Cloning, characterization and expression of an exo-1,3-β-glucanase gene from the antagonistic yeast, Pichia guilliermondii strain M8 against grey mold on apples
Dianpeng Zhang, Davide Spadaro, Silvia Valente, Angelo Garibaldi and Maria Lodovica Gullino
Biological Control,Volume 59, Issue 2, November 2011, Pages 284-293
2011
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The strain M8 of Pichiaguillermondii isolated from the carbosphere of apples (cv. Golden Delicious) showed a high efficacy in controlling grey mold, caused by Botrytiscinerea, on apples under semi-commercial conditions. Moreover, Pichiaguilliermondii M8 produced high amounts of active exo-1,3-β-glucanase in Lilly-Barnett minimal salt medium with different carbon sources, which greatly inhibited B. cinereain vitro and in vivotests. Therefore, an exo-1,3-β-glucanase gene, named as PgExg1 (GenBank accession number HQ113463) was cloned from the genomic DNA of the strain M8 by genome walking. The sequencing and the nucleotide BLAST analysis indicates that no introns are present inside the gene, which was confirmed by amplifying the full gene from complementary DNA (cDNA) of the yeast. An open reading frame of 1224 bp encoding a 408-amino acid (aa) protein with a calculated molecular weight (Mr) of 46.9 kDa and an isoelectric point (pI) of 4.5 was characterized. Protein BLAST and phylogenetic tree analysis of the deduced amino acid sequences from the PgExg1 gene suggested that the glucanase produced by PgExg1 gene belongs to the Glycoside Hydrolase Family 5. Expression of PgExg1 in Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3), followed by identification with Western-blotting, purification with Ni-NTA and analysis with enzyme assay, yielded homogeneous recombinant PgExg1. At its optimal pH of 5.0 and its optimal temperature of 40 °C, the recombinant enzyme protein showed the highest activity towards laminarin, while the highest stability was obtained when the enzyme was stored at pH of 7.0 and temperature of 4 °C.