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The regulation of the pac gene encoding the penicillin G
acylase
of Escherichia coli W ATCC 11015 has been investigated by a molecular approach using lacZ as a reporter gene. This analysis revealed that a region of 170 bp located upstream of the pac structural gene contains the regulatory sequences that control its expression. The cAMP receptor protein is involved not only in the catabolite repression of penicillin G
acylase
production caused by glucose but also in the induction of pac gene expression by
phenylacetic acid
. Primer extension analyses have demonstrated that the transcription of the pac gene can be initiated from at least three different promoters. Although all these promoters are functional, their relative activity depends on the transcribed gene, the P1 and P3 promoters being more active in the presence of the pac gene, whereas the P2 promoter was stronger when the upstream region of the pac gene was fused to the lacZ reporter. A deletion of the region surrounding the -10 box of the P3 promoter produced a constitutive expression of the fused gene indicating that this sequence is required for
phenylacetic acid
induction and suggesting that the expression of the pac gene is regulated by a repression mechanism. This work reveals that the regulation of the pac gene is more complex than previously envisioned and provides new clues to investigate further this interesting regulatory system.
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PMID:New insights into the regulation of the pac gene from Escherichia coli W ATCC 11105. 1043 17
The beta-amino acid, (S)-ethyl-3-amino-4-pentynoate, is a chiral synthon used in the synthesis of xemilofiban hydrochloride, an anti-platelet agent. A biocatalytic approach was developed to resolve (R)- and (S)-enantiomers of ethyl 3-amino-4-pentynoate in enantiomerically pure form employing the enzyme Penicillin
acylase
. In the acylation,
phenylacetic acid
was used as an acylating agent. We have shown that both the acylation and deacylation can be employed and that the activity of the enzyme Penicillin
acylase
can be controlled by maintaining an appropriate pH of the reaction medium.
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PMID:Use of enzyme penicillin acylase in selective amidation/amide hydrolysis to resolve ethyl 3-amino-4-pentynoate isomers. 1057 30
Penicillin
acylase
(EC 3.5.1.11) catalyses the condensation of
phenylacetic acid
(
PAA
) and 6-aminopenicillanic acid (6-APA) to form benzylpenicillin (BP). Both
PAA
and 6-APA were found to form host-guest complexes with beta-methylcyclodextrin (beta m-CD) and gamma-cyclodextrin (gamma-CD) respectively. The rate of the reaction catalyzed by the enzyme remained unaffected if one of the substrates used was in the cyclodextrin complexed form. However, in this case, the reaction lasted longer and yielded about 20 per cent more products compared to the condensation reaction involving only uncomplexed substrates. There was distinct increase in the rate of formation of the antibiotic, if both substrates used are in CD-complexed form.
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PMID:Penicillin acylase catalyzed synthesis of penicillin-G from substrates anchored in cyclodextrins. 1098 7
Penicillin G
acylase
(PGA) is one of the most important enzymes for the production of semisynthetic beta-lactam antibiotics and their key intermediates. To enhance its expression, the PGA gene from Bacillus megaterium was amplified by PCR and subcloned into an expression vector under the control of the P43 promoter. The resulting construct was transferred into Bacillus subtilis WB600 and the transformant producing the most PGA was selected and designated SIBAS205. In contrast to the parent cells, which have to be induced by
phenylacetic acid
and cultured at 28 and 25 degrees C successively to produce PGA, the recombinant cells needed neither induction nor thermoregulation during fermentation at 37 degrees C. PGA was secreted and reached an expression level of 40 U/mL under optimized conditions. The enzyme was separated by centrifugation and purified by Al(2)O(3) adsorption and phenyl-Sepharose CL-4B hydrophobic chromatography with a yield of 85%. The purified enzyme had a specific activity of 45 U/mg protein.
