the gene sequences of superoxide dismutase of the present invention are isolated from a . pyrophilus strain ( dsm # 6858 ) which has been deposited with the deposit authority , dsm ( deutsche sammiung von mikroorganism und zellkulturen gmbh ) in germany . the strain culturing [ see , huber , r . et al ., syst . appl . microbiol ., 15 : 349 - 351 , 1992 ], genomic dna isolation from the strain and then cloning of the genomic dna are carried out , as shown in fig1 . plasmid library and genomic library are prepared by using pbluescript ks (+) and λdashii , respectively . the gene sequences of about 178 clones of the plasmid library are read by the chain termination method , and then a similarity to other sod species is searched in blast program ( basic local alignment search tool program ). polymerase chain reaction of the most similar clone is carried out and the produced synthetic segments is used as a probe for finding the sod gene from the genomic library in order to obtain an entire sod gene . a genomic dna library was plated on e . coli mra - p2 . plaque hybridization screening was done using ecl direct system ( amersham co ., ohio , u . s . a .). prehybridization and hybridization were done at 42 ° c . for 1 and 4 h , respectively , in hybridization solution . positive plaques were pooled in sm buffer ( 50 mm tris - hcl , ph 7 . 5 , 10 mm nacl , 8 mm mgso 4 , 0 . 01 % gelatin ), replated at low density , and a single plaque was isolated . phage dna was isolated using qiagen lambda kit . phage dna digested with hindiii , ecori , and saci were identified by southern hybridization with the pcr - amplified fragment as a probe . the phage dna (( φ12 ) digested with saci was ligated with pbluscript ks (+) and transformation of e . coli dh5α was carried out according to the procedure by sambrook . the positive clones were tested by pcr to yield a final clone , pd2 . the pd2 clone which had the sod gene was digested with saci , ecorv , psti and bamhi as shown in fig2 . these fragments were subcloned into pbluescript ks (+) for dna sequencing ( see , fig3 ). the identified gene sequence according to the present invention consist of a total of 639 bases , wherein initiation codon is atg codon at the position of 1 , 013 and termination codon is taa codon at the position of 1 , 652 . gaaaaggagg ( seq id no : 3 ) is present at the position of 18 bases upstream the initiation codon , which is similar to the shine dalgarno base sequence for e . coli and which is presumed to be a ribosome - binding position . tataaa ( seq id no : 4 ) at the position of 70 base upstream the initiation codon is considered to be a promoter position . to express proteins from the identified gene , pd2 clones containing the sod gene are subjected to the polymerase chain reaction using two synthetic primers . synthetic fragments obtained from the reaction are treated with restriction enzyme ncoi and bamhi , ligated to pet3d vector ( novagen , inc .) which has been pretreated with the same enzymes , and then transformed to host , e . coli bl21 . the sequences of synthetic primers used are as follows . several recombinant clones are inoculated to the ampicillin - added lb medium and a test of sod expression is conducted by employing sds - page . the strongest expressed recombinant clone ( pd27 ) is selected . iptg is added to e . coli bl21 culture ( which has been deposited with the korea research institute of bioscience and biotechnology , korean collection for type cultures at # 52 , oun - dong , yusong - ku , taejon 305 - 333 , republic of korea and designated as kctc 0288bp ) in which plasmid pd27 containing sod gene resides , inducing proteins therefrom . then , the proteins are isolated and purified by using anionic exchange chromatograph ( q - sepharose , fplc , lkb pharmacia ) and gel - filtration column . the purified proteins are analysed for their protein size on a 16 . 5 % tricine sds - page to identify as 24 kda and 96 kda ( see , fig4 ). the protein of 24 kda has the same molecular weight as calculated from the predicted amino acid sequence from its base sequence . the 96 kda protein shows that sod of a . phraphilus is present in a form of homotertramer , which is consistent with the crystalline structure of sod . sephacryl s - 200 gel filtration chromatography is used to determinate the molecular weight of sod . the molecular weight of sod is 89 kda ( see , fig5 ). atomic absorption spectrophotometer ( barian sectraa800 ) is used to analyse what kind of metal is contained in a purified protein . it is found that the sod contains 0 . 