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Vallapurackal J, Stucki A, Liang AD, Klehr J, Dittrich PS, Ward TR. Ultrahigh-Throughput Screening of an Artificial Metalloenzyme using Double Emulsions. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2022; 61:e202207328. [PMID: 36130864 PMCID: PMC9828110 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202207328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2022] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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The potential for ultrahigh-throughput compartmentalization renders droplet microfluidics an attractive tool for the directed evolution of enzymes. Importantly, it ensures maintenance of the phenotype-genotype linkage, enabling reliable identification of improved mutants. Herein, we report an approach for ultrahigh-throughput screening of an artificial metalloenzyme in double emulsion droplets (DEs) using commercially available fluorescence-activated cell sorters (FACS). This protocol was validated by screening a 400 double-mutant streptavidin library for ruthenium-catalyzed deallylation of an alloc-protected aminocoumarin. The most active variants, identified by next-generation sequencing, were in good agreement with hits obtained using a 96-well plate procedure. These findings pave the way for the systematic implementation of FACS for the directed evolution of (artificial) enzymes and will significantly expand the accessibility of ultrahigh-throughput DE screening protocols.
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- Jaicy Vallapurackal
- Department of ChemistryUniversity of BaselMattenstrasse 24a4058BaselSwitzerland,National Competence Center in Research (NCCR) Molecular Systems EngineeringBaselSwitzerland
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- Department of Biosystems Science and EngineeringETH ZurichMattenstrasse 264058BaselSwitzerland,National Competence Center in Research (NCCR) Molecular Systems EngineeringBaselSwitzerland
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- Department of ChemistryUniversity of BaselMattenstrasse 24a4058BaselSwitzerland,National Competence Center in Research (NCCR) Molecular Systems EngineeringBaselSwitzerland
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- Department of ChemistryUniversity of BaselMattenstrasse 24a4058BaselSwitzerland,National Competence Center in Research (NCCR) Molecular Systems EngineeringBaselSwitzerland
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- Department of Biosystems Science and EngineeringETH ZurichMattenstrasse 264058BaselSwitzerland,National Competence Center in Research (NCCR) Molecular Systems EngineeringBaselSwitzerland
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- Department of ChemistryUniversity of BaselMattenstrasse 24a4058BaselSwitzerland,National Competence Center in Research (NCCR) Molecular Systems EngineeringBaselSwitzerland
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Pan T, Wang Y, Xue X, Zhang C. Rational design of allosteric switchable catalysts. EXPLORATION 2022; 2:20210095. [PMCID: PMC10191014 DOI: 10.1002/exp.20210095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2021] [Accepted: 12/01/2021] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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- Tiezheng Pan
- State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology Nankai University Tianjin China
- School of Life Sciences Northwestern Polytechnical University Xi'an China
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- State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology Nankai University Tianjin China
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- State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology Nankai University Tianjin China
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- State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology Nankai University Tianjin China
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Stucki A, Vallapurackal J, Ward TR, Dittrich PS. Droplet Microfluidics and Directed Evolution of Enzymes: An Intertwined Journey. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021; 60:24368-24387. [PMID: 33539653 PMCID: PMC8596820 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202016154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Evolution is essential to the generation of complexity and ultimately life. It relies on the propagation of the properties, traits, and characteristics that allow an organism to survive in a challenging environment. It is evolution that shaped our world over about four billion years by slow and iterative adaptation. While natural evolution based on selection is slow and gradual, directed evolution allows the fast and streamlined optimization of a phenotype under selective conditions. The potential of directed evolution for the discovery and optimization of enzymes is mostly limited by the throughput of the tools and methods available for screening. Over the past twenty years, versatile tools based on droplet microfluidics have been developed to address the need for higher throughput. In this Review, we provide a chronological overview of the intertwined development of microfluidics droplet-based compartmentalization methods and in vivo directed evolution of enzymes.
