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Electronic Journal of Biotechnology ISSN: 0717-3458 Vol. 13 No. 3, Issue of May 15, 2010
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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Human sulfatase transiently and functionally active expressed in E. coli K12

Raúl A. Poutou-Piñales
Instituto de Errores Innatos del Metabolismo (IEIM)
Grupo de Biotecnología Ambiental e Industrial (GBAI)
Facultad de Ciencias
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Cra. 7 N° 40-62. Bogotá. D.C., Colombia
E-mail: rpoutou@javeriana.edu.co

Adriana Vanegas Niño
Instituto de Errores Innatos del Metabolismo (IEIM)
Facultad de Ciencias
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Cra. 7 N° 40-62. Bogotá. D.C., Colombia

Patricia Landázuri
Laboratorio de Bioquímica y Genética
Facultad de las Ciencias de la Salud
Cra 15 Calle 12 Norte. Armenia, Quindío
Universidad del Quindío, Armenia, Colombia 

Homero Sáenz#
Instituto de Errores Innatos del Metabolismo (IEIM)
Facultad de Ciencias
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Cra. 7 N° 40-62. Bogotá. D.C., Colombia

Leonardo Lareo
Grupo de Investigación en Bioquímica Computacional
Departamento de Bioquímica. Facultad de Ciencias
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Cra. 7 N° 40-62. Bogotá. D.C., Colombia

Olga Yaneth Echeverri Peña
Instituto de Errores Innatos del Metabolismo (IEIM)
Facultad de Ciencias
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Cra. 7 N° 40-62. Bogotá. D.C., Colombia

Luis A. Barrera Avellaneda*
Instituto de Errores Innatos del Metabolismo (IEIM)
Facultad de Ciencias
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Cra. 7 N° 40-62. Bogotá. D.C., Colombia
E-mail: abarrera@javeriana.edu.co

*Corresponding author

Financial support: Instituto Colombiano para la Ciencia y la Tecnología Francisco José de Caldas (COLCIENCIAS), Grant No. 1203-12-10410-192-2000 and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia, Grant No. 120104-O-0101103.

Keywords: E. coli, glycation, human sulfatase, transient expression.

Present address: #Unidad de Biología Celular y Microscopía, Decanato de Medicina, Universidad Centrocidental Lisandro Alvarado, Ave. Libertador Ave. Andres Bello, Barquisimeto, Venezuela.

Abbreviations:

ER: endoplasmic reticulum
hIDS: human iduronate 2-sulfate sulfatase (native protein)
hrIDS: human recombinant iduronate 2-sulfate sulfatase
MCB: master cell bank
MPS II: Hunter syndrome or mucopolysacharidosis type II
OD: optical density
P(x): biomass productivity (dry weight)
td: duplication time
WCB: working cell bank
x: dry biomass weight
μ(x): Specific growth rate

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The recombinant human iduronate 2-sulfate sulfatase (hrIDS) was transiently and functionally active expressed in E. coli K12. The enzyme activity (crude extract) at 100 ml and 400 ml oscillated between 0.25 and 10.58 nmol h-1 mg-1. The wide Western-blot peptide profile suggest that hrIDS is proteolitically processed “randomly” which agrees with the ultrafiltration assay in which the hrIDS activity was found in all fractions (<30kDa, 30-100kDa and >100kDa). No glycation sites were found by computer analysis of the hIDS sequence; discarding the possibility of marks for glycation and proteolytic processing.

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Materials and Methods

  • Strains and genetic construction
  • Shake flask cultures
  • Statistical analysis
  • Pellet disruption
  • Enzyme activity
  • Ultrafiltration assay
  • Western blot analysis
  • Computer analysis of the hIDS
    Results
    Discussion
    Acknowledgments
    Figure 1
    Figure 2
    Figure 3
    Figure 4
    Table 1
    Table 2
    References
  • Human iduronate 2-sulfate sulfatase (hIDS) (E.C. 3.16.1.3) is a lysosomal enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of the C2-sulphate ester bond from both heparan and dermatan sulphate. The hIDS deficiency causes the Hunter Syndrome or Mucopolysacharidosis type II (MPS II); the severe form of MPS II exhibits skeletal deformity, airway obstruction, cardiac disease, progressive mental retardation and a life span of about 15 years (Neufeld and Muenzer, 2001).

