In vivo directed evolution for thermostabilization of Escherichia coli hygromycin B phosphotransferase and the use of the gene as a selection marker in the host-vector system of Thermus thermophilus |
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Authors: | Nakamura Akira Takakura Yasuaki Kobayashi Hideo Hoshino Takayuki |
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Affiliation: | Division of Integrative Environmental Sciences, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan. a-nak@agbi.tsukuba.ac.jp |
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Abstract: | An in vivo-directed evolutionary strategy was used to obtain a thermostabilized Escherichia coli hygromycin B phosphotransferase, using a host-vector system of Thermus thermophilus. Introduction of the mutant gene containing two amino acid substitutions, S52T and W238C, which was previously reported by Cannio et al. [J. Bacteriol., 180, 3237-3240 (1998)], did not confer hygromycin resistance on T. thermophilus cells at 55 degrees C; however, five spontaneously-generated independent mutants were obtained by selection of the transformants at this temperature. Each mutant gene contained one amino acid substitution of either A118V or T246A. Further selection with increasing temperature, at 58 degrees C and then 61 degrees C, led to acquisition of three more substitutions: D20G, S225P and Q226L. These mutations cumulatively influenced the maximum growth temperature of the T. thermophilus transformants in the presence of hygromycin; T. thermophilus carrying a mutant gene containing all the five substitutions was able to grow at up to 67 degrees C. This mutant gene, hph5, proved useful as a selection marker in the T. thermophilus host-vector system, either on the plasmid or by genome integration, at temperatures up to 65 degrees C. |
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Keywords: | directed evolution thermostabilization selection marker hygromycin resistance HPH hygromycin B phosphotransferase HTK a highly thermostable kanamycin nucleotidyltransferase Hyg hygromycin B Kan kanamycin |
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