Rsn-2-mediated directed foam enrichment of β-lactamase

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Abstract

Today, the availability of methods for the activity-preserving and cost-efficient downstream processing of enzymes forms a major bottleneck to the use of these valuable tools in technical processes. A promising technology appears to be foam fractionation, which utilizes the adsorption of proteins at a gas–liquid interface. However, the employment of surfactants and the dependency of the applicability on individual properties of the target molecules are considerable drawbacks. Here, we demonstrate that a reversible fusion of the large, surface-active protein Ranaspumin-2 (Rsn-2) to a β-lactamase (Bla) enabled both surfactant-free formation of a stable foam and directed enrichment of the enzyme by the foaming. At the same time, Bla maintained 70% of its catalytic activity, which was in stark contrast to the enzyme without fusion to Rsn-2. Rsn-2 predominantly mediated adsorption. Comparable results were obtained after fusion to the structurally more complex penicillin G acylase (PGA) as the target enzyme. The results indicate that using a surface-active protein as a fusion tag might be the clue to the establishment of foam fractionation as a general method for enzyme downstream processing.

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Original languageEnglish
Article numbere2200271
Number of pages5
JournalBiotechnology Journal
Volume17(2022)
Issue number12
Publication statusPublished - 7 Aug 2022
Peer-reviewedYes

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Scopus 85136462083
ORCID /0000-0002-2912-546X/work/154740614
ORCID /0000-0002-2493-7629/work/154741312
ORCID /0000-0002-3102-2769/work/154741501

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