    The hIDS has been purified and characterized from plasma, urine, placenta, liver, kidney, intestine and fibroblasts (Cudry et al. 1999); the recombinant protein has been expressed in Pichia pastoris, Linfoblastoid and COS cells (Millat et al. 1998; Mendoza et al. 2008; Córdoba-Ruiz et al. 2009; Landázuri et al. 2009). In Linfoblastoid and COS cells it has been found that the mature forms presents a molecular weight between 45-55 kDa. As other members of the sulfatases family, the hIDS undergo a common posttranslational modification in which a Cys or Ser residue at the active enzyme core is converted into FGly (Schmidt et al. 1995; Dierks et al. 1998a; Dierks et al. 1998b; Knaust et al. 1998; Dierks et al. 1999; Waldow et al. 1999). The Cys at position 84 in hIDS is co-translationally modified to formylglycine (FGly) within the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) to produce an active enzyme (von Figura et al. 1998).

    Considering several facts like i) the Enzyme Replacement Therapy (ERT) is a promising option for MPSII treatment success (Byers et al. 2000; Ioannou et al. 2001; Kakkis, et al. 2001; Desnick, 2004), ii) in general terms the ERT cost oscillate between $100.000 to $200,000.00 USA/year/patient (Mehta et al. 2003; Wraith, 2006), which is not sustainable by the social security health service in developing countries, iii) differences found in the glycosilation pattern in human and yeast (Trimble et al. 1991), and iv) the importance of both N-glycosilation and manose-6-phosphate pattern in protein structure, stability, activity, and receptor recognition, etc. (Robert et al. 1998; Parodi, 2000; Helenius and Aebi, 2001; LeBowitz et al. 2004); we expressed the hrIDS in E. coli K12, with the main object of biochemical studies and chemical addition of the N-glycosilation-manose-6-phosphate pattern as strategy to address the recombinant protein to the target tissue. Reasons why it is important to improve the expression of hrIDS in a suitable system as E. coli.

    Materials and Methods

    Strains and genetic construction

    A cDNA fragment of 1.7 Kb coding for the enzyme hIDS was inserted into an EcoRI restriction site in M13amp11 (+) Strand of pUC13 (2.9 kb) under the control of lac promoter from E. coli. The size of the construct (pUC13-hrIDS) was ~4.4 kb. Competent cells of E. coli K12 JM109 (recA1 supE44 endA1 hsdR17 gyrA96 relA1thi Δ(lac-proAB) F’ [traD36 proAB+ lacIq lacZΔM15) were used for transformation and transient expression of the recombinant protein (hrIDS). The classical transformation procedure described by Sambrook (Sambrook and Russell, 2001) was used to introduce the pUC13-hrIDS into JM109. The cells were plated on Luria-Bertani (LB or LBA) with or without 50 μg ml-1 of ampicilline. Several positive colonies were grown in LBA broth to prepare a master cell bank (MCB) which was conserved at -70ºC (Meza et al. 2004).

    Shake flask cultures

    Batch cultures were carried out in 500 ml shake flasks containing 100 ml of minimal culture media MM (0.05M K2HPO4/KH2PO4, pH 7.2 ± 0.2; 0.1% w/v NH4Cl, 0.01% w/v MgCl2.6H2O, 0.001% w/v NaCl; 0.001% w/v MnCl2.4H2O; 0.001% w/v FeCl3.6H2O; 0.5% w/v xylose, 3 mM methionine, 3 mM tyramine). Alternatively, 100 ml of Luria Bertani (LB) media were used. Both media were supplemented or not with 3 mM of tyramine and 50 μg ml-1 of ampicilline, depending of treatment (MMT, MMAT, LBT and LBAT) and strain assayed (JM109/pUC13, JM109/pUC13-hrIDS). All cultures were incubated at 30ºC, 250 r.p.m., during 24 hrs.

    With the object to evaluate the production consistence (at low scale) and to corroborate the transient expression, a 2000 ml shake flask culture assay, was carried out with 400 ml of LBAT at 30ºC, 200 r.p.m., during 8 hrs. This assay was repeated 16 times.