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- Ariane Stucki
- Department of Biosystems Science and EngineeringETH ZurichMattenstrasse 26CH-4058BaselSwitzerland
- National Competence Center in Research (NCCR)Molecular Systems EngineeringBaselSwitzerland
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- Department of ChemistryUniversity of BaselMattenstrasse 24aCH-4058BaselSwitzerland
- National Competence Center in Research (NCCR)Molecular Systems EngineeringBaselSwitzerland
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- Department of ChemistryUniversity of BaselMattenstrasse 24aCH-4058BaselSwitzerland
- National Competence Center in Research (NCCR)Molecular Systems EngineeringBaselSwitzerland
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- Department of Biosystems Science and EngineeringETH ZurichMattenstrasse 26CH-4058BaselSwitzerland
- National Competence Center in Research (NCCR)Molecular Systems EngineeringBaselSwitzerland
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Stucki A, Vallapurackal J, Ward TR, Dittrich PS. Droplet Microfluidics and Directed Evolution of Enzymes: An Intertwined Journey. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202016154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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- Ariane Stucki
- Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering ETH Zurich Mattenstrasse 26 CH-4058 Basel Switzerland
- National Competence Center in Research (NCCR) Molecular Systems Engineering Basel Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry University of Basel Mattenstrasse 24a CH-4058 Basel Switzerland
- National Competence Center in Research (NCCR) Molecular Systems Engineering Basel Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry University of Basel Mattenstrasse 24a CH-4058 Basel Switzerland
- National Competence Center in Research (NCCR) Molecular Systems Engineering Basel Switzerland
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- Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering ETH Zurich Mattenstrasse 26 CH-4058 Basel Switzerland
- National Competence Center in Research (NCCR) Molecular Systems Engineering Basel Switzerland
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Qu G, Li A, Acevedo‐Rocha CG, Sun Z, Reetz MT. Die zentrale Rolle der Methodenentwicklung in der gerichteten Evolution selektiver Enzyme. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201901491] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- Ge Qu
- Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology Chinese Academy of Sciences 32 West 7th Avenue, Tianjin Airport Economic Area Tianjin 300308 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Green Transformation of Bio-resources Hubei Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology College of Life Sciences Hubei University 368 Youyi Road Wuchang Wuhan 430062 China
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- Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology Chinese Academy of Sciences 32 West 7th Avenue, Tianjin Airport Economic Area Tianjin 300308 China
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- Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology Chinese Academy of Sciences 32 West 7th Avenue, Tianjin Airport Economic Area Tianjin 300308 China
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1 45470 Mülheim Deutschland
- Department of Chemistry, Hans-Meerwein-Straße 4 Philipps-Universität 35032 Marburg Deutschland
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Qu G, Li A, Acevedo‐Rocha CG, Sun Z, Reetz MT. The Crucial Role of Methodology Development in Directed Evolution of Selective Enzymes. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020; 59:13204-13231. [PMID: 31267627 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201901491] [Citation(s) in RCA: 238] [Impact Index Per Article: 59.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- Ge Qu
- Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology Chinese Academy of Sciences 32 West 7th Avenue, Tianjin Airport Economic Area Tianjin 300308 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Green Transformation of Bio-resources Hubei Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology College of Life Sciences Hubei University 368 Youyi Road Wuchang Wuhan 430062 China
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- Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology Chinese Academy of Sciences 32 West 7th Avenue, Tianjin Airport Economic Area Tianjin 300308 China
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- Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology Chinese Academy of Sciences 32 West 7th Avenue, Tianjin Airport Economic Area Tianjin 300308 China
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1 45470 Mülheim Germany
- Department of Chemistry, Hans-Meerwein-Strasse 4 Philipps-University 35032 Marburg Germany
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Sheldon RA, Brady D. Broadening the Scope of Biocatalysis in Sustainable Organic Synthesis. CHEMSUSCHEM 2019; 12:2859-2881. [PMID: 30938093 DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201900351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 155] [Impact Index Per Article: 31.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Revised: 02/05/2019] [Accepted: 03/04/2019] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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This Review is aimed at synthetic organic chemists who may be familiar with organometallic catalysis but have no experience with biocatalysis, and seeks to provide an answer to the perennial question: if it is so attractive, why wasn't it extensively used in the past? The development of biocatalysis in industrial organic synthesis is traced from the middle of the last century. Advances in molecular biology in the last two decades, in particular genome sequencing, gene synthesis and directed evolution of proteins, have enabled remarkable improvements in scope and substantially reduced biocatalyst development times and cost contributions. Additionally, improvements in biocatalyst recovery and reuse have been facilitated by developments in enzyme immobilization technologies. Biocatalysis has become eminently competitive with chemocatalysis and the biocatalytic production of important pharmaceutical intermediates, such as enantiopure alcohols and amines, has become mainstream organic synthesis. The synthetic space of biocatalysis has significantly expanded and is currently being extended even further to include new-to-nature biocatalytic reactions.
