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Che C, Zhang W, Xu X, Zheng Z, Wei H, Qin B, Jia X, Liu W, You S. Structure-based reshaping of a new ketoreductase from Sphingobacterium siyangense SY1 toward α-haloacetophenones. Int J Biol Macromol 2024; 277:134157. [PMID: 39059522 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2024.134157] [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: 04/09/2024] [Revised: 06/29/2024] [Accepted: 07/23/2024] [Indexed: 07/28/2024]
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Ketoreductases play an indispensable role in the asymmetric synthesis of chiral drug intermediates, and an in-depth understanding of their substrate selectivity can improve the efficiency of enzyme engineering. In this endeavor, a new short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase (SDR) SsSDR1 identified from Sphingobacterium siyangense SY1 by gene mining method was successfully cloned and functionally expressed in Escherichia coli. Its activity against halogenated acetophenones has been tested and the results illustrated that SsSDR1-WT exhibits high activity for 3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)acetophenone (1f), an important precursor in the synthesis of aprepitant. In addition, SsSDR1-WT showed obvious substrate preference for acetophenones without α-halogen substitution compared to their α-halogen analogs. To explore the structural basis of substrate selectivity, the X-ray crystal structures of SsSDR1-WT in its apo form and the complex structure with NAD were resolved. Taking 2-chloro-1-(3, 4-difluorophenyl) ethanone (1i) as the representative α-haloacetophenone, the key sites affecting substrate selectivity of SsSDR1-WT were identified and through the rational remodeling of the cavities C1 and C2 of SsSDR1, an excellent mutant I144A/S153L with significantly improved activity against α-halogenated acetophenones was obtained. The asymmetric catalysis of 1f and 1i was performed at the scale of 50 mL, and the space-time yields (STY) of the two were 1200 and 6000 g/L∙d, respectively. This study not only provides valuable biocatalysts for halogenated acetophenones, but also yields insights into the relationship between the substrate-binding pocket and substrate selectivity.
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- Changli Che
- School of Life Sciences and Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, 103 Wenhua Road, Shenhe, Shenyang 110016, People's Republic of China
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- School of Life Sciences and Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, 103 Wenhua Road, Shenhe, Shenyang 110016, People's Republic of China
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- School of Life Sciences and Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, 103 Wenhua Road, Shenhe, Shenyang 110016, People's Republic of China
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- Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 32 West 7th Avenue, Tianjin Airport Economic Area, Tianjin 300308, People's Republic of China
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- Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 32 West 7th Avenue, Tianjin Airport Economic Area, Tianjin 300308, People's Republic of China
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- Wuya College of Innovation, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, 103 Wenhua Road, Shenhe, Shenyang 110016, People's Republic of China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Engineering, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, 103 Wenhua Road, Shenhe, Shenyang 110016, People's Republic of China.
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- Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 32 West 7th Avenue, Tianjin Airport Economic Area, Tianjin 300308, People's Republic of China.
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- School of Life Sciences and Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, 103 Wenhua Road, Shenhe, Shenyang 110016, People's Republic of China.
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Hernández-Ospina DA, Osorio-González CS, Miri S, Kaur Brar S. New perspectives on the anaerobic degradation of BTEX: Mechanisms, pathways, and intermediates. CHEMOSPHERE 2024; 361:142490. [PMID: 38821131 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2024.142490] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2024] [Revised: 05/27/2024] [Accepted: 05/29/2024] [Indexed: 06/02/2024]
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Aromatic hydrocarbons like benzene, toluene, xylene, and ethylbenzene (BTEX) can escape into the environment from oil and gas operations and manufacturing industries posing significant health risks to humans and wildlife. Unlike conventional clean-up methods used, biological approaches such as bioremediation can provide a more energy and labour-efficient and environmentally friendly option for sensitive areas such as nature reserves and cities, protecting biodiversity and public health. BTEX contamination is often concentrated in the subsurface of these locations where oxygen is rapidly depleted, and biodegradation relies on anaerobic processes. Thus, it is critical to understand the anaerobic biodegradation characteristics as it has not been explored to a major extent. This review presents novel insights into the degradation mechanisms under anaerobic conditions and presents a detailed description and interconnection between them. BTEX degradation can follow four activation mechanisms: hydroxylation, carboxylation, methylation, and fumarate addition. Hydroxylation is one of the mechanisms that explains the transformation of benzene into phenol, toluene into benzyl alcohol or p-cresol, and ethylbenzene into 1-phenylethanol. Carboxylation to benzoate is thought to be the primary mechanism of degradation for benzene. Despite being poorly understood, benzene methylation has been also reported. Moreover, fumarate addition is the most widely reported mechanism, present in toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene degradation. Further research efforts are required to better elucidate new and current alternative catabolic pathways. Likewise, a comprehensive analysis of the enzymes involved as well as the development of advance tools such as omic tools can reveal bottlenecks degradation steps and create more effective on-site strategies to address BTEX pollution.
