Team:Kyoto/Digestion

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Contents

Project Digestion

Introduction

Streptomyces is a kind of prokaryotic bacteria which decompose bodies in nature[1]. We extract protease and chitinase genes from this bacterium and introduce into Escherichia coli. Secretion-signal sequences are included in these genes so that the proteins coded by them will go out without occurring cell lysis. After assembling all genes, we examined the activity of these two enzymes in both of and quantitative ways.

Method

Construction

We created following constructions to allow secretion of Serine protease, SAM-P20 and chitinase, chiA1. These genes are regulated by lactose promoter, BBa_R0011. We used Streptmyces’s RBS into these constructions, because reference article [1] used them to allow E.coli to secrete these proteins.


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Assay

We performed following qualitative and quantitative assays. These method take a little time and cost a little money.


Serine Protease

Experiment 1 : Skim milk-hydroryzing assay
In order to identify the expression of SAM-P20 gene, a skim milk-hydroryzing assay was performed. A plate containing 2% skim milk, IPTG(final concentration, 0.5mM), and 0.1% yeast extract was used for this assay.


Experiment 2 : Measurement of enzyme activity
In order to measure the activity of serine protease, the fluorescent assay was done, using fluorescein-labeled casein as a substrate.


Chitinase A

Experiment 1 : Chitin plate assay
In order to identify the expression of ChiA genes, Chitin plate assay was conducted. We used a LB plate whose surface chitin flour was on


Experiment 2 : 3,5-Dinitrosalicylic acid assay (DNS method)
This assay is based on this fact: 3,5-dinitorosalicylic acid (DNS) is changed into 3-amino- 5-nitorosalicylic acid by reducing saccharide in reaction solution and the absorbance of this liquid increase in direct proportion to the amount of reducing sugar.
If chitinase is secreted, chitin in media was decomposed to, for example, N-acetylglucosamin,that is ,reducing sugar. Therefore, The absorbance of the media added DNS will increase.

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Result

Chitinase A1

1. Standard Measurement for ChiA1.

Fig.1: Absorbance550 vs. glucose concentration. r2=0.98936.
From the result, a strong correlation between glucose concentration and its A550 was observed.


2. Consideration of medium and growth of E.coli.

Fig.2: The influence of each medium to DNS method. Data points and error bars correspond to the mean and the standard deviation of three time experiments.

This graph indicates that each medium influenced the the DNS method, especially M9 medium.

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Discussion

Reference

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinobacteria

[2] Molecular Characterization of a Gene Encoding Extracellular Serine Protease Isolated from a Subtilisin Inhibitor-Deficient Mutant of Streptmyces albogriseolus S-3253

[3]Complete genome sequence and comparative analysis of the industrial microorganism Streptomyces avermitilis

[4]Genome sequence of an industrial microorganism Streptomyces avermitilis: deducing the ability of producing secondary metabolites

[5]還元糖の定量法 (生物化学実験法)福井 作蔵

[6]Quantitative Analysis of Cellulose-Reducing Ends