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    Bacterial fermentation and isotope labelling optimized for amyloidogenic proteins

    Year: 2021

    Journal: Microb. Biotechnol., Volume 14, MAY, page 1107–1119

    Authors: Vida, Istvan; Fazekas, Zsolt; Gyulai, Gergo; Nagy-Fazekas, Dora; Palfy, Gyula; Straner, Pal; Kiss, Eva; Perczel, Andras

    Organizations: European Union; State of Hungary; European Regional Development Fund grant of the NKFIH of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences [VEKOP-2.3.2-16-2017-00014]

    We developed a cost sensitive isotope labelling procedure using a fed-batch fermentation method and tested its efficiency producing the N-15-, C-13- and N-15/C-13-labelled variants of an amyloidogenic miniprotein (E5: EEEAVRLYIQWLKEGGPSSGRPPPS). E5 is a surface active protein, which forms amyloids in solution. Here, we confirm, using both PM-IRRAS and AFM measurements, that the air-water interface triggers structural rearrangement and promotes the amyloid formation of E5, and thus it is a suitable test protein to work out efficient isotope labelling schemes even for such difficult sequences. E. coli cells expressing the recombinant, ubiquitin-fused miniprotein were grown in minimal media containing either unlabelled nutrients, or N-15-NH4Cl and/or C-13-D-Glc. The consumption rates of NH4Cl and D-Glc were quantitatively monitored during fermentation and their ratio was established to be 1:5 (for NH4Cl: D-Glc). One- and two-step feeding schemes were custom-optimized to enhance isotope incorporation expressing five different E5 miniprotein variants. With the currently optimized protocols we could achieve a 1.5- to 5-fold increase of yields of several miniproteins coupled to a similar magnitude of cost reduction as compared to flask labelling protocols.
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