PMID- 27479442 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20170822 LR - 20210405 IS - 1932-6203 (Electronic) IS - 1932-6203 (Linking) VI - 11 IP - 8 DP - 2016 TI - Surface Immobilization of Human Arginase-1 with an Engineered Ice Nucleation Protein Display System in E. coli. PG - e0160367 LID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0160367 [doi] LID - e0160367 AB - Ice nucleation protein (INP) is frequently used as a surface anchor for protein display in gram-negative bacteria. Here, MalE and TorA signal peptides, and three charged polypeptides, 6xLys, 6xGlu and 6xAsp, were anchored to the N-terminus of truncated INP (InaK-N) to improve its surface display efficiency for human Arginase1 (ARG1). Our results indicated that the TorA signal peptide increased the surface translocation of non-protein fused InaK-N and human ARG1 fused InaK-N (InaK-N/ARG1) by 80.7% and 122.4%, respectively. Comparably, the MalE signal peptide decreased the display efficiencies of both the non-protein fused InaK-N and InaK-N/ARG1. Our results also suggested that the 6xLys polypeptide significantly increased the surface display efficiency of K6-InaK-N/ARG1 by almost 2-fold, while also practically abolishing the surface translocation of non-protein fused InaK-N, indicating the interesting roles of charged polypeptides in bacteria surface display systems. Cell surface-immobilized K6-InaK-N/ARG1 presented an arginase activity of 10.7 U/OD600 under the optimized conditions of 40 degrees C, pH 10.0 and 1 mM Mn2+, which could convert more than 95% of L-Arginine (L-Arg) to L-Ornithine (L-Orn) in 16 hours. The engineered InaK-Ns expanded the INP surface display system, which aided in the surface immobilization of human ARG1 in E. coli cells. FAU - Zhang, Zhen AU - Zhang Z AD - Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Green Transformation of Bio-resources, Hubei Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China. FAU - Tang, Rongxin AU - Tang R AD - Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Green Transformation of Bio-resources, Hubei Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China. FAU - Bian, Lu AU - Bian L AD - Beihai Blood Center, Guang Xi, People's Republic of China. FAU - Mei, Meng AU - Mei M AD - Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Green Transformation of Bio-resources, Hubei Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China. FAU - Li, Chunhua AU - Li C AD - Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Green Transformation of Bio-resources, Hubei Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China. FAU - Ma, Xiangdong AU - Ma X AD - Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Green Transformation of Bio-resources, Hubei Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China. FAU - Yi, Li AU - Yi L AD - Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Green Transformation of Bio-resources, Hubei Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China. FAU - Ma, Lixin AU - Ma L AD - Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Green Transformation of Bio-resources, Hubei Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20160801 PL - United States TA - PLoS One JT - PloS one JID - 101285081 RN - 0 (Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins) RN - 0 (Bacterial Proteins) RN - 0 (Oligopeptides) RN - 0 (Protein Sorting Signals) RN - 0 (ice nucleation protein) RN - E524N2IXA3 (Ornithine) RN - EC 3.5.3.1 (ARG1 protein, human) RN - EC 3.5.3.1 (Arginase) RN - K3Z4F929H6 (Lysine) SB - IM MH - Arginase/genetics/*metabolism MH - Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins/genetics/*metabolism MH - Bacterial Proteins/genetics/*metabolism MH - Escherichia coli/*metabolism MH - Flow Cytometry MH - Genetic Vectors/genetics/metabolism MH - Humans MH - Lysine/genetics/metabolism MH - Microscopy, Fluorescence MH - Oligopeptides/genetics/metabolism MH - Ornithine/metabolism MH - Protein Engineering MH - Protein Sorting Signals/genetics MH - Translocation, Genetic PMC - PMC4968799 COIS- Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. EDAT- 2016/08/02 06:00 MHDA- 2017/08/23 06:00 PMCR- 2016/08/01 CRDT- 2016/08/02 06:00 PHST- 2016/02/22 00:00 [received] PHST- 2016/07/18 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2016/08/02 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2016/08/02 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2017/08/23 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2016/08/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - PONE-D-16-07541 [pii] AID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0160367 [doi] PST - epublish SO - PLoS One. 2016 Aug 1;11(8):e0160367. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0160367. eCollection 2016.