文摘
d-Mannose isomerase (MIase) catalyzes the conversion of d-fructose to d-mannose. In this study, the MIase encoding gene (yihS) from Escherichia coli BL21 contains an ORF of 1242 bp, was cloned and expressed in Bacillus subtilis WB800. This heterologous expression resulted in a hexamer with a molecular weight of 274.5 kDa and Tm of 61.4 °C. Efficient MIase secretory expression by the robust recombinant B. subtilis was achieved with activity of 51.2 U/ml (d-mannose forming). Its optimal temperature and pH were 45.0 °C and 7.0, respectively. Using d-fructose as the substrate, Km, kcat and catalytic efficiency value of kinetic reaction were 203.7 ± 6.7 mM, 27.7 ± 0.7 s−1 and 136.0 ± 2.9 M−1 s−1, respectively. The production of d-mannose reached about 150 g/l with approximately 25% turnover yield under the optimum conditions. These results demonstrated that B. subtilis was a promising candidate of MIase expression system for d-mannose production.