Chymosin

Chymosin /ˈkaɪməsɪn/ or rennin /ˈrɛnɪn/ is a protease found in rennet. It is an aspartic endopeptidase belonging to MEROPS A1 family. It is produced by newborn ruminant animals in the lining of the abomasum to curdle the milk they ingest, allowing a longer residence in the bowels and better absorption. It is widely used in the production of cheese. Bovine chymosin is now produced recombinantly in E. coli, Aspergillus niger var awamori, and K. lactis as alternative resource.

Not to be confused with renin, an enzyme which takes part in regulation of arterial blood pressure.
Chymosin
Crystal structure of bovine chymosin complex with the inhibitor CP-113972.[1]
Identifiers
EC number3.4.23.4
CAS number9001-98-3
Databases
IntEnzIntEnz view
BRENDABRENDA entry
ExPASyNiceZyme view
KEGGKEGG entry
MetaCycmetabolic pathway
PRIAMprofile
PDB structuresRCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum
Gene OntologyAmiGO / QuickGO

Occurrence

Chymosin is produced by ruminant animals in the lining of the abomasum. Chymosin is produced by gastric chief cells in young ruminants and some other newborn animals[2] to curdle the milk they ingest, allowing a longer residence in the bowels and better absorption. Some other non-ruminant species, including pigs, cats, and seals, produce it.[3]

One study reported finding a chymosin-like enzyme in some human infants,[4] but others have failed to replicate this finding.[5] Humans have a pseudogene for chymosin that does not generate a protein, found on chromosome 1.[3][6] Humans have other proteins to digest milk, such as pepsin and lipase.[7]:262

Enzymatic reaction

Chymosin is used to bring about the extensive precipitation and curd formation in cheese-making. The native substrate of chymosin is K-casein which is specifically cleaved at the peptide bond between amino acid residues 105 and 106, phenylalanine and methionine.[8] The resultant product is calcium phosphocaseinate. When the specific linkage between the hydrophobic (para-casein) and hydrophilic (acidic glycopeptide) groups of casein is broken, the hydrophobic groups unite and form a 3D network that traps the aqueous phase of the milk.

Charge interactions between histidines on the kappa-casein and glutamates and aspartates of chymosin initiate enzyme binding to the substrate.[8] When chymosin is not binding substrate, a beta-hairpin, sometimes referred to as "the flap," can hydrogen bond with the active site, therefore covering it and not allowing further binding of substrate.[1]

Examples

Listed below are the ruminant Cym gene and corresponding human pseudogene:

Chymosin [Precursor] (B.taurus or C.dromedarius)
X-ray analysis of calf chymosin [9]
Identifiers
SymbolCym
Alt. symbolsCPC
NCBI gene529879
PDB4CMS
RefSeqNP_851337.1
UniProtQ9GK11
chymosin pseudogene (H.sapiens)
Identifiers
SymbolCYMP
NCBI gene643160
HGNC2588
OMIM118943
RefSeqNR_003599
Other data
LocusChr. 1 p13.3

Recombinant chymosin

Because of the imperfections and scarcity of microbial and animal rennets, producers sought replacements. With the development of genetic engineering, it became possible to extract rennet-producing genes from animal stomach and insert them into certain bacteria, fungi or yeasts to make them produce chymosin during fermentation.[10][11] The genetically modified microorganism is killed after fermentation and chymosin is isolated from the fermentation broth, so that the fermentation-produced chymosin (FPC) used by cheese producers does not contain any GM component or ingredient.[12] FPC contains the identical chymosin as the animal source, but produced in a more efficient way. FPC products have been on the market since 1990 and are considered the ideal milk-clotting enzyme.[13]

FPC was the first artificially produced enzyme to be registered and allowed by the US Food and Drug Administration. In 1999, about 60% of US hard cheese was made with FPC[14] and it has up to 80% of the global market share for rennet.[15]

By 2008, approximately 80% to 90% of commercially made cheeses in the US and Britain were made using FPC.[12] The most widely used fermentation-produced chymosin is produced either using the fungus Aspergillus niger or using Kluyveromyces lactis.

