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Protein Engineering, Vol. 14, No. 12, 975-982, December 2001
© 2001 Oxford University Press

Heat labile ribonuclease HI from a psychrotrophic bacterium: gene cloning, characterization and site-directed mutagenesis

Naoto Ohtani, Mitsuru Haruki, Masaaki Morikawa and Shigenori Kanaya,1

Department of Material and Life Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2–1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan

The rnhA gene encoding RNase HI from a psychrotrophic bacterium, Shewanella sp. SIB1, was cloned, sequenced and overexpressed in an rnh mutant strain of Escherichia coli. SIB1 RNase HI is composed of 157 amino acid residues and shows 63% amino acid sequence identity to E.coli RNase HI. Upon induction, the recombinant protein accumulated in the cells in an insoluble form. This protein was solubilized and purified in the presence of 7 M urea and refolded by removing urea. Determination of the enzymatic activity using M13 DNA–RNA hybrid as a substrate revealed that the enzymatic properties of SIB1 RNase HI, such as divalent cation requirement, pH optimum and cleavage mode of a substrate, are similar to those of E.coli RNase HI. However, SIB1 RNase HI was much less stable than E.coli RNase HI and the temperature (T1/2) at which the enzyme loses half of its activity upon incubation for 10 min was ~25°C for SIB1 RNase HI and ~60°C for E.coli RNase HI. The optimum temperature for the SIB1 RNase HI activity was also shifted downward by 20°C compared with that of E.coli RNase HI. Nevertheless, SIB1 RNase HI was less active than E.coli RNase HI even at low temperatures. The specific activity determined at 10°C was 0.29 units/mg for SIB1 RNase HI and 1.3 units/mg for E.coli RNase HI. Site-directed mutagenesis studies suggest that the amino acid substitution in the middle of the {alpha}I-helix (Pro52 for SIB1 RNase HI and Ala52 for E.coli RNase HI) partly accounts for the difference in the stability and activity between SIB1 and E.coli RNases HI.


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