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ArticleScientific reports2018

Simultaneous cell disruption and semi-quantitative activity assays for high-throughput screening of thermostable L-asparaginases.

Xu Li, Xian Zhang, Shuqin Xu, Hengwei Zhang, Meijuan Xu, Taowei Yang, Li Wang, Haifeng Qian, Huiling Zhang, Haitian Fang and 3 more

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13 authors.

Xu LiThe Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, China.
Xian ZhangThe Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, China. zxshengwu@126.com.
Shuqin XuThe Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, China.
Hengwei ZhangThe Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, China.
Meijuan XuThe Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, China.
Taowei YangThe Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, China.
Li WangSchool of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, China.
Haifeng QianSchool of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, China.
Huiling ZhangSchool of Agriculture Ningxia University, Yinchuan, 750021, China.
Haitian FangSchool of Agriculture Ningxia University, Yinchuan, 750021, China.
Tolbert OsireThe Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, China.
Zhiming RaoThe Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, China. raozhm@jiangnan.edu.cn.
Shangtian YangDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5990-8529

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

L-asparaginase, which catalyses the hydrolysis of L-asparagine to L-aspartate, has attracted the attention of researchers due to its expanded applications in medicine and the food industry. In this study, a novel thermostable L-asparaginase from Pyrococcus yayanosii CH1 was cloned and over-expressed in Bacillus subtilis 168. To obtain thermostable L-asparaginase mutants with higher activity, a robust high-throughput screening process was developed specifically for thermophilic enzymes. In this process, cell disruption and enzyme activity assays are simultaneously performed in 96-deep well plates. By combining error-prone PCR and screening, six brilliant positive variants and four key amino acid residue mutations were identified. Combined mutation of the four residues showed relatively high specific activity (3108 U/mg) that was 2.1 times greater than that of the wild-type enzyme. Fermentation with the mutant strain in a 5-L fermenter yielded L-asparaginase activity of 2168 U/mL.

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Hot TemperatureMutationAsparagineComputational BiologyEnzyme StabilityHigh-Throughput Screening AssaysMutagenesis, Site-DirectedMutant ProteinsProtein ConformationPyrococcusRecombinant ProteinsAsparagineMutant ProteinsRecombinant Proteins

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PMID29784948
PMCPMC5962637

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