著者

出原 信大 桑原 慎子 鈴木 伸吾 小髙 優子 藤川 清三 荒川 圭太

出版者

低温生物工学会

雑誌

低温生物工学会誌 (ISSN:13407902)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.63, no.2, pp.155-160, 2017 (Released:2018-04-14)

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It is known that some polyphenols with anti-ice nucleation activity decrease freezing temperature of the solution containing ice nucleators, resulting in maintenance of supercooling state of the solution for a long periods. In the previous study, recombinant proteins of Erwinia ananas ice nucleation protein, inaA with histidine-tag (His-inaA) were expressed in Escherichia coli cells and ice nucleation activity was detected in the cell suspension. In the present study, the purification and the characterization of His-inaA proteins from transformed E. coli cells were done to study the mechanism of anti-ice nucleation of these polyphenols in solutions containing inaA. When the extracts of E. coli cells expressing His-inaA were fractionated into soluble, membrane and inclusion body fractions, ice nucleation activities were detected in all three fractions. Then, His-inaA was purified from the soluble fraction by affinity column chromatography and ice nucleation activity of the purified His-inaA fraction was detected. Further, it is confirmed that anti-ice nucleation activity of polyphenols was detected in solutions containing His-inaA.