Pnp palmitate

Lipases were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (St. Louis, Mo, USA): Lipase PS from B. cepacia (Amano) and Palatase from R. miehei (Novozymes). Gum arabic, pNP-palmitate (pNPP), and p-nitrophenol (pNP) were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich Corporation. All other chemicals used in the present study were of analytical or better grade without further purification.

Erythrobacter seohaensis SW-135 was kindly provided by Prof. Jung-Hoon Yoon and cultivated in marine broth 2216 (BD Difco^TM, United States) at 30°C (Yoon et al., 2005 (link)). Kits for genomic DNA isolation, DNA purification, and plasmid isolation were purchased from Omega (United States). DNA polymerase was purchased from TaKaRa (China) and T4 DNA ligase and restriction endonucleases were purchased from New England Biolabs (United States). Plasmid pSMT3 (Herrmann et al., 1996 (link)) was stored in our lab and used as the vector for gene cloning and sequencing as well as protein expression. Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3) was used for protein expression. E. coli strains were grown at 37°C in Lysogeny broth (LB) medium containing 10 g/L NaCl, 10 g/L tryptone, and 5 g/L yeast extract (BD Difco^TM, United States), pH 7.0, supplemented with kanamycin (50 μg/mL) when required. Ni Sepharose (GE Healthcare, United States) was used to purify the His₆-tagged protein. p-Nitrophenyl (NP) acetate (C2), p-NP butyrate (C4), p-NP caprylate (C8), p-NP decanoate (C10), p-NP laurate (C12), p-NP myristate (C14), and p-NP palmitate (C16) were purchased from Sigma–Aldrich (United States) and p-NP hexanoate (C6) was purchased from TCI (Japan).

Escherichia coli DH5α (Biomed, Beijing, China) was used for propagation of plasmids, and P. pastoris GS115 (his4) was used for protein expression. Trizol reagent (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, USA) and Oligotex mRNA Midi Kit (Qiagen, Dusseldorf, Germany) were used for total RNA extraction and mRNA purification. BD SMART™ RACE cDNA Amplification Kit was purchased from Clontech (Palo Alto, CA, USA). Ex Taq DNA polymerase, PrimeSTAR HS DNA polymerase, restriction endonucleases, and pMD18-T were purchased from TaKaRa (Tokyo, Japan). T4 DNA ligase was purchased from New England Biolabs (Ipswich, MA, USA). The Pichia pastoris expression kit was obtained from Invitrogen (Carlsbad, USA). p-Nitrophenol (pNP), pNP acetate (pNPA), pNP butyrate (pNPB), pNP hexanoate (pNPH), pNP caprylate (pNPC), pNP decanoate (pNPD), pNP laurate (pNPL), pNP myristate (pNPM), and pNP palmitate (pNPP) were purchased from Sigma Chemical Co. (St. Lous, MO, USA). pNP hexanoate (pNPH) was obtained from HEOWNS Company (Tianjin, China). Olive oil, soybean oil, and peanut oil were purchased from a local market. All other chemicals used were of analytical grade unless otherwise stated.