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Bian F, Liang XY, Wang M, Sun ZZ, Xie BB. Comparative molecular dynamics simulations provided insights into the mechanisms of cold-adaption of alginate lyases from the PL7 family. Extremophiles 2024; 28:24. [PMID: 38598094 DOI: 10.1007/s00792-024-01340-8] [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: 10/13/2023] [Accepted: 03/25/2024] [Indexed: 04/11/2024]
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Alginate is an important polysaccharide that is abundant in the marine environments, including the Polar Regions, and bacterial alginate lyases play key roles in its degradation. Many reported alginate lyases show characteristics of cold-adapted enzymes, including relatively low temperature optimum of activities (Topt) and low thermal stabilities. However, the cold-adaption mechanisms of alginate lyases remain unclear. Here, we studied the cold-adaptation mechanisms of alginate lyases by comparing four members of the PL7 family from different environments: AlyC3 from the Arctic ocean (Psychromonas sp. C-3), AlyA1 from the temperate ocean (Zobellia galactanivorans), PA1167 from the human pathogen (Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1), and AlyQ from the tropic ocean (Persicobacter sp. CCB-QB2). Sequence comparison and comparative molecular dynamics (MD) simulations revealed two main strategies of cold adaptation. First, the Arctic AlyC3 and temperate AlyA1 increased the flexibility of the loops close to the catalytic center by introducing insertions at these loops. Second, the Arctic AlyC3 increased the electrostatic attractions with the negatively charged substrate by introducing a high portion of positively charged lysine at three of the insertions mentioned above. Furthermore, our study also revealed that the root mean square fluctuation (RMSF) increased greatly when the temperature was increased to Topt or higher, suggesting the RMSF increase temperature as a potential indicator of the cold adaptation level of the PL7 family. This study provided new insights into the cold-adaptation mechanisms of bacterial alginate lyases and the marine carbon cycling at low temperatures.
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- Fei Bian
- Institute of Crop Germplasm Resources, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan, 250100, China.
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- Microbial Technology Institute and State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China
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- Microbial Technology Institute and State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China
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- Microbial Technology Institute and State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China
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- Microbial Technology Institute and State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China.
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Dishliyska V, Stoyancheva G, Abrashev R, Miteva-Staleva J, Spasova B, Angelova M, Krumova E. Catalase from the Antarctic Fungus Aspergillus fumigatus I-9-Biosynthesis and Gene Characterization. Indian J Microbiol 2023; 63:541-548. [PMID: 38031622 PMCID: PMC10682308 DOI: 10.1007/s12088-023-01110-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2023] [Accepted: 10/07/2023] [Indexed: 12/01/2023] Open
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Extremely cold habitats are a serious challenge for the existing there organisms. Inhabitants of these conditions are mostly microorganisms and lower mycetae. The mechanisms of microbial adaptation to extreme conditions are still unclear. Low temperatures cause significant physiological and biochemical changes in cells. Recently, there has been increasing interest in the relationship between low-temperature exposure and oxidative stress events, as well as the importance of antioxidant enzymes for survival in such conditions. The catalase is involved in the first line of the cells' antioxidant defense. Published information supports the concept of a key role for catalase in antioxidant defense against cold stress in a wide range of organisms isolated from the Antarctic. Data on representatives of microscopic fungi, however, are rarely found. There is scarce information on the characterization of catalase synthesized by adapted to cold stress organisms. Overall, this study aimed to observe the role of catalase in the survival strategy of filamentous fungi in extremely cold habitats and to identify the gene encoded catalase enzyme. Our results clearly showed that catalase is the main part of antioxidant enzyme defense in fungal cells against oxidative stress caused by low temperature exposure.
