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Heterologous expression of barley and wheat oxalate oxidase in an E-coli trxB gor double mutant

Cassland, Pierre LU ; Larsson, S ; Nilvebrant, NO and Jonsson, LJ (2004) In Journal of Biotechnology 109(1-2). p.53-62
Abstract
Oxalate oxidase catalyses the degradation of oxalic acid to carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide and is of commercial importance for clinical analyses of oxalate in biological samples. Novel potential applications for oxalate oxidase include the prevention of the formation of calcium oxalate incrusts in pulp and paper manufacture and rapid determination of oxalic acid in process waters. The potential in using oxalate-degrading enzymes in industrial processes increases the interest in finding systems for heterologous expression. Oxalate oxidase from barley is a secreted multimeric glycosylated manganese-containing enzyme with several disulfide bridges, which have been found to be essential for the catalytic activity. Attempts to achieve... (More)
Oxalate oxidase catalyses the degradation of oxalic acid to carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide and is of commercial importance for clinical analyses of oxalate in biological samples. Novel potential applications for oxalate oxidase include the prevention of the formation of calcium oxalate incrusts in pulp and paper manufacture and rapid determination of oxalic acid in process waters. The potential in using oxalate-degrading enzymes in industrial processes increases the interest in finding systems for heterologous expression. Oxalate oxidase from barley is a secreted multimeric glycosylated manganese-containing enzyme with several disulfide bridges, which have been found to be essential for the catalytic activity. Attempts to achieve expression of active heterologous oxalate oxidase in bacteria have up to now met little success. In this study, one oxalate-oxidase-encoding cDNA from barley and two from wheat were cloned and tested with regard to expression in Escherichia coli. The results suggest that the selection of a novel commercially available E. coli host strain, which has the ability to form disulfide bridges in heterologous proteins expressed in its cytoplasm, was important for successful expression. Although a considerable part of the heterologous protein was produced in an insoluble and inactive form, this strain, E. coli Origami B(DE3), in addition yielded soluble and active barley and wheat oxalate oxidase. One of the wheat cDNAs, Ta(M)OXO1, gave three-fold higher activity than the barley cDNA, Hv(H)OXO1, while the other wheat cDNA, Ta(M)OXO2, gave no detectable activity. This indicates that the choice of cDNA was also critical despite the high identity between the cDNAs and the encoded polypeptides (88-89% on the nucleotide level and 88-92% on the amino-acid level). Gel filtration of cell extracts containing heterologous barley and wheat oxalate oxidase resulted in an increase in the activity. This indicates that low molecular weight inhibitory compounds were present in the E. coli lysates but could be removed by the introduction of a purification step. (Less)
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heterologous expression, barley, oxalate oxidase, wheat, E. coli, Origami B(DE3)
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Journal of Biotechnology
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109
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1-2
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53 - 62
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Elsevier
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1873-4863
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10.1016/j.jbiotec.2003.10.026
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English
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  author       = {{Cassland, Pierre and Larsson, S and Nilvebrant, NO and Jonsson, LJ}},
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  keywords     = {{heterologous expression; barley; oxalate oxidase; wheat; E. coli; Origami B(DE3)}},
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  publisher    = {{Elsevier}},
  series       = {{Journal of Biotechnology}},
  title        = {{Heterologous expression of barley and wheat oxalate oxidase in an E-coli trxB gor double mutant}},
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