WO2013018709A1 - ホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼ遺伝子 - Google Patents
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- This application relates to a novel phosphatidic acid phosphatase gene and its use.
- Fatty acids containing two or more unsaturated bonds are collectively referred to as polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA), and arachidonic acid, dihomo gamma linolenic acid, eicosapentaenoic acid, docosahexaenoic acid and the like are known. Some of these highly unsaturated fatty acids cannot be synthesized in the animal body, and such highly unsaturated fatty acids need to be taken from food as essential fatty acids. Polyunsaturated fatty acids are widely distributed. For example, arachidonic acid is separated from lipids extracted from the adrenal glands and livers of animals.
- microorganisms belonging to the genus Mortierella are known as microorganisms that produce highly unsaturated fatty acid-containing lipids such as arachidonic acid.
- polyunsaturated fatty acids constitute storage lipids such as triacylglycerol (also referred to as triglyceride, TG) and accumulate in microbial cells or plant seeds.
- triacylglycerol also referred to as triglyceride, TG
- Triacylglycerol a storage lipid, is produced in vivo as follows. An acyl group is transferred to glycerol-3-phosphate by glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase to produce lysophosphatidic acid, and an acyl group is transferred to lysophosphatidic acid by lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase to phosphatidic acid Phosphatidic acid is dephosphorylated by phosphatidic acid phosphatase to give diacylglycerol, and acyl group is transferred to diacylglycerol by diacylglycerol acyltransferase to give triacylglycerol.
- phosphatidic acid phosphatidic acid, hereinafter sometimes referred to as “PA” and sometimes 1,2-diacyl-sn-glycerol-3-phosphate
- PA phosphatidic acid
- 1,2-diacyl-sn-glycerol-3-phosphate is triacyl. It is a precursor of glycerol and a biosynthetic precursor of diacyl glycerophospholipid.
- CDP diacylglycerol CDP-DG
- CTP cytidine 5'-3 phosphate
- Phosphatidic acid phosphatase EC 3.1.3.4, phosphatidic acid phosphatase, hereinafter “ It may be described as “PAP”. This PAP is known to exist in all organisms from bacteria to vertebrates.
- Non-Patent Documents 1, 2, and 7 In yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), two types of PAP are known (Non-Patent Documents 1, 2, and 7). One is Mg 2+ dependent PAP (PAP1) and the other is Mg 2+ independent PAP (PAP2).
- the PAH1 gene is known as a gene encoding PAP1 (Non-patent Documents 3 to 5). Since the pah1 ⁇ mutant has PAP1 activity, there are other genes responsible for PAP1 activity. It is considered. In the pah1 ⁇ mutant, it is known that the nuclear membrane and ER membrane are abnormally expanded, and the expression of genes that are key to phospholipid biosynthesis is abnormally increased (Non-patent Document 6).
- DGPP diacylglycerol pyrophosphate
- lysophosphatidic acid lysophosphatidic acid
- sphingoid-based phosphate isoprenoid phosphate
- dephosphorylate dephosphorylate
- Mg 2+ -dependent PAP1 homologs In Mortierella alpina, which is a lipid-producing bacterium, two types of MaPAH1.1 and MaPAH1.2 are known as Mg 2+ -dependent PAP1 homologs (Patent Document 1). In addition, the MaPAP1 gene, which is a Mg 2+ -independent PAP2 homolog, is known (Patent Document 2).
- An object of the present invention is to provide a novel phosphatidic acid phosphatase gene, a protein encoded thereby, and a method for using them.
- the present inventor has intensively studied to solve the above problems.
- the genome of the lipid-producing bacterium Mortierella alpina was analyzed, and a sequence homologous to a known Mg 2+ -independent phosphatidic acid phosphatase (PAP2) gene was extracted therefrom.
- PAP2 Mg 2+ -independent phosphatidic acid phosphatase
- ORF open reading frame
- the full length cDNA was cloned by screening of a cDNA library or PCR.
- the gene was introduced into a host cell having high growth ability such as yeast, and it was confirmed that the protein encoded by the cloned cDNA had phosphatidic acid phosphatase activity.
- the gene relating to the novel phosphatidic acid phosphatase (PAP) was successfully cloned, and the present invention was completed. That is, in one aspect, the present invention may be as follows.
- nucleic acid according to any one of the following (a) to (g).
- A a nucleic acid comprising a base sequence encoding a protein having an amino acid sequence in which one or more amino acids are deleted, substituted or added in the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 2 and having phosphatidic acid phosphatase activity
- B a nucleic acid that hybridizes with a nucleic acid consisting of a base sequence complementary to the base sequence consisting of SEQ ID NO: 1 under a stringent condition and includes a base sequence encoding a protein having phosphatidic acid phosphatase activity
- c A nucleic acid comprising a base sequence having a identity of 70% or more with the base sequence consisting of SEQ ID NO: 1 and comprising a base sequence encoding a protein having phosphatidic acid phosphatase activity
- nucleic acid according to any one of the following (a) to (g).
- A a nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence comprising an amino acid sequence in which 1-110 amino acids have been deleted, substituted or added in the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 2 and encoding a protein having phosphatidic acid phosphatase activity
- B a nucleotide sequence that hybridizes with a nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence complementary to the nucleotide sequence comprising SEQ ID NO: 1 under the conditions of 2 ⁇ SSC and 50 ° C.
- Nucleic acid (c) comprising nucleic acid (d) consisting of a base sequence consisting of a base sequence consisting of 90% or more of the nucleotide sequence consisting of SEQ ID NO: 1 and comprising a base sequence encoding a protein having phosphatidic acid phosphatase activity (d) consisting of SEQ ID NO: 2 It consists of an amino acid sequence that is 90% or more identical to the amino acid sequence, and A nucleic acid comprising a base sequence encoding a protein having diphosphate phosphatase activity (e) a nucleic acid comprising a base sequence complementary to the base sequence encoding a protein comprising the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 2 and 2 ⁇ SSC A nucleic acid that hybridizes under conditions of 50 ° C.
- nucleic acid comprising a base sequence complementary to the base sequence comprising SEQ ID NO: 4
- a nucleic acid comprising a base sequence having an exon that encodes a protein having a phosphatidic acid phosphatase activity that hybridizes under conditions of 2 ⁇ SSC and 50 ° C.
- 90% identity with the base sequence consisting of SEQ ID NO: 4 Tan comprising the above base sequence and having phosphatidic acid phosphatase activity
- Nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence having the exons encoding the click protein
- nucleic acid according to any one of the following (a) to (d).
- D a nucleic acid containing the base sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 5 or a partial sequence thereof.
- the phosphatidic acid phosphatase activity is higher in substrate specificity for a phosphatidic acid containing an acyl group having 18 carbon atoms than a phosphatidic acid containing an acyl group having 17 carbon atoms, (1) or ( The nucleic acid according to 2).
- the phosphatidic acid phosphatase activity has a higher substrate specificity for phosphatidic acid containing an acyl group having 18 carbon atoms than phosphatidic acid containing an acyl group having 17 carbon atoms, (5) or ( The protein according to 6).
- a protein comprising the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 2.
- the present invention provides a novel PAP gene, a protein encoded by the gene, and methods for using them.
- the PAP of the present invention is expected to be able to produce in the host a fatty acid composition having a different composition compared to a fatty acid composition produced by a host into which PAP has not been introduced.
- a lipid having desired characteristics and effects can be provided, which is useful as a product applicable to foods, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, soaps and the like.
- FIG. 1-1 shows the genomic sequence of MaPAP2.2 and the base sequence of CDS.
- FIG. 1-2 is a continuation of FIG. 1-1.
- FIG. 2 is an alignment of the amino acid sequence of MaPAP2.2 and the amino acid sequence of a putative protein derived from Otsutake and ScDPP1 derived from yeast (YDR284C: Accession No. AAS56070).
- FIG. 3 is an alignment of the amino acid sequence of MaPAP2.2 and the amino acid sequence of MaPAP1 (WO2009 / 008466) known as Mg2 + -independent PAP (PAP2) from Mortierella alpina.
- A shows the result when Mg 2+ is added.
- B shows the results when EDTA is added (without Mg 2+ ).
- the vertical axis shows the amount of protein ( ⁇ g / mg ⁇ protein) of the 18: 2 crude enzyme solution found in the DG fraction.
- FIG. 4 is a graph showing the results of examining Mg 2+ dependence on the activity of MaPAP2.2 converting 18:
- the vertical axis shows the amount of protein ( ⁇ g / mg ⁇ protein) of the 18: 2 crude enzyme solution found in the DG fraction.
- the vertical axis represents the amount of protein ( ⁇ g / mg ⁇ protein) of the crude enzyme solution of 18: 1 found in the DG fraction.
- Each vertical axis indicates the amount per protein ( ⁇ g / mg ⁇ protein) of the crude enzyme solution of 17: 0 found in the DG fraction.
- the present invention relates to a novel phosphatidic acid phosphatase gene derived from the genus Mortierella, characterized by dephosphorylating phosphatidic acid to produce diacylglycerol, and a method for using them.
- the phosphatidic acid phosphatase is an enzyme that catalyzes a reaction of dephosphorylating phosphatidic acid to produce diacylglycerol.
- the substrate of the PAP of the present invention is usually phosphatidic acid, but is not limited thereto.
- Nucleic acids encoding phosphatidic acid phosphatases include MaPAP2.2 and variants thereof.
- the correspondence relationship between the cDNA, CDS, ORF and amino acid sequence of the nucleic acid encoding MaPAP2.2 is summarized in Table 1 below.
- SEQ ID NO: 2 which is the amino acid sequence of MaPAP2.2
- SEQ ID NO: 1 which is the sequence indicating the ORF region of MaPAP2.2
- the sequence which indicates the region of the CDS Examples include SEQ ID NO: 3 and SEQ ID NO: 5 which is the base sequence of the cDNA.
- SEQ ID NO: 1 corresponds to the 75th to 1163rd base sequence of SEQ ID NO: 5
- SEQ ID NO: 3 corresponds to the 75th to 1166th base sequence of SEQ ID NO: 5.
- SEQ ID NO: 4 can be mentioned as a genomic base sequence encoding MaPAP2.2.
- the genome sequence of SEQ ID NO: 4 consists of 3 exons and 2 introns, and the exon regions are 1st to 207th, 445th to 582th, and 889 to 1632th of SEQ ID NO: 4.
- the nucleic acid includes not only single-stranded and double-stranded DNA but also its RNA complement, which may be of natural origin or artificially produced.
- DNA include genomic DNA, cDNA corresponding to the genomic DNA, chemically synthesized DNA, DNA amplified by PCR, a combination thereof, and a hybrid of DNA and RNA. It is not limited.
- Preferred embodiments of the nucleic acid of the present invention include (a) a base sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1, (b) a base sequence encoding a protein comprising the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 2, and (c) represented by SEQ ID NO: 5. And a nucleic acid containing the nucleotide sequence.
- a base sequence encoding a protein having homology with a protein having a known PAP activity can be searched from the base sequence data of an organism having PAP activity or genomic DNA.
- the organism having PAP activity is preferably a lipid-producing bacterium, and examples of the lipid-producing bacterium include, but are not limited to, M. ⁇ alpina.
- a cDNA library is first prepared.
- a method for preparing a cDNA library "Molecular Cloning, A Laboratory Manual 3rd ed.” (Cold Spring Harbor Press (2001)) can be referred to.