    In both shake flask scale (100 and 400 ml), the bacterial behavior was followed every 2 hrs by optical density at 540 nm (OD540nm) in a Multiskan MCC/340 Labsystems; data collected were mathematically transformed into dry biomass weight x (g L-1) by using a calibration curve represented by Equation 1.

    y = 0.5698X with r2 0.9674                                   [Equation 1]

    The data of x (g L-1 of dry biomass weight), was transformed as Ln (x/x0) and plotted vs. time (h); the slope of this curve (exponential phase) was used to calculate the specific growth rate μ(x) (h-1) and duplication time td (h) as follow.

                                                                   [Equation 2]

                                                      [Equation 3]

              [Equation 4]

                                                                       [Equation 5]

    Total extra and intracellular proteins (mg ml-1) of samples were estimated by Lowry method.

    Statistical analysis

    Post Hoc test (Duncan) and One-way ANOVA analysis. Two transformed strains were assayed in 100 ml of culture media; JM109/pUC13 as negative control because it lack the cDNA for hIDS, and JM109/pUC13-hrIDS as producing strain; both strains were assayed in both LB and MM culture media supplemented or not with 3 mM of tyramine (named as treatments), T3: Media LBA, T4: Media LBA + 3 mM tyramine, T7: Media MMA, and T8: Media MMA + 3 mM tyramine).

    A Duncan test was carried out to generate homogeneous groups, as complement of ANOVA. Two one-way ANOVA analysis were carried out; the first to compare T3, T4, T7 and T8 in terms of biomass productivity (P(x)) and the second to compare the maximal enzyme activity (Max. Enz. Act.), with a significance grade of 0.05; the hypothesis was:

    Ho: μ123=….= μn

    Hi: at least one of the μ is different

    If p > 0.05 Ho is not rejected

    If p < 0.05 Ho is rejected

    and

    (where t is the culture time for highest biomass dry weight) [Equation 6]

    Pellet disruption

    Each sample was treated as follows: cells were collected by centrifugation at 5000 g, 5 min and 4ºC. The supernatant was stored at -20ºC until use. The pellet was suspended in lysis buffer, (50 mM Tris-HCl pH 7.5 ± 0.2, 200 mM NaCl, 5% v/v glycerol, 1 mM dithiotreitol, 1 mM PMSF) with 300 μg ml-1 lysozime, and incubated 1 hr at 4ºC. After incubation, cells were treated with 4 cycles of freezing and thawing (5 min in liquid N2 and 5 min at 37ºC) and centrifuged at 4000 g for 10 min. Both, cell lysate and culture supernatant were assayed for hrIDS activity and ultrafiltration assay.

    Enzyme activity

    The supernatant (10 µl) of fermentation was mixed every 2 hrs with 20 µl of substrate solution containing 1.25 nM of 4-methylumbelliferyl-α-iduronate 2-sulphate (MU-αIdoA-2S) dissolved in 0.1M CH3COONa/CH3COO pH 5.0 ± 0.2 and 10 mM Pb(CH3COO)2.3H2O. It was incubated at 37ºC for 4 hrs, after which were added 40 µl of Pi/Ci buffer (NaH2PO4 0.4 M, C6H5Na3O7.2H2O 0.2M pH 4.5 ± 0.2 y NaN3 0.02% w/v) and 10 µl de LEBT. The solution was incubated to 37ºC for 37 hrs. The reaction was stopped with 650 µl of stop buffer (NaHCO3/NaCO3 0.5M, pH 10.7 ± 0.2, with glycine 1.7 mM). The fluorescence was determined in a fluorometer Turner 450, with wave lengths of excitation and emission of 360 and 415 nm, respectively (Voznyi et al. 2001). Protein concentration was determined by the Lowry method; the total enzyme activity was expressed as nmol h-1 mg-1 of total protein. Plasma and human leukocytes were used as controls for the hIDS activity test, taking into account the reference values detected at the laboratory.

    Ultrafiltration assay

    Once the culture was centrifuged at 2500 g for 20 min at 4ºC; the supernatant and the extract of the cellular rupture were processed by ultrafiltration using the AMICON system with a sequential change of YM-100 and YM-30 cellulose membranes to exclude molecules bigger than 100 kDa and smaller ones than 30 kDa, respectively. Fractions were collected and identified as >100 kDa (F1), 30-100 kDa (F2) and <30 kDa (F3) and assayed for hrIDS activity.