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- Diego A Hernández-Ospina
- Department of Civil Engineering, Lassonde School of Engineering, York University, North York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3J 1P3
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- Department of Civil Engineering, Lassonde School of Engineering, York University, North York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3J 1P3
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- Department of Civil Engineering, Lassonde School of Engineering, York University, North York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3J 1P3
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- Department of Civil Engineering, Lassonde School of Engineering, York University, North York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3J 1P3.
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Tataruch M, Illeová V, Kluza A, Cabadaj P, Polakovič M. Catalytic Stability of S-1-(4-Hydroxyphenyl)-Ethanol Dehydrogenase from Aromatoleum aromaticum. Int J Mol Sci 2024; 25:7385. [PMID: 39000491 PMCID: PMC11242144 DOI: 10.3390/ijms25137385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2024] [Revised: 06/27/2024] [Accepted: 07/02/2024] [Indexed: 07/16/2024] Open
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Derived from the denitrifying bacterium Aromatoleum aromaticum EbN1 (Azoarcus sp.), the enzyme S-1-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-ethanol dehydrogenase (S-HPED) belongs to the short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase family. Using research techniques like UV-Vis spectroscopy, dynamic light scattering, thermal-shift assay and HPLC, we investigated the catalytic and structural stability of S-HPED over a wide temperature range and within the pH range of 5.5 to 9.0 under storage and reaction conditions. The relationship between aggregation and inactivation of the enzyme in various pH environments was also examined and interpreted. At pH 9.0, where the enzyme exhibited no aggregation, we characterized thermally induced enzyme inactivation. Through isothermal and multitemperature analysis of inactivation data, we identified and confirmed the first-order inactivation mechanism under these pH conditions and determined the kinetic parameters of the inactivation process. Additionally, we report the positive impact of glucose as an enzyme stabilizer, which slows down the dynamics of S-HPED inactivation over a wide range of pH and temperature and limits enzyme aggregation. Besides characterizing the stability of S-HPED, the enzyme's catalytic activity and high stereospecificity for 10 prochiral carbonyl compounds were positively verified, thus expanding the spectrum of substrates reduced by S-HPED. Our research contributes to advancing knowledge about the biocatalytic potential of this catalyst.
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- Mateusz Tataruch
- Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences, Niezapominajek 8, 30-239 Krakow, Poland; (M.T.); (A.K.)
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- Institute of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Slovak Technical University, Radlinského 9, 812 37 Bratislava, Slovakia; (V.I.); (P.C.)
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- Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences, Niezapominajek 8, 30-239 Krakow, Poland; (M.T.); (A.K.)
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- Institute of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Slovak Technical University, Radlinského 9, 812 37 Bratislava, Slovakia; (V.I.); (P.C.)
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- Institute of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Slovak Technical University, Radlinského 9, 812 37 Bratislava, Slovakia; (V.I.); (P.C.)
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Zhang L, Sun Z, Xu G, Ni Y. Classification and functional origins of stereocomplementary alcohol dehydrogenases for asymmetric synthesis of chiral secondary alcohols: A review. Int J Biol Macromol 2024; 270:132238. [PMID: 38729463 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2024.132238] [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: 01/28/2024] [Revised: 04/17/2024] [Accepted: 05/07/2024] [Indexed: 05/12/2024]
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Alcohol dehydrogenases (ADHs) mediated biocatalytic asymmetric reduction of ketones have been widely applied in the synthesis of optically active secondary alcohols with highly reactive hydroxyl groups ligated to the stereogenic carbon and divided into (R)- and (S)-configurations. Stereocomplementary ADHs could be applied in the synthesis of both enantiomers and are increasingly accepted as the "first of choice" in green chemistry due to the high atomic economy, low environmental factor, 100 % theoretical yield, and high environmentally friendliness. Due to the equal importance of complementary alcohols, development of stereocomplementary ADHs draws increasing attention. This review is committed to summarize recent advance in discovery of naturally evolved and tailor-made stereocomplementary ADHs, unveil the molecular mechanism of stereoselective catalysis in views of classification and functional basis, and provide guidance for further engineering the stereoselectivity of ADHs for the industrial biosynthesis of chiral secondary alcohol of industrial relevance.
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- Lu Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, Jiangsu, China
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, Jiangsu, China
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, Jiangsu, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, Jiangsu, China.