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- Vladislava Dishliyska
- Departament of Mycology, The Stephan Angeloff Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G, Bonchev Str. Bl.26, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Departament of General Microbiology, The Stephan Angeloff Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G, Bonchev Str. Bl.26, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Departament of Mycology, The Stephan Angeloff Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G, Bonchev Str. Bl.26, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Departament of Mycology, The Stephan Angeloff Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G, Bonchev Str. Bl.26, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Departament of Mycology, The Stephan Angeloff Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G, Bonchev Str. Bl.26, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Departament of Mycology, The Stephan Angeloff Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G, Bonchev Str. Bl.26, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Departament of Mycology, The Stephan Angeloff Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G, Bonchev Str. Bl.26, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
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Ecological and Biotechnological Relevance of Mediterranean Hydrothermal Vent Systems. MINERALS 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/min12020251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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Marine hydrothermal systems are a special kind of extreme environments associated with submarine volcanic activity and characterized by harsh chemo-physical conditions, in terms of hot temperature, high concentrations of CO2 and H2S, and low pH. Such conditions strongly impact the living organisms, which have to develop adaptation strategies to survive. Hydrothermal systems have attracted the interest of researchers due to their enormous ecological and biotechnological relevance. From ecological perspective, these acidified habitats are useful natural laboratories to predict the effects of global environmental changes, such as ocean acidification at ecosystem level, through the observation of the marine organism responses to environmental extremes. In addition, hydrothermal vents are known as optimal sources for isolation of thermophilic and hyperthermophilic microbes, with biotechnological potential. This double aspect is the focus of this review, which aims at providing a picture of the ecological features of the main Mediterranean hydrothermal vents. The physiological responses, abundance, and distribution of biotic components are elucidated, by focusing on the necto-benthic fauna and prokaryotic communities recognized to possess pivotal role in the marine ecosystem dynamics and as indicator species. The scientific interest in hydrothermal vents will be also reviewed by pointing out their relevance as source of bioactive molecules.
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Frisby TS, Langmead CJ. Bayesian optimization with evolutionary and structure-based regularization for directed protein evolution. Algorithms Mol Biol 2021; 16:13. [PMID: 34210336 PMCID: PMC8246133 DOI: 10.1186/s13015-021-00195-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2021] [Accepted: 06/24/2021] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Background Directed evolution (DE) is a technique for protein engineering that involves iterative rounds of mutagenesis and screening to search for sequences that optimize a given property, such as binding affinity to a specified target. Unfortunately, the underlying optimization problem is under-determined, and so mutations introduced to improve the specified property may come at the expense of unmeasured, but nevertheless important properties (ex. solubility, thermostability, etc). We address this issue by formulating DE as a regularized Bayesian optimization problem where the regularization term reflects evolutionary or structure-based constraints. Results We applied our approach to DE to three representative proteins, GB1, BRCA1, and SARS-CoV-2 Spike, and evaluated both evolutionary and structure-based regularization terms. The results of these experiments demonstrate that: (i) structure-based regularization usually leads to better designs (and never hurts), compared to the unregularized setting; (ii) evolutionary-based regularization tends to be least effective; and (iii) regularization leads to better designs because it effectively focuses the search in certain areas of sequence space, making better use of the experimental budget. Additionally, like previous work in Machine learning assisted DE, we find that our approach significantly reduces the experimental burden of DE, relative to model-free methods. Conclusion Introducing regularization into a Bayesian ML-assisted DE framework alters the exploratory patterns of the underlying optimization routine, and can shift variant selections towards those with a range of targeted and desirable properties. In particular, we find that structure-based regularization often improves variant selection compared to unregularized approaches, and never hurts. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13015-021-00195-4.
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Maiangwa J, Hamdan SH, Mohamad Ali MS, Salleh AB, Zaliha Raja Abd Rahman RN, Shariff FM, Leow TC. Enhancing the stability of Geobacillus zalihae T1 lipase in organic solvents and insights into the structural stability of its variants. J Mol Graph Model 2021; 105:107897. [PMID: 33770705 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmgm.2021.107897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2020] [Revised: 03/04/2021] [Accepted: 03/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Critical to the applications of proteins in non-aqueous enzymatic processes is their structural dynamics in relation to solvent polarity. A pool of mutants derived from Geobacillus zalihae T1 lipase was screened in organic solvents (methanol, ethanol, propanol, butanol and pentanol) resulting in the selection of six mutants at initial screening (A83D/K251E, R21C, G35D/S195 N, K84R/R103C/M121I/T272 M and R106H/G327S). Site-directed mutagenesis further yielded quadruple mutants A83D/M121I/K251E/G327S and A83D/M121I/S195 N/T272 M, both of which had improved activity after incubation in methanol. The km and kcat values of these mutants vary marginally with the wild-type enzyme in the methanol/substrate mixture. Thermally induced unfolding of mutants was accompanied with some loss of secondary structure content. The root mean square deviations (RMSD) and B-factors revealed that changes in the structural organization are intertwined with an interplay of the protein backbone with organic solvents. Spatially exposed charged residues showed correlations between the solvation dynamics of the methanol solvent and the hydrophobicity of the residues. The short distances of the radial distribution function provided the required distances for hydrogen bond formation and hydrophobic interactions. These dynamic changes demonstrate newly formed structural interactions could be targeted and incorporated experimentally on the basis of solvent mobility and mutant residues.
