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Characterization of a Novel Shewanella algae Arginine Decarboxylase Expressed in Escherichia coli

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Arginine decarboxylase (ADC) catalyzes the decarboxylation of arginine to form agmatine, an important physiological and pharmacological amine, and attracts attention to the enzymatic production of agmatine. In this study, we for the first time overexpressed and characterized the marine Shewanella algae ADC (SaADC) in Escherichia coli. The recombinant SaADC showed the maximum activity at pH 7.5 and 40 °C. The SaADC displayed previously unreported substrate inhibition when the substrate concentration was higher than 50 mM, which was the upper limit of testing condition in other reports. In the range of 1–80 mM l-arginine, the SaADC showed the Km, kcat, Ki, and kcat/Km values of 72.99 ± 6.45 mM, 42.88 ± 2.63 s−1, 20.56 ± 2.18 mM, and 0.59 s/mM, respectively, which were much higher than the Km (14.55 ± 1.45 mM) and kcat (12.62 ± 0.68 s−1) value obtained by assaying at 1–50 mM l-arginine without considering substrate inhibition. Both the kcat values of SaADC with and without substrate inhibition are the highest ones to the best of our knowledge. This provides a reference for the study of substrate inhibition of ADCs.

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This work was financially supported by the Demonstration Project of Innovation and Development for Marine Economy of Beihai “The 13th Five-Year Plan” (Bhsfs010-4), Guangxi Natural Science Foundation (AD18281064) and the Guangxi Science and Technology Major Special Project (AA17204075).

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  2. Nanning SCD Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Nanning, 530000, People’s Republic of China

    Ya Li & Ke-Jie Wu

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Pei, XD., Lu, LH., Yue, SY. et al. Characterization of a Novel Shewanella algae Arginine Decarboxylase Expressed in Escherichia coli. Mol Biotechnol 64, 57–65 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12033-021-00397-6

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