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A 1.5 kb plasmid-encoded lysostaphin gene fragment of Staphylococcus staphylolyticus was amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and cloned in Escherichia coli by using plasmid pET29b(+) as an expression vector. By optimizing culture conditions, the activities of lysostaphin were expressed as 66 %, 30 %, and 4 % in extracellular, intracellular, and periplasmic fractions of recombinant E. coli, respectively. The enzyme was purified to homogeneity by using a simple one-step fractionation on bacterial cells of lysostaphin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus mutant. The recombinant enzyme had an Mr of approximate 27 kDa, and its bacteriolytic activity was indistinguishable to the authentic lysostaphin purified from Staphylococcus staphylolyticus.
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Chan, EC. Expression and Purification of Recombinant lysostaphin in Escherichia coli . Biotechnol Lett 18, 833–838 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00127898
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