Simultaneous display of bacterial and fungal lipases on the cell surface of bacillus subtilis

A small cell wall-binding domain (CWB c) of the Bacillus subtilis peptidoglycan hydrolase CwlC fused to B. subtilis lipase B was able to be localized on the cell wall of B. subtilis. With the aim of developing an efficient lipid-hydrolyzing bacterium with two different lipases on the cell surface, plasmids possessing genes for LipB-CWB c and CWB b-CutL (the cell wall-binding domain of CwlB fused to the Aspergillus oryzae lipolytic enzyme CutL) were constructed. B. subtilis harboring these plasmids accumulated considerable amounts of both lipases on the cell surface.