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Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. lactis DSM7290 pepG gene encodes a novel cysteine aminopeptidase

Abteilung Mikrobiologie der Universität, Postfach 3049, 67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany

²Author for correspondence: Jürgen R. Klein. Tel: +49 631 205 2347. Fax: +49 631 205 3799. e-mail: jklein@rhrk.uni-kl.de

ABSTRACT

A number of Escherichia coli clones were isolated from a Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. lactis gene library capable of hydrolysing the chromogenic substrate Gly-Ala-β-naphthylamide (Gly-Ala-βNA). Some of the recombinant plasmids carried by these clones have been shown to encode the cysteine aminopeptidase gene pepC. Nucleotide sequence analyses of the plasmid inserts of the remaining clones resulted in the identification of two adjacent ORFs encoding proteins exhibiting a high degree of similarity between themselves (72.6%) and with PepC. One gene, designated pepG, was overexpressed in E. coli and the crude extracts obtained were shown to be peptidolytically active both against chromogenic substrates and peptides, and in a Salmonella typhimurium growth test. PepC and PepG activities were compared using chromogenic βNA and p-nitroanilide substrates and leucine or proline-containing peptides were applied in growth experiments of recombinant Sal. typhimurium. The results indicate that the enzymes, although structurally related, have different substrate preferences. No enzyme activity could be ascribed to the second ORF (orfW), despite the production of a visible protein using a T7 RNA polymerase system. Primer extension analysis, using mRNA isolated from Lb. delbrueckii subsp. lactis DSM7290 did establish that orfW was transcribed.

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