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- Jonathan Maiangwa
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Enzyme Microbial Technology Research Center, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, 43400, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia; Department of Microbiology Kaduna State University, Nigeria; Enzyme Microbial Technology Research Centre, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, 43400, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Department of Biochemistry, Enzyme Microbial Technology Research Centre, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, 43400, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Department of Biochemistry, Enzyme Microbial Technology Research Centre, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, 43400, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Enzyme Microbial Technology Research Centre, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, 43400, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Department of Microbiology, Enzyme Microbial Technology Research Centre, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Institute of Bioscience, 43400, UPM Serdang, Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Enzyme Microbial Technology Research Center, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, 43400, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia; Enzyme Microbial Technology Research Centre, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, 43400, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia; Institute of Bioscience, 43400, UPM Serdang, Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
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Sysoev M, Grötzinger SW, Renn D, Eppinger J, Rueping M, Karan R. Bioprospecting of Novel Extremozymes From Prokaryotes-The Advent of Culture-Independent Methods. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:630013. [PMID: 33643258 PMCID: PMC7902512 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.630013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2020] [Accepted: 01/21/2021] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Extremophiles are remarkable organisms that thrive in the harshest environments on Earth, such as hydrothermal vents, hypersaline lakes and pools, alkaline soda lakes, deserts, cold oceans, and volcanic areas. These organisms have developed several strategies to overcome environmental stress and nutrient limitations. Thus, they are among the best model organisms to study adaptive mechanisms that lead to stress tolerance. Genetic and structural information derived from extremophiles and extremozymes can be used for bioengineering other nontolerant enzymes. Furthermore, extremophiles can be a valuable resource for novel biotechnological and biomedical products due to their biosynthetic properties. However, understanding life under extreme conditions is challenging due to the difficulties of in vitro cultivation and observation since > 99% of organisms cannot be cultivated. Consequently, only a minor percentage of the potential extremophiles on Earth have been discovered and characterized. Herein, we present a review of culture-independent methods, sequence-based metagenomics (SBM), and single amplified genomes (SAGs) for studying enzymes from extremophiles, with a focus on prokaryotic (archaea and bacteria) microorganisms. Additionally, we provide a comprehensive list of extremozymes discovered via metagenomics and SAGs.
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- Maksim Sysoev
- KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
- Institute for Experimental Molecular Imaging, University Clinic, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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- KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
- Institute for Experimental Molecular Imaging, University Clinic, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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- KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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Zeng J, Huang Z. From Levinthal's Paradox to the Effects of Cell Environmental Perturbation on Protein Folding. Curr Med Chem 2018; 26:7537-7554. [PMID: 30332937 DOI: 10.2174/0929867325666181017160857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2018] [Revised: 07/04/2018] [Accepted: 08/03/2018] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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BACKGROUND The rapidly increasing number of known protein sequences calls for more efficient methods to predict the Three-Dimensional (3D) structures of proteins, thus providing basic knowledge for rational drug design. Understanding the folding mechanism of proteins is valuable for predicting their 3D structures and for designing proteins with new functions and medicinal applications. Levinthal's paradox is that although the astronomical number of conformations possible even for proteins as small as 100 residues cannot be fully sampled, proteins in nature normally fold into the native state within timescales ranging from microseconds to hours. These conflicting results reveal that there are factors in organisms that can assist in protein folding. METHODS In this paper, we selected a crowded cell-like environment and temperature, and the top three Posttranslational Modifications (PTMs) as examples to show that Levinthal's paradox does not reflect the folding mechanism of proteins. We then revealed the effects of these factors on protein folding. RESULTS The results summarized in this review indicate that a crowded cell-like environment, temperature, and the top three PTMs reshape the Free Energy Landscapes (FELs) of proteins, thereby regulating the folding process. The balance between entropy and enthalpy is the key to understanding the effect of the crowded cell-like environment and PTMs on protein folding. In addition, the stability/flexibility of proteins is regulated by temperature. CONCLUSION This paper concludes that the cellular environment could directly intervene in protein folding. The long-term interactions of the cellular environment and sequence evolution may enable proteins to fold efficiently. Therefore, to correctly understand the folding mechanism of proteins, the effect of the cellular environment on protein folding should be considered.
