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CN115807022A
CN115807022A CN202211003936.0A CN202211003936A CN115807022A CN 115807022 A CN115807022 A CN 115807022A CN 202211003936 A CN202211003936 A CN 202211003936A CN 115807022 A CN115807022 A CN 115807022A
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刘丽花
张志乾
胡玉成
吴奕瑞
江翱
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The invention discloses an intein-mediated multi-protein co-expression method, wherein one or more inteins with one inactivated end are connected among a plurality of proteins to finally form a fusion protein for expression. During protein expression, the self-cleaving activity of the intein is used to release the individual protein from the fusion protein. The expression of the polyprotein by the method has three advantages: 1) The expression of each protein is high-efficient and stable, and the difference of the expression quantity is small; 2) The protein is convenient to assemble; 3) And the steric hindrance does not exist after the assembly, and the influence on the activity of the protein is small. The method is suitable for equivalent expression of polyprotein or joint expression of multiple genes in a synthetic pathway, and has important application value in the fields of substance fermentation and catalytic synthesis.

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Intein-mediated polyprotein co-expression method
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the technical field of protein engineering, and particularly relates to an intein-mediated multi-protein co-expression method.
Background
There are four traditional ways of co-expression of multiple proteins:
method 1, multiple vectors: the expression of the polyprotein was performed using the resistance of different selection markers, as shown in FIGS. 1-2. For example, the protein 1 is expressed by using an ampicillin-resistant pET28a prokaryotic expression vector, the protein 2 is expressed by using a kanamycin-resistant pET32a prokaryotic expression vector, the protein 3 is expressed by using a chloramphenicol-resistant prokaryotic expression vector, and the protein 4 is expressed by using a tetracycline-resistant expression vector. The method has the advantages that each protein can be independently expressed, and has the defects that the expression quantity of the proteins is generally different, the plasmid vectors have replication or transcription competition, and the copy number and the expression protein fluctuation of the plasmid vectors are large in the subsequent culture process. In addition, the proteins expressed by the method have larger spatial difference, which is not beneficial to the assembly of multi-subunit proteins or the common form function of the same metabolic pathway protein.
Method 2, same vector, different expression cassettes, as shown in FIGS. 3-4. The aim of co-expression of multiple genes is realized by using a plurality of promoters on a carrier to respectively start the expression of each gene, and the gene arrangement structure of 'promoter-RBS-protein 1-terminator-RBS-protein 2-terminator-RBS-protein 3-terminator and the like' is utilized, such as the classical pDual plasmid series. Compared with the method 1, the method only needs 1 screening resistance marker, and all genes are on the same plasmid, so that the problem of large plasmid copy number difference is avoided, and the gene expression is more stable in the subsequent culture process. However, the method still has the problems of large gene expression difference, small promoter selectivity, poor multi-subunit protein assembly effect and the like caused by different gene promoters.
Method 3 polycistronic expression, as shown in FIGS. 5-6. The expression mode uses polycistrons in a prokaryotic expression system, namely, a plurality of proteins are expressed in one mRNA, and the gene arrangement structure of promoter-RBS-protein 1-RBS-protein 2-RBS-protein 3 and the like-terminator is utilized. In the method, all proteins share one promoter and are constructed in one expression vector, so that the method has wider applicability to the expression vector and the promoter and the plasmid vector is stable. However, this method has problems such as a large difference in expression (in particular, the later gene RBS is hardly recognized and translated by ribosomes) and a poor protein assembly effect.
Method 4, fusion expression, as shown in FIGS. 7-8. This expression mode is to fuse a plurality of proteins into one large protein, and to use the gene arrangement structure of "promoter-RBS-protein 1-protein 2-protein 3 etc. -terminator" for common functions. The fusion expression has the advantages that different proteins can be ensured to be approximately equal in molecular quantity, and are constructed on a plasmid expression vector and are relatively stable in the culture process. In addition, fusion expression allows different proteins to be spatially closer, making assembly of the proteins simpler. However, due to the intramolecular steric hindrance effect, the formed fusion protein may cause that the assembled protein complex cannot form the correct spatial conformation, and the function of the protein complex is affected.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide an intein-mediated polyprotein co-expression method, which can obviously improve the yield of polyprotein synthesis.