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PMID:Expression and purification of extracellular penicillin G acylase in Bacillus subtilis. 1116 87
The structural gene pac in Eschericia coli ATCC11105 encodes penicillin G
acylase
(PGA). Within the pac gene, there is a regulatory gene pacR, which is transcribed in the opposite direction. Site-directed mutagenesis was performed at base 1045 of pac by replacing a T with a C. This substitution did not alter the amino-acid sequence of PGA, but changed the translation start codon of pacR from AUG to GUG. The expression of the mutant pacR decreased dramatically and the lacZ transcriptional fusion analysis showed that GUG was an extremely poor initiation codon for pacR. The pacR mutation caused PGA expression to be constitutive rather than inductive in two strains (E. coli A56, DH10B). The pac inducer
phenylacetic acid
(
PAA
) gave significant induction of PGA production at a concentration of 0.2% in wild type, but
PAA
at this concentration inhibited both cell growth and PGA production in the pacR mutated strains. The temperature-dependent expression character of pac is preserved in the pacR translation-initiation mutant and the optimum temperature of PGA production was 22 degrees C in both wild type and mutant. At a higher temperature of 37 degrees C, the PGA precursor polypeptide could not be matured into subunits and formed inclusion bodies, as revealed by western blot analysis. Our investigations confirmed the hypothesis of pacR-mediated
PAA
induction for PGA expression and clarified the inhibitory effect of high temperature upon the post-translational processing of the PGA precursor polypeptide.
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PMID:Expression of penicillin G acylase from the cloned pac gene of Escherichia coli ATCC11105. Effects of pacR and temperature. 1123 Dec 81
The recombinant strain RE3(pKA18) of Escherichia coli constitutively overproduces penicillin G
acylase
(PGA) from plasmid-borne gene pga. The host strain RE3 bears the same pga gene on its chromosome, the expression of which is controlled by the natural mechanism of induction with
phenylacetic acid
(PA). To evaluate the maximum biosynthetic capacity for PGA, induction of the chromosomal pga by PA was studied in a culture of the recombinant strain. PGA production by batch cultures of RE3(pKA18) and RE3 showed a different response to the addition of PA to the medium: while an addition of PA induces PGA in a culture of strain RE3 as expected, in recombinant cells it lowers the specific activity of PGA and a large amount of PGA is released into the culture medium. To improve the PGA production, the strain RE3(pKA18) was cultured in a carbon-limited chemostat and subjected to selection pressure in a medium supplemented with
phenylacetic acid
amide (PAA). Phenylacetic acid amide served as a source of nitrogen, an inducer of PGA and a factor exerting positive selection pressure on the maintenance of the recombinant plasmid. After 130 generations of growth in the presence of the inducer, no recombinant strain with constitutive expression of the chromosomal gene pga was detected in the prevailing P(+) subpopulation in the chemostat. Shake-flask experiments with the parent recombinant strain RE3(pKA18), host strain RE3, chemostat evolvant ERE3(epKA18), the cured host ERE3 alone, and its derivative after retransformation with ancestral plasmid ERE3(pKA18) showed that inactivation of the plasmid-borne pga by a frame-shift mutation (plasmid epKA18) occurred in the plasmid-bearing subpopulation accumulated in the chemostat. Marked adaptive changes evolved in the host ERE3 during a 130 generation culture: (1) the specific growth rate of the host increased by 30% in a medium without PA, (2) the copy number of plasmids pKA18 and epKA18 in the host cultured in PA-free medium dropped by about 40%, and (3) the leakage of PGA from the cell in the presence of PA found in strain RE3(pKA18) was not observed in strain ERE3(pKA18). This new recombinant strain with modified traits was constructed by means of retransformation of the evolved host ERE3 with ancestral plasmid pKA18.
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PMID:A chemostat culture as a tool for the improvement of a recombinant E. coli strain over-producing penicillin G acylase. 1153 26
Penicillin G
acylase
(PGA) is one of very important industrial enzymes used in the production of polysynthetic beta-lactam antibiotics. This enzyme catalyzes the hydrolysis of the amidic bond of penicillin G with the development of 6-aminopenicillanic acid which serves as the initial substance for the production of semisynthetic penicillins. In the strain Escherichia coli W ATCC 11105 and ATCC 9637, PGA is coded by the pga gene on the chromozome and synthesized as the pre-pro-PGA (pp PGA) precursor, which is transported, with probable participation of the chaperon system, to the periplasmatic space of the cell. Here after a series of proteolytic reactions the active enzyme PGA develops, consisting of two subunits alpha and beta. Expression of the pga gene is subject to several regulatory mechanisms: temperature repression, catabolic repression by glucose, repression by oxygen, and induction by
phenylacetic acid
(FOK). The formation of active PGA is also influenced at the post-translation level, where an important role is played by intracellular proteolytic reactions and the transport system of pre-pro-PGA across the cytoplasmatic membrane. The chromozomal area of the pga gene of the E. coli W strain was employed for the construction of many recombinant plasmids. These plasmids served to transform suitable host strains, some of which are now used in industry as highly productive microorganisms.
