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Cloning and characterization of xylanase in cellulolytic Bacillus sp. strain JMY1 isolated from forest soil
Applied Biological Chemistry volume 59, pages 415–423 (2016)
Abstract
Microbes play an important role in carbon turnover in forest ecosystems by producing polysaccharide-degrading enzymes such as cellulase, xylanase, and β-glucosidase. In the present study, we isolated a bacterial strain producing cellulase and xylanase from the Forest Park at Gyeongnam National University of Science and Technology using LB agar plates containing 0.5 % carboxymethyl cellulose and 0.01 % trypan blue. Based on 16S rRNA sequencing and API analysis, the isolated strain was identified as a Bacillus species and named Bacillus sp. JYM1. The optimal growth temperature of Bacillus sp. JYM1 was 37 °C. The maximal activities of carboxymethyl cellulase (CMCase) and xylanase were obtained after a 24-h cultivation. The optimal pH and temperature were 6.0 and 50 °C for CMCase and 5.0 and 50 °C for xylanase, respectively. The gene responsible for the xylanase activity in Bacillus sp. JYM1 was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli. The expressed recombinant protein showed similar biochemical properties to the xylanase of Bacillus sp. JYM1. Therefore, our results confirmed that the gene cloned from Bacillus sp. JYM1, herein named Bxyn, encodes xylanase.
Introduction
The decomposition of organic matter as a carbon source is very important to maintain the balance of forest ecosystems because it supplies carbon for improving the soil properties and fertility (Waldrop et al. 2004; Ayres et al. 2009; Yang et al. 2014). Most of the carbohydrate in forest ecosystems is present as polysaccharides such as cellulose and hemicellulose, which form complexes with a recalcitrant matrix such as lignin in plant cell walls (Coughlan and Halzlewood 1993; Leonowicz et al. 2001). These polysaccharides can be degraded by microbes such as wood rot fungi or bacteria that secrete a large number of carbohydrate-active enzymes and polyphenol oxidase (Cantarel et al. 2014; Tolonen et al. 2011, 2015). Among them, species of the gram-positive genus Bacillus are the most well-known bacteria that secrete a variety of hydrolytic enzymes such as cellulases and hemicellulases to utilize various complex carbohydrates in their natural habitat (Schallmey et al. 2004; Kim et al. 2012). Therefore, Bacillus species have been considered to be very important for carbon cycling as well as the maintenance of healthy ecosystems because they degrade the organic matter in forest soils (Demain et al. 2005; Yang et al. 2014). In addition, Bacillus species are attractive organisms for industrial use because of their capacity for secreting proteins into the extracellular medium, and their fast growth rates that lead to short fermentation times (Duarte et al. 1999; Yasinok et al. 2010).
The enzymes related to the metabolism of plant carbohydrates can be classified into 133 families based on their amino acid sequence homology (http://www.cazy.org/Glycoside-Hydrolases.html) (Cantarel et al. 2014). Among them, the glycoside hydrolase (GH) families 5, 8, 9, 44, 48, and 61 are responsible for the cellulose-degrading activity (Cantarel et al. 2014). Cellulose, the most abundant biopolymer on earth, is a linear polymer chain with several hundred to many thousands of β-1,4-linked d-glucose units (Nishida et al. 2007; Back and Kwon 2007). Moreover, cellulose content generally ranges from 40 to 50 % in wood and is over 90 % in cotton fiber (Wang et al. 2006). The bioconversion of cellulose to smaller oligosaccharides or glucose is catalyzed by three major types of cellulases: endoglucanases (EC 3.2.1.4), exoglucanases (EC 3.2.1.91), and β-glucosidases (EC 3.2.1.21) (Cai et al. 1998, 1999). Endoglucanase, also called carboxymethyl cellulase (CMCase), randomly breaks down cellulose into shorter polysaccharides or oligosaccharides. Exoglucanase, also referred to as cellobiohydrolase, removes cellobiose or glucose from the non-reducing end of the cellulose chain. β-Glucosidase completely hydrolyzes cello-oligosaccharides and cellobiose into glucose (Annamalai et al. 2013).