- a commercially available cDNA library preparation kit may also be used. Examples of a method for preparing a cDNA library suitable for the present invention include the following methods. That is, an appropriate strain of M. alpina, which is a lipid-producing bacterium, is inoculated into an appropriate medium and pre-cultured for an appropriate period.
- Examples of culture conditions suitable for this pre-culture include, for example, 1.8% glucose, 1% yeast extract, pH 6.0 as a medium composition, a culture period of 3 to 4 days, and a culture temperature of 28 ° C. There are conditions. Thereafter, the preculture is subjected to main culture under appropriate conditions.
- a medium composition suitable for the main culture for example, 1.8% glucose, 1% soybean flour, 0.1% olive oil, 0.01% adecanol, 0.3% KH 2 PO 4 , 0.1% Na 2 SO 4 , 0.05% CaCl 2 ⁇ 2H 2 O, 0.05% MgCl 2 ⁇ 6H 2 O, pH 6.0.
- Examples of culture conditions suitable for the main culture include conditions of aeration and agitation culture at 300 rpm, 1 vvm, and 26 ° C. for 8 days. An appropriate amount of glucose may be added during the culture period. Timely cultures are collected during the main culture, and the cells are collected therefrom to prepare total RNA. For preparation of total RNA, a known method such as guanidine hydrochloride / CsCl method can be used. Poly (A) + RNA can be purified from the obtained total RNA using a commercially available kit. Furthermore, a cDNA library can be prepared using a commercially available kit.
- the base sequence of an arbitrary clone of the prepared cDNA library can be determined using a primer designed to determine the base sequence of the insert portion on the vector to obtain an EST.
- a primer designed to determine the base sequence of the insert portion on the vector can be determined using a primer designed to determine the base sequence of the insert portion on the vector to obtain an EST.
- a cDNA library is prepared using the ZAP-cDNA GigapackIII Gold Cloning Kit (STRATAGENE)
- directional cloning can be performed.
- genomic DNA When analyzing genomic DNA, cells of an organism having PAP activity are cultured, and genomic DNA is prepared from the cells. The base sequence of the obtained genomic DNA is determined, and the determined base sequence is assembled. A sequence encoding an amino acid sequence having high homology with the amino acid sequence of a protein having a known PAP activity is searched from the finally obtained supercontig sequence. Primers are prepared from the hit supercontig sequences as coding for such amino acid sequences, PCR is performed using the cDNA library described above as a template, and the resulting DNA fragment is incorporated into a plasmid and cloned. Using the cloned plasmid as a template, a probe is prepared by performing PCR using the above-mentioned primers. A cDNA library is screened using the prepared probe.
- the homology search of the amino acid sequence of MaPAP2.2 was performed with the BLASTp program against the amino acid sequence registered in GenBank. This amino acid sequence is derived from the predicted protein of the red fox (SEQ ID NO: 10, accession number: XP 001878243) with the highest score, and the identity is 36.7%. Moreover, the identity between the amino acid sequence of MaPAP1, which is a known PAP2 (Mg 2+ -independent PAP) derived from Mortierella alpina, and the amino acid sequence of MaPAP2.2 is 20.5%.
- the present invention also includes a nucleic acid having a function equivalent to that of a nucleic acid comprising the base sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1 or the base sequence encoding a protein consisting of the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 2.
- “Having an equivalent function” means that the protein encoded by the base sequence of the present invention and the protein comprising the amino acid sequence of the present invention have phosphatidic acid phosphatase (PAP) activity.
- PAP activity is an activity that catalyzes a reaction in which phosphatidic acid is dephosphorylated to produce diacylglycerol.
- the PAP activity may be higher in substrate specificity for phosphatidic acid containing an acyl group having 18 carbon atoms than phosphatidic acid containing an acyl group having 17 carbon atoms, but is not limited thereto. Further, the PAP activity may be independent of Mg 2+ , but is not limited thereto.
- a nucleic acid variant comprising a nucleotide sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1 or a nucleotide sequence encoding a protein consisting of the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 2 and having a function equivalent to the nucleic acid is as follows: (A) to (g) of the nucleic acid comprising the base sequence described in any one of the above.
- nucleic acid comprising an amino acid sequence in which one or more amino acids are deleted, substituted or added in the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 2 and comprising a base sequence encoding a protein having PAP activity
- the base sequence contained in the nucleic acid consists of an amino acid sequence in which one or a plurality of amino acids are deleted, substituted or added in the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 2, and a base sequence encoding a protein having PAP activity.
- amino acid sequences shown in SEQ ID NO: 2 preferably one or several (eg, 1 to 110, 1 to 100, 1 to 75, 1 to 50, 1 to 30, 1-25, 1-20, 1-15, more preferably 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, or 1)) amino acids) deleted Amino acid sequence
- amino acid sequences shown in SEQ ID NO: 2 preferably one or several (for example, 1 to 110, 1 to 100, 1 to 75, 1 to 50, 1 to 30), 1-25, 1-20, 1-15, more preferably 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, or 1))
- substitution is preferably a conservative substitution.
- a conservative substitution is the replacement of a particular amino acid residue with a residue having similar physicochemical characteristics, but any substitution that does not substantially change the structural characteristics of the original sequence.
- any substitution may be made so long as the substituted amino acid does not destroy the helix present in the original sequence or other types of secondary structures characterizing the original sequence.
- non-natural amino acid residue may be included in the substituent, and the reversed type or the same region in which the non-substituted region is reversed in the peptidomimetic or amino acid sequence is reversed. Inverted types are also included.
- amino acid residues are classified and exemplified for each substitutable residue, but the substitutable amino acid residues are not limited to those described below.
- Group A leucine, isoleucine, norleucine, valine, norvaline, alanine, 2-aminobutanoic acid, methionine, O-methylserine, t-butylglycine, t-butylalanine and cyclohexylalanine
- Group B aspartic acid, glutamic acid, isoaspartic acid, Isoglutamic acid, 2-aminoadipic acid and 2-aminosuberic acid group
- C asparagine and glutamine group
- D lysine, arginine, ornithine, 2,4-diaminobutanoic acid and 2,3-diaminopropionic acid group
- E proline, 3 -Hydroxyproline and 4-hydroxyproline group
- F serine, threonine and homos
- one member of the above types can be exchanged with another type of member, in this case, in order to preserve the biological function of the protein of the present invention. It is preferable to consider the hydropathic index of amino acids (hydropathic amino acid index) (Kyte et al., J. Mol. Biol., 157: 105-131 (1982)).
- amino acid substitution can be performed based on hydrophilicity.
- Stereoisomers of the above amino acids such as D-amino acids, unnatural amino acids such as ⁇ , ⁇ -disubstituted amino acids, N-alkyl amino acids, lactic acid, and other unconventional amino acids also constitute the protein of the present invention.
- the protein notation used in the present specification is based on the standard usage and the notation commonly used in the art, the left direction is the amino terminal direction, and the right direction is the carboxy terminal direction.
- the left end of a single-stranded polynucleotide sequence is the 5 'end, and the left direction of the double-stranded polynucleotide sequence is the 5' direction.
- Those skilled in the art can design and prepare appropriate mutants of the proteins described herein using techniques known in the art. For example, in a protein molecule that can change its structure without damaging the biological activity of the protein of the present invention by targeting a region that is considered to be less important for the biological activity of the protein of the present invention. Appropriate regions can be identified. It is also possible to identify molecular residues and regions that are conserved among similar proteins. In addition, conservative amino acid substitutions are introduced into regions believed to be important for the biological activity or structure of the protein of the invention without compromising biological activity and without adversely affecting the polypeptide structure of the protein. You can also
- a person skilled in the art identifies residues of peptides that are important for the biological activity or structure of the protein of the invention and are similar to the peptides of the proteins, and compares the amino acid residues of the two peptides, A so-called structure-function study can be performed to predict which residues of a protein similar to the protein of the invention are amino acid residues corresponding to amino acid residues important for biological activity or structure. . Furthermore, by selecting a chemically similar amino acid substitution of the amino acid residue predicted in this way, a mutant that retains the biological activity of the protein of the present invention can also be selected. Those skilled in the art can also analyze the three-dimensional structure and amino acid sequence of the mutant of this protein.
- amino acid residues predicted to be on the protein surface may be involved in important interactions with other molecules, but those skilled in the art will be able to do this based on the analysis results described above.
- Mutants can be made that do not change the amino acid residues predicted to be on the surface of various proteins.
- those skilled in the art can also produce mutants that substitute only one amino acid residue among the amino acid residues constituting the protein of the present invention. Such mutants can be screened by known assay methods and information on individual mutants can be collected.
- a protein comprising an amino acid sequence in which one or more amino acids are deleted, substituted, or added in the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 2 is “Molecular Cloning, A Laboratory Manual 3rd ed.” (Cold Spring Harbor Press (2001)), Current Protocols in Molecular Biology (John Wiley & Sons (1987-1997), Kunkel (1985) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 82: 488-92, Kunkel (1988) Method 85: 2763-6 etc., and can be prepared according to the method such as site-directed mutagenesis etc. The production of such mutants with mutations such as deletion, substitution or addition of amino acids is possible.
- a mutation introduction kit using site-directed mutagenesis by a known method such as Kunkel method or Gapped duplex method, for example, QuikChange TM Site-Directed Mutagenesis Kit (Stratagene), GeneTailor TM Site-Directed Mutagenesis System Manufactured by emissions Ltd.), TaKaRa Site-Directed Mutagenesis System (Mutan-K, Mutan-Super Express Km, etc .: Takara Bio Inc.) and the like can be carried out using.
- a gene can be mutated as a method for introducing deletion, substitution or addition of one or more amino acids into a protein amino acid sequence while maintaining its activity. And a method of ligation after selective cleavage of a gene to remove, substitute or add selected nucleotides.
- the nucleotide sequence contained in the nucleic acid of the present invention preferably has 1-30, 1-20, or 1-10 amino acids deleted, substituted or added in the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 2. It is a base sequence consisting of an amino acid sequence and encoding a protein having PAP activity.
- the number of amino acid mutations or modifications in the protein encoded by the nucleic acid of the present invention, or the site of mutation or modification is not limited as long as the PAP activity is retained.
- PAP activity can be measured using a known method.
- PAP activity may be measured as follows.
- the transformed cells expressing the PAP of the present invention are crushed, the cell lysate is centrifuged, and the supernatant is recovered to obtain a crude enzyme solution.
- the crude enzyme solution may be further purified for the PAP of the present invention.
- the crude enzyme solution containing the PAP of the present invention or the purified PAP of the present invention is added to a reaction solution containing 100 ⁇ g / mL phosphatidic acid and 50 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.5), and it is suitably used at 25 to 28 ° C. React for a long time.
- the reaction is stopped by adding chloroform: methanol, lipids are extracted, the obtained lipids are fractionated by thin layer chromatography or the like, and the amount of produced diacylglycerol can be quantified.
- the nucleic acid of the present invention includes a base sequence that hybridizes under stringent conditions with a nucleic acid consisting of a base sequence complementary to the base sequence consisting of SEQ ID NO: 1 and encodes a protein having PAP activity.
- the above nucleotide sequence is prepared by preparing a probe using an appropriate fragment by a method known to those skilled in the art, and using this probe by a known hybridization method such as colony hybridization, plaque hybridization, Southern blotting, etc. And a genomic library.
- hybridization conditions The strength of hybridization conditions is mainly determined by hybridization conditions, more preferably, hybridization conditions and washing conditions.
- stringent conditions include moderately or highly stringent conditions.