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- Juan Zeng
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Diagnostics, Dongguan Scientific Research Center, Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan, Guangdong 523808, China.,Laboratory of Computational Chemistry and Drug Design, Laboratory of Chemical Genomics, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Diagnostics, Dongguan Scientific Research Center, Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan, Guangdong 523808, China
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Syal P, Verma VV, Gupta R. Targeted mutations and MD simulations of a methanol-stable lipase YLIP9 from Yarrowia lipolytica MSR80 to develop a biodiesel enzyme. Int J Biol Macromol 2017; 104:78-88. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2017.06.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2017] [Revised: 05/31/2017] [Accepted: 06/01/2017] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Yaacob N, Ahmad Kamarudin NH, Leow ATC, Salleh AB, Raja Abd Rahman RNZ, Mohamad Ali MS. The Role of Solvent-Accessible Leu-208 of Cold-Active Pseudomonas fluorescens Strain AMS8 Lipase in Interfacial Activation, Substrate Accessibility and Low-Molecular Weight Esterification in the Presence of Toluene. Molecules 2017; 22:E1312. [PMID: 28805665 PMCID: PMC6152135 DOI: 10.3390/molecules22081312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2017] [Revised: 07/31/2017] [Accepted: 08/04/2017] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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The alkaline cold-active lipase from Pseudomonas fluorescens AMS8 undergoes major structural changes when reacted with hydrophobic organic solvents. In toluene, the AMS8 lipase catalytic region is exposed by the moving hydrophobic lid 2 (Glu-148 to Gly-167). Solvent-accessible surface area analysis revealed that Leu-208, which is located next to the nucleophilic Ser-207 has a focal function in influencing substrate accessibility and flexibility of the catalytic pocket. Based on molecular dynamic simulations, it was found that Leu-208 strongly facilitates the lid 2 opening via its side-chain. The KM and Kcat/KM of L208A mutant were substrate dependent as it preferred a smaller-chain ester (pNP-caprylate) as compared to medium (pNP-laurate) or long-chain (pNP-palmitate) esters. In esterification of ethyl hexanoate, L208A promotes a higher ester conversion rate at 20 °C but not at 30 °C, as a 27% decline was observed. Interestingly, the wild-type (WT) lipase's conversion rate was found to increase with a higher temperature. WT lipase AMS8 esterification was higher in toluene as compared to L208A. Hence, the results showed that Leu-208 of AMS8 lipase plays an important role in steering a broad range of substrates into its active site region by regulating the flexibility of this region. Leu-208 is therefore predicted to be crucial for its role in interfacial activation and catalysis in toluene.
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- Norhayati Yaacob
- Enzyme Technology/Molecular Biomedicine Laboratory, Enzyme and Microbial Technology Research Centre, Institute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Malaysia.
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- Enzyme and Microbial Technology Research Centre, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Malaysia.
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- Enzyme and Microbial Technology Research Centre, Department of Cell Biology and Molecule, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Malaysia.
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- Enzyme and Microbial Technology Research Centre, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Malaysia.
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- Enzyme and Microbial Technology Research Centre, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Malaysia.
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- Enzyme and Microbial Technology Research Centre, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Malaysia.