    Western blot analysis

    Samples (cell lysate or culture supernatant) containing 10 μg of total protein were added to equal volume of 1X SDS loading buffer (50 mM Tris-HCl pH 6.8 ± 0.2; 100 mM dithiotreitol; 2% w/v SDS; 0.1% w/v bromophenol blue and 10% v/v glycerol). Proteins were separated by 8% w/v and 12% w/v SDS-PAGE, and transferred to a nitrocellulose membrane (Hybond) by transverse electrophoresis at 30 V and 4ºC overnight. The membrane was blocked at 4ºC overnight in 5% w/v skim milk in buffer TBS (10 mM Tris-HCl, pH 8.0 ± 0.2; 150 mM NaCl) containing 0.05% v/v Tween 20. It was then incubated overnight with the monoclonal antibody anti-hIDS (1:250 in 1% w/v BSA in TBS). Immune complexes were detected with horseradish peroxidase-labelled antibody (1:2000 in 1% w/v BSA in TBS) using the ECL system (Amersham-Pharmacia). The monoclonal antibody (anti-hIDS) was donated by Dr. Kazuko Sukegawa from Gifu University, Japan.

    Computer analysis of the hIDS

    The access codes for hIDS sequence are AAA63197 (Gene Bank), 91046030 (Medline) and 2122463 (PubMed). The sequence was obtained starting from the conceptual translation of the cDNA (Wilson et al. 1993) and was used for the study of possible glycation sites. The computer analysis allowed the prediction of the glycation profile through the NetGlycate 1.0 software; available at http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/NetGlycate-1.0 (Bo-Johansen et al. 2006).

    Results

    To express the active hrIDS in E. coli, the cDNA (1.7 Kb) of hIDS was inserted into the multiple cloning sites of pUC13; the final construction pUC13-hIDS was transformed into JM109.

    The cDNA insertion in the pUC13 vector was verified digesting the constructs with EcoRI and two bands of 2.9 and 1.5 Kb respectively were observed (Figure 1, BII-4).

    Table 1 shows the results of kinetic parameters as td, μ(x), P(x) and average of biological activity of hrIDS enzyme (crude extract) in 100 ml cultures, as results of culture media and tyramine addition.

    The first One-way ANOVA analysis (T3, T4, T7 and T8) found a p <0.50 (0.018) for biomass productivity; indicating that Ho is rejected; therefore exist significant differences in growth, between LBA and MMA supplemented or not with 3 mM of tyramine with JM109/pUC13-hrIDS, (Figure 2A).

    The second One-way ANOVA analysis (T3, T4, T7 and T8) found a p >0.50 (0.626) for the enzyme activity; indicating that Ho is not rejected; therefore there is not a significant differences in the enzyme activity detected when using LBA or MMA culture media supplemented or not with 3 mM of tyramine with JM109/pUC13-hrIDS (Figure 2B). When tyramine concentration was increased up to 10 mM neither P(x) nor enzyme activity was increase (data not shown).

    Taking into account the previous reasons the LBAT (T4) was selected for two purposes, as culture media for low scale production and to analyze the production consistence at 400 ml scale.

    To analyze the consistency of the hrIDS at 400 ml scale "production", several cultures (n = 16) with 400 ml of LBAT were made. The final incubation time did oscillate between 8 hrs to 10 hrs when the log phase is finishing. The hrIDS biological activity did oscillate between 0.25 to 10.58 nmol h-1 mg-1 proteins, with an average of 3.898 ± 3.3913 nmol h-1 mg-1 protein (VC 87%). The average of the kinetic parameters measured were μ(x) 0.36 ± 0.016 h-1 (VC 4.4%), td 1.9 ± 0.090 h (VC 4.5%) and P(x) 0.1 ± 0.004 g L-1h-1 (VC 3.98%).