- moderately stringent conditions include, for example, hybridization conditions of 1 ⁇ SSC to 6 ⁇ SSC, 42 ° C. to 55 ° C., more preferably 1 ⁇ SSC to 3 ⁇ SSC, 45
- the conditions are from 50 ° C. to 50 ° C., most preferably, 2 ⁇ SSC, 50 ° C.
- the hybridization solution contains, for example, about 50% formamide, a temperature 5 to 15 ° C. lower than the above temperature is adopted.
- Cleaning conditions include 0.5 ⁇ SSC to 6 ⁇ SSC, 40 ° C. to 60 ° C. During hybridization and washing, 0.05% to 0.2%, preferably about 0.1% SDS may generally be added.
- Highly stringent conditions include hybridization and / or washing at higher temperatures and / or lower salt concentrations than moderately stringent conditions.
- the hybridization conditions are 0.1 ⁇ SSC to 2 ⁇ SSC, 55 ° C. to 65 ° C., more preferably 0.1 ⁇ SSC to 1 ⁇ SSC, 60 ° C. to 65 ° C., most preferably , 0.2 ⁇ SSC, 63 ° C.
- the washing conditions include 0.2 ⁇ SSC to 2 ⁇ SSC, 50 ° C. to 68 ° C., and more preferably 0.2 ⁇ SSC, 60 to 65 ° C.
- hybridization conditions used in the present invention for example, prehybridization is performed in 5 ⁇ SSC, 1% SDS, 50 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.5) and 50% formamide at 42 ° C., and then the probe is used. And overnight at 42 ° C. to allow hybridization, followed by washing in 0.2 ⁇ SSC, 0.1% SDS at 65 ° C. for 20 minutes three times. It is not limited.
- a commercially available hybridization kit that does not use a radioactive substance for the probe can be used. Specific examples include hybridization using a DIG nucleic acid detection kit (Roche Diagnostics), ECL direct labeling & detection system (Amersham).
- the base sequence included in the present invention preferably hybridizes with a nucleic acid having a base sequence complementary to the base sequence consisting of SEQ ID NO: 1 under the conditions of 2 ⁇ SSC and 50 ° C., and has PAP activity. Examples thereof include a base sequence encoding a protein possessed.
- nucleic acid comprising a base sequence having a identity of 70% or more to the base sequence consisting of SEQ ID NO: 1 and encoding a protein having PAP activity
- the base sequence contained in the nucleic acid of the present invention is a sequence It comprises a nucleotide sequence consisting of a nucleotide sequence having at least 70% identity to the nucleotide sequence shown in No. 1 and encoding a protein having PAP activity.
- it is at least 75% or more, more preferably 80% or more (for example, 85% or more, even more preferably 90% or more, further 95%, 98% or 99%) with respect to the base sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1. And the like) and a nucleotide sequence encoding a protein having PAP activity.
- the percent identity between two base sequences can be determined by visual inspection or mathematical calculation, but is preferably determined by comparing the sequence information of two nucleic acids using a computer program.
- sequence comparison computer program include the BLASTN program (Altschul et al. (Altschul et al.) Available from the website of the National Library of Medicine: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/bl2seq/bls.html. 1990) J. Mol. Biol. 215: 403-10: Version 2.2.7, WU-BLAST 2.0 algorithm or the like. Standard default parameter settings for WU-BLAST 2.0 can be those described in the following Internet site: http://blast.wustl.edu.
- nucleic acid of the present invention comprises a base sequence that encodes a protein having an amino acid sequence with 70% or more identity with the amino acid sequence consisting of SEQ ID NO: 2 and having PAP activity.
- the protein encoded by the nucleic acid of the present invention may be a protein having the same amino acid sequence as MaPAP2.2 as long as it has PAP activity.
- the amino acid sequence of the protein encoded by the nucleic acid of the present invention is 75% or more, preferably 80% or more, more preferably 85%, still more preferably 90% (for example, the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 2). 95%, and even 98%) amino acid sequences having identity of at least.
- the base sequence contained in the nucleic acid of the present invention is preferably a base sequence encoding a protein having an amino acid sequence having 90% or more identity with the amino acid sequence consisting of SEQ ID NO: 2 and having PAP activity. More preferably, it is a nucleotide sequence consisting of an amino acid sequence having 95% or more identity with the amino acid sequence consisting of SEQ ID NO: 2 and encoding a protein having PAP activity.
- The% identity between two amino acid sequences can be determined by visual inspection and mathematical calculation.
- the percent identity can also be determined using a computer program.
- Examples of such computer programs include BLAST, FASTA (Altschul et al., J. Mol. Biol., 215: 403-410 (1990)), ClustalW, and the like.
- various conditions (parameters) for identity search using the BLAST program are described in Altschul et al. (Nucl. Acids. Res., 25, p. 3389-3402, 1997), and the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) ) And DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) website (BLAST Manual, Altschul et al.
- a specific alignment scheme that juxtaposes multiple amino acid sequences can also show a match of a specific short region of the sequence, so even if there is no significant relationship between the full length sequences of the sequences used, In such a region, a region having a very high specific sequence identity can also be detected.
- the BLAST algorithm can use the BLOSUM62 amino acid scoring matrix, but the following can be used as selection parameters: (A) Segments of query sequences with low composition complexity (Wootton and Federhen's SEG program (ComputersCompand Chemistry, 1993); Wootton and Federhen, 1996 "Analysis ofpositionalpositionbiased regions in sequence databases” Methods Enzymol., 266: 544-71 Including filters to mask segments that consist of short-period internal repeats (determined by the XNU program of Claverie and States (Computers and Chemistry, 1993)), and (B) the database Statistical significance threshold for reporting fit to sequence, or E Expected probability of fit found simply by chance, according to a statistical model of scores (Karlin and Altschul, 1990); if the statistical significance difference due to a fit is greater than the E-score threshold, this fit is not reported .
- Nucleic acid containing a base sequence that comprises a base sequence contained in the nucleic acid of the present invention is a stringent condition with a nucleic acid comprising a base sequence complementary to a base sequence encoding a protein comprising the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 2 And a base sequence encoding a protein having PAP activity.
- the protein consisting of the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 2 and the hybridization conditions are as described above.
- the base sequence consisting of SEQ ID NO: 4 is a genomic DNA sequence encoding MaPAP2.2.
- the base sequence contained in the nucleic acid of the present invention hybridizes under stringent conditions with a nucleic acid consisting of a base sequence complementary to the base sequence consisting of SEQ ID NO: 4 and encodes a protein having PAP activity. It includes a base sequence having an exon.
- the above base sequence is prepared by preparing a probe using an appropriate fragment by a method known to those skilled in the art, and using this probe by a known hybridization method such as colony hybridization, plaque hybridization, Southern blotting, etc. It can be obtained from rally etc.
- the hybridization conditions are as described above.
- a nucleic acid comprising a base sequence having an exon that encodes a protein having a PAP activity, the base sequence comprising 70% or more of the identity of the base sequence consisting of SEQ ID NO: 4 and contained in the nucleic acid of the present invention
- a base sequence that consists of a base sequence having at least 70% identity to the base sequence consisting of SEQ ID NO: 4 and encodes a protein having PAP activity.
- it is at least 75% or more, more preferably 80% or more (for example, 85% or more, even more preferably 90% or more, further 95%, 98% or 99) with respect to the base sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 4. % Or more), and an exon encoding a protein having PAP activity.
- the percent identity between two base sequences can be determined as described above.
- the genomic DNA sequence of SEQ ID NO: 4 consists of 3 exons and 2 introns, and the exon regions are 1st to 207th, 445th to 582th, and 889 to 1632th of SEQ ID NO: 4.
- the base sequence contained in the nucleic acid of the present invention is 100% identical to the sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 4 in the base sequence of the intron region in the genomic DNA sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 4, and
- the base sequence of the exon region is at least 70% or more, preferably 75% or more, more preferably 80% or more (for example, 85% or more, even more preferably 90% or more, Includes a nucleotide sequence having an identity of 95% or more, 98% or more, or 99% or more) and having an exon encoding a protein having PAP activity.
- the base sequence contained in the nucleic acid of the present invention is 100% identical to the sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 4 in the base sequence of the exon region in the genomic DNA sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 4.
- the base sequence of the intron region is at least 70% or more, preferably 75% or more, more preferably 80% or more (for example, 85% or more, even more preferably 90% or more) with respect to the sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 4.
- a protein having a base sequence having an identity of 95% or more, 98% or more, or 99% or more) and having an intron region detachable by splicing, whereby exon regions are linked and have PAP activity The nucleotide sequence encoding
- the base sequence contained in the nucleic acid of the present invention is at least 70% or more of the base sequence of the intron region in the genomic DNA sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 4, preferably the sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 4 Includes a nucleotide sequence having identity of 75% or more, more preferably 80% or more (for example, 85% or more, even more preferably 90% or more, further 95% or more, 98% or more, 99% or more), Further, the base sequence of the exon region is at least 70% or more, preferably 75% or more, more preferably 80% or more (for example, 85% or more, even more preferably) with respect to the sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 5 or SEQ ID NO: 10.
- nucleotide sequence having identity and by splicing Intron regions are possible desorption, it exon region linked by encodes a protein having PAP activity, nucleotide sequences.
- the percent identity between two base sequences can be determined by the method described above.
- nucleic acid of the present invention comprises a nucleotide sequence consisting of a nucleotide sequence in which one or more nucleotides are deleted, substituted or added in the nucleotide sequence consisting of SEQ ID NO: 1, and which encodes a protein having PAP activity. Nucleic acids are also included.
- Pieces 1-100 pieces, 1-50 pieces, 1-30 pieces, 1-25 pieces, 1-20 pieces, 1-15 pieces, more preferably 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3 2 or 1))) a base sequence to which another base is added, or (iv) a base sequence combining the above (i) to (iii),
- a nucleic acid containing a base sequence encoding a protein having PAP activity can also be used.
- nucleic acid of the present invention includes a nucleic acid comprising a fragment of the base sequence described in any of the following (a) to (d).
- A a base sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1
- b a base sequence encoding a protein comprising the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 2
- c a base sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 4
- SEQ ID NO: 5 Base sequence
- the nucleic acid of the present invention also includes the following nucleic acids.
- the nucleic acid according to any one of the following (a) to (g).
- (b) a base sequence consisting of SEQ ID NO: 1 A nucleic acid that hybridizes under stringent conditions with a nucleic acid consisting of a complementary base sequence
- c a base sequence encoding a protein consisting of a base sequence that is 70% or more identical to the base sequence consisting of SEQ ID NO: 1
- nucleic acid according to (1) which is any of the following (a) to (g): (A) a nucleic acid comprising a base sequence encoding a protein consisting of an amino acid sequence in which 1 to 130 amino acids have been deleted, substituted or added in the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 2 (b) a base sequence consisting of SEQ ID NO: 1 A nucleic acid that hybridizes with a complementary nucleotide sequence to 2 ⁇ SSC at 50 ° C.
- nucleic acid containing Nucleic acid containing a nucleotide sequence encoding a protein consisting of an amino acid sequence 90% or more identical to the amino acid sequence consisting of SEQ ID NO: 2
- e Encoding a protein consisting of the amino acid sequence shown by SEQ ID NO: 2
- the phosphatidic acid phosphatase protein includes a protein consisting of the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 2 and variants thereof having a function equivalent to that of the protein. It may be produced manually.
- the protein consisting of the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 2 is as described above.
- the “protein having an equivalent function” means a protein having PAP activity as described in the section “Nucleic acid encoding phosphatidic acid phosphatase” above.
- examples of the protein having the same function as the protein consisting of the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 2 include the proteins described in either of the following (a) or (b).