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Gütle DD, Roret T, Müller SJ, Couturier J, Lemaire SD, Hecker A, Dhalleine T, Buchanan BB, Reski R, Einsle O, Jacquot JP. Chloroplast FBPase and SBPase are thioredoxin-linked enzymes with similar architecture but different evolutionary histories. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2016; 113:6779-84. [PMID: 27226308 PMCID: PMC4914176 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1606241113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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The Calvin-Benson cycle of carbon dioxide fixation in chloroplasts is controlled by light-dependent redox reactions that target specific enzymes. Of the regulatory members of the cycle, our knowledge of sedoheptulose-1,7-bisphosphatase (SBPase) is particularly scanty, despite growing evidence for its importance and link to plant productivity. To help fill this gap, we have purified, crystallized, and characterized the recombinant form of the enzyme together with the better studied fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase (FBPase), in both cases from the moss Physcomitrella patens (Pp). Overall, the moss enzymes resembled their counterparts from seed plants, including oligomeric organization-PpSBPase is a dimer, and PpFBPase is a tetramer. The two phosphatases showed striking structural homology to each other, differing primarily in their solvent-exposed surface areas in a manner accounting for their specificity for seven-carbon (sedoheptulose) and six-carbon (fructose) sugar bisphosphate substrates. The two enzymes had a similar redox potential for their regulatory redox-active disulfides (-310 mV for PpSBPase vs. -290 mV for PpFBPase), requirement for Mg(2+) and thioredoxin (TRX) specificity (TRX f > TRX m). Previously known to differ in the position and sequence of their regulatory cysteines, the enzymes unexpectedly showed unique evolutionary histories. The FBPase gene originated in bacteria in conjunction with the endosymbiotic event giving rise to mitochondria, whereas SBPase arose from an archaeal gene resident in the eukaryotic host. These findings raise the question of how enzymes with such different evolutionary origins achieved structural similarity and adapted to control by the same light-dependent photosynthetic mechanism-namely ferredoxin, ferredoxin-thioredoxin reductase, and thioredoxin.
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- Desirée D Gütle
- Plant Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany; Université de Lorraine, UMR 1136 Interactions Arbres Microorganismes, F-54500 Vandœuvre-les-Nancy, France; Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA), UMR 1136 Interactions Arbres Microorganismes, F-54280 Champenoux, France; Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Université de Lorraine, UMR 1136 Interactions Arbres Microorganismes, F-54500 Vandœuvre-les-Nancy, France; Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA), UMR 1136 Interactions Arbres Microorganismes, F-54280 Champenoux, France
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- Plant Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Université de Lorraine, UMR 1136 Interactions Arbres Microorganismes, F-54500 Vandœuvre-les-Nancy, France; Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA), UMR 1136 Interactions Arbres Microorganismes, F-54280 Champenoux, France
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- Sorbonne Universités, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) Université Paris 6, CNRS UMR 8226, Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire des Eucaryotes, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, 75005 Paris, France
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- Université de Lorraine, UMR 1136 Interactions Arbres Microorganismes, F-54500 Vandœuvre-les-Nancy, France; Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA), UMR 1136 Interactions Arbres Microorganismes, F-54280 Champenoux, France
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- Université de Lorraine, UMR 1136 Interactions Arbres Microorganismes, F-54500 Vandœuvre-les-Nancy, France; Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA), UMR 1136 Interactions Arbres Microorganismes, F-54280 Champenoux, France
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- Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3102;
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- Plant Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany; Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany; Centre for Biological Signalling Studies (BIOSS), 79104 Freiburg, Germany; Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany; Centre for Biological Signalling Studies (BIOSS), 79104 Freiburg, Germany; Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), 79104 Freiburg, Germany; Institute for Biochemistry, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Université de Lorraine, UMR 1136 Interactions Arbres Microorganismes, F-54500 Vandœuvre-les-Nancy, France; Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA), UMR 1136 Interactions Arbres Microorganismes, F-54280 Champenoux, France;
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Biotechnology has almost unlimited potential to change our lives in very exciting ways. Many of the chemical reactions that produce these products can be fully optimized by performing them at extremes of temperature, pressure, salinity, and pH for efficient and cost-effective outcomes. Fortunately, there are many organisms (extremophiles) that thrive in extreme environments found in nature and offer an excellent source of replacement enzymes in lieu of mesophilic ones currently used in these processes. In this review, I discuss the current uses and some potential new applications of extremophiles and their products, including enzymes, in biotechnology.
