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MacDonald ME, Wells NGM, Hassan BA, Dudley JA, Walters KJ, Korzhnev DM, Aramini JM, Smith CA. Effects of Xylanase A double mutation on substrate specificity and structural dynamics. J Struct Biol 2024; 216:108082. [PMID: 38438058 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2024.108082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2023] [Revised: 02/29/2024] [Accepted: 03/01/2024] [Indexed: 03/06/2024]
Abstract
While protein activity is traditionally studied with a major focus on the active site, the activity of enzymes has been hypothesized to be linked to the flexibility of adjacent regions, warranting more exploration into how the dynamics in these regions affects catalytic turnover. One such enzyme is Xylanase A (XylA), which cleaves hemicellulose xylan polymers by hydrolysis at internal β-1,4-xylosidic linkages. It contains a "thumb" region whose flexibility has been suggested to affect the activity. The double mutation D11F/R122D was previously found to affect activity and potentially bias the thumb region to a more open conformation. We find that the D11F/R122D double mutation shows substrate-dependent effects, increasing activity on the non-native substrate ONPX2 but decreasing activity on its native xylan substrate. To characterize how the double mutant causes these kinetics changes, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were used to probe structural and flexibility changes. NMR chemical shift perturbations revealed structural changes in the double mutant relative to the wild-type, specifically in the thumb and fingers regions. Increased slow-timescale dynamics in the fingers region was observed as intermediate-exchange line broadening. Lipari-Szabo order parameters show negligible changes in flexibility in the thumb region in the presence of the double mutation. To help understand if there is increased energetic accessibility to the open state upon mutation, alchemical free energy simulations were employed that indicated thumb opening is more favorable in the double mutant. These studies aid in further characterizing how flexibility in adjacent regions affects the function of XylA.
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- Meagan E MacDonald
- Department of Chemistry, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459, United States; Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459, United States
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- Protein Processing Section, Center for Structural Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD 21702, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459, United States
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- Protein Processing Section, Center for Structural Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD 21702, United States
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT 06030, United States
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- Structural Biology Initiative, Advanced Science Research Center, The City University of New York, New York, NY 10031, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459, United States.
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Meng X, Liu Y, Yang L, Li R, Wang H, Shen Y, Wei D. Rational identification of a high catalytic efficiency leucine dehydrogenase and process development for efficient synthesis of l-phenylglycine. Biotechnol J 2023; 18:e2200465. [PMID: 36738237 DOI: 10.1002/biot.202200465] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2022] [Revised: 01/01/2023] [Accepted: 02/02/2023] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Enzymatic asymmetric synthesis of chiral amino acids has great industrial potential. However, the low catalytic efficiency of high-concentration substrates limits their industrial application. Herein, using a combination of substrate catalytic efficiency prediction based on "open to closed" conformational change and substrate specificity prediction, a novel leucine dehydrogenase (TsLeuDH), with high substrate catalytic efficiency toward benzoylformic acid (BFA) for producing l-phenylglycine (l-Phg), was directly identified from 4695 putative leucine dehydrogenases in a public database. The specific activity of TsLeuDH was determined to be as high as 4253.8 U mg-1 . Through reaction process optimization, a high-concentration substrate (0.7 m) was efficiently and completely converted within 90 min in a single batch, without any external coenzyme addition. Moreover, a continuous flow-feeding approach was designed using gradient control of the feed rate to reduce substrate accumulation. Finally, the highest overall substrate concentration of up to 1.2 m BFA could be aminated to l-Phg with conversion of >99% in 3 h, demonstrating that this new combination of enzyme process development is promising for large-scale application of l-Phg.
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- Xiangqi Meng
- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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The Emergence of New Catalytic Abilities in an Endoxylanase from Family GH10 by Removing an Intrinsically Disordered Region. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23042315. [PMID: 35216436 PMCID: PMC8874783 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23042315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2021] [Revised: 02/11/2022] [Accepted: 02/16/2022] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Endoxylanases belonging to family 10 of the glycoside hydrolases (GH10) are versatile in the use of different substrates. Thus, an understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying substrate specificities could be very useful in the engineering of GH10 endoxylanases for biotechnological purposes. Herein, we analyzed XynA, an endoxylanase that contains a (β/α)8-barrel domain and an intrinsically disordered region (IDR) of 29 amino acids at its amino end. Enzyme activity assays revealed that the elimination of the IDR resulted in a mutant enzyme (XynAΔ29) in which two new activities emerged: the ability to release xylose from xylan, and the ability to hydrolyze p-nitrophenyl-β-d-xylopyranoside (pNPXyl), a substrate that wild-type enzyme cannot hydrolyze. Circular dichroism and tryptophan fluorescence quenching by acrylamide showed changes in secondary structure and increased flexibility of XynAΔ29. Molecular dynamics simulations revealed that the emergence of the pNPXyl-hydrolyzing activity correlated with a dynamic behavior not previously observed in GH10 endoxylanases: a hinge-bending motion of two symmetric regions within the (β/α)8-barrel domain, whose hinge point is the active cleft. The hinge-bending motion is more intense in XynAΔ29 than in XynA and promotes the formation of a wider active site that allows the accommodation and hydrolysis of pNPXyl. Our results open new avenues for the study of the relationship between IDRs, dynamics and activity of endoxylanases, and other enzymes containing (β/α)8-barrel domain.
