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Recombinant DNA technology was applied for the production of an industrial enzyme of penicillin acylase (PAC). The PAC-encoding gene (pac) from an E. coli strain of ATCC11105 was cloned using the PCR technology in this study. We made two clones, pCLL3201 and pCLL2902, containing the pac gene which was suitably expressed in many of the E. coli host strains. The PAC expression level could be greatly enhanced, at more than 3 folds compared to ATCC11105, using an appropriate gene expression system. We also subcloned the pac gene into an expression vector of pTrc99A by making two recombinant plasmids of pTrcPAC3201 and pTrcPAC2902 in which the pac gene expression was under the regulation of the tac promoter system. The PAC enzyme activity was however minimally detected for the two clones, therefore further investigation will be required.
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