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- James A Coker
- Department of Biotechnology, University of Maryland, Adelphi, MD, USA
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Fendri A, Frikha F, Louati H, Bou Ali M, Gargouri H, Gargouri Y, Miled N. Cloning and molecular modeling of a thermostable carboxylesterase from the chicken uropygial glands. J Mol Graph Model 2014; 56:1-9. [PMID: 25541525 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmgm.2014.11.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2014] [Revised: 11/24/2014] [Accepted: 11/30/2014] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Starting from total uropygial glands mRNAs, chicken uropygial carboxylesterase (cuCES) cDNA was synthesized by RT-PCR and cloned into the PGEM-T vector. Amino acid sequence of the cuCES is compared to that of human liver carboxylesterase 1 (hCES1). Given the high amino acid sequence homology between the two enzymes, a 3-D structure model of the chicken carboxylesterase was built using the structure of hCES1 as template. By following this model and utilizing molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, the resistance of the chicken carboxylesterase at high temperatures could be explained. The docking of substrate analogs into the cuCES active site was used to explain the fact that the chicken carboxylesterase cannot hydrolyze efficiently large substrate molecules.
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- Ahmed Fendri
- Laboratoire de Biochimie et de Génie Enzymatique des Lipases, Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Sfax (ENIS), route de Soukra, BPW 3038 Sfax, Tunisia.
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- Laboratoire de Biochimie et de Génie Enzymatique des Lipases, Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Sfax (ENIS), route de Soukra, BPW 3038 Sfax, Tunisia
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- Laboratoire de Biochimie et de Génie Enzymatique des Lipases, Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Sfax (ENIS), route de Soukra, BPW 3038 Sfax, Tunisia
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- Laboratoire de Biochimie et de Génie Enzymatique des Lipases, Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Sfax (ENIS), route de Soukra, BPW 3038 Sfax, Tunisia
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- Laboratoire de Biochimie et de Génie Enzymatique des Lipases, Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Sfax (ENIS), route de Soukra, BPW 3038 Sfax, Tunisia
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- Laboratoire de Biochimie et de Génie Enzymatique des Lipases, Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Sfax (ENIS), route de Soukra, BPW 3038 Sfax, Tunisia
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- Laboratoire de Biochimie et de Génie Enzymatique des Lipases, Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Sfax (ENIS), route de Soukra, BPW 3038 Sfax, Tunisia
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Kumar V, Yedavalli P, Gupta V, Rao NM. Engineering lipase A from mesophilic Bacillus subtilis for activity at low temperatures. Protein Eng Des Sel 2014; 27:73-82. [PMID: 24402332 DOI: 10.1093/protein/gzt064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Loops or unordered regions of a protein are structurally dynamic and are strongly implicated in activity, stability and proteolytic susceptibility of proteins. Diminished activity of proteins at lower temperatures is considered to be due to compromised dynamics of the protein at lower temperatures. To evolve an active mesophilic lipase (Bacillus subtilis) at low temperatures, we subjected all the loop residues (n = 88) to site saturation mutagenesis (SSM). Based on a three-level screening protocol, we identified 14 substitutions, among 16,000 mutant population, which contributed to a substantial increase in activity at 5 °C. Based on the preliminary activity of recombinants at several temperatures, 5 substitutions among the 14 were found to be beneficial. A recombinant of these five mutations, named as 5CR, exhibited 7-fold higher catalytic efficiency than wild-type (WT) lipase at 10 °C. All the mutants, individually and in a recombinant (5CR), were characterized by substrate-binding parameters, melting temperatures and secondary structure. 5CR was similar to WT in substrate preferences and showed a significant improvement in activity at both lower and higher temperatures compared with the WT. To establish the contribution of mutations on the dynamics of the protein, we performed 100-ns molecular dynamics (MD) simulations on the WT and mutant lipase at 10 and 37 °C. The root mean square fluctuations (RMSFs) indeed showed that the mutations enhance the protein dynamics locally in the loop region having a catalytic residue, which may help in improved activities at lower temperatures.
