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Revision as of 15:58, 21 October 2019


PETase T88A_S93M_S121E_W159F_D186H_R280A

Usage and Biology

The enzymes PETase and MHETase were first discovered in Ideonella sakaiensis in 2016 by a group of researchers in Japan. These enzymes were found to degrade polyethylene terephthalate (PET) into its monomers, terephthalic acid (TPA) and ethylene glycol (EG). PETase degrades PET into Mono-(2-hydroxyethyl)terephthalic acid (MHET), Bis(2-Hydroxyethyl) terephthalate (BHET) and TPA, the main product being MHET. MHET is further degraded by MHETase into TPA and EG. We are aiming to use mutants of these enzymes to degrade the microfibres that are coming off clothing during washing cycles. The enzymes would be secreted into a filter that captures the microfibres. Different mutations that have been reported in past papers to increase the activity of PETase have been combined into a novel mutant, in order to test if this would result in an overly active mutant. This sequence is the Escherichia coli K12 (E. coli K12) codon optimized DNA of the novel mutant of PETase, with an attached His tag. The His tag was attached in order to more easily identify the enzymes.

The native predicted signal peptide (Met1-Ala33) was removed from the WT PETase sequence (Seo et al 2019) and replaced with a start codon (Met), however all mutations are numbered according to the full-length WT sequence. The amino acid sequence was submitted to Twist Bioscience who codon optimised the sequence for E. coli, ensuring that there were no forbidden restriction sites, BsaI or SapI, to allow for potential TypeIIS assembly. The resulting CDS was synthesised and cloned, by Twist, into pET28. This added a 63 AA His-tag and thrombin cleavage site to the N-terminal of the protein, a T7 promoter and T7 terminator.


Characterisation

In order to characterise our part and determine the rate of its activity and prove its functionality we have run a series of experiments. After transforming the Arctic Express, Rosetta Gami and BL21 DE3 strains of E. coli with our plasmid we induced the expression of the enzymes using IPTG. In order to confirm that the enzyme expression has been successful we ran a western blot which showed the presence of the enzyme in the soluble fractions of the sonicated cells. Afterwards the enzyme was purified and used in assays to show its functionality and determine the rate of its activity.




Western blot of the soluble fraction of Arctic Express strain showing expression of all mutants. The PageRuler Plus prestained protein ladder was used and labeled with the corresponding sizes. The negative control is labeled with 1. This part (PETase T88A_S93M_S121E_W159F_D186H_R280A) is labeled with 3. A clear band is visible with a size of about 30 kDa which is the size of PETase with the His tag attached to it.

Western blot of the soluble fraction of Rosetta Gami strain showing expression of all mutants. The PageRuler Plus prestained protein ladder was used and labeled with the corresponding sizes. The negative control is labeled with 1. This part (PETase T88A_S93M_S121E_W159F_D186H_R280A) is labeled with 3. A clear band is visible with a size of about 30 kDa which is the size of PETase with the His tag attached to it.



Expression in E.coli


Protein Purification

Assays

Esterase Assays

Thermal Stability Assay

Thermal Shift Assay

PET Assay



Purification graphs

Nickle column


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GF 200


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Activity Graphs

Specific Activity


Change in Substrate


Fibre Assay Graphs


Assay Graphs

BHET Assay


MHET Assay


TPA Assay


Standard Curves

BHET Standard Curve


MHET Standard Curve


TPA Standard Curve





Sequence and Features


Assembly Compatibility:
  • 10
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]
    Illegal EcoRI site found at 255
  • 12
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]
    Illegal EcoRI site found at 255
  • 21
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]
    Illegal EcoRI site found at 255
  • 23
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[23]
    Illegal EcoRI site found at 255
  • 25
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]
    Illegal EcoRI site found at 255
  • 1000
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]