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Diao Z, Roelants SLKW, Luyten G, Goeman J, Vandenberghe I, Van Driessche G, De Maeseneire SL, Soetaert WK, Devreese B. Revision of the sophorolipid biosynthetic pathway in Starmerella bombicola based on new insights in the substrate profile of its lactone esterase. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS AND BIOPRODUCTS 2024; 17:89. [PMID: 38937850 PMCID: PMC11210130 DOI: 10.1186/s13068-024-02533-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2024] [Accepted: 06/18/2024] [Indexed: 06/29/2024]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Sophorolipids (SLs) are a class of natural, biodegradable surfactants that found their way as ingredients for environment friendly cleaning products, cosmetics and nanotechnological applications. Large-scale production relies on fermentations using the yeast Starmerella bombicola that naturally produces high titers of SLs from renewable resources. The resulting product is typically an extracellular mixture of acidic and lactonic congeners. Previously, we identified an esterase, termed Starmerella bombicola lactone esterase (SBLE), believed to act as an extracellular reverse lactonase to directly use acidic SLs as substrate. RESULTS We here show based on newly available pure substrates, HPLC and mass spectrometric analysis, that the actual substrates of SBLE are in fact bola SLs, revealing that SBLE actually catalyzes an intramolecular transesterification reaction. Bola SLs contain a second sophorose attached to the fatty acyl group that acts as a leaving group during lactonization. CONCLUSIONS The biosynthetic function by which the Starmerella bombicola 'lactone esterase' converts acidic SLs into lactonic SLs should be revised to a 'transesterase' where bola SL are the true intermediate. This insights paves the way for alternative engineering strategies to develop designer surfactants.
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- Zhoujian Diao
- Laboratory of Microbiology, Protein Research Unit, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Ghent University, K. L. Ledeganckstraat 35, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Centre for Industrial Biotechnology and Biocatalysis (InBio.Be), Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
- Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant, Rodenhuizenkaai 1, 9042, Ghent, Belgium
- R&D Department, AmphiStar, Zwijnaarde, Belgium
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- Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Centre for Industrial Biotechnology and Biocatalysis (InBio.Be), Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
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- Laboratory for Organic and Bioorganic Synthesis, Department of Organic Chemistry, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281 (S.4), 9000, Ghent, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Microbiology, Protein Research Unit, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Ghent University, K. L. Ledeganckstraat 35, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Microbiology, Protein Research Unit, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Ghent University, K. L. Ledeganckstraat 35, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Centre for Industrial Biotechnology and Biocatalysis (InBio.Be), Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
- R&D Department, AmphiStar, Zwijnaarde, Belgium
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- Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Centre for Industrial Biotechnology and Biocatalysis (InBio.Be), Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
- Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant, Rodenhuizenkaai 1, 9042, Ghent, Belgium
- R&D Department, AmphiStar, Zwijnaarde, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Microbiology, Protein Research Unit, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Ghent University, K. L. Ledeganckstraat 35, 9000, Ghent, Belgium.
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Wang Y, Du Y, Jin X, Xia Y, Zhao Y, Wu Z, Gomi K, Zhang W. Temperature-dependent alcohol acyltransferase reactions as the main enzymatic way to produce short-chain (C4-C8) and medium-chain (C9-C13) esters over the whole Daqu-making process. JOURNAL OF THE SCIENCE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE 2023; 103:3939-3949. [PMID: 36352497 DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.12327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2022] [Revised: 10/01/2022] [Accepted: 11/10/2022] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND The ester-synthesis enzymes influenced by environmental factors during Daqu-making process largely determine the flavor of Chinese liquor, but the main ester-synthesis enzyme and its key influencer remain unclear. Here, the volatile ester profiles over the whole Daqu-making process, under different treatments, for at least 90 days, were carefully analyzed, and the potential ester-synthesis enzymes, as well as their dependently environmental factors, were explored. RESULTS In the detected 46 volatile esters, only the short-chain (C4-C8) and medium-chain (C9-C13) ester content obviously changed, as the primary contributor discriminating different samples. Their trends were both consistent with that of the alcohols and the primary metabolism, which included alcohol acyltransferases (AATs) reaction with alcohols and acyl-CoAs as the substrates. Among the potential ester-synthesis enzymes, the typical AAT activity also exhibited the highest correlation with the short- and medium-chain esters (r > 0.78, P < 0.05). The Mantel test between environmental factors and ester production showed that temperature of Daqu was directly correlated with the short-chain esters (r = 0.58, P < 0.01) and AAT activity (r = 0.56, P < 0.01). Further, the short- and medium-chain ester content in Daqu under the treatment nearer to the reported optimal temperature of 40-50 °C of AATs reaction was overall higher than that of the other treatment Daqu. CONCLUSION This study revealed that the temperature-dependent AATs reaction was the main enzymatic method producing the short- and medium-chain esters over the whole Daqu-making process. The results could contribute to the flavor improvement of Baijiu. © 2022 Society of Chemical Industry.