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- Roger A Sheldon
- Molecular Sciences Institute, School of Chemistry, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2050, South Africa
- Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Section BOC, van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HZ, Delft, The Netherlands
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- Molecular Sciences Institute, School of Chemistry, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2050, South Africa
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Li G, Dong Y, Reetz MT. Can Machine Learning Revolutionize Directed Evolution of Selective Enzymes? Adv Synth Catal 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/adsc.201900149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- Guangyue Li
- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests/Key Laboratory of Control of Biological Hazard Factors (Plant Origin) for Agri-product Quality and Safety, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Plant ProtectionChinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Beijing 100081 People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests/Key Laboratory of Control of Biological Hazard Factors (Plant Origin) for Agri-product Quality and Safety, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Plant ProtectionChinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Beijing 100081 People's Republic of China
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr Germany
- Fachbereich Chemie der Philipps-Universität Hans-Meerwein-Strasse 35032 Marburg Germany
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Bornscheuer UT, Hauer B, Jaeger KE, Schwaneberg U. Gerichtete Evolution ermöglicht das Design von maßgeschneiderten Proteinen zur nachhaltigen Produktion von Chemikalien und Pharmazeutika. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201812717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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- Uwe T. Bornscheuer
- Biotechnologie & Enzymkatalyse; Institut für Biochemie; Universität Greifswald; Felix-Hausdorff-Straße 4 17487 Greifswald Deutschland
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- Institut für Technische Biochemie; Universität Stuttgart; Allmandring 31 70569 Stuttgart Deutschland
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- Institut für Molekulare Enzymtechnologie; Heinrich-Heine-, Universität Düsseldorf & Forschungszentrum Jülich; Wilhelm-Johnen-Straße 52426 Jülich Deutschland
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- ABBt-Institut für Biotechnologie; RWTH Aachen und DWI Leibniz-Institut für Interaktive Materialien; Worringer Weg 3 52074 Aachen Deutschland
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Bornscheuer UT, Hauer B, Jaeger KE, Schwaneberg U. Directed Evolution Empowered Redesign of Natural Proteins for the Sustainable Production of Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2018; 58:36-40. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201812717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2018] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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- Uwe T. Bornscheuer
- Biotechnology & Enzyme Catalysis; Institute of Biochemistry; Greifswald University; Felix Hausdorff Strasse 4 17487 Greifswald Germany
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- Institute of Technical Biochemistry; University of Stuttgart; Allmandring 31 70569 Stuttgart Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Enzyme Technology; Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and Research Center Jülich; Wilhelm Johnen Strasse 52426 Jülich Germany
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- ABBt-Institute of Biotechnology; RWTH Aachen University and DWI Leibniz Institute for, Interactive Materials; Worringer Weg 3 52074 Aachen Germany
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Lipshutz BH, Ghorai S, Cortes-Clerget M. The Hydrophobic Effect Applied to Organic Synthesis: Recent Synthetic Chemistry "in Water". Chemistry 2018; 24:6672-6695. [PMID: 29465785 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201705499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 184] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2017] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Recent developments over the past few years in aqueous micellar catalysis are discussed. Applications to problems in synthesis are highlighted, enabled by the use of surfactants that self-aggregate in water into micelles as nanoreactors. These include amphiphiles that have been available for some time, as well as those that have been newly designed. Reactions catalyzed by transition metals, including Pd, Cu, Rh, and Au, are of particular focus.
