FOOD SCIENCE ›› 2006, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (7): 29-35.

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Expression and Activity Assay of Recombinant Phenylalanine Ammonia Lyase of Glycine max L. in E.coli

 SONG  Jian, MA  Hui-Qin, HAO  Jia,   Ren-Fa-Zheng,   Chen-Shang-Wu   

  1. 1.College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, Key Laboratory of Functional Dairy, Ministry of Education and Municipal Government of Beijing, Beijing 100083, China;2.Department of Pomology, College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100094, China
  • Online:2006-07-15 Published:2011-09-29

Abstract: Phenylalanine ammonia-lyase(PAL) gene of Glycine max L (GM) was cloned by SOE-PCR method from the genomic DNA. The full length exon of PAL expression vector pET-GMPAL was constructed and expressed in E.coli. Catalytic activity of conversion L-phenylalanine into cinnamic acid by the recombination GMPAL is achieved at high specific activity, up to 211.7μmol/g pro·min (3529μkat/kg), higher than the parsley recombinant PAL, and Rhotodotorula glutins PAL. Molecular weight of the expressed PAL protein was estimated to be 77.9kD. The amounts of PAL protein expression level was 8% of total E.coli soluble proteins by SDS-PAGE. Results indicated that soybean recombinant PAL is efficiently expressed in E.coli as fully activated functional enzyme.

Key words:  , phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL); pET-31b(+); gene cloning; recombinant expression; cinnamic acid; splicing by overlap extention(SOE); polymerase chain reaction(PCR);