    The hrIDS was detected by Western-blot on the culture fractions of JM109/pUC13-hrIDS. The anti-human IDS (α-hIDS) monoclonal antibody recognized an intense band of 49 kDa and three others around 62, 52 and 40 kDa at culture supernatant (Figure 3A-1). In the cell lysates, five bands of 97, 49, 43, 41 and 40 kDa were recognized. In addition, two bands with molecular weight below 40 kDa were also detected (Figure 3B-4). 

    The presence of the hIDS and its activity in each ultrafiltrated fraction revealed an unexpected protein processing (Table 2).

    In all activity tests developed during this study, serum or human leukocytes were used as positive control samples. The results were 13.43 ± 2.72 nmol h-1 mg-1 of total protein, with n = 36 and 6.01 ± 1.08 nmol h-1 mg-1 of total protein for n = 10 respectively. Both controls were inside of the normal reference values for our laboratory.

    In order to verify the possibility that a glycation process has occurred (non-enzymatic glycosilation) reason for both cross-linking and proteolysis marks (Mironova et al. 2001; Mironova et al. 2003); a computer analysis was conducted to analyze the hIDS sequence, but the analysis did not show glycation sites (Figure 4).

    Discussion

    Several bacteria of the Enterobacteriaceae family, express a natural arylsulfatase activity (E.C. 3.1.6.1) (Kertesz, 2000) and it has been shown the regulation of this enzyme by methionine (non-repressing conditions), sulphur compounds (repressing conditions) and tyramine (de-repressing conditions) (Kertesz, 2000). Sulfatase activity has not been detected in E. coli K12; but considering that E. coli harbors the FGly generating system (Dierks et al. 1998b; Benjdia et al. 2007), it was selected in this work as a useful model to intent the expression of hrIDS. The cDNA encoding the hIDS was inserted into the pUC13 under the control of E. coli lac promoter. The hIDS cDNA insertion was confirmed by restriction analysis (Figure 1). The sequence analysis reported a 97% of homology and a PCR amplification to detect the orientation of the insert (EcoRI flanked) enable us to select the adequate construct (data not shown), for following assays.

    The results of tyramine addition to either MM and LB culture media did not causes expression of residual sulfatase or increasing expression of hrIDS in E. coli as was expected, neither in the µ(x), td nor hrIDS activity averages (Table 1).

    The first One-way ANOVA analysis shows that the tyramine addition causes a significant effect on the strains growth (p <0.5) but the F value indicate a low difference between the two Duncan groups generated. The second One-way ANOVA analysis, indicate that no significant difference (p >0.5) for the enzymatic activity were found, but the standard deviation in the only one Duncan group generated makes to think about the variation in the crude extract activity; probably related with the transient expression of the enzyme (Figure 2). The comparison of both Duncan test and One-way ANOVA induce to select the treatment T4 for the next assay.

    Some authors has reported that depending of the type of sulfatase expressed, in some prokaryotes a percentage of the sulfatase produced, carry out the FGly residue at its active site; while another percentage did not; for example the 60% of the prokaryote arylsulfatase expressed under "strong induction conditions" carry out the FGly residue, while 40% remain as original amino acids coded in the DNA sequence (Dierks et al. 1998a; Dierks et al. 1998b). In our case, it is probable that a percentage of the expressed hrIDS remain inactive as a result of the non-modification of the Cys84 because of the saturation of the FGly generating system as was suggested by Dierks et al. (1998b). Since it has been demonstrated that prokaryotic system for the modification of Cys presents a similar specificity as the eukaryotic cells (Dierks et al. 1998a; Dierks et al. 1998b; Dierks et al. 1999; Marquordt et al. 2003; Berteau et al. 2006), it is possible that different E. coli proteins (possibly not identified) used this system, saturating it (Henderson and Milazzo, 1979). Any way the function or saturation of FGly generating system, and the percentage of inactive hrIDS will have to be experimentally proved.

    The results of  JM109/pUC13-hrIDS in LBA supplemented with 10 mM of tyramine showed the maximum activity of hrIDS after 6 hrs of culture with 1.20 nmol h-1 mg-1 protein and μ(x) 0.27 h-1 (data not shown); higher results were obtained with the same clone in LBAT (T4), (Table 1).