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- Yan Wang
- College of Biomass Science and Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- College of Biomass Science and Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- College of Biomass Science and Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- College of Biomass Science and Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- College of Biomass Science and Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- College of Biomass Science and Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Laboratory of Fermentation Microbiology, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- College of Biomass Science and Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
- School of Liquor-Brewing Engineering, Sichuan University of Jinjiang College, Meishan, China
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Li L, Ding L, Shao Y, Sun S, Wang M, Xiang J, Zhou J, Wu G, Song Z, Xin Z. Enhancing the Hydrolysis and Acyl Transfer Activity of Carboxylesterase DLFae4 by a Combinational Mutagenesis and In-Silico Method. Foods 2023; 12:foods12061169. [PMID: 36981096 PMCID: PMC10048530 DOI: 10.3390/foods12061169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/01/2023] [Revised: 02/08/2023] [Accepted: 03/01/2023] [Indexed: 03/12/2023] Open
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In the present study, a feruloyl esterase DLFae4 identified in our previous research was modified by error-prone PCR and site-directed saturation mutation to enhance the catalytic efficiency and acyltransferase activity further. Five mutants with 6.9–118.9% enhanced catalytic activity toward methyl ferulate (MFA) were characterized under the optimum conditions. Double variant DLFae4-m5 exhibited the highest hydrolytic activity (270.97 U/mg), the Km value decreased by 83.91%, and the Kcat/Km value increased by 6.08-fold toward MFA. Molecular docking indicated that a complex hydrogen bond network in DLFae4-m5 was formed, with four of five bond lengths being shortened compared with DLFae4, which might account for the increase in catalytic activity. Acyl transfer activity assay revealed that the activity of DLFae4 was as high as 1550.796 U/mg and enhanced by 375.49% (5823.172 U/mg) toward 4-nitrophenyl acetate when residue Ala-341 was mutated to glycine (A341G), and the corresponding acyl transfer efficiency was increased by 7.7 times, representing the highest acyltransferase activity to date, and demonstrating that the WGG motif was pivotal for the acyltransferase activity in family VIII carboxylesterases. Further experiments indicated that DLFae4 and variant DLFae4 (A341G) could acylate cyanidin-3-O-glucoside effectively in aqueous solution. Taken together, our study suggested the effectiveness of error-prone PCR and site-directed saturation mutation to increase the specific activity of enzymes and may facilitate the practical application of this critical feruloyl esterase.
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- Longxiang Li
- Key Laboratory of Food Processing and Quality Control, College of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- Key Laboratory of Food Processing and Quality Control, College of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- Key Laboratory of Food Processing and Quality Control, College of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- Key Laboratory of Food Processing and Quality Control, College of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- Key Laboratory of Food Processing and Quality Control, College of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- Key Laboratory of Food Processing and Quality Control, College of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- Key Laboratory of Food Processing and Quality Control, College of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- Key Laboratory of Food Processing and Quality Control, College of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- Instrumental Analysis Center of CPU, China Pharmaceutical University, Ministry of Education, Nanjing 210009, China
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- Key Laboratory of Food Processing and Quality Control, College of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
- Correspondence: ; Tel./Fax: +86-25-8439-5618
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Alejaldre L, Lemay-St-Denis C, Pelletier JN, Quaglia D. Tuning Selectivity in CalA Lipase: Beyond Tunnel Engineering. Biochemistry 2023; 62:396-409. [PMID: 36580299 PMCID: PMC9851156 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.2c00513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2022] [Revised: 12/15/2022] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Engineering studies of Candida (Pseudozyma) antarctica lipase A (CalA) have demonstrated the potential of this enzyme in the selective hydrolysis of fatty acid esters of different chain lengths. CalA has been shown to bind substrates preferentially through an acyl-chain binding tunnel accessed via the hydrolytic active site; it has also been shown that selectivity for substrates of longer or shorter chain length can be tuned, for instance by modulating steric hindrance within the tunnel. Here we demonstrate that, whereas the tunnel region is certainly of paramount importance for substrate recognition, residues in distal regions of the enzyme can also modulate substrate selectivity. To this end, we investigate variants that carry one or more substitutions within the substrate tunnel as well as in distal regions. Combining experimental determination of the substrate selectivity using natural and synthetic substrates with computational characterization of protein dynamics and of tunnels, we deconvolute the effect of key substitutions and demonstrate that epistatic interactions contribute to procuring selectivity toward either long-chain or short/medium-chain fatty acid esters. We demonstrate that various mechanisms contribute to the diverse selectivity profiles, ranging from reshaping tunnel morphology and tunnel stabilization to obstructing the main substrate-binding tunnel, highlighting the dynamic nature of the substrate-binding region. This work provides important insights into the versatility of this robust lipase toward diverse applications.