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- Bruce H Lipshutz
- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, USA
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- Chemistry Research & Development, MilliporeSigma, 6000 N. Teutonia Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, 53209, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, USA
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Hestericová M, Heinisch T, Alonso-Cotchico L, Maréchal JD, Vidossich P, Ward TR. Directed Evolution of an Artificial Imine Reductase. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201711016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Martina Hestericová
- Department Chemistry; University of Basel; Mattenstrasse 24a, BPR 1096 Basel 4002 Switzerland
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- Department Chemistry; University of Basel; Mattenstrasse 24a, BPR 1096 Basel 4002 Switzerland
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- Departament de Química; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Edifici C.n. 08193 Cerdonyola del Vallès Barcelona Spain
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- Departament de Química; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Edifici C.n. 08193 Cerdonyola del Vallès Barcelona Spain
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- Departament de Química; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Edifici C.n. 08193 Cerdonyola del Vallès Barcelona Spain
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- Department Chemistry; University of Basel; Mattenstrasse 24a, BPR 1096 Basel 4002 Switzerland
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Hestericová M, Heinisch T, Alonso-Cotchico L, Maréchal JD, Vidossich P, Ward TR. Directed Evolution of an Artificial Imine Reductase. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2018; 57:1863-1868. [PMID: 29265726 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201711016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2017] [Revised: 12/14/2017] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Artificial metalloenzymes, resulting from incorporation of a metal cofactor within a host protein, have received increasing attention in the last decade. The directed evolution is presented of an artificial transfer hydrogenase (ATHase) based on the biotin-streptavidin technology using a straightforward procedure allowing screening in cell-free extracts. Two streptavidin isoforms were yielded with improved catalytic activity and selectivity for the reduction of cyclic imines. The evolved ATHases were stable under biphasic catalytic conditions. The X-ray structure analysis reveals that introducing bulky residues within the active site results in flexibility changes of the cofactor, thus increasing exposure of the metal to the protein surface and leading to a reversal of enantioselectivity. This hypothesis was confirmed by a multiscale approach based mostly on molecular dynamics and protein-ligand dockings.
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- Martina Hestericová
- Department Chemistry, University of Basel, Mattenstrasse 24a, BPR 1096, Basel, 4002, Switzerland
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- Department Chemistry, University of Basel, Mattenstrasse 24a, BPR 1096, Basel, 4002, Switzerland
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- Departament de Química, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Edifici C.n., 08193, Cerdonyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
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- Departament de Química, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Edifici C.n., 08193, Cerdonyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
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- Departament de Química, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Edifici C.n., 08193, Cerdonyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department Chemistry, University of Basel, Mattenstrasse 24a, BPR 1096, Basel, 4002, Switzerland
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Agostini F, Völler J, Koksch B, Acevedo‐Rocha CG, Kubyshkin V, Budisa N. Biocatalysis with Unnatural Amino Acids: Enzymology Meets Xenobiology. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2017; 56:9680-9703. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201610129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 131] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2016] [Revised: 12/13/2016] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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- Federica Agostini
- Institut für ChemieTechnische Universität Berlin Müller-Breslau-Strasse 10 10623 Berlin Germany
- Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry—Organic ChemistryFreie Universität Berlin Takustrasse 3 14195 Berlin Germany
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- Institut für ChemieTechnische Universität Berlin Müller-Breslau-Strasse 10 10623 Berlin Germany
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- Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry—Organic ChemistryFreie Universität Berlin Takustrasse 3 14195 Berlin Germany
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- Institut für ChemieTechnische Universität Berlin Müller-Breslau-Strasse 10 10623 Berlin Germany
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- Institut für ChemieTechnische Universität Berlin Müller-Breslau-Strasse 10 10623 Berlin Germany
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Biokatalyse mit nicht‐natürlichen Aminosäuren: Enzymologie trifft Xenobiologie. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201610129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Renata H, Wang ZJ, Arnold FH. Expanding the enzyme universe: accessing non-natural reactions by mechanism-guided directed evolution. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2015; 54:3351-67. [PMID: 25649694 PMCID: PMC4404643 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201409470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 360] [Impact Index Per Article: 40.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2014] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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High selectivity and exquisite control over the outcome of reactions entice chemists to use biocatalysts in organic synthesis. However, many useful reactions are not accessible because they are not in nature's known repertoire. In this Review, we outline an evolutionary approach to engineering enzymes to catalyze reactions not found in nature. We begin with examples of how nature has discovered new catalytic functions and how such evolutionary progression has been recapitulated in the laboratory starting from extant enzymes. We then examine non-native enzyme activities that have been exploited for chemical synthesis, with an emphasis on reactions that do not have natural counterparts. Non-natural activities can be improved by directed evolution, thus mimicking the process used by nature to create new catalysts. Finally, we describe the discovery of non-native catalytic functions that may provide future opportunities for the expansion of the enzyme universe.