- the “protein having PAP activity” is a variant of a protein encoded by a nucleic acid containing the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, or one or more amino acids substituted in the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 2. Included are proteins mutated by many types of modifications such as deletion or addition, modified proteins with modified amino acid side chains, etc., fusion proteins with other proteins, and proteins with PAP activity It is.
- the protein of the present invention may be artificially prepared.
- chemical synthesis such as Fmoc method (fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl method), tBoc method (t-butyloxycarbonyl method), etc. It can also be manufactured by the law.
- Chemical synthesis using peptide synthesizers such as Advanced Chemtech, PerkinElmer, Pharmacia, Protein Technology Instruments, Syntheselvega, Perceptive, Shimadzu, etc. You can also.
- the protein of the present invention also includes the following proteins.
- (1) (a) a protein comprising an amino acid sequence in which one or more amino acids are deleted, substituted or added in SEQ ID NO: 2 (b) an amino acid sequence having 80% or more identity with the amino acid sequence comprising SEQ ID NO: 2 (2) The protein according to any one of (a) and (b) below.
- Nucleic Acid Cloning PAP nucleic acids can be cloned , for example, by screening from a cDNA library using an appropriate probe. Moreover, it can clone by amplifying by PCR reaction using a suitable primer, and ligating to a suitable vector. Furthermore, it can be subcloned into another vector.
- plasmids such as pBlue-Script TM SK (+) (Stratagene), pGEM-T (Promega), pAmp (TM: Gibco-BRL), p-Direct (Clontech), pCR2.1-TOPO (Invitrogene) Vectors can be used.
- pBlue-Script TM SK (+) Stratagene
- pGEM-T Promega
- pAmp TM: Gibco-BRL
- p-Direct Clontech
- pCR2.1-TOPO Invitrogene
- any part of the base sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 5 or the like can be used as a primer.
- primer PAP2.2-1f 5′-TTCCGTCAGGACACTCCTCCAGT-3 ′ (SEQ ID NO: 6)
- primer PAP2.2-4r 5′-GACAATGCCGAGGATCGAGCC-3 ′ (SEQ ID NO: 7)
- Etc. can be used respectively.
- the above primer, DNA polymerase and the like are allowed to act on cDNA prepared from M. alpina cells to carry out a PCR reaction.
- the above method can be easily carried out by those skilled in the art according to “Molecular Cloning, A Laboratory Manual 3rd ed.” (Cold Spring Harbor Press (2001)), etc. For example, the following conditions can be given. Denaturation temperature: 90-95 ° C Annealing temperature: 40-60 °C Elongation temperature: 60-75 ° C Number of cycles: 10 times or more
- a known method can be used to purify the obtained PCR product.
- a kit such as GENECLEAN, QIAquick) PCR purification Kits (QIAGEN), ExoSAP-IT (GE Healthcare Bioscience), a method using DEAE-cellulose filter paper, a method using a dialysis tube, and the like.
- GENECLEAN, QIAquick PCR purification Kits
- ExoSAP-IT GE Healthcare Bioscience
- DEAE-cellulose filter paper a method using DEAE-cellulose filter paper
- a method using a dialysis tube and the like.
- the base sequence of the cloned nucleic acid can be determined using a base sequencer.
- the present invention also provides a recombinant vector containing a nucleic acid encoding PAP.
- the present invention further provides a transformant transformed with the above recombinant vector.
- Such a recombinant vector and transformant can be obtained as follows. That is, a plasmid having a nucleic acid encoding MaPAP2.2 or a variant thereof is digested with a restriction enzyme. Examples of restriction enzymes used include, but are not limited to, EcoRI, KpnI, BamHI, and SalI. The ends may be smoothed by treating with T4 polymerase. The digested DNA fragment is purified by agarose gel electrophoresis. A PAP expression vector can be obtained by incorporating this DNA fragment into an expression vector using a known method. This expression vector is introduced into a host to produce a transformant and used for expression of the target protein.
- a restriction enzyme include, but are not limited to, EcoRI, KpnI, BamHI, and SalI.
- the ends may be smoothed by treating with T4 polymerase.
- the digested DNA fragment is purified by agarose gel electrophoresis.
- a PAP expression vector can be obtained by incorporating this
- the expression vector and the host are not particularly limited as long as the target protein can be expressed, and examples of the host include fungi, bacteria, plants, animals, or cells thereof.
- fungi include filamentous fungi such as M. alpina, which are lipid-producing bacteria, and yeasts such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
- bacteria include Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis.
- plants include oil plants such as rapeseed, soybean, cotton, safflower and flax.
- a strain described in MYCOTAXON, Vol.XLIV, NO.2, pp.257-265 (1992) can be used, and specifically, a Mortierella genus.
- the nucleic acid of the present invention is preferably capable of autonomous replication in the host or has a structure that can be inserted into the chromosome of the fungus.
- a structure including a promoter and a terminator is preferable.
- examples of expression vectors include pD4, pDuraSC, pDura5 and the like.
- the promoter any promoter that can be expressed in the host may be used. For example, histonH4.1 gene promoter, GAPDH (glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase) gene promoter, TEF (Translation elongation factor) gene A promoter derived from M. alpina such as a promoter is used.
- Examples of methods for introducing a recombinant vector into filamentous fungi such as M. alpina include electroporation, spheroplast, particle delivery, and direct microinjection of DNA into the nucleus.
- a transformed strain can be obtained by selecting a strain that grows on a selective medium lacking the nutrient.
- a drug resistance marker gene is used for transformation, cell colonies exhibiting drug resistance can be obtained by culturing in a selective medium containing the drug.
- yeast When yeast is used as a host, examples of expression vectors include pYE22m. Commercially available yeast expression vectors such as pYES (Invitrogen) and pESC (STRATAGENE) may also be used. Suitable hosts for the present invention include, but are not limited to, Saccharomyces cerevisiae EH13-15 (trp1, MAT ⁇ ). As the promoter, for example, promoters derived from yeast such as GAPDH promoter, gal1 promoter, gal10 promoter, etc. are used.
- a method for introducing a recombinant vector into yeast for example, lithium acetate method, electroporation method, spheroplast method, dextran-mediated transfection, calcium phosphate precipitation, polybrene-mediated transfection, protoplast fusion, polynucleotide in liposome ( Singular or plural) encapsulation, and direct microinjection of DNA into the nucleus.
- examples of the expression vector include Pharmacia pGEX and pUC18.
- the promoter for example, a promoter derived from Escherichia coli, phage or the like, such as trp promoter, lac promoter, PL promoter, PR promoter or the like is used.
- an electroporation method or a calcium chloride method can be used as a method for introducing a recombinant vector into bacteria.
- the present invention provides a method for producing a fatty acid composition from the transformant. That is, it is a method for producing a fatty acid composition from a culture obtained by culturing the transformant.
- a fatty acid composition is a composition comprising a combination of one or more fatty acids.
- the fatty acid may be a free fatty acid or may exist as a lipid containing a fatty acid such as triglyceride or phospholipid.
- the fatty acid composition of the present invention can be produced by the following method. However, the production method is not limited to this method, and can be carried out using other generally known methods.
- a medium used for culturing a PAP-expressing organism has an appropriate pH and osmotic pressure, and contains a nutrient solution necessary for growth of each host, trace components, and biological materials such as serum and antibiotics ( Any culture solution can be used as long as it is a medium.
- yeast is transformed to express PAP, SC-Trp medium, YPD medium, YPD5 medium, and the like can be used, but are not limited thereto.
- SC-Trp medium is exemplified as a specific medium composition: YeastgnitroYbase w / o amino acids (DIFCO) 6.7g, glucose 20g, amino acid powder (1.25g of adenine sulfate, 0.6g of arginine per liter) Aspartic acid 3 g, Glutamic acid 3 g, Histidine 0.6 g, Leucine 1.8 g, Lysine 0.9 g, Methionine 0.6 g, Phenylalanine 1.5 g, Serine 11.25 g, Tyrosine 0.9 g, Valine 4.5 g, Threonine 6 g , Mixed with 0.6 g of uracil) 1.3 g.
- DIFCO YeastgnitroYbase w / o amino acids
- the culture conditions may be any conditions as long as they are suitable for the growth of the host and are suitable for keeping the produced enzyme stable. Specifically, anaerobic degree, culture time, temperature, humidity, static Individual conditions such as stationary culture or shaking culture can be adjusted.
- the culture method may be culture under the same conditions (one-stage culture), or so-called two-stage culture or three-stage culture using two or more different culture conditions, but in the case of mass culture, the culture efficiency is good. Two-stage culture is preferred.
- the method for producing a fatty acid composition of the present invention can be performed as follows.
- a pre-culture colonies of the transformant are inoculated into the above SC-Trp medium or the like and subjected to shaking culture at 30 ° C. for 2 days.
- 500 ⁇ l of a preculture solution is added to 10 ml of YPD5 (2% yeast extract, 1% polypeptone, 5% glucose) medium, and shake culture is performed at 30 ° C. for 2 days.
- the present invention also provides a fatty acid composition that is a collection of one or more fatty acids in cells in which MaPAP2.2 or a variant thereof is expressed.
- a fatty acid composition obtained by culturing a transformant expressing MaPAP2.2 or a variant thereof.
- the fatty acid may be a free fatty acid or may exist in the form of a lipid containing a fatty acid such as triglyceride or phospholipid.
- the fatty acid contained in the fatty acid composition of the present invention refers to a long-chain carbohydrate chain or branched monocarboxylic acid, such as myristic acid (tetradecanoic acid) (14: 0), myristoleic acid (tetradecenoic acid).
- the fatty acid composition of the present invention may be a composition comprising any number and any kind of fatty acids as long as it is a combination of one or more of the above fatty acids.
- the foodstuff etc. which contain a fatty acid composition Moreover, this invention provides the foodstuff containing the said fatty acid composition.
- the fatty acid composition of the present invention can be used for applications such as production of foods containing fats and oils, industrial raw materials (raw materials such as cosmetics, pharmaceuticals (for example, topical drugs for skin), soaps) according to conventional methods.
- Examples of the dosage form of the cosmetic (composition) or medicine (composition) include, but are not limited to, any dosage form such as solution, paste, gel, solid, and powder.
- a form of food such as a capsule, or a natural liquid food in which the fatty acid composition of the present invention is blended with protein, saccharide, fat, trace element, vitamins, emulsifier, fragrance, etc., semi-digested Processing forms such as state nutrition foods, ingredient nutrition foods, drinks, enteral nutrients and the like can be mentioned.
- examples of food include, but are not limited to, nutritional supplements, health foods, functional foods, infant foods, infant formulas, premature infant formulas, and elderly foods.
- food refers to a generic term for solids, fluids, liquids, and mixtures thereof that can be consumed.
- Nutritional supplements are foods that are enriched with specific nutritional ingredients.
- the health food refers to food that is considered healthy or healthy, and includes nutritional supplements, natural foods, diet foods, and the like.
- Functional food means food for supplementing nutritional components that fulfill the body's regulatory functions, and is synonymous with food for specified health use.
- Infant food refers to food for children up to about 6 years old.
- the food for the elderly refers to food that has been processed so that it can be easily digested and absorbed as compared to untreated food.
- Infant formula refers to formula for feeding to children up to about 1 year old.
- Premature infant formula refers to formula that is given to premature infants until about 6 months after birth.