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- Lorea Alejaldre
- PROTEO,
The Québec Network for Research on Protein, Function, Engineering
and Applications, https://proteo.ca/en/
- CGCC, Center
in Green Chemistry and Catalysis, Montréal, QC, CanadaG1V 0A6
- Department
of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, CanadaH3T 1J4
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- PROTEO,
The Québec Network for Research on Protein, Function, Engineering
and Applications, https://proteo.ca/en/
- CGCC, Center
in Green Chemistry and Catalysis, Montréal, QC, CanadaG1V 0A6
- Department
of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, CanadaH3T 1J4
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- PROTEO,
The Québec Network for Research on Protein, Function, Engineering
and Applications, https://proteo.ca/en/
- CGCC, Center
in Green Chemistry and Catalysis, Montréal, QC, CanadaG1V 0A6
- Department
of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, CanadaH3T 1J4
- Department
of Chemistry, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, CanadaH2V 0B3
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- PROTEO,
The Québec Network for Research on Protein, Function, Engineering
and Applications, https://proteo.ca/en/
- CGCC, Center
in Green Chemistry and Catalysis, Montréal, QC, CanadaG1V 0A6
- Department
of Chemistry, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, CanadaH2V 0B3
- Department
of Chemistry, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, CanadaK1S 5B6
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He L, Zheng J, Feng S, Xu L, Zhong N. Immobilization of Candida antarctica Lipase A onto Macroporous Resin NKA-9: Esterification and Glycerolysis Performance Study. J Oleo Sci 2022; 71:1337-1348. [PMID: 36047241 DOI: 10.5650/jos.ess22028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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In this study, lipase A from Candida antarctica (CALA) was immobilized onto the macroporous resin NKA-9. Immobilization conditions (pH, time and CALA concentration) were studied, enzymatic activity and immobilization efficiency (IE) up to 968.89 U/g and 53.19% were respectively obtained under optimal conditions (immobilization pH 5.0, time 5 h and CALA concentration at 30 mg/mL). Then, the NKA-9 supported CALA (CALA@NKA-9) samples were used to catalyze glycerolysis in solvent-free system. With 0.25 g of the present CALA@NKA-9 (soybean oil 3.52 g and glycerol 0.184 g) and after 12 h reaction at 50 °C, diacylglycerols (DAG) content up to 64.37% and triacylglycerols (TAG) conversion at 83.33% were obtained. The relationship between temperature and TAG conversion was LnV 0 = 13.9310-6.4212/T for CALA@NKA-9. Meanwhile, the activation energy (Ea) of CALA@NKA-9 was calculated to be 53.39 kJ/mol. In addition, reusability in the glycerolysis reaction was also evaluated, and 57.82% of the initial glycerolysis activity was retained after 9 consecutive applications. Furthermore, the CALA@NKA-9 was also used to catalyze the esterification (esterification of fatty acids with glycerol), however, the present CALA@NKA-9 cannot initiate the esterification. Therefore, the present CALA@NKA-9 is shown to be potential for DAG production through glycerolysis reaction.
