Abstract
Metagenomic screening is a widely applied biotechnological approach for screening of novel industrial enzymes. The traditional method of metagenomic screening is based on the functional analyses of heterologously expressed environmental genes in a suitable host, which is the bottleneck of this method. To avoid limitation from the clone-dependent system, an in vitro expression technology has been developed in combination with next-generation sequencing and bioinformatics. First, the sequence profile of a target enzyme, e.g., poly(ethylene terephthalate) esterase in this protocol, is constructed according to the sequences of well-characterized enzymes. Then, the sequence screening is performed with this computationally generated profile among all available metagenomic databases. Afterwards, the candidate genes are synthesized and expressed in vitro with RNA polymerase and translation machinery from special cell extract. Finally, such in vitro produced enzymes are directly applied for the functional analyses. Comparing to the traditional screening methods, this in vitro screening technology can not only save time and materials, but also be easily developed for high-throughput screening with an automatic pipetting robot.
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Han, Y., Dierkes, R.F., Streit, W.R. (2023). Metagenomic Screening of a Novel PET Esterase via In Vitro Expression System. In: Streit, W.R., Daniel, R. (eds) Metagenomics. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2555. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2795-2_12
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