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Santema LL, Rotilio L, Xiang R, Tjallinks G, Guallar V, Mattevi A, Fraaije MW. Discovery and biochemical characterization of thermostable glycerol oxidases. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2024; 108:61. [PMID: 38183484 PMCID: PMC10771423 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-023-12883-9] [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: 06/23/2023] [Revised: 10/10/2023] [Accepted: 10/20/2023] [Indexed: 01/08/2024]
Abstract
Alditol oxidases are promising tools for the biocatalytic oxidation of glycerol to more valuable chemicals. By integrating in silico bioprospecting with cell-free protein synthesis and activity screening, an effective pipeline was developed to rapidly identify enzymes that are active on glycerol. Three thermostable alditol oxidases from Actinobacteria Bacterium, Streptomyces thermoviolaceus, and Thermostaphylospora chromogena active on glycerol were discovered. The characterization of these three flavoenzymes demonstrated their glycerol oxidation activities, preference for alkaline conditions, and excellent thermostabilities with melting temperatures higher than 75 °C. Structural elucidation of the alditol oxidase from Actinobacteria Bacterium highlighted a constellation of side chains that engage the substrate through several hydrogen bonds, a histidine residue covalently bound to the FAD prosthetic group, and a tunnel leading to the active site. Upon computational simulations of substrate binding, a double mutant targeting a residue pair at the tunnel entrance was created and found to display an improved thermal stability and catalytic efficiency for glycerol oxidation. The hereby described alditol oxidases form a valuable panel of oxidative biocatalysts that can perform regioselective oxidation of glycerol and other polyols. KEY POINTS: • Rapid pipeline designed to identify putative oxidases • Biochemical and structural characterization of alditol oxidases • Glycerol oxidation to more valuable derivatives.
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- Lars L Santema
- Molecular Enzymology, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747AG, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, via Ferrata 9, 27100, Pavia, Italy
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- Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, 08034, Spain
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- Molecular Enzymology, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747AG, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, 08034, Spain.
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, via Ferrata 9, 27100, Pavia, Italy.
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- Molecular Enzymology, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747AG, Groningen, The Netherlands.
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Lazic J, Filipovic V, Pantelic L, Milovanovic J, Vojnovic S, Nikodinovic-Runic J. Late-stage diversification of bacterial natural products through biocatalysis. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2024; 12:1351583. [PMID: 38807651 PMCID: PMC11130421 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2024.1351583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2023] [Accepted: 04/18/2024] [Indexed: 05/30/2024] Open
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Bacterial natural products (BNPs) are very important sources of leads for drug development and chemical novelty. The possibility to perform late-stage diversification of BNPs using biocatalysis is an attractive alternative route other than total chemical synthesis or metal complexation reactions. Although biocatalysis is gaining popularity as a green chemistry methodology, a vast majority of orphan sequenced genomic data related to metabolic pathways for BNP biosynthesis and its tailoring enzymes are underexplored. In this review, we report a systematic overview of biotransformations of 21 molecules, which include derivatization by halogenation, esterification, reduction, oxidation, alkylation and nitration reactions, as well as degradation products as their sub-derivatives. These BNPs were grouped based on their biological activities into antibacterial (5), antifungal (5), anticancer (5), immunosuppressive (2) and quorum sensing modulating (4) compounds. This study summarized 73 derivatives and 16 degradation sub-derivatives originating from 12 BNPs. The highest number of biocatalytic reactions was observed for drugs that are already in clinical use: 28 reactions for the antibacterial drug vancomycin, followed by 18 reactions reported for the immunosuppressive drug rapamycin. The most common biocatalysts include oxidoreductases, transferases, lipases, isomerases and haloperoxidases. This review highlights biocatalytic routes for the late-stage diversification reactions of BNPs, which potentially help to recognize the structural optimizations of bioactive scaffolds for the generation of new biomolecules, eventually leading to drug development.
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- Jelena Lazic
- Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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Watanabe T, Kimura Y, Umeno D. MetJ-Based Mutually Interfering SAM-ON/SAM-OFF Biosensors. ACS Synth Biol 2024; 13:624-633. [PMID: 38286030 DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.3c00621] [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] [Indexed: 01/31/2024]
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SAM (S-adenosylmethionine) is an important metabolite that operates as a major donor of methyl groups and is a controller of various physiological processes. Its availability is also believed to be a major bottleneck in the biological production of numerous high-value metabolites. Here, we constructed SAM-sensing systems using MetJ, an SAM-dependent transcriptional regulator, as a core component. SAM is a corepressor of MetJ, which suppresses the MetJ promoter with an increasing cellular concentration of SAM (SAM-OFF sensor). The application of transcriptional interference and evolutionary tuning effectively inverted its response, yielding a SAM-ON sensor (signal increases with increasing SAM concentration). By linking two genes encoding fluorescent protein reporters in such a way that their transcription events interfere with each other's and by placing one of them under the control of MetJ, we could increase the effective signal-to-noise ratio of the SAM sensor while decreasing the batch-to-batch deviation in signal output, likely by canceling out the growth-associated fluctuation in translational resources. By taking the ratio of SAM-ON/SAM-OFF signals and by resetting the default pool size of SAM, we could rapidly identify SAM synthetase (MetK) mutants with increased cellular activity from a random library. The strategy described herein should be widely applicable for identifying activity mutants, which would be otherwise overlooked because of the strong homeostasis of metabolic networks.