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- Lihong He
- School of Food Science, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University
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- School of Food Science, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University
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- School of Food Science, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University.,Guangdong Pharmaceutical University-University of Hong Kong Joint Biomedical Innovation Platform
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- School of Food Science, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University
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Concentration of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid glycerides by Candida antarctica lipase A-catalyzed selective methanolysis. FOOD BIOSCI 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fbio.2022.101562] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Müller H, Terholsen H, Godehard SP, Badenhorst CPS, Bornscheuer UT. Recent Insights and Future Perspectives on Promiscuous Hydrolases/Acyltransferases. ACS Catal 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.1c04543] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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- Henrik Müller
- Department of Biotechnology & Enzyme Catalysis, Institute of Biochemistry, University of Greifswald, 17487, Greifswald, Germany
- Competence Center for Biocatalysis, Institute of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, 8820, Wädenswil, Switzerland
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- Department of Biotechnology & Enzyme Catalysis, Institute of Biochemistry, University of Greifswald, 17487, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Biotechnology & Enzyme Catalysis, Institute of Biochemistry, University of Greifswald, 17487, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Biotechnology & Enzyme Catalysis, Institute of Biochemistry, University of Greifswald, 17487, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Biotechnology & Enzyme Catalysis, Institute of Biochemistry, University of Greifswald, 17487, Greifswald, Germany
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Biermann U, Bornscheuer UT, Feussner I, Meier MAR, Metzger JO. Fatty Acids and their Derivatives as Renewable Platform Molecules for the Chemical Industry. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021; 60:20144-20165. [PMID: 33617111 PMCID: PMC8453566 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202100778] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
Abstract
Oils and fats of vegetable and animal origin remain an important renewable feedstock for the chemical industry. Their industrial use has increased during the last 10 years from 31 to 51 million tonnes annually. Remarkable achievements made in the field of oleochemistry in this timeframe are summarized herein, including the reduction of fatty esters to ethers, the selective oxidation and oxidative cleavage of C-C double bonds, the synthesis of alkyl-branched fatty compounds, the isomerizing hydroformylation and alkoxycarbonylation, and olefin metathesis. The use of oleochemicals for the synthesis of a great variety of polymeric materials has increased tremendously, too. In addition to lipases and phospholipases, other enzymes have found their way into biocatalytic oleochemistry. Important achievements have also generated new oil qualities in existing crop plants or by using microorganisms optimized by metabolic engineering.
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- Ursula Biermann
- Institute of ChemistryUniversity of Oldenburg26111OldenburgGermany
- abiosuse.V.Bloherfelder Straße 23926129OldenburgGermany
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- Institute of BiochemistryDept. of Biotechnology & Enzyme CatalysisGreifswald UniversityFelix-Hausdorff-Strasse 417487GreifswaldGermany
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- University of GoettingenAlbrecht-von-Haller Institute for Plant SciencesInternational Center for Advanced Studies of Energy Conversion (ICASEC) and Goettingen Center of Molecular Biosciences (GZMB)Dept. of Plant BiochemistryJustus-von-Liebig-Weg 1137077GoettingenGermany
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- Laboratory of Applied ChemistryInstitute of Organic Chemistry (IOC)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Straße am Forum 776131KarlsruheGermany
- Laboratory of Applied ChemistryInstitute of Biological and Chemical Systems—Functional Molecular Systems (IBCS-FMS)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 176344Eggenstein-LeopoldshafenGermany
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- Institute of ChemistryUniversity of Oldenburg26111OldenburgGermany
- abiosuse.V.Bloherfelder Straße 23926129OldenburgGermany
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Biermann U, Bornscheuer UT, Feussner I, Meier MAR, Metzger JO. Fettsäuren und Fettsäurederivate als nachwachsende Plattformmoleküle für die chemische Industrie. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202100778] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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- Ursula Biermann
- Institut für Chemie Universität Oldenburg 26111 Oldenburg Deutschland
- abiosuse.V. Bloherfelder Straße 239 26129 Oldenburg Deutschland
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- Institut für Biochemie Abt. Biotechnologie & Enzymkatalyse Universität Greifswald Felix-Hausdorff-Straße 4 17487 Greifswald Deutschland
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- Universität Göttingen Albrecht-von-Haller Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften International Center for Advanced Studies of Energy Conversion (ICASEC) und Göttinger Zentrum für Molekulare Biowissenschaften (GZMB) Abt. für die Biochemie der Pflanze Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11 37077 Göttingen Deutschland
