<i>Lactobacillus plantarum</i> (<i>Lb. plantarum</i>) NRRL B4496 and <i>Lactococcus lactis</i> (<i>Lc. lactis</i>) NRRL B1821 prolidase genes were isolated, cloned, and sequenced. The sequence-confirmed genes were subcloned into the expression systems. The recombinant prolidases from the pKK223-3 systems were purified through ammonium sulphate precipitation and anion-exchange column chromatography. Recombinant <i>Lb. plantarum prolidase</i>, however, demonstrated a loss of activity during the purification. The following characterization work was performed on purified recombinant <i>Lc. lactis prolidase</i>. <p>The mass spectroscopic result and the molecular modelling suggested a 80 kDa homodimer with two metal cations at the catalytic centre of the prolidase. The optimum temperature was 50 ºC and showed more than 50% activities between 40 and 55 ºC. The enzyme was most stable at 30 ºC and withstood 20 min of heat-treatment up to 60 ºC, however, lost activity over 70 ºC. Circular dichroism indicated a denaturation temperature of 67 ºC. The optimum pH was 6.5 for hydrolyzing Leu-Pro and the enzyme did not display any activity below pH 5.5 nor above pH 7 with this peptide. However, Phe-Pro was hydrolyzed the fastest at pH 7 and Arg-Pro had a maximum rate at pH 9. This metallopeptidase exhibited a broad range of metal cation preference, hydrolyzing Leu-Pro with Mn++, Co++, Zn++, Ca++, and Mg++. Further kinetic analysis showed unusual allostery of the enzyme (Hill coefficient: 1.3). The unique substrate intakes onGlu-Pro and tripeptides were observed while Val-Pro was not hydrolyzed. The molecular modelling of this prolidase suggested a difference in the substrate specificity resulting from a loop structure, L33 to R40, near the substrate binding site.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:USASK/oai:usask.ca:etd-04142007-123803 |
| Date | 23 April 2007 |
| Creators | Yang, Soo In |
| Contributors | Shand, Phyllis J., Korber, Darren R., Tanaka, Takuji |
| Publisher | University of Saskatchewan |
| Source Sets | University of Saskatchewan Library |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://library.usask.ca/theses/available/etd-04142007-123803/ |
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