The invention discloses a Pictet-Spengler
enzyme capable of identifying alpha-
keto acid and application of the Pictet-Spengler
enzyme capable of identifying the alpha-
keto acid. According to the invention, a Pictet-Spengler
enzyme gene apksB is obtained by
cloning from actinomycetes NRRL B-65536T, the
nucleotide sequence of the Pictet-Spengler
enzyme gene apksB is as shown in SEQ ID NO.1, the full length of the Pictet-Spengler
enzyme gene apksB is 960 bp, the
amino acid sequence of the Pictet-Spengler
enzyme gene apksB encoded by the Pictet-Spengler enzyme
gene apksB is as shown in SEQ ID NO.2, and the Pictet-Spengler enzyme
gene apksB contains 319 amino acids in total; the method comprises the following steps:
cloning a Pictet-Spengler enzyme gene apkslB, connecting the Pictet-Spengler enzyme gene apkslB with an
expression vector pET28a (+), then converting the Pictet-Spengler enzyme gene apkslB into
escherichia coli BL21 (DE3), culturing, inducing expression, and purifying to obtain the Pictet-Spengler enzyme ApkslB which is used as a catalyst to catalyze the reaction of L-
tryptophan and alpha-
ketoglutaric acid so as to produce the tetrahydro beta-carboline skeleton kitasetasic acid. Discovery and
functional identification of the Pictet-Spengler enzyme ApKslB have practical guiding significance on large-scale production of alkaloids, and the Pictet-Spengler enzyme ApKslB can be applied to the fields of
biology,
medicine,
fine chemical engineering and the like.