Overproduction of the bleomycin‐binding proteins from bleomycin‐producing Streptomyces verticillus and a methicillin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Escherichia coli and their immunological characterisation
1995
Abstract The bleomycin-binding proteins designated BLMA and BLMS, which confer resistance to bleomycin (Bm), from Bm-producing Streptomyces verticillus ATCC15003 and a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus B-26, respectively, were overexpressed in Escherichia coli . The present study showed that both BLMA and BLMS quench the antibacterial activity of Bm by the binding to the drug. To immuno-chracterize the Bm-binding proteins, we constructed a monoclonal antibody against BLMA. The antibody, designated 893-12, did not cross react to BLMS and another Bm-binding protein from tallysomycin-producing Streptoalloteichus hindustanus . Although the ability of Bm to cleavage DNA was eliminated by a binding of BLMA to Bm, as shown by Sugiyama et al. [Gene 151 (1994) 11–15], the Bm-induced DNA degradation was restored by pre-incubation of BLMA with the anti-BLMA monoclonal antibody.
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