In order to achieve the above object, the technical solutions adopted are as follows:
a method for intein-mediated co-expression of multiple proteins, comprising the steps of:
(1) Constructing an expression plasmid vector, wherein the plasmid vector contains a gene of a promoter-RBS-protein 1-intein-protein 2 … … with one end inactivated and an intein-protein N-terminator with one end inactivated, wherein the 'intein-protein with one end inactivated' is a repeating unit, or the plasmid vector contains a promoter-RBS-protein 1-intein-connecting peptide with C end inactivated-N end-intein-protein 2 … … -intein-connecting peptide with C end inactivated-N end-intein-protein N-terminator, wherein the 'intein-connecting peptide with C end inactivated-N end-intein-protein' is a repeating unit, and N is 2-5;
(2) Transferring the plasmid into host cells, and carrying out induced expression to display the fusion protein;
(3) The cleavage function of the intein was activated, the bacteria were removed by centrifugation and the assembled protein in the supernatant was collected.
Wherein, the protein 1 to the protein n are all protein subunits of the same protease, and the subunits are assembled into complete protein with enzyme activity after fusion expression.
Preferably, the intein is a full-length intein or a mini-intein.
Preferably, the promoter is a T7 promoter, a Lac promoter, a Tac promoter, a CMV promoter or an H1 promoter.
Preferably, the plasmid vector is pET28a (+), pET22b (+), or pBAD33.
Preferably, the host cell is a bacterium, archaea, fungus, plant cell or animal cell.
Preferably, the host cell is escherichia coli containing a T7 RNA polymerase gene, and the promoter is a T7 promoter.
The invention discloses an equimolecular protein expression technology based on self-cutting intein, which is characterized in that one or more intein with one inactivated end are connected among a plurality of proteins to finally form a fusion protein for expression. During protein expression, the self-cleaving activity of the intein is used to release the individual protein from the fusion protein. The expression of the polyprotein by the method has three advantages: 1) The expression of each protein is high-efficient and stable, and the difference of the expression quantity is small; 2) The protein is convenient to assemble; 3) And the steric hindrance does not exist after the assembly, and the influence on the activity of the protein is small. The method is suitable for equivalent expression of polyprotein or co-expression of multiple genes in a synthetic pathway, and has important application value in the fields of material fermentation and catalytic synthesis.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a plasmid expressing various proteins in a multi-plasmid manner 1.
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of the principle of multi-plasmid expression of various proteins in mode 1.
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a plasmid in which the same plasmid proteins are independently transcribed in mode 2.
FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of the principle of independent transcription of the same plasmid protein in mode 2.
FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a plasmid in which proteins of the same plasmid are independently translated in mode 3.
FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of the principle of independent translation of the same plasmid protein in mode 3.
FIG. 7 is a plasmid schematic of the same plasmid fusion protein in mode 4.
FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of the same plasmid fusion protein in mode 4.
FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram of a plasmid isolated by cleavage of intein in the same plasmid fusion protein in mode 5.
FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram of the cleavage and separation of intein in the same plasmid fusion protein in the mode 5.
FIG. 11 is a schematic diagram of a plasmid with cleavage and separation of intein from the same plasmid fusion protein in mode 6.
FIG. 12 is a schematic diagram of the manner 6 for cleavage and separation of intein in the same plasmid fusion protein.
FIG. 13 is a Western blotting test for comparing the expression effects of 6 expression modes on three proteins of nitrile hydratase.
FIG. 14 is a comparison of Western blotting for detecting the expression effects of 6 expression modes on three proteins of tetrahydropyrimidine synthase.
FIG. 15 is a comparison of HPLC detection of the effects of 6 ways of nitrile hydratase expression on the synthesis of nicotinamide.