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- Virender Kumar
- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500007, India
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Yang G, De Santi C, de Pascale D, Pucciarelli S, Pucciarelli S, Miceli C. Characterization of the first eukaryotic cold-adapted patatin-like phospholipase from the psychrophilic Euplotes focardii: Identification of putative determinants of thermal-adaptation by comparison with the homologous protein from the mesophilic Euplotes crassus. Biochimie 2013; 95:1795-806. [PMID: 23796575 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2013.06.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2012] [Accepted: 06/13/2013] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The ciliated protozoon Euplotes focardii, originally isolated from the coastal seawaters of Terra Nova Bay in Antarctica, shows a strictly psychrophilic phenotype, including optimal survival and multiplication rates at 4-5 °C. This characteristic makes E. focardii an ideal model species for identifying the molecular bases of cold adaptation in psychrophilic organisms, as well as a suitable source of novel cold-active enzymes for industrial applications. In the current study, we characterized the patatin-like phospholipase from E. focardii (EfPLP), and its enzymatic activity was compared to that of the homologous protein from the mesophilic congeneric species Euplotes crassus (EcPLP). Both EfPLP and EcPLP have consensus motifs conserved in other patatin-like phospholipases. By analyzing both esterase and phospholipase A2 activity, we determined the thermostability and the optimal pH, temperature dependence and substrates of these enzymes. We demonstrated that EfPLP shows the characteristics of a psychrophilic phospholipase. Furthermore, we analyzed the enzymatic activity of three engineered versions of the EfPLP, in which unique residues of EfPLP, Gly80, Ala201 and Val204, were substituted through site-directed mutagenesis with residues found in the E. crassus homolog (Glu, Pro and Ile, respectively). Additionally, three corresponding mutants of EcPLP were also generated and characterized. These analyses showed that the substitution of amino acids with rigid and bulky charged/hydrophobic side chain in the psychrophilic EfPLP confers enzymatic properties similar to those of the mesophilic patatin-like phospholipase, and vice versa. This is the first report on the isolation and characterization of a cold-adapted patatin-like phospholipase from eukaryotes. The results reported in this paper support the idea that enzyme thermal-adaptation is based mainly on some amino acid residues that influence the structural flexibility of polypeptides and that EfPLP is an attractive biocatalyst for industrial processes at low temperatures.
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- Guang Yang
- School of Biosciences and Biotechnology, University of Camerino, Italy
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Korman TP, Sahachartsiri B, Charbonneau DM, Huang GL, Beauregard M, Bowie JU. Dieselzymes: development of a stable and methanol tolerant lipase for biodiesel production by directed evolution. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS 2013; 6:70. [PMID: 23648063 PMCID: PMC3670234 DOI: 10.1186/1754-6834-6-70] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2012] [Accepted: 05/01/2013] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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BACKGROUND Biodiesels are methyl esters of fatty acids that are usually produced by base catalyzed transesterification of triacylglyerol with methanol. Some lipase enzymes are effective catalysts for biodiesel synthesis and have many potential advantages over traditional base or acid catalyzed transesterification. Natural lipases are often rapidly inactivated by the high methanol concentrations used for biodiesel synthesis, however, limiting their practical use. The lipase from Proteus mirabilis is a particularly promising catalyst for biodiesel synthesis as it produces high yields of methyl esters even in the presence of large amounts of water and expresses very well in Escherichia coli. However, since the Proteus mirabilis lipase is only moderately stable and methanol tolerant, these properties need to be improved before the enzyme can be used industrially. RESULTS We employed directed evolution, resulting in a Proteus mirabilis lipase variant with 13 mutations, which we call Dieselzyme 4. Dieselzyme 4 has greatly improved thermal stability, with a 30-fold increase in the half-inactivation time at 50°C relative to the wild-type enzyme. The evolved enzyme also has dramatically increased methanol tolerance, showing a 50-fold longer half-inactivation time in 50% aqueous methanol. The immobilized Dieselzyme 4 enzyme retains the ability to synthesize biodiesel and has improved longevity over wild-type or the industrially used Brukholderia cepacia lipase during many cycles of biodiesel synthesis. A crystal structure of Dieselzyme 4 reveals additional hydrogen bonds and salt bridges in Dieselzyme 4 compared to the wild-type enzyme, suggesting that polar interactions may become particularly stabilizing in the reduced dielectric environment of the oil and methanol mixture used for biodiesel synthesis. CONCLUSIONS Directed evolution was used to produce a stable lipase, Dieselzyme 4, which could be immobilized and re-used for biodiesel synthesis. Dieselzyme 4 outperforms the industrially used lipase from Burkholderia cepacia and provides a platform for still further evolution of desirable biodiesel production properties.