Xylan, a group of plant hemicelluloses found in cell walls, is the second most abundant biopolymer next to cellulose. Xylan is a β-1,4-linked polymer of xylopyranosyl residues as the main chain with a degree of polymerization ranging from 70 to 200 (Whistler and Richards 1970). Xylans are typically 10–35 % of the hemicelluloses in hardwoods and 10–15 % of the hemicelluloses in softwood (Herbert 2006). Complete hydrolysis of the xylan polymers requires a wide variety of cooperatively acting GHs such as β-1,4-endoxylanases, β-xylosidases, α-glucuronidases, α-arabinofuranosidases, and esterases (Cantarel et al. 2014). Among the β-1,4-endoxylanases is the well-known GH xylanase, which is a crucial enzyme in the random hydrolysis of β-1,4-xylosidic linkages. Based on the amino acid sequence of their catalytic domains, microbial xylanases are currently categorized into six GH families (5, 8, 10, 11, 30, and 43) (Cantarel et al. 2014). These xylanases have been accepted as an environmentally friendly catalyst for hydrolyzing hemicellulosic polysaccharides to simple sugars, unlike chemical hydrolysis that can produce hazardous byproducts such as phenolic compounds, aliphatic acids, and furan derivatives (Palmqvist and Hahn-Hagerdal 2000). Therefore, xylanases have been used in a variety of food and industrial applications such as beer or juice production, animal feed processing, biofuel production, and pulp- and paper-related processes (Kulkarni et al. 1999; Ragauskas et al. 2006).
Bacillus species are attractive carbohydrate-degrading enzyme producers, owing to their ability to excrete large quantities of enzymes into the growth medium as well as their rapid growth rates compared with fungi and yeast (Tjalsma et al. 2004; Zhang and Zhang 2011). To understand the degradation of lignocellulosic materials such as plant roots and little falls by bacterial enzymes, a bacterial strain, Bacillus sp. JMY1, was isolated from forest soil. We determined the properties affecting the activities of CMCase and xylanase from Bacillus sp. JMY1. Furthermore, the Bxyn gene, which encodes xylanase, was cloned and biochemically characterized.
Materials and methods
Bacterial isolation
Soil samples were collected in March from Forest Park (FP, also called Jurassic Park), consisting of a mixed forest of broad-leaved (80 %) and coniferous (20 %) trees, located at the Gyeongnam National University of Science and Technology. Approximately 100 g of soil from the three regions was prepared from the top 10 cm using a small autoclaved spade, and the soil samples were passed through 2-mm sieves. Soil samples (1 g) were suspended in 10 mL of sterile distilled water and serially diluted up to 10−6 with sterile distilled water. The diluted samples were spread on LB agar plates containing 0.01 % trypan blue (Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, MO, USA) and 0.5 % carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC), and incubated at 28 °C for 2 days. The cellulolytic clones were selected based on the presence of clear halos around the colonies.
16S rRNA gene sequence and analysis
The 16S rRNA universal primers used for gene amplification and identification of the bacterial isolate were 877F: 5′-CGGAGAGTTTGATCCTGG-3′ as the forward primer and 878R: 5′-TACGGCTACCTTGTTAGCGAC-3′ as the reverse primer. The 16S rRNA gene was amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using the chromosomal DNA extracted with a Qiagen DNeasy kit (Hilden, Germany) according to the manufacturer’s instructions. The PCR reaction mixture was composed of 1 μL of template, 3 μL of 2.5 mM dNTPs, 3 μL of 10× reaction buffer, 3 μL of each primer (10 pmol/μL), 0.3 μL of nTaq-HOT polymerase (Enzynomics, Daejeon, Korea), and sterile distilled water to a final volume of 30 μL. A total of 30 cycles of PCR was performed under the following conditions: denaturation at 94 °C for 0.5 min, 50 °C for 1 min, and 72 °C for 1.5 min. PCR products were resolved by electrophoresis in 1.5 % agarose gels and purified with a DNA purification kit (Bioneer, Daejeon, Korea). The purified 16S rRNA gene was cloned into the pGEM-T Easy vector (Promega, Madison, WI, USA), and the sequence was analyzed. The sequence similarity and multiple sequence alignment of the 16S rRNA gene were analyzed by the BLSTN program provided by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and CLUSTAL W, respectively. Phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rRNA gene from the isolated Bacillus strain with other bacterial 16S rRNAs was performed using the neighbor-joining method with the Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis 6.0 (MEGA 6.0) program (Tamura et al. 2013). Bootstrap analysis generated by 1000 sampling replicates was performed to assess the reliability of the branching patterns.