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- Hans Renata
- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Blvd. MC 210-41, Pasadena, CA 91125 (USA)
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Blvd. MC 210-41, Pasadena, CA 91125 (USA)
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Blvd. MC 210-41, Pasadena, CA 91125 (USA)
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Renata H, Wang ZJ, Arnold FH. Ausdehnung des Enzym-Universums: Zugang zu nicht-natürlichen Reaktionen durch mechanismusgeleitete, gerichtete Evolution. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2015. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201409470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Reetz MT. One Hundred Years of the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2014; 53:8562-86. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201403217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2014] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Deuss PJ, Popa G, Slawin AMZ, Laan W, Kamer PCJ. Artificial Copper Enzymes for Asymmetric Diels-Alder Reactions. ChemCatChem 2013. [DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201200671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Reetz MT. The Importance of Additive and Non-Additive Mutational Effects in Protein Engineering. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2013; 52:2658-66. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201207842] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2012] [Revised: 12/19/2012] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Die Bedeutung von additiven und nicht-additiven Mutationseffekten beim Protein-Engineering. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2013. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201207842] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Reetz MT. Laboratory evolution of stereoselective enzymes as a means to expand the toolbox of organic chemists. Tetrahedron 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2012.05.093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Zhang ZG, Parra LP, Reetz MT. Protein Engineering of Stereoselective Baeyer-Villiger Monooxygenases. Chemistry 2012; 18:10160-72. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201202163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Fernández-Álvaro E, Snajdrova R, Jochens H, Davids T, Böttcher D, Bornscheuer UT. A Combination of In Vivo Selection and Cell Sorting for the Identification of Enantioselective Biocatalysts. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2011; 50:8584-7. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201102360] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2011] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Fernández-Álvaro E, Snajdrova R, Jochens H, Davids T, Böttcher D, Bornscheuer UT. Eine Kombination aus In-vivo-Selektion und Zellsortierung zur Identifizierung enantioselektiver Biokatalysatoren. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2011. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201102360] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Prasad S, Bocola M, Reetz MT. Revisiting the Lipase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Directed Evolution of Substrate Acceptance and Enantioselectivity Using Iterative Saturation Mutagenesis. Chemphyschem 2011; 12:1550-7. [DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201100031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2011] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Reetz MT. Gerichtete Evolution stereoselektiver Enzyme: Eine ergiebige Katalysator‐Quelle für asymmetrische Reaktionen. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2010. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201000826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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- Manfred T. Reetz
- Max‐Planck‐Institut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser‐Wilhelm‐Platz 1, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr (Deutschland), Fax: (+49) 208‐306‐2985 http://www.mpi‐muelheim.mpg.de/mpikofo_home.html
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Reetz MT. Laboratory Evolution of Stereoselective Enzymes: A Prolific Source of Catalysts for Asymmetric Reactions. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2010; 50:138-74. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201000826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 441] [Impact Index Per Article: 31.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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- Manfred T. Reetz
- Max‐Planck‐Institut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser‐Wilhelm‐Platz 1, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr (Germany), Fax: (+49) 208‐306‐2985 http://www.mpi‐muelheim.mpg.de/mpikofo_home.html