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- Tyler P Korman
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemisty, UCLA-DOE Institute of Genomics and Proteomics, Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemisty, UCLA-DOE Institute of Genomics and Proteomics, Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
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- Département de chimie-biologie, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemisty, UCLA-DOE Institute of Genomics and Proteomics, Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
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- Département de chimie-biologie, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemisty, UCLA-DOE Institute of Genomics and Proteomics, Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
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Interactions of oximino-substituted boronic acids and β-lactams with the CMY-2-derived extended-spectrum cephalosporinases CMY-30 and CMY-42. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2012; 57:968-76. [PMID: 23229484 DOI: 10.1128/aac.01620-12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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CMY-30 and CMY-42 are extended-spectrum (ES) derivatives of CMY-2. ES characteristics are due to substitutions of Gly (CMY-30) and Ser (CMY-42) for Val211 in the Ω-loop. To characterize the effects of 211 substitutions, we studied the interactions of CMY-2, -30, and -42 with boronic acid transition state inhibitors (BATSIs) resembling ceftazidime and cefotaxime, assessed thermal stability of the enzymes in their free forms and in complexes with BATSIs and oximino-β-lactams, and simulated, using molecular dynamics (MD), the CMY-42 apoenzyme and the CMY-42 complexes with ceftazidime and the ceftazidime-like BATSI. Inhibition constants showed that affinities between CMY-30 and CMY-42 and the R1 groups of BATSIs were lower than those of CMY-2. ES variants also exhibited decreased thermal stability either as apoenzymes or in covalent complexes with oximino compounds. MD simulations further supported destabilization of the ES variants. Val211Ser increased thermal factors of the Ω-loop backbone atoms, as previously observed for CMY-30. The similar effects of the two substitutions seemed to be due to a less-constrained Tyr221 likely inducing concerted movement of elements at the edges of the active site (Ω-loop-Q120 loop-R2 loop/H10 helix). This inner-protein movement, along with the wider R1 binding cleft, enabled intense vibrations of the covalently bound ceftazidime and ceftazidime-like BATSIs. Increased flexibility of the ES enzymes may assist the productive adaptation of the active site to the various geometries of the oximino substrates during the reaction (higher frequency of near-attack conformations).
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Cesarini S, Bofill C, Pastor FJ, Reetz MT, Diaz P. A thermostable variant of P. aeruginosa cold-adapted LipC obtained by rational design and saturation mutagenesis. Process Biochem 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.procbio.2012.07.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Widmann M, Pleiss J, Samland AK. Computational tools for rational protein engineering of aldolases. Comput Struct Biotechnol J 2012; 2:e201209016. [PMID: 24688657 PMCID: PMC3962226 DOI: 10.5936/csbj.201209016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2012] [Revised: 10/31/2012] [Accepted: 11/07/2012] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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In this mini-review we describe the different strategies for rational protein engineering and summarize the computational tools available. Computational tools can either be used to design focused libraries, to predict sequence-function relationships or for structure-based molecular modelling. This also includes de novo design of enzymes. Examples for protein engineering of aldolases and transaldolases are given in the second part of the mini-review.
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- Michael Widmann
- Institute of Technical Biochemistry, University of Stuttgart, Allmandring 31, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Institute of Technical Biochemistry, University of Stuttgart, Allmandring 31, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Institute of Microbiology, University of Stuttgart, Allmandring 31, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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Promiscuity, stability and cold adaptation of a newly isolated acylaminoacyl peptidase. Biochimie 2011; 93:1543-54. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2011.05.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2010] [Accepted: 05/13/2011] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Pleiss J. Protein design in metabolic engineering and synthetic biology. Curr Opin Biotechnol 2011; 22:611-7. [PMID: 21514140 DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2011.03.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2011] [Revised: 03/08/2011] [Accepted: 03/09/2011] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Starting from experimental data on sequence, structure or biochemical properties of enzymes, protein design seeks to construct enzymes with desired activity, stability, specificity and selectivity. Two strategies are widely used to investigate sequence-structure-function relationships: statistical methods to analyse protein families or mutant libraries, and molecular modelling methods to study proteins and their interaction with ligands or substrates. On the basis of these methods, protein design has been successfully applied to fine-tune bottleneck enzymes in metabolic engineering and to design enzymes with new substrate spectra and new functions. However, constructing efficient metabolic pathways by integrating individual enzymes into a complex system is challenging. The field of synthetic biology is still in its infancy, but promising results have demonstrated the feasibility and usefulness of the concept.
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- Jürgen Pleiss
- Institute of Technical Biochemistry, University of Stuttgart, Allmandring 31, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany.
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