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- Labor für Angewandte Chemie Institut für Organische Chemie (IOC) Karlsruher Institut für Technology (KIT) Straße am Forum 7 76131 Karlsruhe Deutschland
- Labor für Angewandte Chemie Institut für biologische und chemische Systeme –, Funktionale Molekülsysteme (IBCS-FMS) Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen Deutschland
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- Institut für Chemie Universität Oldenburg 26111 Oldenburg Deutschland
- abiosuse.V. Bloherfelder Straße 239 26129 Oldenburg Deutschland
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Rational Design for Enhanced Acyltransferase Activity in Water Catalyzed by the Pyrobaculum calidifontis VA1 Esterase. Microorganisms 2021; 9:microorganisms9081790. [PMID: 34442869 PMCID: PMC8402108 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms9081790] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2021] [Revised: 08/19/2021] [Accepted: 08/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Biocatalytic transesterification is commonly carried out employing lipases in anhydrous organic solvents since hydrolases usually prefer hydrolysis over acyl transfer in bulk water. However, some promiscuous acyltransferases can catalyze acylation in an aqueous solution. In this study, a rational design was performed to enhance the acyltransferase selectivity and substrate scope of the Pyrobaculum calidifontis VA1 esterase (PestE). PestE wild type and variants were applied for the acylation of monoterpene alcohols. The mutant PestE_I208A is selective for (–)-menthyl acetate (E-Value = 55). Highly active acyltransferases were designed, allowing for complete conversion of (–)-citronellol to citronellyl acetate. Additionally, carvacrol was acetylated but with lower conversions. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first example of the biocatalytic acylation of a phenolic alcohol in bulk water. In addition, a high citronellol conversion of 92% was achieved with the more environmentally friendly and inexpensive acyl donor ethyl acetate using PestE_N288F as a catalyst. PestE_N288F exhibits good acyl transfer activity in an aqueous medium and low hydrolysis activity at the same time. Thus, our study demonstrates an alternative synthetic strategy for acylation of compounds without organic solvents.
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Godehard SP, Müller H, Badenhorst CPS, Stanetty C, Suster C, Mihovilovic MD, Bornscheuer UT. Efficient Acylation of Sugars and Oligosaccharides in Aqueous Environment Using Engineered Acyltransferases. ACS Catal 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.1c00048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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- Simon P. Godehard
- Department of Biotechnology and Enzyme Catalysis, Institute of Biochemistry, University of Greifswald, 17487 Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Biotechnology and Enzyme Catalysis, Institute of Biochemistry, University of Greifswald, 17487 Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Biotechnology and Enzyme Catalysis, Institute of Biochemistry, University of Greifswald, 17487 Greifswald, Germany
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- Institute for Applied Synthetic Chemistry, TU Wien, A-1060 Vienna, Austria
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- Institute for Applied Synthetic Chemistry, TU Wien, A-1060 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Biotechnology and Enzyme Catalysis, Institute of Biochemistry, University of Greifswald, 17487 Greifswald, Germany
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Monteiro RR, Virgen-Ortiz JJ, Berenguer-Murcia Á, da Rocha TN, dos Santos JC, Alcántara AR, Fernandez-Lafuente R. Biotechnological relevance of the lipase A from Candida antarctica. Catal Today 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cattod.2020.03.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Microbial lipases represent one of the most important groups of biotechnological biocatalysts. However, the high-level production of lipases requires an understanding of the molecular mechanisms of gene expression, folding, and secretion processes. Stable, selective, and productive lipase is essential for modern chemical industries, as most lipases cannot work in different process conditions. However, the screening and isolation of a new lipase with desired and specific properties would be time consuming, and costly, so researchers typically modify an available lipase with a certain potential for minimizing cost. Improving enzyme properties is associated with altering the enzymatic structure by changing one or several amino acids in the protein sequence. This review detailed the main sources, classification, structural properties, and mutagenic approaches, such as rational design (site direct mutagenesis, iterative saturation mutagenesis) and direct evolution (error prone PCR, DNA shuffling), for achieving modification goals. Here, both techniques were reviewed, with different results for lipase engineering, with a particular focus on improving or changing lipase specificity. Changing the amino acid sequences of the binding pocket or lid region of the lipase led to remarkable enzyme substrate specificity and enantioselectivity improvement. Site-directed mutagenesis is one of the appropriate methods to alter the enzyme sequence, as compared to random mutagenesis, such as error-prone PCR. This contribution has summarized and evaluated several experimental studies on modifying the substrate specificity of lipases.
