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Yeom SJ, Kwon KK, An JU, Park SH, Lee JY, Rha E, Lee H, Kim H, Lee DH, Lee SG. Single-Cell-Based Screening and Engineering of d-Amino Acid Amidohydrolases Using Artificial Amidophenol Substrates and Microbial Biosensors. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2022; 70:1203-1211. [PMID: 34994555 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.1c05834] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
Abstract
Enantiomerically pure d-amino acids are important intermediates as chiral building blocks for peptidomimetics and semisynthetic antibiotics. Here, a transcriptional factor-based screening strategy was used for the rapid screening of d-stereospecific amino acid amidase via an enzyme-specific amidophenol substrate. We used a d-threonine amidophenyl derivative to produce 2-aminophenol that serves as a putative enzyme indicator in the presence of d-threonine amidases. Comparative analyses of known bacterial species indicated that several Bacillus strains produce amidase and form putative indicators in culture media. The estimated amidase was cloned and subjected to rapid directed evolution through biosensor cells. Consequently, we characterized the F119A mutation that significantly improved the catalytic activity toward d-alanine, d-threonine, and d-glutamate. Its beneficial effects were confirmed by higher conversions and recurrent applications of the mutant enzyme, compared to the wild-type. This study showed that rapid directed evolution with biosensors coupled to designed substrates is useful to develop biocatalytic processes.
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Affiliation(s)
- Soo-Jin Yeom
- Synthetic Biology and Bioengineering Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
- School of Biological Science and Technology, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 61186, Republic of Korea
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- Synthetic Biology and Bioengineering Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Synthetic Biology and Bioengineering Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Synthetic Biology and Bioengineering Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
- Department of Biosystems and Bioengineering, KRIBB School of Biotechnology, University of Science and Technology (UST), Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea
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- Synthetic Biology and Bioengineering Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Synthetic Biology and Bioengineering Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Synthetic Biology and Bioengineering Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Synthetic Biology and Bioengineering Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
- Department of Biosystems and Bioengineering, KRIBB School of Biotechnology, University of Science and Technology (UST), Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea
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- Synthetic Biology and Bioengineering Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
- Department of Biosystems and Bioengineering, KRIBB School of Biotechnology, University of Science and Technology (UST), Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea
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- Synthetic Biology and Bioengineering Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
- Department of Biosystems and Bioengineering, KRIBB School of Biotechnology, University of Science and Technology (UST), Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea
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Miguel-Ruano V, Rivera I, Rajkovic J, Knapik K, Torrado A, Otero JM, Beneventi E, Becerra M, Sánchez-Costa M, Hidalgo A, Berenguer J, González-Siso MI, Cruces J, Rúa ML, Hermoso JA. Biochemical and Structural Characterization of a novel thermophilic esterase EstD11 provide catalytic insights for the HSL family. Comput Struct Biotechnol J 2021; 19:1214-1232. [PMID: 33680362 PMCID: PMC7905190 DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2021.01.047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2020] [Revised: 01/27/2021] [Accepted: 01/30/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
Abstract
A novel esterase, EstD11, has been discovered in a hot spring metagenomic library. It is a thermophilic and thermostable esterase with an optimum temperature of 60°C. A detailed substrate preference analysis of EstD11 was done using a library of chromogenic ester substrate that revealed the broad substrate specificity of EstD11 with significant measurable activity against 16 substrates with varied chain length, steric hindrance, aromaticity and flexibility of the linker between the carboxyl and the alcohol moiety of the ester. The tridimensional structures of EstD11 and the inactive mutant have been determined at atomic resolutions. Structural and bioinformatic analysis, confirm that EstD11 belongs to the family IV, the hormone-sensitive lipase (HSL) family, from the α/β-hydrolase superfamily. The canonical α/β-hydrolase domain is completed by a cap domain, composed by two subdomains that can unmask of the active site to allow the substrate to enter. Eight crystallographic complexes were solved with different substrates and reaction products that allowed identification of the hot-spots in the active site underlying the specificity of the protein. Crystallization and/or incubation of EstD11 at high temperature provided unique information on cap dynamics and a first glimpse of enzymatic activity in vivo. Very interestingly, we have discovered a unique Met zipper lining the active site and the cap domains that could be essential in pivotal aspects as thermo-stability and substrate promiscuity in EstD11.