- These foods include natural foods such as meat, fish and nuts (treated with oils and fats); foods to which fats and oils are added when cooking Chinese food, ramen, soup, etc .; tempura, fries, fried chicken, fried rice, donuts, sugar sugar, etc. Foods that use fats and oils as a heating medium for foods; butters, margarines, mayonnaise, dressings, chocolates, instant ramen, caramels, biscuits, cookies, cakes, ice creams, etc. or processed foods with added fats during processing; The food etc. which sprayed or apply
- lifted can be mention
- the food of the present invention is not limited to foods containing fats and oils, such as bread, noodles, rice, confectionery (candy, chewing gum, gummi, tablet confectionery, Japanese confectionery), tofu and processed products thereof.
- Agricultural foods such as sake, medicinal liquor, mirin, vinegar, soy sauce, miso; livestock foods such as yoghurt, ham, bacon, sausage; marine foods such as kamaboko, fried tempura, hampen; fruit juices, soft drinks, sports Beverages, alcoholic beverages, tea, etc. are listed.
- the present invention also provides a method for evaluating and selecting lipid-producing bacteria using the nucleic acid encoding PAP or PAP protein of the present invention. . Specifically, it is as follows.
- Evaluation method As one embodiment of the present invention, a method for evaluating lipid-producing bacteria using the nucleic acid or PAP protein encoding the PAP of the present invention can be mentioned.
- the evaluation method include a method of evaluating the PAP activity of a lipid-producing strain as a test strain using a primer or probe designed based on the base sequence of the nucleic acid encoding the PAP of the present invention.
- a general method of such an evaluation method is known and described in, for example, International Patent Application Pamphlet WO01 / 040514, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 8-205900, and the like. Hereinafter, this evaluation method will be briefly described.
- the genome of the test strain is prepared.
- any known method such as Hereford method or potassium acetate method can be used (see, for example, Methods in Yeast Genetics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, p130 (1990)).
- a primer or probe is designed based on the base sequence of the nucleic acid encoding the PAP of the present invention, preferably SEQ ID NO: 1. Any part of the base sequence of the nucleic acid encoding the PAP of the present invention can be used as the primer or probe, and the design thereof can be performed using a known method.
- the number of bases of the polynucleotide used as a primer is usually 10 bases or more, preferably 15 to 25 bases. In addition, the number of bases in the sandwiched portion is usually 300 to 2000 bases.
- a sequence specifically corresponding to the nucleotide sequence of the nucleic acid encoding the PAP of the present invention exists in the genome of the test strain. Detection of a specifically corresponding sequence can be performed using a known method. For example, a polynucleotide containing a part of the base sequence of the nucleic acid encoding the PAP of the present invention or a polynucleotide containing a base sequence complementary to a part of the base sequence is used as one primer.
- the nucleic acid of the test strain can be obtained, for example, by PCR or the like. After amplification, the presence or absence of the amplified product, the size of the molecular weight of the amplified product, and the like can be measured.
- Reaction conditions of the PCR method suitable for the method of the present invention are not particularly limited, and examples thereof include the following conditions.
- Cycle number Conditions such as 10 times or more.
- the obtained reaction product can be separated by electrophoresis using an agarose gel or the like, and the molecular weight of the amplified product can be measured.
- the PAP activity of the test strain can be predicted or evaluated by confirming whether or not the molecular weight of the amplification product is large enough to include a nucleic acid molecule corresponding to a region specific to the base sequence of the present invention. Further, by analyzing the base sequence of the amplification product by the above method or the like, the PAP activity can be predicted or evaluated more accurately.
- the method for evaluating PAP activity is as described above.
- the evaluation method of the present invention is to evaluate the PAP activity of a test strain by culturing the test strain and measuring the expression level of PAP encoded by the base sequence of the present invention such as SEQ ID NO: 1. There may be.
- the expression level of PAP can be measured by culturing the test strain under suitable conditions and quantifying the PAP mRNA or protein. Quantification of mRNA or protein can be performed using a known method. For example, mRNA quantification can be performed by Northern hybridization or quantitative RT-PCR, and protein quantification can be performed by, for example, Western blotting (Current Protocols in Molecular Molecular Biology, John Wiley & Sons 1994-2003).
- a method for selecting a lipid-producing bacterium using a nucleic acid encoding the PAP of the present invention or a PAP protein there is a method for selecting a lipid-producing bacterium using a nucleic acid encoding the PAP of the present invention or a PAP protein.
- a test strain by culturing a test strain, measuring the expression level of PAP encoded by the nucleotide sequence of the present invention such as SEQ ID NO: 1 and the like, and selecting a strain having the desired expression level A strain having a desired activity can be selected.
- a reference strain is set, each of the reference strain and the test strain is cultured, the expression level of each strain is measured, the reference strain and the test strain are compared, and the desired strain is determined. You can also choose.
- the reference strain and the test strain are cultured under appropriate conditions, the expression level of each strain is measured, and the test strain has a higher or lower expression than the reference strain.
- a strain having a desired activity can be selected. Examples of the desired activity include a method of measuring the expression level of PAP and the composition of the fatty acid composition produced by PAP as described above.
- a test strain having a desired activity can be selected by culturing a test strain and selecting a strain having a high or low activity of the present invention.
- the desired activity include a method of measuring the expression level of PAP and the composition of the fatty acid composition produced by PAP as described above.
- test strains or reference strains include strains into which the above-described vector of the present invention has been introduced, strains in which the expression of the nucleic acid of the present invention has been suppressed, strains that have been subjected to mutation treatment, naturally-mutated strains, etc. Although it can be used, it is not limited to these.
- the PAP activity can be measured, for example, by the method described in the item “Nucleic acid encoding phosphatidic acid phosphatase” in this specification.
- mutation treatment examples include physical methods such as ultraviolet irradiation and radiation irradiation, and chemical methods using chemical treatment such as EMS (ethyl methanesulfonate) and N-methyl-N-nitrosoguanidine (for example, Oshima). Edited by Taiji, see Biochemical Experimental Method 39, Yeast Molecular Genetics Experimental Method, p.67-75, Academic Publishing Center, etc.).
- EMS ethyl methanesulfonate
- N-methyl-N-nitrosoguanidine for example, Oshima
- examples of the strain used as the reference strain or test strain of the present invention include, but are not limited to, the above lipid-producing bacteria and yeasts.
- the reference strain and the test strain may be used in combination with any strain belonging to different genera or species, and one or more strains may be used simultaneously as the test strain.
- Example 1 Genomic analysis of Mortierella alpina M. alpina 1S-4 strain was inoculated into 100 ml of GY2: 1 medium (2% glucose, 1% yeast extract, pH 6.0), and cultured with shaking at 28 ° C for 2 days. did. The cells were collected by filtration, and genomic DNA was prepared using DNeasy (QIAGEN).
- the base sequence of the genomic DNA was determined using Roche 454 GS GS FLX Standard. At that time, the base sequence of the fragment library was determined for 2 runs, and the base sequence of the mate pair library was determined for 3 runs. By assembling the obtained base sequences, 300 super tigs were obtained.
- Example 2 Synthesis of cDNA and preparation of cDNA library M. alpina 1S-4 strain was inoculated into 100 ml of medium (1.8% glucose, 1% yeast extract, pH 6.0) at 28 ° C for 3 days. Pre-cultured. In a 10 L culture tank (Able Co., Tokyo), 5 L medium (1.8% glucose, 1% soybean flour, 0.1% olive oil, 0.01% adecanol, 0.3% KH 2 PO 4 , 0.1 % Na 2 SO 4 , 0.05% CaCl 2 .2H 2 O, 0.05% MgCl 2 .6H 2 O, pH 6.0), inoculating the entire preculture, 300 rpm, 1 vvm, 26 ° C.
- medium 1.8% glucose, 1% yeast extract, pH 6.0
- Poly (A) + RNA was purified from total RNA using Oligotex-dT30 ⁇ Super> mRNA Purification Kit (Takara Bio Inc.).
- a cDNA library of each stage was prepared using ZAP-cDNA GigapackIII Gold Cloning Kit (STRATAGENE).
- Example 3 Search for yeast-derived DPP1 homologs
- yeast ScDPP1 accession number AAS56070
- ScLPP1 accession number AAT93210
- two Super Contigs were hit.
- the gene according to SEQ ID NO: 4 was named MaPAP2.2.
- Example 4 Cloning and sequence analysis of MaPAP2.2 (1) Cloning In order to clone MaPAP2.2 cDNA, the following primers were prepared. Primer PAP2.2-1f: TTCCGTCAGGACACTCCTCCAGT (SEQ ID NO: 6) Primer PAP2.2-4r: GACAATGCCGAGGATCGAGCC (SEQ ID NO: 7)
- a probe was prepared by PCR using the plasmid pCR-MaPAP2.2-P as a template and the above primers.
- ExTaq (Takara Bio) was used, but instead of the attached dNTP mix, a PCR labeling mix (Roche Diagnostics) was used to prepare a probe in which the amplified DNA was labeled with digoxigenin (DIG), MaPAP2.2 probe was used.
- DIG digoxigenin
- MaPAP2.2 probe was used. Using these probes, a cDNA library was screened.
- Hybridization conditions are as follows. Buffer: 5 ⁇ SSC, 1% SDS, 50 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.5), 50% formamide; Temperature: 42 ° C. (overnight); Washing conditions: 0.2 ⁇ SSC, 0.1% SDS solution (65 ° C.), 20 minutes ⁇ 3 times.
- plasmid pB-MaPAP2.2 The one with the longest insert length contains the base sequence of SEQ ID NO: 5, and was named plasmid pB-MaPAP2.2.
- FIG. 2 shows an alignment of the amino acid sequence of MaPAP2.2 and the amino acid sequence of a putative protein derived from Otsutake and ScDPP1 (YDR284C: Accession No. AAS56070) from yeast.
- the identity of the amino acid sequence of MaPAP2.2 with MaPAP1 known as Mg2 + -independent PAP (PAP2) derived from Mortierella alpina was 20.5%.
- the alignment of the amino acid sequences of MaPAP2.2 and MaPAP1 is shown in FIG.
- the PAP2 family enzyme has three conserved regions, and amino acids essential for activity are also known. As shown in FIG. 3, these conserved regions are also conserved in MaPAP2.2 (the region indicated by the double underline in FIG. 3), and the arginine residue of domain 1 that is essential for activity, domain 2 and The histidine residue of domain 3 (residue indicated by * in FIG. 3) was conserved.
- Example 5 Functional analysis of MaPAP2.2
- a yeast expression vector was constructed as follows. First, primers Eco-PAP2-2-F and Kpn-PAP2-2-R were prepared, and PCR reaction was performed with ExTaq (Takara Bio) using pB-MaPAP2.2 as a template.
- Eco-PAP2-2-F GAATTC ATG TTCTCGTCCATGCGCTTCAAG (SEQ ID NO: 8)
- Kpn-PAP2-2-R TGGTACC TCA TGGTCCCAAGTATACATCGTTCC (SEQ ID NO: 9)
- the obtained 1.1 kbp DNA fragment was TA-cloned using TOPO-TA cloning Kit (Invitrogen), the nucleotide sequence was confirmed, and a plasmid having the correct nucleotide sequence of MaPAP2.2 CDS (SEQ ID NO: 3) was pCR. -It was set as MaPAP2.2. Restriction of about 1.1 kbp DNA fragment obtained by digesting pCR-MaPAP2.2 with restriction enzymes EcoRI and KpnI and yeast expression vector pYE22m (Biosci. Biotech.
- yeast culture Transformants with the respective vectors were cultured under the following conditions. That is, as a preculture, yeast was inoculated into 10 ml of SD-Trp and cultured at 30 ° C. for 1 day with shaking. As the main culture, 1 ml of the preculture was added to 100 ml of SD-Trp and cultured with shaking at 30 ° C. for 1 day.