Zymogram assay
CMC-SDS-PAGE and xylan-SDS-PAGE were performed as described by Cho et al. (2006). After resolution of the enzyme samples by SDS-PAGE containing 0.4 % CMC and xylan, the protein was renatured by incubation with several changes of 200 mL of 10 mM sodium acetate buffer (pH 5.0) containing 1 % (v/v) Triton X-100 with a rotary shaker overnight at 45 °C. Subsequently, the gels were incubated in 10 mM sodium acetate buffer (pH 5.0) at 50 °C for 8 h (CMCase) or 14 h (xylanase). The gels were stained with 0.5 % (w/v) Congo red for 30 min at room temperature and destained with 1 M NaCl until pale-red hydrolytic zones appeared against a red background. Finally, 0.1 N HCl, which changes the background to dark blue, was used to facilitate photographic documentation.
Enzyme assay
The enzymatic activities of CMCase and xylanase using the culture supernatant of Bacillus sp. JYM1 were determined by measuring the amount of reducing sugars during incubation with CMC and xylan at 50 °C for 30 min. Briefly, 1 mL of reaction mixture containing 50 mM sodium acetate buffer (pH 5.0), 1 % (w/v) xylan or CMC, and 0.6 units of enzyme was incubated and boiled for 5 min after adding the same amount of 1 % dinitrosalicylic acid in order to determine the reducing sugar content. The released sugars were measured spectrophotometrically at 540 nm. One unit (U) of enzymatic activity was defined as the amount of enzyme releasing 1 µmol of reducing sugar per minute.
In order to determine the optimal temperature for CMCase and xylanase activity, the reaction mixture was incubated at different temperatures from 30 to 70 °C for 30 min. The thermal stabilities of CMCase and xylanase were compared by measuring the residual activities after pre-incubation of the enzyme at three different temperatures (40, 50, and 70 °C). The optimal pH for CMCase and xylanase was determined with 50 mM sodium acetate buffer (pH 3.0–6.0), 50 mM sodium phosphate buffer (pH 7.0–8.0), and 50 mM Tris–HCl buffer (pH 8.0–9.0).
Molecular cloning and expression of xylanase gene
The xylanase gene from Bacillus sp. JYM1 (Bxyn) was amplified from the genomic DNA by PCR. PCR was performed with nTaq-HOT DNA polymerase (Enzynomics) under the following conditions: a total of 35 cycles of 0.5 min at 95 °C for denaturation, 1 min at 55 °C for annealing, and 0.5 min at 72 °C for amplification. The primers, 5′-atGTCGACatgtttaagtttaaaaagaatt-3′ as the forward and 5′-atGCGGCCGCttaccacactgttacgttag-3′ as the reverse, were designed based on the published sequence of the xylanase gene from B. subtilis (Huang et al. 2006). In order to facilitate Bxyn subcloning for expression in E. coli, the restriction sites for SalI and NotI (which are capitalized in the primer sequences) were inserted in the forward and reverse primers, respectively. The PCR product was subcloned into the pGEM-T Easy vector (Promega) and the resulting Bxyn expression plasmid was sequenced.
To express Bxyn in E. coli, the Bxyn plasmid was digested with SalI and NotI and the Bxyn cDNA subcloned into the corresponding sites of the pGEX-5X-3 vector (GE Healthcare, Little Chalfont, UK). The resulting plasmid is referred to as PBxyn. The induction and purification of the recombinant Bxyn was performed as described by Min et al. (2002).
Results and discussion
Screening and identification of cellulolytic bacteria
To isolate cellulolytic bacteria from FP soil, we used the LB-CMC agar trypan blue method (Cho et al. 2006). Diluted soil samples were plated on the LB-CMC trypan blue agar plates. The number of total bacterial colonies was 1.96 × 107 colony-forming units (CFU)/g soil, and among those, 4.12 × 106 CFU/g soil were positive for cellulolytic activity, which accounts for about 21 % of the total culturable bacterial colonies. Although FP showed slightly lower numbers of culturable bacteria than Chang Qing Garden (CQG) in China, which consists of a 20-year-old forest planted with broad-leaved deciduous trees, the ratio of cellulolytic bacteria is higher compared to the 15 % determined for CQG (Yang et al. 2014). The difference in soil bacterial communities between FP and CQG is likely due to soil physicochemical parameters and the types of plant residues (Ulrich et al. 2008; Weinert et al. 2010; Wilson 2011; Yang et al. 2014).
