Expression and characterization of a novel heterologous moderately thermostable lipase derived from metagenomics in Streptomyces lividans
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Seven lipolytic genes were isolated and sequenced from a metagenomic library that was constructed following biomass enrichment in a fed-batch bioreactor submitted to high temperature (50-70 degrees C) and alkaline pH (7-8.5). Among those sequences, lipIAF1-6 was chosen for further study and cloned in Streptomyces lividans 10-164. The G+C content within the sequence was 64.3%. The encoded protein, LipIAF1-6, was related to various putative lipases previously identified in different genome sequences. Homology of LipIAF-6 with the different lipases did not exceed 31%. The optimum pH (8.5) and temperature (60 degrees C) of the purified enzyme were in agreement with the enrichment conditions. Furthermore, the enzyme was thermostable for as long as 30 min at 70 degrees C. The maximum activity of the purified lipase was 4,287 IU/mg towards p-nitrophenyl (p-NP) butyrate (60 degrees C; pH 8.5). LipIAF1-6 does not seem to need the presence of metal ions for its activity. The enzyme was slightly inhibited by 10 mM CoCl2 (14%), HgCl2 (12%), and dithiothreitol (DTT) (15%). The serine protease inhibitor phenylmethylsulphonyl fluoride (PMSF) reduced activity by 39% and 71% when incubated at concentrations of 1 and 10 mM, respectively. Finally, LipIAF1-6 was stable in different organic solvents, and against several surfactants and oxidative agents commonly found in detergent formulations. These results are quite encouraging for further use of this enzyme in different industrial processes.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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