Cloning, expression, and structural modeling of two alkaline serine protease genes from extremophilic Bacillaceae -related species: Application in valorization of invasive crustaceans

Authors

  • Sondes MECHRI Laboratory of Microbial Biotechnology and Engineering Enzymes (LMBEE), Centre of Biotechnology of Sfax (CBS), University of Sfax, Road of Sidi Mansour Km 6, P.O. Box 1177, Sfax 3018, Tunisia
  • Khelifa BOUACEM (a) Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology (LCMB), Microbiology Team, Faculty of Biological Sciences (FSB), University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene (USTHB), P.O. Box 32, El Alia, Bab Ezzouar, 16111 Algiers, Algeria (b) Department of Biochemistry & Microbiology, Faculty of Biological and Agricultural Sciences, University Mouloud Mammeri of Tizi-Ouzou (UMMTO), P.O. Box 17, Tizi-Ouzou 15000, Algeria
  • Fawzi ALLALA Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology (LCMB), Microbiology Team, Faculty of Biological Sciences (FSB), University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene (USTHB), P.O. Box 32, El Alia, Bab Ezzouar, 16111 Algiers, Algeria
  • Marwa KHALED Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology (LCMB), Microbiology Team, Faculty of Biological Sciences (FSB), University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene (USTHB), P.O. Box 32, El Alia, Bab Ezzouar, 16111 Algiers, Algeria
  • Amel BOUANANE-DARENFED Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology (LCMB), Microbiology Team, Faculty of Biological Sciences (FSB), University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene (USTHB), P.O. Box 32, El Alia, Bab Ezzouar, 16111 Algiers, Algeria
  • Hocine HACENE Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology (LCMB), Microbiology Team, Faculty of Biological Sciences (FSB), University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene (USTHB), P.O. Box 32, El Alia, Bab Ezzouar, 16111 Algiers, Algeria
  • Bassem JAOUADI Laboratory of Microbial Biotechnology and Engineering Enzymes (LMBEE), Centre of Biotechnology of Sfax (CBS), University of Sfax, Road of Sidi Mansour Km 6, P.O. Box 1177, Sfax 3018, Tunisia

Keywords:

Recombinant proteases, Anoxybacillus kamchatkensi, Melghiribacillus thermohalophilus, Comparative modeling

Abstract

Two novel protease genes sapA and sapN from the thermophilic  Anoxybacillus kamchatkensis M1V and Melghiribacillus thermohalophilus Nari2AT strains respectively, encoding a polypeptide of 381 and 379 residues, were identified, cloned and successfully heterologously expressed in Escherichia coli BL21(DE3)pLysS. The deduced putative amino-acid residues of SAPA and SAPN enzymes evinced identity with proteases from Bacillus strains. The highest sequence identity value (95%) of SAPA was obtained with peptidase S8 from Bacillus subtilis WT 168, but with 16 amino-acids of difference. While, the highest sequence identity (97.10%) of SAPN was observed with Bacillus licheniformis MP1 protease, but with 10 difference residues. rSAPA and rSAPN enzymes were purified until homogeneity, characterized, and compared to wild-type proteases.  The purified recombinant enzymes rSAPA and rSAPN were two monomers of about 28 and 30 kDa, correspondingly. rSAPA displayed the highest activity at pH 11 and
70°C. While, rSAPN displayed the highest activity at pH 10 and 75°C. To initiate structure-function relationships, a 3Dmodel of the Pro-SAPA and Pro-SAPN proteins were thereafter built based on the available structures of common
proteases. The comparative molecular modeling studies with the less thermostable protease, revealed extra charged residues at the surface of SAPA and SAPN potentially participating in the formation of intermolecular hydrogen bonds with solvent molecules or generating salt bridges, therefore contributing to the higher thermal stability.

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08/25/2022

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MECHRI, S., BOUACEM, K., ALLALA, F., KHALED, M., BOUANANE-DARENFED, A., HACENE, H., & JAOUADI, . B. (2022). Cloning, expression, and structural modeling of two alkaline serine protease genes from extremophilic Bacillaceae -related species: Application in valorization of invasive crustaceans. Revue Nature Et Technologie, 13(02), 19. Retrieved from https://journals.univ-chlef.dz/index.php/natec/article/view/54

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Agronomic & Biological Sciences

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