    Tyramine did not cause any detectable effect as inducer on the expression of a native sulfatase in E. coli JM109. This compound is the substrate of enzymes as the monoamine oxidase (MaoA) (E.C. 1.4.3.6) and phenylacetaldehyde dehydrogenase (PadA), (E.C. 1.2.1.39), promoting to the formation of the aromatic acids, 4-hydroxyphenylacetic and homoprocatechuate (4HPA and HPC), respectively, which are transformed into succinic and pyruvic acids in most E. coli serotypes as B, C and W; meaning that tyramine is used like a carbon source by the enzymes of the hpa cluster; therefore E. coli K12, which lacks the hpa cluster can only use tyramine like nitrogen source as was expected according to previously published data (Leuschner et al. 1998; Díaz et al. 2001).

    The fact that no native sulfatase activity was detected in JM109/pUC13 (negative control) suggests that the sulfatase activity detected in the producing strain (JM109/pUC13-hrIDS) belong to the hrIDS.

    Considering that LBAT (T4) was an appropriate culture media due to its composition and that tyramine could be use as nitrogen source, several cultures were conducted at 400 ml. The high standard deviation found in the biological activity and the regularity found in the kinetic parameters as μ(x), td and P(x) support the transient expression of the hrIDS.

    Taking into account that E. coli doesn’t express a native detectable sulfatase activity even when tyramine is added to the culture media and that immunologic crossed reaction is positive when the arylsulfatase “pseudogene” is present and expressed (Yamada et al. 1978), the Western-blot profile findings could be related to an E. coli proteolytic cleavage but it has to be proved in a future.

    The hrIDS peptide profiles detected by Western-blot and the hrIDS activity in ultrafiltrated fractions (Table 2), suggest that several isoforms of the enzyme are active. Thus, it is possible to formulate two questions that have to be solved with further experiments: Firstly, does E. coli process the hrIDS randomly? Secondly, is the proteolysis processing the result of glycation events?

    Mironova et al. 2001 studied the non-enzymatic glycosylation of hrIFN-γ expressed in E. coli after of the purification and in spite of protein maintenance in a protease-free media. They found the hrIFN-γ affected like a glycate protein able to suffer progressive cross-linking and fragmentation processes, demonstrating that in E. coli, an advanced state of glycation took place. The authors proposed the existence of a protease-independent pathway for protein degradation in E. coli. They also took into consideration that glycation "in vivo" could be the consequence of over-expression of the hrIFN-γ (Mironova et al. 2001; Mironova et al. 2003), which could have caused inclusion bodies formation.

    The results of Western-Blot in this work suggest that the fragmentation of the recombinant protein could be related with proteolytic degradation processes. However, the concomitant appearance of 97-120 kDa bands and the hrIDS activity found at F1 (Table 2) indicate the possible presence of covalent dimmers, due to Cys content of hIDS (6 residues) or to intermolecular covalent cross-linking, as was found in hrIFN-γ expressed in E. coli (Mironova et al. 2001). In any case, it has too, to be proved in further investigations.

    Bioinformatic analysis of the hIDS, to analyze the possible existence of glycation sites was performed based on the study of the NH2 groups coming from Lys. The software employed (NetGlycate 1.0) uses an algorithm simulating the influence of the acid radical of glutamate (Glu) working as a catalyst for the glycation of lysine (Lys). It has been observed that in general, the acid radicals are located towards the ending C-t of the glycation site while the Lys residuals are located towards the region N-t of the glycation site. Using this approach no glycation sites were detected, although the Matthews correlation coefficient for the software was set to 0.58 for the 60 neutral networks employed (Bo-Johansen et al. 2006).

    Concluding remarks

    The hrIDS expressed in E. coli was functionally active. Moreover, all fractions obtained after ultrafiltration also showed to be enzymatically active. In this study the average hrIDS activity using 400 ml culture was similar to the activity found in 100 ml cultures of P. pastoris (data not shown). The Western-blot peptidic profile found in the recombinant E. coli, showed that hrIDS was recognized by a monoclonal antibody against the natural protein. In spite of additional studies that will be necessary for consolidation of our preliminary results; the finding of the transient expression of a human active sulfatase in E. coli K12 is remarkable.

    Acknowledgments

    Special thanks to Drs. Ivonne Venegas de Balzer and Ivonne S. Gutiérrez-Rojas for the critical reading of the manuscript.

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