- PAP activity was measured as follows. As a reaction solution, 50 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.5), 50 ⁇ g linoleic acid (18: 2) -PA or oleic acid (18: 1) -PA or margaric acid (17: 0) -PA (phosphatidic acid as a substrate) ), 0.5 mM MgCl 2 or 0.5 mM EDTA, 10 mM DTT, 100 ⁇ l crude enzyme solution in a total volume of 500 ⁇ l was prepared and reacted at 28 ° C. for 30 minutes. Chloroform: methanol (1: 2) was added to stop the reaction.
- a reaction solution to which the supernatant of a yeast cell disruption solution of yeast (control strain) transformed with the plasmid pYE22m not containing the MaPAP2.2 gene was added was used.
- Lipids were extracted by the Bligh & Dyer method and dried with a centrifugal concentrator. It melt
- dissolved in chloroform and the lipid was fractionated by TLC (Silica gel 60 plate, hexane: diethyl ether: acetic acid 70: 30: 1).
- the lipid was visualized under UV irradiation, the phospholipid fraction and the diglyceride (DG) fraction were scraped, and the total fatty acid contained was induced into a methyl ester and analyzed by gas chromatography.
- DG diglyceride
- PAP activity can be measured by measuring the amount of diglyceride (DG) converted from phosphatidic acid (PA) added as a substrate.
- DG diglyceride
- PA phosphatidic acid
- FIG. 5 shows the result of examining the amount of 18: 2-DG in a reaction solution containing no Mg 2+ to which a crude enzyme solution of MaPAP2.2 or a crude enzyme solution of MaPAP1 was added.
- 18: 2-DG the conversion from 18: 2-PA to 18: 2-DG was significantly enhanced, whereas when MaPAP1 was used, 18: 2-DG, similar to the control, was obtained. It was only recognized. This indicates that MaPAP2.2 and MaPAP1 have different substrate specificities.
- FIG. 6 examined the amount of 18: 1-DG after the reaction in the case of adding and not adding 18: 1-PA as a substrate in the reaction solution containing the crude enzyme solution of MaPAP2.2 and the control.
- the result is shown. Since 18: 1-PA is a phosphatidic acid originally present in yeast, the amount (background) of 18: 1-PA in the crude enzyme solution was measured without adding 18: 1-PA, and MaPAP2.2 It was confirmed that there was no difference between the expression strain and the control strain (FIG. 6A). After that, the amount of 18: 1-DG after the reaction when 18: 1-PA was added was measured. As a result, the MaPAP2.2 crude enzyme solution was compared with the control crude enzyme solution. It was confirmed that more 18: 1-PA was produced when used (FIG. 6B). This result shows that MaPAP2.2 has PAP activity even when 18: 1-PA is used as a substrate.
- FIG. 7 shows the results of examining the amount of 17: 0-DG after the reaction when 17: 0-PA was added as a substrate in a reaction solution containing a crude enzyme solution of MaPAP2.2 and a control. is there.
- the results shown in FIG. 7 indicate that MaPAP2.2 has PAP activity even when 17: 0-PA is used as a substrate.
- the activity for converting 18: 2-PA to 18: 2-DG and the activity for converting 18: 1-PA to 18: 1-DG are comparable. It was.
- the activity to convert 17: 0-PA to 17: 0-DG is the activity to convert 18: 2-PA to 18: 2-DG and the activity to convert 18: 1-PA to 18: 1-DG. It was estimated to be about 1/5.
- the phosphatidic acid phosphatase activity of MaPAP2.2 is higher in substrate specificity for phosphatidic acid containing an acyl group having 18 carbon atoms than phosphatidic acid containing an acyl group having 17 carbon atoms. Show.
- Sequence number 6 Primer PAP2.2-1f Sequence number 7: Primer PAP2.2-4r Sequence number 8: Primer Eco-PAP2-2-F Sequence number 9: Primer Kpn-PAP2-2-R
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(a)配列番号2で示されるアミノ酸配列において1若しくは複数個のアミノ酸が欠失、置換若しくは付加されたアミノ酸配列からなり、かつ、ホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼ活性を有するタンパク質、をコードする塩基配列を含む核酸
(b)配列番号1からなる塩基配列に対し相補的な塩基配列からなる核酸とストリンジェントな条件下でハイブリダイズし、かつ、ホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼ活性を有するタンパク質をコードする塩基配列を含む核酸
(c)配列番号1からなる塩基配列と同一性が70%以上の塩基配列からなり、かつ、ホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼ活性を有するタンパク質をコードする塩基配列を含む核酸
(d)配列番号2からなるアミノ酸配列と同一性が70%以上のアミノ酸配列からなり、かつ、ホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼ活性を有するタンパク質、をコードする塩基配列を含む核酸
(e)配列番号2で示されるアミノ酸配列からなるタンパク質をコードする塩基配列に対して相補的な塩基配列からなる核酸とストリンジェントな条件下でハイブリダイズし、かつ、ホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼ活性を有するタンパク質をコードする塩基配列を含む核酸
(f)配列番号4からなる塩基配列に対して相補的な塩基配列からなる核酸とストリンジェントな条件下でハイブリダイズし、かつ、ホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼ活性を有するタンパク質をコードするエキソンを有する塩基配列を含む核酸
(g)配列番号4からなる塩基配列と同一性が70%以上の塩基配列からなり、かつ、ホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼ活性を有するタンパク質をコードするエキソンを有する塩基配列を含む核酸
(a)配列番号2で示されるアミノ酸配列において1~110個のアミノ酸が欠失、置換若しくは付加されたアミノ酸配列からなり、かつ、ホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼ活性を有するタンパク質、をコードする塩基配列を含む核酸
(b)配列番号1からなる塩基配列に対し相補的な塩基配列からなる核酸と2×SSC、50℃の条件下でハイブリダイズし、かつ、ホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼ活性を有するタンパク質をコードする塩基配列を含む核酸
(c)配列番号1からなる塩基配列と同一性が90%以上の塩基配列からなり、かつ、ホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼ活性を有するタンパク質をコードする塩基配列を含む核酸
(d)配列番号2からなるアミノ酸配列と同一性が90%以上のアミノ酸配列からなり、かつ、ホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼ活性を有するタンパク質、をコードする塩基配列を含む核酸
(e)配列番号2で示されるアミノ酸配列からなるタンパク質をコードする塩基配列に対して相補的な塩基配列からなる核酸と2×SSC、50℃の条件下でハイブリダイズし、かつ、ホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼ活性を有するタンパク質をコードする塩基配列を含む核酸
(f)配列番号4からなる塩基配列に対して相補的な塩基配列からなる核酸と2×SSC、50℃の条件下でハイブリダイズし、かつ、ホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼ活性を有するタンパク質をコードするエキソンを有する塩基配列を含む核酸
(g)配列番号4からなる塩基配列と同一性が90%以上の塩基配列からなり、かつ、ホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼ活性を有するタンパク質をコードするエキソンを有する塩基配列を含む核酸
(a)配列番号1で示される塩基配列又はその部分配列を含む核酸
(b)配列番号2で示されるアミノ酸配列からなるタンパク質をコードする塩基配列又はその部分配列を含む核酸
(c)配列番号4で示される塩基配列又はその部分配列を含む核酸
(d)配列番号5で示される塩基配列又はその部分配列を含む核酸
(a)配列番号2において1又は複数個のアミノ酸が欠失、置換又は付加されたアミノ酸配列からなり、かつ、ホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼ活性を有するタンパク質
(b)配列番号2からなるアミノ酸配列と同一性が70%以上のアミノ酸配列からなるタンパク質であり、かつ、ホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼ活性を有するタンパク質
(a)配列番号2において1~110個のアミノ酸が欠失、置換又は付加されたアミノ酸配列からなり、かつ、ホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼ活性を有するタンパク質
(b)配列番号2からなるアミノ酸配列と同一性が90%以上のアミノ酸配列からなるタンパク質であり、かつ、ホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼ活性を有するタンパク質
