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  • Efficient Selection for Thermostable Protease in Thermus thermophilus
    Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry, 2020
    Co-Authors: Hiroshi Takagi, Takayuki Hoshino, Akitoshi Suzumura, Yoshiyuki Hasuura, Shigeru Nakamori
    Abstract:

    An efficient procedure was established to select for thermostable proteases in an extreme thermophile, Thermus thermophilus. A non-protease-secreting mutant derived from T. thermophilus TH125 was used as host and the expression plasmid for aqualysin I from T. aquaticus YT-1 was constructed as a source of thermostable protease. T. thermophilus cells harboring the recombinant plasmid produced active aqualysin I into the medium and were able to grow on a minimal medium containing milk casein as the sole source of carbon and nitrogen.

  • Development of expression vectors for Thermus thermophilus
    Journal of Fermentation and Bioengineering, 1998
    Co-Authors: Hideaki Maseda, Takayuki Hoshino
    Abstract:

    We constructed expression vectors for Thermus thermophilus. The transformation efficiency of pTEV131 per viable cells was 0.15% at 60°C and 0.11% at 68°C, and with marker rescue transformation, it was 1.9% at 60°C and 0.5% at 68°C. When the crtB gene was inserted into the cloning sites of this vector, the transformant expressed 3-fold more crtB gene than the wild type.

  • THERMOZEAXANTHINS, NEW CAROTENOID-GLYCOSIDE-ESTERS FROM THERMOPHILIC EUBACTERIUM Thermus thermophilus
    Tetrahedron Letters, 1995
    Co-Authors: Akihiro Yokoyama, Takayuki Hoshino, Gerhard Sandmann, Kyoko Adachi, Miho Sakai, Yoshikazu Shizuri
    Abstract:

    Abstract New zeaxanthin-(di)glucoside-branched fatty acid esters, thermozeaxanthin-13, −15, and −17 ( 1–3 ), thermobiszeaxanthin-13-13, −13–15, and −15-15 ( 4–6 ) were isolated from the thermophilic eubacterium Thermus thermophilus . Their structures were determined by spectral means. The membrane of this thermophilic bacterium is thought to be stabilized by these carotenoids.

  • Molecular cloning and sequence analysis of the proBA operon from an extremely thermophilic eubacterium Thermus thermophilus
    Fems Microbiology Letters, 1994
    Co-Authors: Takehide Kosuge, Kazuyuki Tabata, Takayuki Hoshino
    Abstract:

    A 3.6 kb DNA fragment carrying the Thermus thermophilus proBA region, which encodes the first two steps in the proline biosynthetic pathway, was cloned from the Thermus thermophilus gene library, and its complete nucleotide sequence was determined. The deduced amino acid sequence of γ-glutamyl kinase (40,657 Da), the product of proB gene, and γ-glutamyl phosphate reductase (48, 747 Da), the product of proA gene, showed 44.1% and 44.4% identity to those of Escherichia coli, respectively. The termination codon of the proB gene and the initiation codon of the proA gene overlapped by 2 bp. A possible transcriptional termination structure was found downstream of the proA gene but not downstream of the proB gene. These results indicate that the proBA genes of T. thermophilus from a single operon as in E. coli.

  • Overproduction of carotenoids in Thermus thermophilus
    Journal of Fermentation and Bioengineering, 1994
    Co-Authors: Takayuki Hoshino, Ryouji Fujii, Tadaatsu Nakahara
    Abstract:

    Phytoene synthase encoded by the crtB gene is one of the rate-limiting enzymes for carotenoid production in Thermus thermophilus. We introduced a multicopy recombinant plasmid, pCOP1, in which the Thermus crtB gene was cloned, into carotenoid overproducing mutants of T. thermophilus. The overproducing mutants carrying a pCOP1 produced about twenty times as much carotenoids as the parental strain did.

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  • Ribosomal protein S1 from Thermus thermophilus: its detection, identification and overproduction.
    FEBS letters, 2002
    Co-Authors: Vyacheslav M Shiryaev, Olga M Selivanova, Thomas Hartsch, Igor V Nazimov, Alexander S Spirin
    Abstract:

    Ribosomal protein S1 has been identified in Thermus thermophilus ribosomes. The gene of ribosomal protein S1 from Thermus thermophilus has been cloned and overexpressed in Escherichia coli. A procedure for purification of the protein has been developed.

  • Formation and crystallization of Thermus thermophilus 70S ribosome/tRNA complexes.
    FEBS Letters, 1991
    Co-Authors: Gulnara Yusupova, Alexander S Spirin, Marta Yusupov, Jean-pierre Ebel, Dino Moras, Chantal Ehresmann, Bernard Ehresmann
    Abstract:

    70S ribosomes from Thermus thermophilus are able to form ternary complexes with N-AcPhe-tRNAPhe from either Thermus thermophilus or Escherichia coli, in the presence of a short oligo(U) of six or nine uridines. A complex of N-AcPhe-tRNAPhe/(U)9/70S ribosome from Th. thermophilus was crystallized under the same conditions used for the growth of crystals from isolated ribosomes (S.D. Trakhanov, et al., (1987) FEBS Lett. 220, 319–322).

  • Thermus thermophilus ribosomes for crystallographic studies
    Biochimie, 1991
    Co-Authors: M M Yusupov, V D Vasiliev, Maria Garber, Alexander S Spirin
    Abstract:

    Abstract Three-dimensional crystal of the 70S ribosomes, the 70S ribosome-mRNA-tRNA complex, the 30S ribosomal subunits, several ribosomal proteins, the elongation factor G and thronyl- and seryl-tRNA synthesis from a Gram-negative extreme thermophilic bacterium, Thermus thermophilus, have been obtained at our institute. X-ray and neutronographic data from the 70S ribosome crystals have been collected up to 18 A and 60 A, respectively. Two-dimensional crystalline sheets of the 70S ribosomes have been studied by electron microscopy. Structural studies of crystals of 2 ribosomal proteins, L1 and S6, elongation factor G and threonyl- and seryl-tRNA synthetases are also in progress. At present, Thermus thermophilus seems to be the most suitable microorganism to isolate ribosomes and their constituents for crystallographic studies.