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Key Words
- CHCA, cyclohexane carboxylic acid
- CMC, critical micellar concentration
- CV, column volume
- Crystal structure
- DMSO, dimethyl sulfoxide
- DSF, Differential scanning fluorimetry
- Enzyme-substrate complex
- FLU, fluorescein
- HSL, hormone-sensitive lipase
- LDAO, N,N-dimethyldodecylamine N-oxide
- MNP, methyl-naproxen
- Metagenomic
- NP, naproxen
- PPL, Porcine Pancreatic Lipase
- Thermophilic esterase
- pNP, 4-nitrophenol
- α/β hydrolase fold
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- Vega Miguel-Ruano
- Department of Crystallography and Structural Biology, Institute of Physical-Chemistry “Rocasolano”, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Crystallography and Structural Biology, Institute of Physical-Chemistry “Rocasolano”, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Biochemistry Laboratory, CITACA-Agri-Food Research and Transfer Cluster, Campus Auga, University of Vigo, Ourense, Spain
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- EXPRELA Group, University A Coruña, Science Faculty, Advanced Scientific Research Center (CICA), A Coruña, Spain
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- Biochemistry Laboratory, CITACA-Agri-Food Research and Transfer Cluster, Campus Auga, University of Vigo, Ourense, Spain
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- EXPRELA Group, University A Coruña, Science Faculty, Advanced Scientific Research Center (CICA), A Coruña, Spain
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Center for Molecular Biology “Severo Ochoa” (UAM-CSIC), Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Center for Molecular Biology “Severo Ochoa” (UAM-CSIC), Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Center for Molecular Biology “Severo Ochoa” (UAM-CSIC), Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- EXPRELA Group, University A Coruña, Science Faculty, Advanced Scientific Research Center (CICA), A Coruña, Spain
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- Biochemistry Laboratory, CITACA-Agri-Food Research and Transfer Cluster, Campus Auga, University of Vigo, Ourense, Spain
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- Department of Crystallography and Structural Biology, Institute of Physical-Chemistry “Rocasolano”, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
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Mongui A, Lozano GL, Handelsman J, Restrepo S, Junca H. Design and validation of a transposon that promotes expression of genes in episomal DNA. J Biotechnol 2020; 310:1-5. [PMID: 31954761 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2020.01.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2019] [Accepted: 01/15/2020] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Functional metagenomics, or the cloning and expression of DNA isolated directly from environmental samples, represents a source of novel compounds with biotechnological potential. However, attempts to identify such compounds in metagenomic libraries are generally inefficient in part due to lack of expression of heterologous DNA. In this research, the TnC_T7 transposon was developed to supply transcriptional machinery during functional analysis of metagenomic libraries. TnC_T7 contains bidirectional T7 promoters, the gene encoding the T7 RNA polymerase (T7RNAP), and a kanamycin resistance gene. The T7 RNA polymerase gene is regulated by the inducible arabinose promoter (PBAD), thereby facilitating inducible expression of genes adjacent to the randomly integrating transposon. The high processivity of T7RNAP should make this tool particularly useful for obtaining gene expression in long inserts. TnC_T7 functionality was validated by conducting in vitro transposition of pKR-C12 or fosmid pF076_GFPmut3*, carrying metagenomic DNA from soil. We identified transposon insertions that enhanced GFP expression in both vectors, including insertions in which the promoter delivered by the transposon was located as far as 8.7 kb from the GFP gene, indicating the power of the high processivity of the T7 polymerase. The results gathered in this research demonstrate the potential of TnC_T7 to enhance gene expression in functional metagenomic studies.
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- Alvaro Mongui
- Molecular Biotechnology, Corporación CorpoGen, Bogotá, Colombia; Department of Biological Sciences, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
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- Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA; Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA; Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Laboratory of Mycology and Plant Diseases, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
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- RG Microbial Ecology: Metabolism, Genomics & Evolution, Microbiomas Foundation, Chía, Colombia
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Yeom SJ, Kim M, Kwon KK, Fu Y, Rha E, Park SH, Lee H, Kim H, Lee DH, Kim DM, Lee SG. A synthetic microbial biosensor for high-throughput screening of lactam biocatalysts. Nat Commun 2018; 9:5053. [PMID: 30498220 PMCID: PMC6265244 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07488-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2017] [Accepted: 11/01/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
Biocatalytic cyclization is highly desirable for efficient synthesis of biologically derived chemical substances, such as the commodity chemicals ε-caprolactam and δ-valerolactam. To identify biocatalysts in lactam biosynthesis, we develop a caprolactam-detecting genetic enzyme screening system (CL-GESS). The Alcaligenes faecalis regulatory protein NitR is adopted for the highly specific detection of lactam compounds against lactam biosynthetic intermediates. We further systematically optimize the genetic components of the CL-GESS to enhance sensitivity, achieving 10-fold improvement. Using this highly sensitive GESS, we screen marine metagenomes and find an enzyme that cyclizes ω-amino fatty acids to lactam. Moreover, we determine the X-ray crystal structure and catalytic residues based on mutational analysis of the cyclase. The cyclase is also used as a helper enzyme to sense intracellular ω-amino fatty acids. We expect this simple and accurate biosensor to have wide-ranging applications in rapid screening of new lactam-synthesizing enzymes and metabolic engineering for lactam bio-production.
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- Soo-Jin Yeom
- Synthetic Biology and Bioengineering Research Center, KRIBB, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Synthetic Biology and Bioengineering Research Center, KRIBB, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea.,Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, 34134, Republic of Korea
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- Synthetic Biology and Bioengineering Research Center, KRIBB, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Synthetic Biology and Bioengineering Research Center, KRIBB, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Synthetic Biology and Bioengineering Research Center, KRIBB, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Synthetic Biology and Bioengineering Research Center, KRIBB, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea.,Department of Biosystems and Bioengineering, KRIBB School of Biotechnology, University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, 34113, Republic of Korea
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- Synthetic Biology and Bioengineering Research Center, KRIBB, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Synthetic Biology and Bioengineering Research Center, KRIBB, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea.,Department of Biosystems and Bioengineering, KRIBB School of Biotechnology, University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, 34113, Republic of Korea
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- Synthetic Biology and Bioengineering Research Center, KRIBB, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea.,Department of Biosystems and Bioengineering, KRIBB School of Biotechnology, University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, 34113, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, 34134, Republic of Korea
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- Synthetic Biology and Bioengineering Research Center, KRIBB, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea. .,Department of Biosystems and Bioengineering, KRIBB School of Biotechnology, University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, 34113, Republic of Korea.
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The evolving interface between synthetic biology and functional metagenomics. Nat Chem Biol 2018; 14:752-759. [DOI: 10.1038/s41589-018-0100-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2017] [Accepted: 06/13/2018] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Berini F, Casciello C, Marcone GL, Marinelli F. Metagenomics: novel enzymes from non-culturable microbes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2017; 364:4329276. [DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fnx211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2017] [Accepted: 10/02/2017] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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