本発明のホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼ(PAP)には、MaPAP2.2及びその変異体が含まれる。MaPAP2.2をコードする核酸のcDNA、CDS、ORF及びアミノ酸配列の対応関係を以下の表1に整理して記載した。
本発明の核酸に含まれる塩基配列は、配列番号2で示されるアミノ酸配列において1若しくは複数個のアミノ酸が欠失、置換若しくは付加されたアミノ酸配列からなり、かつ、PAP活性を有するタンパク質をコードする塩基配列を含む。
(i) 配列番号2に示すアミノ酸配列のうち1個又は複数個(好ましくは1個又は数個(例えば、1~110個、1~100個、1~75個、1~50個、1~30個、1~25個、1~20個、1~15個、さらに好ましくは10、9、8、7、6、5、4、3、2、又は1個))のアミノ酸が欠失したアミノ酸配列、
(ii) 配列番号2に示すアミノ酸配列のうち1個又は複数個(好ましくは1個又は数個(例えば、1~110個、1~100個、1~75個、1~50個、1~30個、1~25個、1~20個、1~15個、さらに好ましくは10、9、8、7、6、5、4、3、2、又は1個))のアミノ酸が他のアミノ酸で置換したアミノ酸配列、
(iii) 配列番号2に示すアミノ酸配列において1個又は複数個(好ましくは1個又は数個(例えば、1~110個、1~100個、1~75個、1~50個、1~30個、1~25個、1~20個、1~15個、さらに好ましくは10、9、8、7、6、5、4、3、2、又は1個個))の他のアミノ酸が付加されたアミノ酸配列、又は
(iv) 上記(i)~(iii)を組み合わせたアミノ酸配列、
からなるタンパク質であって、かつ、PAP活性を有するタンパク質をコードする塩基配列である。
A群:ロイシン、イソロイシン、ノルロイシン、バリン、ノルバリン、アラニン、2-アミノブタン酸、メチオニン、O-メチルセリン、t-ブチルグリシン、t-ブチルアラニン及びシクロヘキシルアラニン
B群:アスパラギン酸、グルタミン酸、イソアスパラギン酸、イソグルタミン酸、2-アミノアジピン酸及び2-アミノスベリン酸
C群:アスパラギン及びグルタミン
D群:リジン、アルギニン、オルニチン、2,4-ジアミノブタン酸及び2,3-ジアミノプロピオン酸
E群:プロリン、3-ヒドロキシプロリン及び4-ヒドロキシプロリン
F群:セリン、スレオニン及びホモセリン
G群:フェニルアラニン及びチロシン
本発明の核酸に含まれる塩基配列は、配列番号1からなる塩基配列に対し相補的な塩基配列からなる核酸とストリンジェントな条件下でハイブリダイズし、かつ、PAP活性を有するタンパク質をコードする塩基配列を含む。
本発明の核酸に含まれる塩基配列は、配列番号1に示される塩基配列に対して少なくとも70%以上の同一性を有する塩基配列からなり、かつ、PAP活性を有するタンパク質をコードする塩基配列を含む。
本発明の核酸に含まれる塩基配列は、配列番号2からなるアミノ酸配列と同一性が70%以上のアミノ酸配列からなり、かつ、PAP活性を有するタンパク質、をコードする塩基配列を含む。
本発明の核酸に含まれる塩基配列は、配列番号2で示されるアミノ酸配列からなるタンパク質をコードする塩基配列に対して相補的な塩基配列からなる核酸とストリンジェントな条件下でハイブリダイズし、かつ、PAP活性を有するタンパク質をコードする塩基配列を含む。
配列番号4からなる塩基配列は、MaPAP2.2をコードするゲノムDNA配列である。
本発明の核酸に含まれる塩基配列は、配列番号4からなる塩基配列に対して少なくとも70%以上の同一性を有する塩基配列からなり、かつ、PAP活性を有するタンパク質をコードする塩基配列を含む。好ましくは、配列番号4に示される塩基配列に対して少なくとも75%以上、さらに好ましくは80%以上(例えば、85%以上、より一層好ましくは、90%以上、さらには95%、98%又は99%以上)の同一性を有する塩基配列を含み、かつ、PAP活性を有するタンパク質をコードするエキソンを有する塩基配列があげられる。2つの塩基配列の同一性%は、上述したように決定することができる。
(i) 配列番号1に示す塩基配列のうち1個又は複数個(好ましくは1個又は数個(例えば、1~330個、1~300個、1~250個、1~200個、1~150個、1~100個、1~50個、1~30個、1~25個、1~20個、1~15個、さらに好ましくは10、9、8、7、6、5、4、3、2、又は1個))の塩基が欠失した塩基配列、
(ii) 配列番号1に示す塩基配列のうち1個又は複数個(好ましくは1個又は数個(例えば、1~330個、1~300個、1~250個、1~200個、1~150個、1~100個、1~50個、1~30個、1~25個、1~20個、1~15個、さらに好ましくは10、9、8、7、6、5、4、3、2、又は1個))の塩基が他の塩基で置換された塩基配列、
(iii) 配列番号1に示す塩基配列において1個又は複数個(好ましくは1個又は数個(例えば、1~330個、1~300個、1~250個、1~200個、1~150個、1~100個、1~50個、1~30個、1~25個、1~20個、1~15個、さらに好ましくは10、9、8、7、6、5、4、3、2、又は1個))の他の塩基が付加された塩基配列、又は
(iv) 上記(i)~(iii)を組み合わせた塩基配列、
であって、かつ、PAP活性を有するタンパク質をコードしている塩基配列を含む核酸を用いることもできる。
(a)配列番号1で示される塩基配列
(b)配列番号2で示されるアミノ酸配列からなるタンパク質をコードする塩基配列
(c)配列番号4で示される塩基配列
(d)配列番号5で示される塩基配列
(1) 以下の(a)~(g)のいずれかに記載の核酸。
(a)配列番号2で示されるアミノ酸配列において1若しくは複数個のアミノ酸が欠失、置換若しくは付加されたアミノ酸配列からなるタンパク質をコードする塩基配列を含む核酸
(b)配列番号1からなる塩基配列に対し相補的な塩基配列からなる核酸とストリンジェントな条件下でハイブリダイズする核酸
(c)配列番号1からなる塩基配列と同一性が70%以上の塩基配列からなるタンパク質をコードする塩基配列を含む核酸
(d)配列番号2からなるアミノ酸配列と同一性が70%以上のアミノ酸配列からなるタンパク質をコードする塩基配列を含む核酸
(e)配列番号2で示されるアミノ酸配列からなるタンパク質をコードする塩基配列に対し相補的な塩基配列からなる核酸とストリンジェントな条件下でハイブリダイズする核酸、
(f)配列番号4からなる塩基配列に対し相補的な塩基配列からなる核酸とストリンジェントな条件下でハイブリダイズする核酸
(g)配列番号4からなる塩基配列と同一性が70%以上の塩基配列からなるタンパク質をコードする塩基配列を含む核酸
(a)配列番号2で示されるアミノ酸配列において1~130個のアミノ酸が欠失、置換若しくは付加されたアミノ酸配列からなるタンパク質をコードする塩基配列を含む核酸
(b)配列番号1からなる塩基配列に対し相補的な塩基配列からなる核酸と2×SSC、50℃の条件下でハイブリダイズする核酸
(c)配列番号1からなる塩基配列と同一性が90%以上の塩基配列からなる塩基配列を含む核酸
(d)配列番号2からなるアミノ酸配列と同一性が90%以上のアミノ酸配列からなるタンパク質をコードする塩基配列を含む核酸
(e)配列番号2で示されるアミノ酸配列からなるタンパク質をコードする塩基配列に対し相補的な塩基配列からなる核酸と2×SSC、50℃の条件下でハイブリダイズする核酸
(f)配列番号4からなる塩基配列に対し相補的な塩基配列からなる核酸と2×SSC、50℃の条件下でハイブリダイズする核酸
(g)配列番号4からなる塩基配列と同一性が90%以上の塩基配列からなる塩基配列を含む核酸
本発明のタンパク質は、配列番号2で示されるアミノ酸配列からなるタンパク質及びその変異体であって前記タンパク質と同等の機能を有するタンパク質を含み、天然由来のものであっても、人工的に作製したものであってもよい。配列番号2で示されるアミノ酸配列からなるタンパク質については、上記のとおりである。「同等の機能を有するタンパク質」とは、上記『ホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼをコードする核酸』の項で説明したとおり、PAP活性を有するタンパク質を意味する。
(a)配列番号2において1若しくは複数個のアミノ酸が欠失、置換若しくは付加されたアミノ酸配列からなり、かつ、PAP活性を有するタンパク質
(b)配列番号2からなるアミノ酸配列と同一性が70%以上のアミノ酸配列からなるタンパク質であり、かつ、PAP活性を有するタンパク質
(1)(a)配列番号2において1若しくは複数個のアミノ酸が欠失、置換若しくは付加されたアミノ酸配列からなるタンパク質
(b)配列番号2からなるアミノ酸配列と同一性が80%以上のアミノ酸配列からなるタンパク質
(2) 以下の(a)又は(b)のいずれかに記載のタンパク質。
(a)配列番号2において1~110個のアミノ酸が欠失、置換若しくは付加されたアミノ酸配列からなるタンパク質
(b)配列番号2からなるアミノ酸配列と同一性が90%以上のアミノ酸配列からなるタンパク質
PAPの核酸は、例えば、適切なプローブを用いてcDNAライブラリーからスクリーニングすることにより、クローニングすることができる。また、適切なプライマーを用いてPCR反応により増幅し、適切なベクターに連結することによりクローニングすることができる。さらに、別のベクターにサブクローニングすることもできる。
上流側用プライマーとして、プライマーPAP2.2-1f:5’-TTCCGTCAGGACACTCCTCCAGT-3’(配列番号6)、
下流側用プライマーとして、プライマーPAP2.2-4r:5’-GACAATGCCGAGGATCGAGCC-3’(配列番号7)、
等を、各々用いることができる。そして、M. alpina 菌体から調製したcDNAに、上記プライマー及びDNAポリメラーゼ等を作用させてPCR反応を行う。上記方法は、『Molecular Cloning, A Laboratory Manual 3rd ed.』(Cold Spring Harbor Press (2001))等に従い、当業者であれば容易に行うことができるが、本発明のPCR反応の条件としては、例えば以下の条件があげられる。
変性温度:90~95℃
アニーリング温度:40~60℃
伸長温度:60~75℃
サイクル数:10回以上
本発明はまた、PAPをコードする核酸を含有する組換えベクターを提供する。本発明は、さらに、上記組換えベクターによって形質転換された形質転換体も提供する。
本発明は、上記形質転換体から、脂肪酸組成物を製造する方法を提供する。すなわち、上記形質転換体を培養して得られる培養物から脂肪酸組成物を製造する方法である。脂肪酸組成物は、1又はそれ以上の脂肪酸の組み合わせを含む組成物である。ここで、脂肪酸は遊離脂肪酸であってもよく、トリグリセリドやリン脂質等の脂肪酸を含む脂質として存在していてもよい。本発明の脂肪酸組成物は、具体的には、以下の方法で製造することができる。しかし、本製造方法に関しては、当該方法に限られず、一般的な公知の他の方法を用いて行うこともできる。
本発明はまた、MaPAP2.2又はその変異体が発現している細胞における1又はそれ以上の脂肪酸の集合体である脂肪酸組成物を提供する。好ましくは、MaPAP2.2又はその変異体が発現している形質転換体を培養して得られる脂肪酸組成物である。脂肪酸は、遊離脂肪酸であってもよく、トリグリセリド、リン脂質等の脂肪酸を含む脂質の形で存在していてもよい。
また、本発明は、上記脂肪酸組成物を含む食品を提供する。本発明の脂肪酸組成物は、常法に従って、例えば、油脂を含む食品、工業原料(化粧料、医薬(例えば、皮膚外用薬)、石鹸等の原料)の製造等の用途に使用することができる。化粧料(組成物)又は医薬(組成物)の剤型としては、溶液状、ペースト状、ゲル状、固体状、粉末状等任意の剤型をあげることができるが、これらに限定されない。また、食品の形態としては、カプセル等の医薬製剤の形態、又はタンパク質、糖類、脂肪、微量元素、ビタミン類、乳化剤、香料等に本発明の脂肪酸組成物が配合された自然流動食、半消化態栄養食、及び成分栄養食、ドリンク剤、経腸栄養剤等の加工形態があげられる。
本発明はまた、本発明のPAPをコードする核酸又はPAPタンパク質を用いて、脂質生産菌の評価や選択を行う方法を提供する。具体的には以下のとおりである。
本発明の一態様として、本発明のPAPをコードする核酸又はPAPタンパク質を用いて、脂質生産菌の評価を行う方法があげられる。上記評価方法としては、まず、本発明のPAPをコードする核酸の塩基配列に基づいて設計したプライマー又はプローブを用いて、被検菌株である脂質産生菌株のPAP活性について評価する方法があげられる。このような評価方法の一般的手法は公知であり、例えば、国際特許出願パンフレットWO01/040514号、特開平8-205900号公報などに記載されている。以下、この評価方法について簡単に説明する。
変性温度:90~95℃
アニーリング温度:40~60℃
伸長温度:60~75℃、
サイクル数:10回以上
などの条件である。得られた反応生成物はアガロースゲルなどを用いた電気泳動法等により分離して、増幅産物の分子量を測定することができる。これにより、増幅産物の分子量が本発明の塩基配列と特異的な領域に相当する核酸分子を含む大きさか否かを確認することにより、被検菌株のPAP活性を予測又は評価することができる。また、上記増幅産物の塩基配列を上記方法等で解析することによって、さらにPAP活性をより正確に予測又は評価することができる。なお、PAP活性の評価方法は、上記のとおりである。
本発明の他の態様として、本発明のPAPをコードする核酸又はPAPタンパク質を用いて、脂質生産菌の選択を行う方法があげられる。本発明の上記選択方法としては、被検菌株を培養し、配列番号1等の本発明の塩基配列がコードするPAPの発現量を測定して、目的とする発現量の菌株を選択することにより、所望の活性を有する菌株を選択することができる。また、基準となる菌株を設定し、この基準菌株と被検菌株を各々培養し、各菌株の前記発現量を測定し、基準菌株と被検菌株の発現量を比較して、所望の菌株を選択することもできる。具体的には、例えば、基準菌株及び被検菌株を適当な条件で培養し、各菌株の発現量を測定し、基準菌株よりも被検菌株の方が高発現、又は低発現である被検菌株を選択することにより、所望の活性を有する菌株を選択することができる。所望の活性には、上記のように、PAPの発現量及びPAPが産生する脂肪酸組成物の組成を測定する方法があげられる。
