FimH-based display of functional eukaryotic proteins

Abstract

Introduction

Bacterial surface display of recombinant proteins has become an attractive strategy for a broad range of applications such as production of bioadsorbents¹, generation of cellular biosensors², development of novel vaccine platforms³, screening of antibody libraries⁴ and whole-cell biocatalysis⁵.

 

Generally, the procedure requires the fusion of the protein-of-interest (POI) to a bacterial surface protein to display the POI on the surface of the genetically modified bacteria⁶. Several surface-anchoring motifs like LPP-OmpA, LamB, PhoE, ice nucleation protein (INP) and auto-transporter are employed as carrier proteins for crossing the bacteria membrane.

• Despite the successful approaches, several problems remain to be solved, including the substantially reduced functional activity of the displayed proteins. Compared with their soluble form, surface-anchored β-lactamase fused to the translation unit (TU) of an auto-transporter shows substantially reduced catalytic activities⁷. A similar experience was made when displaying sorbitol dehydrogenase⁸.
• A major problem in the use of auto-transporters arises from the tertiary structure of the passenger domains and the size of the central cavity that permits translocating only small proteins. It seems not only to be a matter of size since even the 62 amino acids protein aprotinin is not efficiently translocated through the outer membrane⁹.
• Translocation by auto-transporters is very sensitive to structure of the passenger proteins that consist of a β-strands backbone with at least 300 amino acids thereby substantially limiting the applicability to variety of potential cargos¹⁰.
• As an alternative approach, protein sequences derived from the major E. coli lipoprotein (Lpp) were fused to the N-terminus of the POI to direct the protein to the outer membrane^11,12. The system consists of two key anchoring motifs; the Lpp-derived signal sequence at the N-terminus to target the fusion protein to the inner surface of the outer membrane, and the outer membrane protein A (OmpA)-derived transmembrane region to transfer the protein across the outer membrane¹².
• Since its introduction by Ghrayeb and Inouye¹³ in 1984, the Lpp-OmpA display method is facing difficulties including the low expression rate and the insufficient translocation efficiency which may be due to steric hindrance and incorrect folding when anchoring in the outer membrane^14,15.
• In Gram-negative bacteria the outer membrane generally acts as a barrier to restrict the protein export from the cell interior; only pilins, flagellins, specific surface enzymes, and a few bacterial toxins are transported across the outer membrane¹⁶.
• These natural display systems have the benefit of being optimized for transporting and folding protein units to build polymeric structures on the extracellular surface making the display system attractive for biotechnological applications. We here used the fimbriae protein FimH, the mannose-specific adhesin of the E. coli type-1 fimbriae, for the extracellular display of recombinant proteins.
• Type-1 fimbriae are composed of up to 3,000 copies of the subunit FimA, that form the pilus rod, as well as the subunits FimF, FimG and FimH building the distal tip fibrillum^17,18. In initial studies, Pallesen and colleagues used the positions 225 and 258 within the FimH adhesin to display the preS2 domain of the hepatitis B surface antigen or an epitope from cholera toxin¹⁹.
• Both positions within the FimH protein proved to be suitable for the integration of peptides of up to 56 amino acids which could be produced, displayed on the cell surface and partially conserved the adhesive function of FimH¹⁹.
• Longer peptide or full length proteins displayed by FimH in that position were so far not reported. While short polypeptides used for vaccines could be displayed, the technique failed in functionally expressing large proteins like enzymes or cytokines.
• Here we identified alternative positions within the FimH protein to display larger proteins in a functionally active fashion. Based on the 3D modelling of E. coli type-1 pili²⁰ we identified the N-terminus of the FimH domain on the fimbriae tip as a suitable integration site of a larger protein.
• As examples, we genetically linked Gaussia luciferase (GLuc) and human epidermal growth factor (EGF), tumor growth factor-a (TGF-α) and epiregulin (EREG), all ligands of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), to FimH.
• Expressed by transformed E. coli, the proteins conserved their functional capacities. In particular, GLuc-FimH displaying E. coli bacteria were tracked during colonization of syngeneic tumors in an immunocompetent mouse model of pancreatic cancer during a six week period without losing GLuc activity.
• Bacteria with surface displayed proteins can be used for screening purposes and, furthermore, can be released in a functionally active form by specific proteolytic cleavage making the strategy attractive for protein production without the need to disrupt the bacteria by harsh procedures.

 

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