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Hot spots-making directed evolution easier. Biotechnol Adv 2022; 56:107926. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2022.107926] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2021] [Revised: 01/04/2022] [Accepted: 02/07/2022] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Wang L, Sun Y, Diao S, Jiang S, Wang H, Wei D. Rational hinge engineering of carboxylic acid reductase from Mycobacterium smegmatis enhances its catalytic efficiency in biocatalysis. Biotechnol J 2021; 17:e2100441. [PMID: 34862729 DOI: 10.1002/biot.202100441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2021] [Revised: 11/13/2021] [Accepted: 11/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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BACKGROUND Carboxylic acid reductases (CARs) represent useful tools for the production of aldehydes from ubiquitous organic carboxylic acids. However, the low catalytic efficiency of these enzymes hampers their application. METHODS Herein, a CAR originating from Mycobacterium smegmatis was redesigned through rational hinge engineering to enhance the catalytic efficiency. RESULTS Based on the unique domain architecture of CARs and their superfamily, a mutagenesis library of the hinge region was designed. The best mutant R505I/N506K showed a 6.57-fold improved catalytic efficiency. Molecular dynamics simulations showed the increased catalytic efficiency was due to the strong binding of the acyl-AMP complex with it. Meanwhile, the ε-nitrogen atom of Lys610 frequently interacted with the ribose-ring oxygen atom of the complex, the distance (d1) between them represents a great indicator for that. The d1 value was used as a nimble indicator to evaluate unexplored mutants of that region for enhanced activity by in silico mutational experiments. Overall, eight mutants were identified to show higher enhanced activity compared with wild-type enzyme and R505F/N506G showed the highest catalytic efficiency. CONCLUSION Altogether, the two-step strategy used here provided useful references for the engineering of CARs and other similar multiple-domain enzymes.
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- Liuzhu Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, New World Institute of Biotechnology, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, New World Institute of Biotechnology, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, New World Institute of Biotechnology, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, New World Institute of Biotechnology, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, New World Institute of Biotechnology, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, New World Institute of Biotechnology, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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Yin X, Liu Y, Meng L, Zhou H, Wu J, Yang L. Semi-rational hinge engineering: modulating the conformational transformation of glutamate dehydrogenase for enhanced reductive amination activity towards non-natural substrates. Catal Sci Technol 2020. [DOI: 10.1039/c9cy02576f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The hinge region was identified to be a promising hotspot for activity engineering of GluDHs, providing a potent alternative for developing high-performance biocatalysts toward valuable optically pure l-amino acid production.
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- Xinjian Yin
- Institute of Bioengineering
- College of Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Zhejiang University
- Hangzhou
- China
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- Institute of Bioengineering
- College of Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Zhejiang University
- Hangzhou
- China
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- Institute of Bioengineering
- College of Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Zhejiang University
- Hangzhou
- China
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- Institute of Bioengineering
- College of Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Zhejiang University
- Hangzhou
- China
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- Institute of Bioengineering
- College of Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Zhejiang University
- Hangzhou
- China
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- Institute of Bioengineering
- College of Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Zhejiang University
- Hangzhou
- China
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Site-directed mutagenesis of GH10 xylanase A from Penicillium canescens for determining factors affecting the enzyme thermostability. Int J Biol Macromol 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2017.06.079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Improving the Indigo Carmine Decolorization Ability of a Bacillus amyloliquefaciens Laccase by Site-Directed Mutagenesis. Catalysts 2017. [DOI: 10.3390/catal7090275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Substitution of a non-active-site residue located on the T3 loop increased the catalytic efficiency of endo -polygalacturonases. Process Biochem 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.procbio.2016.05.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Guerriero G, Hausman J, Strauss J, Ertan H, Siddiqui KS. Lignocellulosic bioma
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: Biosynthesis, degradation, and industrial utilization. Eng Life Sci 2015. [DOI: 10.1002/elsc.201400196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 127] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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- Gea Guerriero
- Environmental Research and Innovation (ERIN) Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) Esch/Alzette Luxembourg
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- Environmental Research and Innovation (ERIN) Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) Esch/Alzette Luxembourg
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- Department of Applied Genetics and Cell Biology Fungal Genetics and Genomics Unit University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU) University and Research Center Campus Tulln‐Technopol Tulln/Donau Austria
- Health and Environment Department Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH ‐ AIT University and Research Center Campus Tulln‐Technopol Tulln/Donau Austria
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- School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences The University of New South Wales Sydney Australia
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics Istanbul University Istanbul Turkey
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- Life Sciences Department King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) Dhahran Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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