75 gram atom of iron per monomer . the nitro blue tetrazolium ( nbt ) staining method is used to test the activity of enzymes [ see , beauchamp , c . and fridovich , i ., anal . biochem , 44 : 276 - 287 , 1971 ]. superoxide radicals can reduce colorless nitro blue terzolium to blue formazan , whereas active sites of the sod protein immobilized on the gel appear as transparent bands . in this method , it is found that kcn renders cu -, zn - sod inactive and h 2 o 2 inhibits the activity of fe - sod . it was identified that the sod protein of a . pyrophilus contains fe , because the protein is inactivated by h 2 o 2 ( see , fig6 ). from the comparison of the activity of fe - free sod and fe - rebound sod , it is found that fe - free sod is present as inactive monomers and fe - rebound sod is present as a mixture of active tetramers and inactive monomers ( see , fig7 ). to determinate the activity of sod protein , cytochrome c reduction determination method is used ( see , fridovich , i ., adv . enzymol . 58 : 61 - 87 , 1986 ). sod activity unit is defined as the amount of enzyme which inhibits the rate of cytochrome c reduction by 50 %. while the specific activity of sod of a . pyrophilus is 1 , 400 unit / mg , those of fe - sod of e . coli and mn - sod of bacillus stearothennophilus are 1 , 623 unit / mg and 1 , 387 unit / mg , respectively . their activities at a normal temperature are similar to one another . by using cytochrome c reduction determination method , thermostability of the enzymes are determinated . after boiling for 2 hours , sod of a . pyrophilus retains about 80 % of activity ( see , fig8 ). to the contrary , after boiling at 95 ° c . for 2 hours fe - sod of e . coli and mn - sod of bacillus stearothermophilus lose almost all of their activities . thus , the results show that sod of a . pyrophilus has strong thermostability , as predicted . examination of the activity of sod at normal temperature in cytochrome c reduction determination method for testing the stability of the enzyme at various ph phases identified that the enzyme shows its activity and loses no activity , within a range of ph 4 . 0 to ph 10 . 7 . the present invention will be illustrated in greater detail by way of the following examples . the examples are presented for illustrative purposes only and should not be construed as limiting the invention . as shown in fig1 a gene cloning flow chart was designed for obtaining a gene to produce superoxide dismutase . a . pyrophilus strain ( dsm # 6858 ) is available from dsm ( deutsche sammlung von mikroorganismen und zellkulturen gmbh ) which is an microorganism deposition authority in germany . a plasmid library from the strain was prepared as follows . the strain was cultured to yield genomic dna and then the resulting genomic dna was treated with restriction enzyme hindiii to produce small gene fragments . the resulting dna fragments were cloned into vector pbluescript ks (±) which has been lineared by digesting with hindiii , to screen 178 positive clones containing the a . pyrophilus gene . screening was conducted in a medium containing x - gal and iptg ( isopropyl - 1 - thio - beta - d - galactosidase ) by using alpha - complement test in a known method . base sequences of these clones were determinated in dideoxynucleoside chain termination method . among them , a single clone of which sequence is similar to the sod sequence derived from other species was found and designated as aqpksh15 . for obtaining insert segments containing a portion of sod gene in aqpksh15 , polymerase chain reaction was conducted ( t7 , ks primer ; at 95 ° c . for 1 min 30 sec ; at 50 ° c . for 1 min ; 72 ° c . for 1 min / 25 times cycle ). synthetic segments thus obtained , were used as a probe for finding the sod gene from the genomic library in order to obtain an entire sod gene . aqpksh15 was treated with restriction enzyme hindii and ecorv and the obtained dna segments ( 400 bp ) were isolated on agarose gel . the isolated dna was used as a probe to establish a gene map of an entire sod gene obtained after they were probed . genomic dnas for a . pyrophilus ( dsm 36858 ) were incompletely excised with hindiii to obtain segments in an appropriate size ( at least 10 kb ), and then linked to the hindiii - digested lamda - dash ii dna ( available from stratagene , calif ., u . s . a .) to package the genomic library by using gigapack xl packaging extract ( available from stratagene , la jolla , calif ., u . s . a .). thereafter , the genomic library was completed using the method described by sambrook , et al ., molecular cloning : a laboratory manual , 2nd ed ., cold spring harbor laboratory press , cold spring harbor , n . y ., ( 1989 ). the plaque forming unit of the prepared library was about 10 10 pfu / ml . to obtain an entire gene of sod from the genomic library thus obtained of a . pyrophilus , the amplified segment obtained above was used as a probe to conduct plaque - bindinga detection method by using ecl direct system ( available from amersham co .). 