Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2011, 12(10), 6765-6780; doi:10.3390/ijms12106765
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A Novel Cold-Adapted Lipase from Sorangium cellulosum Strain So0157-2: Gene Cloning, Expression, and Enzymatic Characterization

Yuan-Yuan Cheng † email, Yun-Kai Qian † email, Zhi-Feng Liemail, Zhi-Hong Wuemail, Hong Liuemail and Yue-Zhong Li* email
State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China † These authors contributed equally to this work.
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Received: 23 August 2011; in revised form: 24 September 2011 / Accepted: 8 October 2011 / Published: 13 October 2011
(This article belongs to the Section Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics)
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Abstract: Genome sequencing of cellulolytic myxobacterium Sorangium cellulosum reveals many open-reading frames (ORFs) encoding various degradation enzymes with low sequence similarity to those reported, but none of them has been characterized. In this paper, a predicted lipase gene (lipA) was cloned from S. cellulosum strain So0157-2 and characterized. lipA is 981-bp in size, encoding a polypeptide of 326 amino acids that contains the pentapeptide (GHSMG) and catalytic triad residues (Ser114, Asp250 and His284). Searching in the GenBank database shows that the LipA protein has only the 30% maximal identity to a human monoglyceride lipase. The novel lipA gene was expressed in Escherichia coli BL21 and the recombinant protein (r-LipA) was purified using Ni-NTA affinity chromatography. The enzyme hydrolyzed the p-nitrophenyl (pNP) esters of short or medium chain fatty acids (≤C10), and the maximal activity was on pNP acetate.The r-LipA is a cold-adapted lipase, with high enzymatic activity in a wide range of temperature and pH values. At 4 °C and 30 °C, the Km values of r-LipA on pNP acetate are 0.037 ± 0.001 and 0.174 ± 0.006 mM, respectively. Higher pH and temperature conditions promoted hydrolytic activity toward the pNP esters with longer chain fatty acids. Remarkably, this lipase retained much of its activity in the presence of commercial detergents and organic solvents. The results suggest that the r-LipA protein has some new characteristics potentially promising for industrial applications and S. cellulosum is an intriguing resource for lipase screening.
Keywords: Sorangium cellulosum; cold-adapted lipase; detergent tolerant; organic synthesis

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Cheng, Y.-Y.; Qian, Y.-K.; Li, Z.-F.; Wu, Z.-H.; Liu, H.; Li, Y.-Z. A Novel Cold-Adapted Lipase from Sorangium cellulosum Strain So0157-2: Gene Cloning, Expression, and Enzymatic Characterization. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2011, 12, 6765-6780.

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Cheng Y-Y, Qian Y-K, Li Z-F, Wu Z-H, Liu H, Li Y-Z. A Novel Cold-Adapted Lipase from Sorangium cellulosum Strain So0157-2: Gene Cloning, Expression, and Enzymatic Characterization. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2011; 12(10):6765-6780.

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Cheng, Yuan-Yuan; Qian, Yun-Kai; Li, Zhi-Feng; Wu, Zhi-Hong; Liu, Hong; Li, Yue-Zhong. 2011. "A Novel Cold-Adapted Lipase from Sorangium cellulosum Strain So0157-2: Gene Cloning, Expression, and Enzymatic Characterization." Int. J. Mol. Sci. 12, no. 10: 6765-6780.

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