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Zheng H, Kahakeaw D, Acevedo JP, Reetz M. Directed Evolution of Enantioconvergency: The Case of an Epoxide Hydrolase-Catalyzed Reaction of a Racemic Epoxide. ChemCatChem 2010. [DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201000122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Chen Y, Tang W, Mou J, Li Z. High-Throughput Method for Determining the Enantioselectivity of Enzyme-Catalyzed Hydroxylations Based on Mass Spectrometry. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2010; 49:5278-83. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201001772] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Chen Y, Tang W, Mou J, Li Z. High-Throughput Method for Determining the Enantioselectivity of Enzyme-Catalyzed Hydroxylations Based on Mass Spectrometry. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2010. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201001772] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Bougioukou D, Kille S, Taglieber A, Reetz M. Directed Evolution of an Enantioselective Enoate-Reductase: Testing the Utility of Iterative Saturation Mutagenesis. Adv Synth Catal 2009. [DOI: 10.1002/adsc.200900644] [Citation(s) in RCA: 150] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Reetz MT, Bocola M, Wang LW, Sanchis J, Cronin A, Arand M, Zou J, Archelas A, Bottalla AL, Naworyta A, Mowbray SL. Directed evolution of an enantioselective epoxide hydrolase: uncovering the source of enantioselectivity at each evolutionary stage. J Am Chem Soc 2009; 131:7334-43. [PMID: 19469578 DOI: 10.1021/ja809673d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Directed evolution of enzymes as enantioselective catalysts in organic chemistry is an alternative to traditional asymmetric catalysis using chiral transition-metal complexes or organocatalysts, the different approaches often being complementary. Moreover, directed evolution studies allow us to learn more about how enzymes perform mechanistically. The present study concerns a previously evolved highly enantioselective mutant of the epoxide hydrolase from Aspergillus niger in the hydrolytic kinetic resolution of racemic glycidyl phenyl ether. Kinetic data, molecular dynamics calculations, molecular modeling, inhibition experiments, and X-ray structural work for the wild-type (WT) enzyme and the best mutant reveal the basis of the large increase in enantioselectivity (E = 4.6 versus E = 115). The overall structures of the WT and the mutant are essentially identical, but dramatic differences are observed in the active site as revealed by the X-ray structures. All of the experimental and computational results support a model in which productive positioning of the preferred (S)-glycidyl phenyl ether, but not the (R)-enantiomer, forms the basis of enhanced enantioselectivity. Predictions regarding substrate scope and enantioselectivity of the best mutant are shown to be possible.
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- Manfred T Reetz
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, D-45470 Mulheim/Ruhr, Germany.
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Martha C, Heemskerk A, Hoogendoorn JC, Elders N, Niessen W, Orru R, Irth H. High-Throughput Reaction Optimisation and Activity Screening of Ferrocene-Based Lewis Acid-Catalyst Complexes by Using Continuous-Flow Reaction Detection Mass Spectrometry. Chemistry 2009; 15:7368-75. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.200900317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Reetz MT, Kahakeaw D, Sanchis J. Shedding light on the efficacy of laboratory evolution based on iterative saturation mutagenesis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009; 5:115-22. [DOI: 10.1039/b814862g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Becker S, Höbenreich H, Vogel A, Knorr J, Wilhelm S, Rosenau F, Jaeger KE, Reetz M, Kolmar H. Einzelzellbasierte Hochdurchsatz-Durchmusterung zur Identifizierung enantioselektiver hydrolytischer Enzyme. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2008. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.200705236] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Becker S, Höbenreich H, Vogel A, Knorr J, Wilhelm S, Rosenau F, Jaeger KE, Reetz M, Kolmar H. Single-Cell High-Throughput Screening To Identify Enantioselective Hydrolytic Enzymes. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2008; 47:5085-8. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.200705236] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Trapp O, Weber S, Bauch S, Bäcker T, Hofstadt W, Spliethoff B. High-Throughput Kinetic Study of Hydrogenation over Palladium Nanoparticles: Combination of Reaction and Analysis. Chemistry 2008; 14:4657-66. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.200701780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Kazlauskas RJ, Bornscheuer UT. Biotransformations with Lipases. BIOTECHNOLOGY 2008:36-191. [PMID: 0 DOI: 10.1002/9783527620906.ch3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Reetz MT, Rentzsch M, Pletsch A, Taglieber A, Hollmann F, Mondière RJG, Dickmann N, Höcker B, Cerrone S, Haeger MC, Sterner R. A Robust Protein Host for Anchoring Chelating Ligands and Organocatalysts. Chembiochem 2008; 9:552-64. [DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200700413] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Gas chromatographic high-throughput screening techniques in catalysis. J Chromatogr A 2007; 1184:160-90. [PMID: 18035362 DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2007.10.086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2007] [Revised: 10/09/2007] [Accepted: 10/29/2007] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Discovering highly efficient catalysts is of great scientific and economical interest. Advances in high-throughput assays in combination with sophisticated analytical techniques have increased the rapidity with which catalysts can be identified and optimized. Understanding how kinetics in the mechanism of catalysis is controlled by structural parameters is essential for a directed design of catalysts. To identify such rate-controlling elementary steps and to develop and refine models, comprehensive experimental kinetic data of a broad variety of substrates are necessary. In the present article concepts of high-throughput screening techniques in catalysis using gas chromatography are reviewed in a survey covering the period from 1998 to 2007. To cover also the origins of concepts and groundbreaking experiments in this research area milestones going back to 1950 are also reviewed. The first part of the review will focus on off-line gas chromatographic analysis, the second part on on-line gas chromatographic analysis covering sequential, parallelized and high-throughput multiplexing gas chromatography. The third part presents recent advances in the integration of chemical transformation and analysis in gas chromatography. The present review article describes the state-of-the-art, scope and limitations, and applications of these different high-throughput screening approaches.
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Reetz MT, Rentzsch M, Pletsch A, Maywald M, Maiwald P, Peyralans JJP, Maichele A, Fu Y, Jiao N, Hollmann F, Mondière R, Taglieber A. Directed evolution of enantioselective hybrid catalysts: a novel concept in asymmetric catalysis. Tetrahedron 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2007.03.177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Goldberg K, Schroer K, Lütz S, Liese A. Biocatalytic ketone reduction--a powerful tool for the production of chiral alcohols--part I: processes with isolated enzymes. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2007; 76:237-48. [PMID: 17516064 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-007-1002-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 273] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2007] [Revised: 04/13/2007] [Accepted: 04/15/2007] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Enzymes are able to perform reactions under mild conditions, e.g., pH and temperature, with remarkable chemo-, regio-, and stereoselectivity. Because of this feature, the number of biocatalysts used in organic synthesis has rapidly increased during the last decades, especially for the production of chiral compounds. The present review highlights biotechnological processes for the production of chiral alcohols by reducing prochiral ketones. These reactions can be catalyzed by either isolated enzymes or whole cells that exhibit ketone-reducing activity. The use of isolated enzymes is often preferred because of a higher volumetric productivity and the absence of side reactions. Both types of catalysts have also deficiencies limiting their use in synthesis of chiral alcohols. Because reductase-catalyzed reactions are dependent on cofactors, one major task in process development is to provide an effective method for regeneration of the consumed cofactors. In this paper, strategies for cofactor regeneration in biocatalytic ketone reduction are reviewed. Furthermore, different processes carried out on laboratory and industrial scales using isolated enzymes are presented. Attention is turned to process parameters, e.g., conversion, yield, enantiomeric excess, and process strategies, e.g., the application of biphasic systems or methods of in situ (co)product recovery. The biocatalytic production of chiral alcohols utilizing whole cells is presented in part II of this review.
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- Katja Goldberg
- Institute of Technical Biocatalysis, Hamburg University of Technology, 21073 Hamburg, Germany.
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Hamberg A, Lundgren S, Wingstrand E, Moberg C, Hult K. High-Throughput Synthesis and Analysis of Acylated Cyanohydrins. Chemistry 2007; 13:4334-41. [PMID: 17330315 DOI: 10.1002/chem.200601638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The yields and optical purities of products obtained from chiral Lewis acid/Lewis base-catalysed additions of alpha-ketonitriles to prochiral aldehydes could be accurately determined by an enzymatic method. The amount of remaining aldehyde was determined after its reduction to an alcohol, whilst the two product enantiomers were analysed after subsequent hydrolysis first by the (S)-selective Candida antarctica lipase B and then by the unselective pig liver esterase. The method could be used for analysis of products obtained from a number of aromatic aldehydes and aliphatic ketonitriles. Microreactor technology was successfully combined with high-throughput analysis for efficient catalyst optimization.