Among the cellulolytic bacteria, 20 strains showing relatively high activity were selected and subcultured on the LB-CMC trypan blue agar plates. From these 20 strains, one strain, which showed the highest activity on both CMC and xylan, was selected for further study. The isolated strain was first identified by 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis. The sequences were entered into the BLAST (NCBI) search engine and the identities were established. The highest identity for the isolated strain was with Bacillus spp. (99 %). Based on the API 50 analysis system, the isolated strain was determined to be Bacillus subtilis/amyloliquefaciens/atrophaeus with 97 % likelihood in the biochemical properties. Moreover, it belongs to the same clade as B. subtilis subsp. spizizenii NRRL, B. mojavensis IFO 15718T XH7, and Brevibacterium halotolerans LMG 21660T according to the phylogenetic analysis (Fig. 1). These results strongly support that the isolated strain is one of the Bacillus species. Therefore, the isolated strain was named Bacillus sp. JMY1.
Zymogram analysis of CMCase and xylanase
To identify the proteins responsible for CMCase and xylanase activities, the culture media and Bacillus sp. JMY1 cells were analyzed by SDS-PAGE containing 0.4 % CMC and birchwood xylan, respectively. After electrophoresis, the gels were renatured, stained with 0.5 % Congo red, and then destained with 0.5 % NaCl solution. Because the proteins with enzymatic activity degrade CMC and xylan, the active protein bands produced clear regions on the gel (Fig. 2). In the CMC zymogram, the cell pellet showed four active bands at about 55.3, 39.2, 38.7, and 27.2 kDa, whereas the culture filtrate (containing secreted proteins) showed corresponding bands at 39.2, 38.7, and 27.2 kDa (Fig. 2B). The B. subtilis HJ5 (CP007173.1) genome showed high similarity with Bacillus sp. JYM1 in the 16S rRNA analysis; it contained four endoglucanase homologue genes. In the signal peptide analysis using Signal P (http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/SignalP/), three of these homologues contain putative signal peptides for secretion into culture medium, but one of them with the predicted MW of 55.3 kDa does not have a signal peptide. This result indicates that the protein corresponding to 50 kDa would not be an extracellular cellulase. For xylanase, an active protein band produced a clear zone with an apparent molecular weight of 21–23 kDa in both the cell pellet and culture filtrate (Fig. 2C). Although the B. subtilis HJ5 (CP007173.1) genome contains four xylanase homologue genes, AKD35174.1 (1602 bp) AKD35236.1 (1269 bp) AKD35237.1 (1542 bp), and AKD35305.1 (642 bp), the AKD35305.1 (642 bp) gene might be the only one responsible for xylanase activity based on its predicted protein molecular weight of 23.4 kDa.
Biochemical properties of cellulase and xylanase
To investigate the optimal growth temperature of Bacillus sp. JYM1, the strain was cultured at different temperatures (20, 25, 30, 37, and 45 °C). Although the optimal growth temperature of Bacillus sp. JYM1 was found to be 37 °C, it also grows well at different temperatures such as 25, 30, and 45 °C, but not at 20 °C (data not shown). To elucidate the relationship between enzymatic activity and culture duration, the activity of CMCase and xylanase in Bacillus sp. JYM1 was evaluated at different incubation times from 0 to 48 h. Both the bacterial growth and enzymatic activities of CMCase and xylanase gradually increased up to 24 h and then decreased (Fig. 3). The effect of temperature on CMCase and xylanase was measured from 20 to 70 °C. As a result, both CMCase and xylanase showed maximal activity at 50 °C, and the activity of both enzymes rapidly decreased at temperatures over 50 °C (Fig. 4A, C). CMCase showed more than 75 % of its activity at 30 and 40 °C (Fig. 4A). The optimal pH for CMCase and xylanase was determined in seven different buffers ranging from pH 3 to 9 at 50 °C using CMC and birchwood xylan as substrates, respectively. Although CMCase showed the highest activity at pH 6.0, it retained greater than 80 % of its activity at pH 4 and 5 (Fig. 4B). The optimal pH for xylanase was determined as pH 5.0, but it retained 92 % of its activity at pH 4.0 (Fig. 4D). To evaluate the thermal stability, the enzymes were incubated at 40, 50, and 70 °C without substrate for up to 60 min, and then their residual activities were measured. CMCase and xylanase were stable at 40 and 50 °C, respectively, and retained greater than 80 % of their original activities after a 60-min pre-incubation, while both activities rapidly decreased at 70 °C and retained less than 20 % of their original activities after a 30-min pre-incubation (Fig. 5). Finally, most activity losses for both enzymes were observed at 70 °C after a 30-min pre-incubation. These results suggest that CMCase and xylanase from Bacillus sp. JMY1 are mesophilic enzymes.
