CHARACTERIZATION OF AN ALKALINE SERINE-PROTEASE FROM AN ALKALINE-RESISTANT PSEUDOMONAS SP - CLONING AND EXPRESSION OF THE PROTEASE GENE IN ESCHERICHIA-COLI
Wh. Jang et al., CHARACTERIZATION OF AN ALKALINE SERINE-PROTEASE FROM AN ALKALINE-RESISTANT PSEUDOMONAS SP - CLONING AND EXPRESSION OF THE PROTEASE GENE IN ESCHERICHIA-COLI, Biotechnology letters, 18(1), 1996, pp. 57-62
A gene, aprP, encoding an extracellular alkaline serine protease from
a newly isolated Pseudomonas sp. KFCC 10818 was cloned and characteriz
ed. Nucleotide sequence analysis revealed an open reading frame of 1,2
66 nucleotides which could encode a polypeptide comprised of 422 amino
acids. The C-terminal 283 residues showed an overall sequence homolog
y with the subtilisin-type serine proteases. When expressed in E. coli
, the alkaline protease, AprP, was released to the culture medium. The
purified AprP was most active at pH 11. The k(cat)/K-m value of this
enzyme was 9.2 x 10(3)S(-1)mM(-1), which is much higher than those of
subtilisins.