencies of Escherichia coli without altering the amino acid sequence. Following synthesis, codon-optimized α-cgt (coα-cgt) and wild-type α-cgt (wtα-cgt) genes were cloned into pET-20b(+) and expressed in E. coli BL21(DE3). The total protein yield of the synthetic gene was greater than wtα-cgt expression (1,710 mg L⁻¹) by 2,520 mg L⁻¹, with the extracellular enzyme activity being improved to 55.3 U mL⁻¹ in flask fermentation. ΔG values at -3 to +50 of the pelB site of both genes were -19.10 kcal mol⁻¹. Functionally, coα-CGTase was equally as effective as wtα-CGTase in forming α-cyclodextrin (α-CD). These findings suggest that preferred codon usage is advantageous for translational efficiency to increase protein expression. Finally, batch fermentation was applied, and the extracellular coα-CGTase enzyme activity was 326 % that of wtα-CGTase. The results suggest that codon optimization is a reasonable strategy to improve the yield of α-CGTase for industrial application.

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alpha-CyclodextrinsAmino Acid SequenceBatch Cell Culture TechniquesBioreactorsBiotechnologyCodonEscherichia coliFermentationGenes, BacterialGenetic EngineeringGlucosyltransferasesPaenibacillusRNA Foldingalpha-cyclodextrinalpha-CyclodextrinsCodoncyclomaltodextrin glucanotransferaseGlucosyltransferases

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