AUTHOR=Liu Junhua , Dai Mei , Li Jiangtao , Zhang Yitong , Ren Yangjie , Xu Jichen , Gao Wei , Guo Sujuan 

TITLE=Expression, Purification, and Preliminary Protection Study of Dehydrin PicW1 From the Biomass of Picea wilsonii

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology

VOLUME=10

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/bioengineering-and-biotechnology/articles/10.3389/fbioe.2022.870672

DOI=10.3389/fbioe.2022.870672

ISSN=2296-4185

ABSTRACT=<p>Dehydrins (DHNs) belong to group II of late embryogenesis-abundant (LEA) proteins, which are up-regulated in most plants during cold, drought, heat, or salinity stress. Despite the importance of dehydrins for the plants to resist abiotic stresses, it is necessary to obtain plant-derived dehydrins from different biomass. Generally, dehydrin PicW1 from <italic>Picea wilsonii</italic> is involved in Kn-type dehydrin with five K-segments, which has a variety of biological activities. In this work, <italic>Picea wilsonii</italic> dehydrin PicW1 was expressed in <italic>Escherichia coli</italic> and purified by chitin-affinity chromatography and size-exclusion chromatography, which showed as a single band by SDS-PAGE. A cold-sensitive enzyme of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) is used to explore the protective activities of other proteins. Temperature stress assays showed that PicW1 had an effective protective effect on LDH activity, which was better than that of bovine serum albumin (BSA). This study provides insights into the purification and protective activity of K5 DHNs for the advancement of dehydrin structure and function from biomass.</p>