Cloning and expression of two cellulase genes of Clostridium cellulolyticum in Escherichia coli.

Two cellulase genes isolated from Clostridium cellulolyticum strain ATCC3519 were cloned in Escherichia coli using plasmid pACYC184. Plasmids pB52 and pB43 were isolated from the transformants producing carboxymethylcellulase (CMCase) and the two cloned CMCase-coding genes were found to be included in two EcoRI fragments of 5.7 kb and 2.6 kb, respectively. These two genes showed no homology. The CMCase-coding genes were found to be contained in a 1.8-kb KpnI-HindIII fragment and a 2.05-kb HindIII-PvuII fragment of the DNA donor strain. Expression of these genes in E. coli was found not to depend on their orientation in the cloning vector. Hybridization experiments between these two fragments and Clostridium thermocellum NCIB10682 DNA fragments carrying genes celA, celB, celC and celD were carried out and some homologies were detected.

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