12 clones which show a positive signal were selected , among which a clone showing the strongest positive signal was selected and designated as a12 . clone a12 contained 2 . 1 kb a . pyrophilus gene insert segments . following extraction of dnas from the segments , the dnas were treated with restriction enzyme saci to conduct an analysis of southern blotting hybridization . at this time , 2 . 1 kb insert segments were isolated from the agarose gel , which show a positive signal , and then linked to the saci - pretreated pbluscript sk (±). the resulting clones were designated as pd2 . restriction enzyme positions which are contained within the 2 . 1 kb segment of the clone , were used to treat the segment and vector with restriction enzyme psti , bamhi , ecorv , respectively and subcloned them into pbluescript sk (±) ( see , fig2 ). from each of the resulting clones , entire 2 . 1 kb base sequences were determinated using dideoxynucleoside chain termination method ( see , fig3 ). comparative analysis of the base sequence with the known superoxide dismutase gene sequence of other species , identified that the resulting base sequences shows high homology to sod of e . coli in 44 %, to sod of bacillus stearothermophilus in 45 %, and to sod of thermus thenmophilus in 45 %. after checking the restriction enzyme and base sequences in order to obtain superoxide dismutase protein , the protein was expressed in e . coli of which a protein expression mechanism is well established presently . first , expression vector pet3d ( available from novagen , inc .) was digested with restriction enzyme ncoi and bamhi , rendering it linear . pd2 clone containing superoxide dismutase gene was subjected to polymerase chain reaction using two synthetic oligonucleotides and then isolated on agarose gel . the resulting gene segment of 638 bases was treated with restriction enzyme ncoi and bamhi , and linked to the same enzyme - treated pet3d to transform into a host in use for expression , e . coli bl21 ( de3 ) ( hsds gal γc i ts857 ind 1 sam7 nin5 lacuv5 - t7 genel , novagen inc ., madison , wis ., u . s . a .). the used synthetic oligonucleotides were provided by bio - synthesis co . in u . s . a ., which were synthesized as we requested . the oligonucleotides included a cleavage site of the used restriction enzyme , and was designed to exactly bind to origin of replication for protein . the sequence of the synthetic oligonucleotides are as follows : among the transformed e . coli bl21 ( de3 ) with superoxide dismutase gene , a stronger recombinant clone in degree of expression was selected ( kctc 0288bp ) and inoculated on 1 liter of ampicillin ( 100 ug / ul )- added lb medium . the lb medium was cultured until od 600 reached 0 . 5 at 30 ° c . iptg was added so as to be 400 mm , inducing the superoxide dismutase protein to be expressed . after culturing the medium together with shaking for 4 hours , the cell was centrifuged at 4000 g for 10 min and recovered . the resulting cell was dissolved in 25 ml of lysis buffer ( 20 mm potassium phosphate , ph 7 . 0 , 20 mm nacl , 0 . 1 mm edta , 0 . 1 mm pmsf ), frozen and thawed three times , and then crushed by operating a sonic generator ( branson sonifier , model 450 ) 5 times for 1 min each time . the resulting cell extract was centrifuged at 25 , 000 g for 1 hour and the supernatant was heat - treated for 1 hour at 80 ° c . the sample was recentrifuged at 25 , 000 g for 30 min and the obtained supernatant was isolated on anion exchange chromatography ( q - sepharose , fplc , lkb pharmacia ) and finally on gel filtration chromatography ( superdex - 200 , fplc , lkb pharmacia ). when the purified protein was electrophorated on 16 . 5 % tricine sds - polyacrylamide gel , two protein bands of which molecular weight correspond to 24 kda and 96 kda were identified ( see , fig4 ). the protein band having the molecular weight of 24 kda shows almost identical value to 24 , 344 kda of sod molecular weight as calculated from sod amino acid sequence . the molecular weight of the protein was found to be 24 , 240 da exactly by using the mass spectrum . the oligomer having 96 kda of molecular weight was conformed to the fact that a homotertamer is present in x - ray crystalline construction of a . pyrophilus sod and gel filtration chromatography of sephacryl s - 200 identified that the molecular weight is 89 kda ( see , fig5 ). in order to find the kind of metals contained in the purified sod , the results of analysis of the sod using atom absorption analyser ( barian spectraa800 ) indicated that 0 . 75 gram atom of fe is contained per monomer . 1 ) for obtaining fe - free sod , the obtained sod protein as above was subjected to dialysis against the following solutions in turn . ( i ) 50 mm acetate buffer solution , ph 3 . 8 . 8m urea , 10 mm edta , at 25 ° c . for 16 hours ( ii ) 50 mm acetate buffer solution , ph 3 . 