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- Anders Hamberg
- School of Biotechnology, Department of Biochemistry, AlbaNova University Center, SE 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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Reetz MT, Puls M, Carballeira JD, Vogel A, Jaeger KE, Eggert T, Thiel W, Bocola M, Otte N. Learning from directed evolution: Further lessons from theoretical investigations into cooperative mutations in lipase enantioselectivity. Chembiochem 2007; 8:106-12. [PMID: 17133645 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200600359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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An earlier experimental study, which involved the directed evolution of enantioselective lipase variants from Pseudomonas aeruginosa as catalysts in the hydrolytic kinetic resolution of 2-methyl-decanoic acid p-nitrophenyl ester, provided a mutant with six mutations. Consequently, the selectivity factor was found to increase from E = 1.1 for the wild-type to E = 51 for the best mutant. Only one of the amino acid exchanges in this mutant was found to occur next to the binding pocket, the other mutations being remote. Our previous theoretical analysis with molecular-dynamics simulations helped to unveil the source of enhanced enantioselectivity: a relay mechanism that involves two of the six mutations was shown to induce strong cooperativity. In this investigation, single, double, and triple mutants were constructed and tested as enantioselective catalysts. This study supports our original postulate regarding the relay mechanism, offers further mechanistic insight into the role of individual mutations, and provides mutants that display even higher enantioselectivity (E of up to 64).
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- Manfred T Reetz
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, 45470 Mülheim/Ruhr, Germany.
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Reetz MT, Carballeira JD. Iterative saturation mutagenesis (ISM) for rapid directed evolution of functional enzymes. Nat Protoc 2007; 2:891-903. [PMID: 17446890 DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2007.72] [Citation(s) in RCA: 580] [Impact Index Per Article: 34.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Iterative saturation mutagenesis (ISM) is a new and efficient method for the directed evolution of functional enzymes. It reduces the necessary molecular biological work and the screening effort drastically. It is based on a Cartesian view of the protein structure, performing iterative cycles of saturation mutagenesis at rationally chosen sites in an enzyme, a given site being composed of one, two or three amino acid positions. The basis for choosing these sites depends on the nature of the catalytic property to be improved, e.g., enantioselectivity, substrate acceptance or thermostability. In the case of thermostability, sites showing highest B-factors (available from X-ray data) are chosen. The pronounced increase in thermostability of the lipase from Bacillus subtilis (Lip A) as a result of applying ISM is illustrated here.
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- Manfred T Reetz
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, 45470 Mülheim/Ruhr, Germany.
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Reetz MT, Carballeira JD, Peyralans J, Höbenreich H, Maichele A, Vogel A. Expanding the substrate scope of enzymes: combining mutations obtained by CASTing. Chemistry 2007; 12:6031-8. [PMID: 16789057 DOI: 10.1002/chem.200600459] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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In a previous paper, the combinatorial active-site saturation test (CAST) was introduced as an effective strategy for the directed evolution of enzymes toward broader substrate acceptance. CASTing comprises the systematic design and screening of focused libraries around the complete binding pocket, but it is only the first step of an evolutionary process because only the initial libraries of mutants are considered. In the present study, a simple method is presented for further optimization of initial hits by combining the mutational changes obtained from two different libraries. Combined lipase mutants were screened for hydrolytic activity against six notoriously difficult substrates (bulky carboxylic acid esters) and improved mutants showing significantly higher activity were identified. The enantioselectivity of the mutants in the hydrolytic kinetic resolution of two substrates was also studied, with the best mutant-substrate combination resulting in a selectivity factor of E=49. Finally, the catalytic profile of the evolved mutants in the hydrolysis of simple nonbranched carboxylic acid esters, ranging from acetate to palmitate, was studied for theoretical reasons.
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- Manfred T Reetz
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, 45470 Mülheim/Ruhr, Germany.
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