FPC contains only chymosin B, achieving a high degree of purity compared with animal rennet. FPC can deliver several benefits to the cheese producer compared with animal or microbial rennet, such as higher production yield, better curd texture and reduced bitterness.[13]

References
  1. PDB: 1CZI​; Groves MR, Dhanaraj V, Badasso M, Nugent P, Pitts JE, Hoover DJ, Blundell TL (October 1998). "A 2.3 A resolution structure of chymosin complexed with a reduced bond inhibitor shows that the active site beta-hairpin flap is rearranged when compared with the native crystal structure" (PDF). Protein Eng. 11 (10): 833–40. doi:10.1093/protein/11.10.833. PMID 9862200.
  2. Kitamura N, Tanimoto A, Hondo E, Andrén A, Cottrell DF, Sasaki M, Yamada J (August 2001). "Immunohistochemical study of the ontogeny of prochymosin--and pepsinogen-producing cells in the abomasum of sheep". Anatomia, Histologia, Embryologia: Journal of Veterinary Medicine Series C. 30 (4): 231–5. doi:10.1046/j.1439-0264.2001.00326.x. PMID 11534329.
  3. Staff, Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) Database. Last updated February 21, 1997 Chymosin pseudogene; CYMP prochymosin, included, in the OMIM
  4. Henschel, M. J.; Newport, M. J.; Parmar, V. (1987). "Gastric proteases in the human infant". Biology of the Neonate. 52 (5): 268–272. doi:10.1159/000242719. ISSN 0006-3126. PMID 3118972.
  5. Szecsi, Pal Bela; Harboe, Marianne (2013). "Chapter 5: Chymosin". In Rawlings, Neil D.; Salvesen, Guy (eds.). Handbook of Proteolytic Enzymes. 1. pp. 37–42. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-382219-2.00005-3.
  6. Fox, P. F. Google books. Cheese: Chemistry, Physics and Microbiology: Volume 1: General Aspects.
  7. Ian R. Sanderson M.D. and W. Allan Walker Development of the Gastrointestinal Tract pmph usa 1999. ISBN 155009081X
  8. Gilliland GL, Oliva MT, Dill J (1991). "Functional implications of the three-dimensional structure of bovine chymosin". Adv. Exp. Med. Biol. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. 306: 23–37. doi:10.1007/978-1-4684-6012-4_3. ISBN 978-1-4684-6014-8. PMID 1812710.
  9. PDB: 4CMS​; Newman M, Safro M, Frazao C, Khan G, Zdanov A, Tickle IJ, Blundell TL, Andreeva N (October 1991). "X-ray analyses of aspartic proteinases. IV. Structure and refinement at 2.2 A resolution of bovine chymosin". J. Mol. Biol. 221 (4): 1295–309. doi:10.1016/0022-2836(91)90934-X. PMID 1942052.
  10. Emtage JS, Angal S, Doel MT, Harris TJ, Jenkins B, Lilley G, Lowe PA (June 1983). "Synthesis of calf prochymosin (prorennin) in Escherichia coli". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 80 (12): 3671–5. Bibcode:1983PNAS...80.3671E. doi:10.1073/pnas.80.12.3671. PMC 394112. PMID 6304731.
  11. Harris TJ, Lowe PA, Lyons A, Thomas PG, Eaton MA, Millican TA, Patel TP, Bose CC, Carey NH, Doel MT (April 1982). "Molecular cloning and nucleotide sequence of cDNA coding for calf preprochymosin". Nucleic Acids Res. 10 (7): 2177–87. doi:10.1093/nar/10.7.2177. PMC 320601. PMID 6283469.
  12. "Chymosin". GMO Compass. Archived from the original on 2015-03-26. Retrieved 2011-03-03.
  13. Law BA (2010). Technology of Cheesemaking. UK: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 100–101. ISBN 978-1-4051-8298-0.
  14. "Food Biotechnology in the United States: Science, Regulation, and Issues". U.S. Department of State. Retrieved 2006-08-14.
  15. Johnson ME, Lucey JA (April 2006). "Major technological advances and trends in cheese". J. Dairy Sci. 89 (4): 1174–8. doi:10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(06)72186-5. PMID 16537950.

Further reading
  • The MEROPS online database for peptidases and their inhibitors: A01.006
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