8 , 8m urea , 1 mm edta , at 25 ° c . for 4 hours ( iii ) 50 mm potassium phosphate buffer solution , ph 7 . 0 , 8m urea , 1 mm edta , at 25 ° c . for 4 hours ( iv ) 50 mm potassium phosphate buffer solution , ph 7 . 0 , 1 mm edta at 25 ° c . for 4 hours ( v ) 50 mm potassium phosphate buffer solution , ph 7 . 0 at 25 ° c . for 4 hours . thereafter , the protein was finally isolated using desalting column ( fplc , pharmacia ). 2 ) for obtaining fe - containing sod , fe - free sod was subjected to dialysis against the following solution at 4 ° c . in turn . ( i ) 50 mm acetate buffer solution , ph 3 . 8 , 8m urea , 10 mm feso 4 ( ii ) 50 mm potassium phosphate buffer solution , ph 7 . 5 , 8m urea , 10 mm feso 4 ( iii ) 50 mm potassium phosphate buffer solution , ph 7 . 0 , 1 mm feso 4 ( iv ) 50 mm potassium phosphate buffer solution , ph 7 . 0 , 0 . 5 mm edta . then , centricon was used to concentrate the dialyzed protein to a concentration of 1 mg / ml . atomic absorption spectrophotometer ( barian sectraa800 ) was used to measure the reconstituted sod containing fe , and then it was found that 0 . 85 gram atom of fe is contained per monomer . it has been reported that several kinds of sods are inhibited by a certain inhibitor in its activity , respectively , depending on the kind of metal attached thereto . for cu , zn - sod , its activity is inhibited by kcn , and for fe - sod , is inhibited by h 2 o 2 . therefore , in order to examine the ligand metal of the sod enzyme , a . pyrophilus sod enzyme was previously cultured in 20 mm phosphate buffer solution , ph 7 . 0 containing two inhibitors , i . e . kcn and h 2 o 2 and a staining solution was added to the cultured solutions . sod removed o 2 - to prevent the solution from staining , and thus colorless spots appear in the solutions . a . pyrophilus sod was not inhibited by kcn , but inhibited selectly by h 2 o 2 . as a result , the sod would be a fe - sod ( see . fig6 ). fe - free sod was made for the purpose of determining enzymic activity of fe - free sod and carried out electrophoresis on tricine sds - polyacrylamde gel by using nbt staining method ( see , fig7 ). from sds - page , the fe - free sod was found to be present as an inactive monomer and the reconstituted fe - sod was found to be present in two forms , i . e ., an active tetramer and an inactive monomer . the non - heat treated protein showed the same bands as those of the heat treated protein at 95 ° c . for 10 min . when examined in cytochrome c reduction assay , it was found that specific activity of a . pyrophilus sod was 1 , 400 units / mg . this value is similar to 1 , 623 units / mg of fe - sod of e . coli and 1 , 387 units / mg of mn - sod of bacillus stearothennophilus . namely , the activity of a . pyrophilus at growth optimum temperature could not be compared , but the activity of a . pyrophilus at normal temperature was of a similar level to other sod species . to observe thermal stability of the enzyme , cytochrome c reduction assay was conducted . the results indicated that a . pyrophilus sod retained approximately 80 % of activity even after heating at 95 ° c . for two hours ( see , fig8 ). to the contrary , e . coli fe - sod and bacillus stearothermophilus mn - sod lost all their activities after heating at 95 ° c . as a result , it is demonstrated that the isolated enzyme sod according to the invention has strong thermal activity as expected . for the purpose of examining stability of the enzyme at various ph , sod activity was examined at a normal temperature in cytochrome c reduction assay . the results showed the enzyme retained its activity at a range of ph 4 . 2 to ph 10 . 7 . the kinds of buffer solution used at each ph are as follows : ph 4 . 0 , 4 . 6 : acetate buffer ; ph 5 . 5 : citrate buffer ; ph 6 . 2 : mes ( 2 -[ n - morpholino ] ethansulfonic acid ) buffer ; ph 6 . 8 : btp ( bis - tris propane ) buffer ; ph 7 . 0 : phosphate buffer ; ph 7 . 5 : hepes buffer ; ph 8 . 2 : tris - cl buffer ; ph 9 . 2 , 10 . 0 , 10 . 7 : carbonate buffer ). therefore . it was observed that the activity of the enzyme was not lost at all at a range of ph 4 . 2 to ph 10 . 0 . __________________________________________________________________________ # sequence listing - 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gene sequences of superoxide dismutase of aquifex pyrophilus which is one of hyperthermophile microorganism and protein expressed therefrom are provided , wherein the protein is used as a necessary medicament in treatment of inflammation , disease of autoimmunization , chromosome lesion and the like , and particularly , a . pyrophilus is a hyperthermophile which can grow at the optimum temperature of 85 ° c ., and thus the superoxide dismutase of a . pyrophilus has a higher thermal stability than other organisms , resulting in further broad applications in the pharmaceutical field .