FIG. 16 is a comparison of HPLC detection results of three proteins expressing tetrahydropyrimidine synthase in synthesizing tetrahydropyrimidine products in 6 expression modes.
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The present invention is further illustrated by the construction and validation of an expression modification system for L593, which should not be construed as in any way limiting the scope of the invention. The experimental procedures used in the following examples are all conventional procedures unless otherwise specified. Materials, reagents and the like used in the following examples are commercially available unless otherwise specified.
Example 1
In this example, we designed six three protein expression patterns. The first mode is shown in a schematic diagram in figure 1, the expression schematic diagram is shown in figure 2, three protein genes respectively use expression plasmid vectors of three different resistance markers, the plasmids are respectively pET28a (+), pET22b (+), and pBAD33, the resistance is kanamycin, ampicillin or chloramphenicol carried by the vectors, each gene is provided with an independent promoter, RBS and terminator, the promoter is a T7 promoter, and the RBS is araC. RBS was designed website with https:// sbi. Post. Ac. Kr/utr _ library/. The three transcribed RNAs are independently translated into corresponding proteins, and finally, the proteins are respectively used for performing functions or assembled into a functional compound for performing the functions. The schematic diagram of the second mode is shown in figure 3, the schematic diagram of expression is shown in figure 4, three protein genes are positioned on the same plasmid expression vector pET28a (+), respective T7 promoters, RBSs (RBS) designed by websites and terminators are respectively used, the three RNAs after transcription are independently translated into corresponding proteins, and finally, the proteins are respectively used for performing functions or are assembled into a functional compound for performing functions. The third mode is shown in figure 5, the expression scheme is shown in figure 6, three protein genes are positioned on the same plasmid expression vector, the plasmid is pET28a, a promoter and a terminator are jointly used, but each protein gene has an independent RBS, the protein genes are transcribed into a fusion RNA, the corresponding protein is translated according to the independent RBS, and finally, the three protein genes respectively perform functions or are assembled adjacent to each other to form a functional compound to perform functions. The scheme of the fourth mode is shown in figure 7, the expression scheme is shown in figure 8, three proteins are fused into a large fusion protein, and the large fusion protein functions through intramolecular assembly after expression, but serious steric hindrance phenomenon can exist. Scheme five is schematically shown in figure 9, expression is schematically shown in figure 10, three proteins are fused into a large fusion protein, but adjacent proteins are connected by using an intein ssp DnaB (with inactivated N-terminal or inactivated C-terminal) with one end, and after a large protein assembly (with steric hindrance) is achieved, intein is translated and self-cleaved to release independent proteins (with residual intein at the end) and further assembled into a correct functional complex (with steric hindrance eliminated). The schematic diagram of the sixth mode is shown in figure 11, the expression schematic diagram is shown in figure 12, three proteins are fused into a large fusion protein, but adjacent proteins are connected by using C-terminal inactive intein-linker peptide-N-terminal inactive intein, and after translation, a large protein assembly (steric hindrance exists), the intein is released by self-cleavage to release independent proteins (the tail end does not have residual intein), and further assembled into a correct functional complex (the steric hindrance is eliminated).