M. alpina 1S-4株を100mlのGY2:1培地(2%グルコース、1%酵母エキス、pH6.0)に植菌し、28℃で2日間振とう培養した。濾過により菌体を集菌し、DNeasy (QIAGEN) を用いてゲノムDNAを調製した。
M. alpina 1S-4株を100mlの培地(1.8%グルコース、1%酵母エキス、pH6.0)に植菌し、3日間28℃で前培養した。10L培養槽(Able Co.、東京)に5Lの培地(1.8%グルコース、1%大豆粉、0.1%オリーブ油、0.01%アデカノール、0.3%KH2PO4、0.1%Na2SO4、0.05%CaCl2・2H2O、0.05%MgCl2・6H2O、pH6.0)を入れ、前培養物を全量植菌し、300rpm、1vvm、26℃の条件で8日間通気攪拌培養した。培養1、2、及び3日目に各々2%、2%、及び1.5%相当のグルコースを添加した。培養1、2、3、6、及び8日目の各ステージに菌体を回収し、塩酸グアニジン/CsCl法でトータルRNAを調製した。Oligotex-dT30 <Super> mRNA Purification Kit(Takara Bio Inc.)を用いて、トータルRNAからpoly(A)+RNAの精製を行った。各ステージのcDNAライブラリーを、ZAP-cDNA GigapackIII Gold Cloning Kit (STRATAGENE)を用いて作製した。
酵母のScDPP1(YDR284C:アクセッション番号 AAS56070)とScLPP1(YDR503C:アクセッション番号 AAT93210)のホモログをゲノムデータベースより検討した。その結果、2つのスーパーコンティグがヒットした。1つは、MaPAP1に係るゲノム配列を含むスーパーコンティグであり、他方は、配列番号4を含むスーパーコンティグであった。配列番号4に係る遺伝子をMaPAP2.2と命名した。
(1)クローニング
MaPAP2.2のcDNAをクローン化するために、以下のプライマーを作製した。
プライマーPAP2.2-1f:TTCCGTCAGGACACTCCTCCAGT(配列番号6)
プライマーPAP2.2-4r:GACAATGCCGAGGATCGAGCC(配列番号7)
バッファー:5xSSC、1%SDS、50mM Tris-HCl(pH7.5)、50%ホルムアミド;
温度:42℃(一晩);
洗浄条件:0.2x SSC、0.1%SDS溶液中(65℃)で、20分間×3回。
MaPAP2.2遺伝子の塩基配列及びこれのコードする推定アミノ酸配列について、BLAST及びclustalWによる解析で、既知の核酸の塩基配列及びアミノ酸配列に対する相同性検索を行った。BLASTXによるGENBANKに登録されているアミノ酸配列に対する相同性検索でヒットしたものの中で、もっともE-Valueの低かった配列は、オオキツネタケ(Laccaria bicolor)由来の推定タンパク質(アクセッション番号:XP 001878243)で、アミノ酸配列の同一性は36.7%であった。MaPAP2.2のアミノ酸配列と、オオキツネタケ由来の推定タンパク質および酵母由来のScDPP1(YDR284C:アクセッション番号 AAS56070))のアミノ酸配列のアラインメントを図2に示した。
(1)酵母発現ベクターの構築
MaPAP2.2を酵母で発現させるために、以下のとおり酵母発現用ベクターを構築した。まず、プライマーEco-PAP2-2-FとKpn-PAP2-2-Rを作成し、pB-MaPAP2.2を鋳型として、ExTaq(タカラバイオ)にてPCR反応を行った。
Eco-PAP2-2-F:GAATTCATGTTCTCGTCCATGCGCTTCAAG(配列番号8)
Kpn-PAP2-2-R:TGGTACCTCATGGTCCCAAGTATACATCGTTCC(配列番号9)
プラスミドpYE22m、pYE-MaPAP2.2、pYE-MaPAP1(WO2009/008466)をそれぞれ用いて酢酸リチウム法により、酵母S. cerevisiae EH13-15株(trp1,MATα)(Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol., 30, 515-520, 1989)を形質転換した。形質転換株は、SC-Trp(1lあたり、Yeast nitrogen base w/o amino acids(DIFCO)6.7g、グルコース20g、アミノ酸パウダー(アデニン硫酸塩1.25g、アルギニン0.6g、アスパラギン酸3g、グルタミン酸3g、ヒスチジン0.6g、ロイシン1.8g、リジン0.9g、メチオニン0.6g、フェニルアラニン1.5g、セリン11.25g、チロシン0.9g、バリン4.5g、スレオニン6g、ウラシル0.6gを混合したもの)1.3g)寒天培地(2%アガー)上で生育するものとして選抜した。
それぞれのベクターでの形質転換株を、以下の条件で培養した。すなわち、前培養として、SD-Trp 10mlに酵母を植菌し、30℃で1日、振とう培養を行った。本培養として、前培養液1mlをSD-Trp 100mlに添加し、30℃で1日、振とう培養した。
遠心分離にて集菌後、水洗し、-80℃にて一時保存した。菌体に5mlのバッファーA(50mM Tris-HCl(pH7.5)、0.3Mスクロース、10mM DTT、1mM PMSF)を添加し、よく懸濁した。その後、フレンチプレスにて16kPaで3回処理することにより、菌体を破砕した。菌体破砕液を1,500×g、4℃にて10分間、遠心分離し、得られた上清を粗酵素液とした。
方法
PAP活性は、以下の通り測定した。反応液として、50mM Tris-HCl(pH7.5)、50μg リノール酸(18:2)-PAまたはオレイン酸(18:1)-PAまたはマルガリン酸(17:0)-PA(基質となるホスファチジン酸)、0.5mM MgCl2または0.5mM EDTA、10mM DTT、100μl粗酵素液、を含む全量500μlの反応液を調製し、28℃で30分間反応させた。クロロホルム:メタノール(1:2)を添加して反応を停止させた。コントロールとして、粗酵素液のかわりにMaPAP2.2遺伝子を含まないプラスミドpYE22mで形質転換した酵母(コントロール株)の菌体破砕液の上清を添加した反応液を用いた。Bligh & Dyer法により脂質を抽出し、遠心濃縮機で乾固させた。クロロホルムに溶解し、TLC(シリカゲル60プレート、ヘキサン:ジエチルエーテル:酢酸=70:30:1)により脂質を分画した。プリムリン溶液を噴霧後、UV照射下で脂質を可視化し、リン脂質画分とジグリセリド(DG)画分を掻きとり、含まれる全脂肪酸をメチルエステルに誘導し、ガスクロマトグラフィーにて分析した。
結果を図4~7に示した。
配列番号7:プライマーPAP2.2-4r
配列番号8:プライマーEco-PAP2-2-F
配列番号9:プライマーKpn-PAP2-2-R
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- 以下の(a)~(g)のいずれかに記載の核酸。
(a)配列番号2で示されるアミノ酸配列において1若しくは複数個のアミノ酸が欠失、置換若しくは付加されたアミノ酸配列からなり、かつ、ホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼ活性を有するタンパク質、をコードする塩基配列を含む核酸
(b)配列番号1からなる塩基配列に対し相補的な塩基配列からなる核酸とストリンジェントな条件下でハイブリダイズし、かつ、ホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼ活性を有するタンパク質をコードする塩基配列を含む核酸
(c)配列番号1からなる塩基配列と同一性が70%以上の塩基配列からなり、かつ、ホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼ活性を有するタンパク質をコードする塩基配列を含む核酸
(d)配列番号2からなるアミノ酸配列と同一性が70%以上のアミノ酸配列からなり、かつ、ホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼ活性を有するタンパク質、をコードする塩基配列を含む核酸
(e)配列番号2で示されるアミノ酸配列からなるタンパク質をコードする塩基配列に対して相補的な塩基配列からなる核酸とストリンジェントな条件下でハイブリダイズし、かつ、ホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼ活性を有するタンパク質をコードする塩基配列を含む核酸
(f)配列番号4からなる塩基配列に対して相補的な塩基配列からなる核酸とストリンジェントな条件下でハイブリダイズし、かつ、ホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼ活性を有するタンパク質をコードするエキソンを有する塩基配列を含む核酸
(g)配列番号4からなる塩基配列と同一性が70%以上の塩基配列からなり、かつ、ホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼ活性を有するタンパク質をコードするエキソンを有する塩基配列を含む核酸 - 以下の(a)~(g)のいずれかに記載の核酸。
(a)配列番号2で示されるアミノ酸配列において1~110個のアミノ酸が欠失、置換若しくは付加されたアミノ酸配列からなり、かつ、ホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼ活性を有するタンパク質、をコードする塩基配列を含む核酸
(b)配列番号1からなる塩基配列に対し相補的な塩基配列からなる核酸と2×SSC、50℃の条件下でハイブリダイズし、かつ、ホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼ活性を有するタンパク質をコードする塩基配列を含む核酸
(c)配列番号1からなる塩基配列と同一性が90%以上の塩基配列からなり、かつ、ホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼ活性を有するタンパク質をコードする塩基配列を含む核酸
(d)配列番号2からなるアミノ酸配列と同一性が90%以上のアミノ酸配列からなり、かつ、ホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼ活性を有するタンパク質、をコードする塩基配列を含む核酸
(e)配列番号2で示されるアミノ酸配列からなるタンパク質をコードする塩基配列に対して相補的な塩基配列からなる核酸と2×SSC、50℃の条件下でハイブリダイズし、かつ、ホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼ活性を有するタンパク質をコードする塩基配列を含む核酸
(f)配列番号4からなる塩基配列に対して相補的な塩基配列からなる核酸と2×SSC、50℃の条件下でハイブリダイズし、かつ、ホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼ活性を有するタンパク質をコードするエキソンを有する塩基配列を含む核酸
(g)配列番号4からなる塩基配列と同一性が90%以上の塩基配列からなり、かつ、ホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼ活性を有するタンパク質をコードするエキソンを有する塩基配列を含む核酸 - 以下の(a)~(d)のいずれかに記載の核酸。
(a)配列番号1で示される塩基配列又はその部分配列を含む核酸
(b)配列番号2で示されるアミノ酸配列からなるタンパク質をコードする塩基配列又はその部分配列を含む核酸
(c)配列番号4で示される塩基配列又はその部分配列を含む核酸
(d)配列番号5で示される塩基配列又はその部分配列を含む核酸 - ホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼ活性が、炭素数17のアシル基を含有するホスファチジン酸よりも炭素数18のアシル基を含有するホスファチジン酸に対する基質特異性が高いことを特徴とする、請求項1又は2に記載の核酸。
- 以下の(a)又は(b)のいずれかに記載のタンパク質。
(a)配列番号2において1又は複数個のアミノ酸が欠失、置換又は付加されたアミノ酸配列からなり、かつ、ホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼ活性を有するタンパク質
(b)配列番号2からなるアミノ酸配列と同一性が70%以上のアミノ酸配列からなるタンパク質であり、かつ、ホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼ活性を有するタンパク質 - 以下の(a)又は(b)のいずれかに記載のタンパク質。
(a)配列番号2において1~110個のアミノ酸が欠失、置換又は付加されたアミノ酸配列からなり、かつ、ホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼ活性を有するタンパク質
(b)配列番号2からなるアミノ酸配列と同一性が90%以上のアミノ酸配列からなるタンパク質であり、かつ、ホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼ活性を有するタンパク質 - ホスファチジン酸ホスファターゼ活性が、炭素数17のアシル基を含有するホスファチジン酸よりも炭素数18のアシル基を含有するホスファチジン酸に対する基質特異性が高いことを特徴とする、請求項5又は6に記載のタンパク質。
- 配列番号2で示されるアミノ酸配列からなるタンパク質。
- 請求項1~4のいずれか1項に記載の核酸を含有する組換えベクター。
- 請求項9に記載の組換えベクターによって形質転換された形質転換体。
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