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- Taro Watanabe
- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Ohkubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan
- Kirin Central Research Institute, Kirin Holdings Company, Limited, 2-26-1, Muraoka-Higashi, Fujisawa 251-8555, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Ohkubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Ohkubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan
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Sokolova N, Peng B, Haslinger K. Design and engineering of artificial biosynthetic pathways-where do we stand and where do we go? FEBS Lett 2023; 597:2897-2907. [PMID: 37777818 DOI: 10.1002/1873-3468.14745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2023] [Revised: 08/29/2023] [Accepted: 09/12/2023] [Indexed: 10/02/2023]
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The production of commodity and specialty chemicals relies heavily on fossil fuels. The negative impact of this dependency on our environment and climate has spurred a rising demand for more sustainable methods to obtain such chemicals from renewable resources. Herein, biotransformations of these renewable resources facilitated by enzymes or (micro)organisms have gained significant attention, since they can occur under mild conditions and reduce waste. These biotransformations typically leverage natural metabolic processes, which limits the scope and production capacity of such processes. In this mini-review, we provide an overview of advancements made in the past 5 years to expand the repertoire of biotransformations in engineered microorganisms. This ranges from redesign of existing pathways driven by retrobiosynthesis and computational design to directed evolution of enzymes and de novo pathway design to unlock novel routes for the synthesis of desired chemicals. We highlight notable examples of pathway designs for the production of commodity and specialty chemicals, showcasing the potential of these approaches. Lastly, we provide an outlook on future pathway design approaches.
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- Nika Sokolova
- Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
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Wu X, Yuwen M, Pu Z, Zhao Z, Yu H, Zha J. Engineering of flavonoid 3'-O-methyltransferase for improved biosynthesis of chrysoeriol in Escherichia coli. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2023; 107:1663-1672. [PMID: 36719434 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-023-12403-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2022] [Revised: 01/18/2023] [Accepted: 01/20/2023] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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O-Methylation catalyzed by O-methyltransferases (OMTs) is an important modification of flavonoids for improving the transport efficiency across membranes and metabolic stability in mammalian cells. Chrysoeriol, also known as 3'-O-methylated luteolin, is a methylated flavonoid compound with health-promoting activities. The generation of chrysoeriol from luteolin can be catalyzed by a rice-derived 3'-OMT named ROMT-9, which has a high regiospecificity and activity toward flavonoids in vitro. Herein, we explored the potential of ROMT-9 for in vivo biosynthesis of chrysoeriol in Escherichia coli and adopted semi-rational enzyme engineering guided by homology modeling and molecular docking to improve the bio-production. Two positive variants including L34Q and W284A were obtained which promoted chrysoeriol formation to more than 85 mg/L from 200 mg/L of luteolin in 24 h compared with a titer of 55 mg/L for the strain expressing the native enzyme. Further biochemical analysis confirmed that such improvement in production stemmed from a higher enzyme expression level for the L34Q variant and higher efficiency in substrate binding and catalysis for the W284A variant. This study provides some insights into the engineering of other flavonoid OMTs and will facilitate high-level biosynthesis of methylated flavonoids in engineered microorganisms. KEY POINTS: • Biosynthesis of chrysoeriol from luteolin in E. coli using ROMT-9 • Engineering of ROMT-9 for better bio-production • ROMT-9 variants promote production via better expression or better catalysis.
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- Xia Wu
- School of Food and Biological Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, 710021, Shaanxi, China
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- School of Food and Biological Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, 710021, Shaanxi, China
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- Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 311200, Zhejiang, China
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- School of Food and Biological Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, 710021, Shaanxi, China
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- Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 311200, Zhejiang, China. .,Institute of Bioengineering, College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, Zhejiang, China.
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- School of Food and Biological Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, 710021, Shaanxi, China.
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Zhou Q, Zhou T, Tu Y, Yan J. Determination of tyrosinase activity with manganese dioxide nanosheet-assisted fluorescence. CHEMICAL PAPERS 2023. [DOI: 10.1007/s11696-023-02729-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/23/2023]
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