Isolation and characterization of the Bacillus sp. JYM1 xylanase gene
Two primers, which were designed based on the published sequence of the xylanase gene from B. subtilis (Huang et al. 2006), were used to obtain the full-length gene encoding xylanase. The PCR product was then subcloned and sequenced, and the resulting gene was named Bxyn. The Bxyn gene, which contains a 642-bp open reading frame, was predicted to encode a protein with a molecular mass of 23.4 kDa and a theoretical pI of 9.32 (Fig. 6). A putative signal peptide cleavage site determined by Signal P analysis (http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/SignalP/) and the SMART program (Schultz et al. 2000) was found between amino acids 28 and 29. Blast analysis using the NCBI BLAST tool showed that the deduced amino acid sequence was highly similar to that of endo-β-1,4-xylanase and contained a catalytic domain characteristic of GH11 enzymes and no carbohydrate-binding domain from other bacteria, especially Bacillus species. In Bxyn, the putative catalytic residues Glu-106 and Glu-200, which perform the double-displacement reaction of retaining GH enzymes (MacLeod et al. 1994), were conserved (Fig. 6).
The Bxyn gene was cloned and expressed in E. coli BL21 (DE3) to characterize the protein’s biochemical properties. Bxyn was expressed as an N-terminal glutathione S-transferase (GST) fusion protein to facilitate its expression and purification. The Bxyn recombinant proteins were purified by GST-affinity column chromatography and analyzed by SDS-PAGE. Two bands, 49.4 and 26 kDa, were observed (Fig. 7A). The protein with a molecular weight of 49.4 kDa was the recombinant Bxyn (23.4 kDa) fused with the GST (26 kDa). The 26 kDa protein was likely GST that had been cleaved from the recombinant Bxyn by endogenous E. coli protease(s). The soluble Bxyn recombinant protein exhibited xylanase activity of 0.41 U/mg protein, whereas E. coli extracts harboring the empty pGEX-5×-3 vector did not display xylanase activity, confirming that the Bxyn gene encodes xylanase. Although the optimal pH of Bxyn was determined to be pH 5.0, it showed 75 % of its maximal activity at the pH range of 4.0–8.0 (Fig. 7B). Although the optimal temperature of Bxyn at pH 5.0 was 50 °C, about 70 % of the maximal activity was detected at 60 °C. Consistent with the results of the previous section, the activity of the recombinant Bxyn was reduced to about 30 % at 70 °C (Fig. 7C). The thermal stability of recombinant Bxyn was also evaluated and the result was similar to that for native Bxyn in Bacillus sp. JYM1 (Fig. 7D). Additionally, the CMCase activity of Bxyn was evaluated, but there was no detectable CMCase activity as expected. The effects of different metal ions on the purified Bxyn were evaluated. Bxyn activity was slightly enhanced by Fe2, Mg2+, Cu2+, and the metal chelator ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA), but not Ca2+ and Zn2+ (Table 1). In previous studies, Cu2+ strongly inhibited the activity of several xylanases (Araki et al. 1999; Fialho and Carmona 2004; Gupta et al. 2000; Liu et al. 1999) and is therefore considered a major problem for industrial application of xylanase. However, as reported by Guo et al. (2009) and Khandeparket et al. (2011), Bxyn was virtually unaffected by copper. Although the activity of several xylanases such as those from Aspergillus niger (Krisana et al. 2005), Aspergillus giganteus (Fialho and Carmona 2004), and B. subtilis, cho 40 (Khandeparker et al. 2011) was reported to be inhibited by EDTA, Bxyn, similarly to Bacillus pumilus ARA xylanase (Qu and Shao 2011), which was not inhibited by EDTA, indicating that it is not a metalloenzyme.
In summary, recombinant Bxyn is applicable to the pulp industry as well as the animal feed industry because of its relatively broad pH and temperature range, as well as its ability to maintain maximal enzymatic activity in the presence of copper (Viikari et al. 1994; Beg et al. 2001; Collins et al. 2005).
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Lee, CK., Jang, MY., Park, H.R. et al. Cloning and characterization of xylanase in cellulolytic Bacillus sp. strain JMY1 isolated from forest soil. Appl Biol Chem 59, 415–423 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13765-016-0179-2
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