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Li Q, Armstrong Z, MacRae A, Ugrinov A, Feng L, Chen B, Huang Y, Li H, Pan Y, Yang Z. Metal-Organic Materials (MOMs) Enhance Proteolytic Selectivity, Efficiency, and Reusability of Trypsin: A Time-Resolved Study on Proteolysis. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2023; 15:8927-8936. [PMID: 36757369 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c19873] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
Abstract
Proteases are involved in essential biological functions in nature and have become drug targets recently. In spite of the promising progress, two challenges, (i) the intrinsic instability and (ii) the difficulty in monitoring the catalytic process in real time, still hinder the further understanding and engineering of protease functionalities. These challenges are caused by the lack of proper materials/approaches to stabilize proteases and monitor proteolytic products (truncated polypeptides) in real time in a highly heterogeneous reaction mixture. This work combines metal-organic materials (MOMs), site-directed spin labeling-electron paramagnetic resonance (SDSL-EPR) spectroscopy, and mass spectrometry (MS) to overcome both barriers. A model protease, trypsin, which cleaves the peptide bonds at lysine or arginine residues, was immobilized on a Ca-MOM via aqueous-phase, one-pot cocrystallization, which allows for trypsin protection and ease of separation from its proteolytic products. Time-resolved EPR and MS were employed to monitor the populations, rotational motion, and sequences of the cleaved peptide truncations of a model protein substrate as the reaction proceeded. Our data suggest a significant (at least 5-10 times) enhancement in the catalytic efficiency (kcat/km) of trypsin@Ca-MOM and excellent reusability as compared to free trypsin in solution. Surprisingly, entrapping trypsin in Ca-MOMs results in cleavage site/region selectivity against the protein substrate, as compared to the near nonselective cleavage of all lysine and arginine residues of the substrate in solution. Remarkably, immobilizing trypsin allows for the separation and, thus, MS study on the sequences of truncated peptides in real time, leading to a time-resolved "movie" of trypsin proteolysis. This work demonstrates the use of MOMs and cocrystallization to enhance the selectivity, catalytic efficiency, and stability of trypsin, suggesting the possibility of tuning the catalytic performance of a general protease using MOMs.
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- Qiaobin Li
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58102, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58102, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58102, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58102, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58102, United States
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- Department of Plant Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58102, United States
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- Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58102, United States
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- Department of Plant Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58102, United States
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Changchun 130022, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58102, United States
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Li Q, Pan Y, Li H, Alhalhooly L, Li Y, Chen B, Choi Y, Yang Z. Size-Tunable Metal-Organic Framework-Coated Magnetic Nanoparticles for Enzyme Encapsulation and Large-Substrate Biocatalysis. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2020; 12:41794-41801. [PMID: 32830486 PMCID: PMC7501215 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c13148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
Abstract
Immobilizing enzymes on nanoparticles (NPs) enhances the cost-efficiency of biocatalysis; however, when the substrates are large, it becomes difficult to separate the enzyme@NP from the products while avoiding leaching or damage of enzymes in the reaction medium. Metal-organic framework (MOF)-coated magnetic NPs (MNPs) offer efficient magnetic separation and enhanced enzyme protection; however, the involved enzymes/substrates have to be smaller than the MOF apertures. A potential solution to these challenges is coprecipitating metal/ligand with enzymes on the MNP surface, which can partially bury (protect) the enzyme below the composite surface while exposing the rest of the enzyme to the reaction medium for catalysis of larger substrates. Here, to prove this concept, we show that using Ca2+ and terephthalic acid (BDC), large-substrate enzymes can be encapsulated in CaBDC-MOF layers coated on MNPs via an enzyme-friendly, aqueous-phase one-pot synthesis. Interestingly, we found that using MNPs as the nuclei of crystallization, the composite size can be tuned so that nanoscale composites were formed under low Ca2+/BDC concentrations, while microscale composites were formed under high Ca2+/BDC concentrations. While the microscale composites showed significantly enhanced reusability against a non-structured large substrate, the nanoscale composites displayed enhanced catalytic efficiency against a rigid, crystalline-like large substrate, starch, likely due to the improved diffusivity of the nanoscale composites. To our best knowledge, this is the first report on aqueous-phase one-pot synthesis of size-tunable enzyme@MOF/MNP composites for large-substrate biocatalysis. Our platform can be applied to immobilize other large-substrate enzymes with enhanced reusability and tunable sizes.
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- Qiaobin Li
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58102, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58102, United States
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- Department of Plant Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58102, United States
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- Department of Physics, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58102, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles California 90089, United States
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- Department of Plant Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58102, United States
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- Department of Physics, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58102, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58102, United States
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Farmakes J, Schuster I, Overby A, Alhalhooly L, Lenertz M, Li Q, Ugrinov A, Choi Y, Pan Y, Yang Z. Enzyme Immobilization on Graphite Oxide (GO) Surface via One-Pot Synthesis of GO/Metal-Organic Framework Composites for Large-Substrate Biocatalysis. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2020; 12:23119-23126. [PMID: 32338863 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c04101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Although enzyme immobilization has improved many areas, biocatalysis involving large-size substrates is still challenging for immobilization platform design because of the protein damage under the often "harsh" reaction conditions required for these reactions. Our recent efforts indicate the potential of using Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) to partially confine enzymes on the surface of MOF-based composites while offering sufficient substrate contact. Still, improvements are required to expand the feasible pH range and the efficiency of contacting substrates. In this contribution, we discovered that Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework (ZIF) and a new calcium-carboxylate based MOF (CaBDC) can both be coprecipitated with a model large-substrate enzyme, lysozyme (lys), to anchor the enzyme on the surface of graphite oxide (GO). We observed lys activity against its native substrate, bacterial cell walls, indicating lys was confined on composite surface. Remarkably, lys@GO/CaBDC displayed a stronger catalytic efficiency at pH 6.2 as compared to pH 7.4, indicating CaBDC is a good candidate for biocatalysis under acidic conditions as compared to ZIFs which disassemble under pH < 7. Furthermore, to understand the regions of lys being exposed to the reaction medium, we carried out a site-directed spin labeling (SDSL) electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy study. Our data showed a preferential orientation of lys in GO/ZIF composite, whereas a random orientation in GO/CaBDC. This is the first report on immobilizing solution-state large-substrate enzymes on GO surface using two different MOFs via one-pot synthesis. These platforms can be generalized to other large-substrate enzymes to carry out catalysis under the optimal buffer/pH conditions. The orientation of enzyme at the molecular level on composite surfaces is critical for guiding the rational design of new composites.
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- Jasmin Farmakes
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58102, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58102, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58102, United States
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- Department of Physics, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58102, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58102, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58102, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58102, United States
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- Department of Physics, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58102, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58102, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58102, United States
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Russo D, de Angelis A, Garvey CJ, Wurm FR, Appavou MS, Prevost S. Effect of Polymer Chain Density on Protein–Polymer Conjugate Conformation. Biomacromolecules 2019; 20:1944-1955. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.9b00184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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- Daniela Russo
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche & Istituto Officina dei Materiali, Institut Laue Langevin, 38042 Grenoble, France
- Australian Nuclear
Science and Technology Organization, New Illawarra Road, Lucas Heights, NSW 2234, Australia
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- Australian Nuclear
Science and Technology Organization, New Illawarra Road, Lucas Heights, NSW 2234, Australia
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- Max-Planck-Institut
für Polymerforschung, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Jülich Centre for Neutron Science (JCNS) at Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Lichtenbergstraße, 185748 Garching, Germany
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