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Godehard SP, Badenhorst CPS, Müller H, Bornscheuer UT. Protein Engineering for Enhanced Acyltransferase Activity, Substrate Scope, and Selectivity of the Mycobacterium smegmatis Acyltransferase MsAcT. ACS Catal 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c01767] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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- Simon P. Godehard
- Department of Biotechnology & Enzyme Catalysis, Institute of Biochemistry, University of Greifswald, 17487 Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Biotechnology & Enzyme Catalysis, Institute of Biochemistry, University of Greifswald, 17487 Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Biotechnology & Enzyme Catalysis, Institute of Biochemistry, University of Greifswald, 17487 Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Biotechnology & Enzyme Catalysis, Institute of Biochemistry, University of Greifswald, 17487 Greifswald, Germany
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Zorn K, Oroz-Guinea I, Bornscheuer UT. Strategies for enriching erucic acid from Crambe abyssinica oil by improved Candida antarctica lipase A variants. Process Biochem 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.procbio.2018.12.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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- Uwe T. Bornscheuer
- Department of Biotechnology & Enzyme Catalysis, Institute of Biochemistry, Greifswald University, 17487 Greifswald, Germany
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Lotti M, Pleiss J, Valero F, Ferrer P. Enzymatic Production of Biodiesel: Strategies to Overcome Methanol Inactivation. Biotechnol J 2018; 13:e1700155. [PMID: 29461685 DOI: 10.1002/biot.201700155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2017] [Revised: 02/10/2018] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
Abstract
Lipase-catalyzed transesterification of triglycerides and alcohols to obtain biodiesel is an environmentally friendly and sustainable route for fuels production since, besides proceeding in mild reaction conditions, it allows for the use of low-cost feedstocks that contain water and free fatty acids, for example non-edible oils and waste oils. This review article reports recent advances in the field and focus in particular on a major issue in the enzymatic process, the inactivation of most lipases caused by methanol, the preferred acyl acceptor used for alcoholysis. The recent results about immobilization of enzymes on nano-materials and the use of whole-cell biocatalysts, as well as the use of cell-surface display technologies and metabolic engineering strategies for microbial production of biodiesel are described. It is discussed also insight into the effects of methanol on lipases obtained by modeling approaches and report on studies aimed at mining novel alcohol stable enzymes or at improving robustness in existing ones by protein engineering.
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- Marina Lotti
- Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, State University of Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 2, 20126 Milano, Italy
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Technical Biochemistry, University of Stuttgart, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain
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- Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain
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de Leeuw N, Torrelo G, Bisterfeld C, Resch V, Mestrom L, Straulino E, van der Weel L, Hanefeld U. Ester Synthesis in Water: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Acyl Transferase for Kinetic Resolutions. Adv Synth Catal 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/adsc.201701282] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Nicolas de Leeuw
- Biokatalyse; Afdeling Biotechnologie; Technische Universiteit Delft; Van der Maasweg 9 2629 HZ Delft The Netherlands
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- Biokatalyse; Afdeling Biotechnologie; Technische Universiteit Delft; Van der Maasweg 9 2629 HZ Delft The Netherlands
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- Biokatalyse; Afdeling Biotechnologie; Technische Universiteit Delft; Van der Maasweg 9 2629 HZ Delft The Netherlands
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- Biokatalyse; Afdeling Biotechnologie; Technische Universiteit Delft; Van der Maasweg 9 2629 HZ Delft The Netherlands
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- Biokatalyse; Afdeling Biotechnologie; Technische Universiteit Delft; Van der Maasweg 9 2629 HZ Delft The Netherlands
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- Biokatalyse; Afdeling Biotechnologie; Technische Universiteit Delft; Van der Maasweg 9 2629 HZ Delft The Netherlands
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- Biokatalyse; Afdeling Biotechnologie; Technische Universiteit Delft; Van der Maasweg 9 2629 HZ Delft The Netherlands
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- Biokatalyse; Afdeling Biotechnologie; Technische Universiteit Delft; Van der Maasweg 9 2629 HZ Delft The Netherlands
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Zorn K, Oroz-Guinea I, Brundiek H, Bornscheuer UT. Engineering and application of enzymes for lipid modification, an update. Prog Lipid Res 2016; 63:153-64. [DOI: 10.1016/j.plipres.2016.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2016] [Revised: 05/30/2016] [Accepted: 06/10/2016] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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