Example 2 comparison of the expression ability of the engineered bacteria to express the proteins
In this example, we examined the difference comparison of the expression levels of the respective proteins by using Western blot for 6 expression patterns. We used nitrile hydratase complex NhhhA (SEQ ID No: 1)/NhB (SEQ ID No: 2)/NhG (SEQ ID No: 3) and tetrahydropyrimidine synthesis pathway gene ectoA (SEQ ID No: 4)/ectB (SEQ ID No: 5)/ectC (SEQ ID No: 6) as two complex enzymes and a multienzyme pathway to test, and constructed a plasmid (SEQ ID No: 7) having an expression gene of an intein-NhG-terminator with a promoter-RBS-NhhhhhhhhA-inactivated at one end, a plasmid (SEQ ID No: 8) having an expression gene of an intein-terminator with a promoter-RBS-NhhhhhA-inactivated at-C-inactivated intein-linker-N-inactivated intein-hhhB-C-inactivated at one end, an intein-inactivated at-N-end-inactivating peptide linker-N-inactivating intein-NhG-terminator, a plasmid (SEQ ID No: 8) having an expression gene of an intein-N-inactivated intein-NhG-terminator, a-C-linked gene linked to an expression gene of an intein-N-C-inactivated intein-terminator, and a-linked plasmid (SEQ ID No: 9-inactivated at one end, respectively. The sequence of the above expressed gene was designed by https:// sbi. After the constructed strains are induced and expressed, the His tag antibody is used for carrying out western blotting detection on each sample. The results are shown in FIGS. 13 and 14, respectively, and the ratio of the expression levels of each protein was more balanced (nearly equimolar expression) using the intein-mediated multi-protein expression pattern (pattern 5 and pattern 6) and the fusion expression pattern (pattern 4) than the conventional multi-protein expression pattern (patterns 1-3).
Example 3 comparison of Activity of Each protein expressed by engineering bacteria in 6 expression modes
In this example, we compared the effect of 6 expression patterns on the activity of each enzyme. The contents of nicotinamide, which is a nitrile hydratase product, and tetrahydropyrimidine, which is a tetrahydropyrimidine synthase product, are respectively detected by HPLC, and the change of enzyme activity is determined according to the yield.
Nitrile hydratase activity assay: the expression-inducing strain was resuspended in 10mM KPB (pH 7.4) solution, 10. Mu.L to 1.5mL of centrifuge tube and placed on a 25 ℃ metal bath. Adding 450 mu L of substrate (200 mM nicotinonitrile solution) into a centrifuge tube, fully and uniformly mixing by vortex, reacting for 10min at 25 ℃, centrifuging to remove thalli, and detecting the content of nicotinamide in the supernatant by HPLC.
Determination of tetrahydropyrimidine synthetase Activity: weighing 1g of the cells, suspending the cells in 20mL of reaction solution (50 mM PBS buffer, pH 7.5, 150mM L-Aspartic acid,100mM Glycerol), performing shaking culture at 40 ℃ and 200rmp for 3h, centrifuging the cells to remove the cells, and detecting the content of tetrahydropyrimidine in the supernatant by HPLC (high performance liquid chromatography).
As a result, as shown in fig. 15 and 16, the ability to synthesize a multi-protein product can be significantly improved using intein-mediated multi-protein expression patterns (patterns 5 and 6) compared to other protein expression patterns.

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1. A method for intein-mediated co-expression of multiple proteins, comprising the steps of:
(1) Construction of an expression plasmid vector containing the promoter-RBS-protein 1 Intein-proteins inactivated at one end 2 … … -intein-protein with inactivated end n Gene of terminator, or promoter-RBS-protein 1 C-terminal inactivated intein-linker peptide- -N-terminal inactivated intein-protein 2 … … -C terminal inactivated intein-linker-N terminal inactivated intein-protein n -a terminator, wherein n is 2-5;
(2) Transferring the plasmid into host cells, and carrying out induced expression to display the fusion protein;
(3) The cleavage function of the intein was activated, the bacteria were removed by centrifugation, and the assembled protein in the supernatant was collected.
2. The method of intein-mediated polyprotein co-expression of claim 1, wherein: the intein is a full-length intein or a mini-intein.
3. The method of intein-mediated polyprotein co-expression of claim 2, wherein: the promoter is a T7 promoter, a Lac promoter, a Tac promoter, a CMV promoter or an H1 promoter.
4. The method of intein-mediated polyprotein co-expression of claim 1, wherein: the plasmid vector is pET28a (+), pET22b (+), or pBAD33.
5. The method of intein-mediated polyprotein co-expression of claim 1, wherein: the host cell is a bacterium, archaea, fungus, plant cell or animal cell.
6. The intein-mediated polyprotein co-expression method of claim 5, wherein: the host cell is escherichia coli containing a T7 RNA polymerase gene, and the promoter is a T7 promoter.
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