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PMID:[Penicillin G acylase--synthesis, regulation, production]. 1191 Jul 44
The potential for production of penicillin G-
acylase
(PGA), encoded by the chromosomal gene pgai, of four strains belonging to a genealogical line derived from the strain Escherichia coli W, was evaluated in a medium with and without the inducer
phenylacetic acid
(PA). These strains were used as hosts of the recombinant plasmid pKA18, in which the structural gene pgac isolated from the strain RE3, the best host strain of a line giving the highest production, was cloned. The presence of the inducer reduced the copy number of the plasmid in all recombinant strains. Only in recombinant strain RE3 (pKA18) the reduction of the gene dosage of pgac resulted also in the reduction of the amount of PGA synthesized by the cells. The reduced activity of the cells did not result from a segregation of plasmid-free clones. Also the growth rate was decreased by 20 and 40% in the host and recombinant strains, respectively. The host strain RE3 showing the highest production of PGA was also the best host of the recombinant plasmid in terms of the segregational stability and copy number (198 copies per chromosome). The recombinant strain RE3 (pKA18) also provided the highest production of PGA.
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PMID:Evaluation of strains derived from Escherichia coli W as hosts for the expression of penicillin G-acylase-encoding gene cloned on the recombinant plasmid pKA18. 1205 1
The penicillin G
acylase
gene (pga) amplified by PCR from Bacillus megaterium was subcloned into an expressing vector pPZW103 (P43 as promoter). The recombinant plasmid was transferred into Bacillus subtilis DB104. Penicillin G
acylase
production in the B. subtilis transformant was 3-6 u/ml, higher than that of published recombinant strains. Penicillin G
acylase
production was induced by
phenylacetic acid
in B. megaterium, whereas the enzyme was produced constitutively in the B. subtilis transformant carrying B. megaterium pga. The recombinant strain showed high stability in antibiotic-free medium for 10 days. Enzyme in crude broth was purified by Al(2)O(3) chromatography and phenyl-Sepharose CL-4B hydrophobic chromatography and the total yield is 79%. The purified enzyme with specific activity of 52 u/mg can be directly immobilized for use.
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PMID:High Expression of Penicillin G Acylase Gene from Bacillus megaterium in Bacillus subtilis. 1211 80
Cephradine was synthesized by gamma-alumina-immobilized form of the penicillin G
acylase
of Bacillus megaterium with D-phenyglycine methylester hydrochloride (CH DGME.HCl) as acyl donor and 7-aminodeacetoxycephalosporanic acid (7-ADCA) as acyl acceptor. 0.1 g of 7-ADCA was dissolved by adding 2.5 ml of distilled water and about 0.25 ml of 2 mol/L NaOH in a 25 ml flask. To the solution, after 0.25 g of CHDGME.HCl was added, 0.1 mol/L phosphate-0.05 mol/L citric acid buffer, pH 7.5 was added to result in a volume of 5 ml with pH 7.5 Then 1 g(220 IU) of immobilized enzyme was added. The flask was shaken on a rotary shaker at 110 r/min and 25 degrees C for 5 h. The conversion rate of 7-ADCA was 81%. In an expanded experiment in 500 ml of reactive volume, 11.8 g of cephradine was obtained from 10 g of 7-ADCA. The conversion rate of 7-ADCA was 80% with about 87% yield of cephradine. Enzymatic synthesis was inhibited in varying degrees by
phenylacetic acid
, phenoxyacetic acid and cephalosporin G.
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PMID:[Enzymatic synthesis of cephradine]. 1254 19
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