The invention discloses a
urate oxidase gene derived from
aspergillus cristatus and application thereof, and the
urate oxidase gene is characterized in that a natural
urate oxidase gene coding region sequence is obtained from the
aspergillus cristatus, and the gene is optimized according to the codon preference of
escherichia coli to obtain an optimized sequence. Connecting the optimized gene to a carrier through
NdeI and
BamHI restriction enzyme cutting sites, and constructing a
wild type uox recombinant
plasmid; the method comprises the following steps: replacing a sequence of uox of
aspergillus cristatus for coding 243-site
tyrosine (Y) with a sequence for coding
lysine (K) through site-specific
mutagenesis, constructing
mutant Y243K recombinant plasmids, respectively transforming the recombinant plasmids into competent cells, culturing, and adding IPTG to induce
target protein expression. And collecting the induced thalli, carrying out ultrasonication and
centrifugation to collect the supernatant so as to obtain a crude
enzyme, and purifying the crude
enzyme through a
nickel affinity column so as to obtain the purified UOX
protein.
Uric acid is used as a substrate to measure the
enzyme activity of the purified UOX, and the result shows that the
specific enzyme activity of the
mutant Y243K is obviously higher than that of a
wild type, and the activity is improved by 2.75 times, so that the
mutant Y243K has higher application value.