@article{DegeringEggertPulsetal.2010,
  author    = {Degering, Christian and Eggert, Thorsten and Puls, Michael and Bongaerts, Johannes and Evers, Stefan and Maurer, Karl-Heinz and Jaeger, Karl-Erich},
  title     = {Optimization of protease secretion in Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus licheniformis by screening of homologous and herologous signal peptides},
  series = {Applied and environmental microbiology},
  volume    = {76},
  journal   = {Applied and environmental microbiology},
  number    = {19},
  publisher = {American Society for Microbiology},
  address   = {Washington, DC},
  issn      = {1098-5336 (E-Journal); 0003-6919 (Print); 0099-2240 (Print)},
  doi       = {10.1128/AEM.01146-10},
  pages     = {6370 -- 6378},
  year      = {2010},
  abstract  = {Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus licheniformis are widely used for the large-scale industrial production of proteins. These strains can efficiently secrete proteins into the culture medium using the general secretion (Sec) pathway. A characteristic feature of all secreted proteins is their N-terminal signal peptides, which are recognized by the secretion machinery. Here, we have studied the production of an industrially important secreted protease, namely, subtilisin BPN′ from Bacillus amyloliquefaciens. One hundred seventy-three signal peptides originating from B. subtilis and 220 signal peptides from the B. licheniformis type strain were fused to this secretion target and expressed in B. subtilis, and the resulting library was analyzed by high-throughput screening for extracellular proteolytic activity. We have identified a number of signal peptides originating from both organisms which produced significantly increased yield of the secreted protease. Interestingly, we observed that levels of extracellular protease were improved not only in B. subtilis, which was used as the screening host, but also in two different B. licheniformis strains. To date, it is impossible to predict which signal peptide will result in better secretion and thus an improved yield of a given extracellular target protein. Our data show that screening a library consisting of homologous and heterologous signal peptides fused to a target protein can identify more-effective signal peptides, resulting in improved protein export not only in the original screening host but also in different production strains.},
  language  = {en}
}
@incollection{WendorffEggertPohletal.2007,
  author    = {Wendorff, Marion and Eggert, Thorsten and Pohl, Martina and Dresen, Carola and M{\"u}ller, Michael and Jaeger, Karl-Erich and Sprenger, Georg A. and Sch{\"u}rmann, Melanie and Sch{\"u}rmann, Martin and Johnen, Sandra and Sprenger, Gerda and Sahm, Hermann and Inoue, Tomoyuki and Sch{\"o}rken, Ulrich and Breittaupt, Holger and Fr{\"o}lich, Bettina and Heim, Petra and Iding, Hans and Juchem, Bettina and Siegert, Petra and Kula, Maria-Regina and Weckbecker, Andrea and Hummel, Werner and Fessner, Wolf-Dieter and Elling, Lothar and Wolberg, Michael and Bode, Silke and Feldmann, Ralf and Geilenkirchen, Petra and Schubert, Thomas and Walter, Lydia and D{\"u}nnwald, Thomas and Demir, Ayhan S. and Kolter-Jung, Doris and Nitsche, Adam and D{\"u}nkelmann, Pascal and Cosp, Annabel and Lingen, Bettina},
  title     = {Catalytic asymmetric synthesis : section 2.2},
  series = {Asymmetric synthesis with chemical and biological methods / ed. by Dieter Enders ...},
  booktitle = {Asymmetric synthesis with chemical and biological methods / ed. by Dieter Enders ...},
  publisher = {Wiley-VCH},
  address   = {Weinheim},
  isbn      = {978-3-527-31473-7},
  pages     = {298 -- 413},
  year      = {2007},
  language  = {en}
}