Aliivibrio fischeri L-Asparaginase production by engineered Bacillus subtilis: a potential new biopharmaceutical

resumo

l-Asparaginase (l-ASNase) is an enzyme applied in the treatment of lymphoid malignancies. However, an innovative l-ASNase with high yield and lower side effects than the commercially available preparations are still a market requirement. Here, a new-engineered Bacillus subtilis strain was evaluated for Aliivibrio fischeril-ASNase II production, being the bioprocess development and the enzyme characterization studied. The pBS0E plasmid replicative in Bacillus sp and containing PxylA promoter inducible by xylose and its repressive molecule sequence (XylR) was used for the genetic modification. Initially, cultivations were carried out in orbital shaker, and then the process was scaled up to stirred tank bioreactor (STB). After the bioprocess, the cells were recovered and submitted to ultrasound sonication for cells disruption and intracellular enzyme recovery. The enzymatic extract was characterized to assess its biochemical, kinetic and thermal properties using l-Asparagine and l-Glutamine as substrates. The results indicated the potential enzyme production in STB achieving l-ASNase activity up to 1.539 U mL(-1). The enzymatic extract showed an optimum pH of 7.5, high l-Asparagine affinity (K-m = 1.2275 mmol L-1) and low l-Glutaminase activity (0.568-0.738 U mL(-1)). In addition, thermal inactivation was analyzed by two different Kinect models to elucidate inactivation mechanisms, low kinetic thermal inactivation constants for 25 oC and 37 oC (0.128 and 0.148 h(-1), respectively) indicate an elevated stability. The findings herein show that the produced recombinant l-ASNase has potential to be applied for pharmaceutical purposes.

palavras-chave

BIOTECHNOLOGICAL APPROACH; EXPRESSION; CHILDREN; BATCH

categoria

Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology; Engineering

autores

Bento, HBS; Paiva, GB; Almeida, MR; Silva, CG; Carvalho, PJ; Tavares, APM; Pedrolli, DB; Santos-Ebinuma, VC

Grupos

G4 - Materiais Renováveis e Economia Circular
G5 - Materiais Biomiméticos, Biológicos e Vivos

Projectos

CICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials (UIDB/50011/2020)

CICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials (UIDP/50011/2020)

Associated Laboratory CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials (LA/P/0006/2020)

agradecimentos

This work was funded by Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP grants 2018/06908-8, 2020/15513-7, 2021/01284-9 and 2021/06686-8). This work was also developed within the scope of the project CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials, UIDB/50011/2020, UIDP/50011/2020 & LA/P/0006/2020, financed by national funds through the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology/MCTES, FCT/MEC (PIDDAC). This work was also financially supported by LA/P/0045/2020 (ALiCE), UIDB/50020/2020 and UIDP/50020/2020 (LSRE-LCM), funded by national funds through FCT/MCTES (PIDDAC) and by the project POCI-01-0145FEDER-031268, funded by FEDER, through COMPETE2020-Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalizacao (POCI), and by national funds (OE), through FCT/MCTES. A.P.M. Tavares acknowledges FCT for the research contract CEECIND/2020/01867.