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Hooe SL, Smith AD, Dean SN, Breger JC, Ellis GA, Medintz IL. Multienzymatic Cascades and Nanomaterial Scaffolding-A Potential Way Forward for the Efficient Biosynthesis of Novel Chemical Products. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2024; 36:e2309963. [PMID: 37944537 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202309963] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2023] [Revised: 10/25/2023] [Indexed: 11/12/2023]
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Synthetic biology is touted as the next industrial revolution as it promises access to greener biocatalytic syntheses to replace many industrial organic chemistries. Here, it is shown to what synthetic biology can offer in the form of multienzyme cascades for the synthesis of the most basic of new materials-chemicals, including especially designer chemical products and their analogs. Since achieving this is predicated on dramatically expanding the chemical space that enzymes access, such chemistry will probably be undertaken in cell-free or minimalist formats to overcome the inherent toxicity of non-natural substrates to living cells. Laying out relevant aspects that need to be considered in the design of multi-enzymatic cascades for these purposes is begun. Representative multienzymatic cascades are critically reviewed, which have been specifically developed for the synthesis of compounds that have either been made only by traditional organic synthesis along with those cascades utilized for novel compound syntheses. Lastly, an overview of strategies that look toward exploiting bio/nanomaterials for accessing channeling and other nanoscale materials phenomena in vitro to direct novel enzymatic biosynthesis and improve catalytic efficiency is provided. Finally, a perspective on what is needed for this field to develop in the short and long term is presented.
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- Shelby L Hooe
- Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering Code 6900, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, 20375, USA
- National Research Council, Washington, DC, 20001, USA
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- Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering Code 6900, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, 20375, USA
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- Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering Code 6900, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, 20375, USA
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- Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering Code 6900, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, 20375, USA
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- Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering Code 6900, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, 20375, USA
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- Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering Code 6900, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, 20375, USA
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Liu S, Sun Y. Co-encapsulating Cofactor and Enzymes in Hydrogen-Bonded Organic Frameworks for Multienzyme Cascade Reactions with Cofactor Recycling. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2023; 62:e202308562. [PMID: 37658506 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202308562] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2023] [Revised: 08/30/2023] [Accepted: 09/01/2023] [Indexed: 09/03/2023]
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Use of hydrogen-bonded organic frameworks (HOFs) for enzyme immobilization faces challenges in the improvement of enzyme activity recovery and the assembly of cofactor-dependent multienzyme systems. Herein, we report a polyelectrolyte-assisted encapsulation approach (PAEA) that enables two cascades with four oxidoreductases and two nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (phosphate) (NAD(P)H) cofactors co-encapsulated in BioHOF-1 with excellent cargo loading and over 100 % cascade activity. The key role of the polyelectrolyte is to coat enzymes and tether NAD(P)H, thus interacting with HOF monomers in place of enzymes, avoiding the destruction of enzymes by HOF monomers. The versatility and efficiency of PAEA are further illustrated by an HOF-101-based bio-nanoreactor. Moreover, the immobilization by PAEA makes enzymes and NAD(P)H display excellent stability and recyclability. This study has demonstrated a facile and versatile PAEA for fabricating cofactor-dependent multienzyme cascade nanoreactors with HOFs.
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- Si Liu
- Department of Biochemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology and Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering and Frontiers Science Center for Synthetic Biology, Ministry of Education), Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300350, P. R. China
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- Department of Biochemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology and Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering and Frontiers Science Center for Synthetic Biology, Ministry of Education), Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300350, P. R. China
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Rudzka A, Zdun B, Antos N, Montero LM, Reiter T, Kroutil W, Borowiecki P. Biocatalytic characterization of an alcohol dehydrogenase variant deduced from Lactobacillus kefir in asymmetric hydrogen transfer. Commun Chem 2023; 6:217. [PMID: 37828252 PMCID: PMC10570314 DOI: 10.1038/s42004-023-01013-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2023] [Accepted: 09/26/2023] [Indexed: 10/14/2023] Open
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Hydrogen transfer biocatalysts to prepare optically pure alcohols are in need, especially when it comes to sterically demanding ketones, whereof the bioreduced products are either essential precursors of pharmaceutically relevant compounds or constitute APIs themselves. In this study, we report on the biocatalytic potential of an anti-Prelog (R)-specific Lactobacillus kefir ADH variant (Lk-ADH-E145F-F147L-Y190C, named Lk-ADH Prince) employed as E. coli/ADH whole-cell biocatalyst and its characterization for stereoselective reduction of prochiral carbonyl substrates. Key enzymatic reaction parameters, including the reaction medium, evaluation of cofactor-dependency, organic co-solvent tolerance, and substrate loading, were determined employing the drug pentoxifylline as a model prochiral ketone. Furthermore, to tap the substrate scope of Lk-ADH Prince in hydrogen transfer reactions, a broad range of 34 carbonylic derivatives was screened. Our data demonstrate that E. coli/Lk-ADH Prince exhibits activity toward a variety of structurally different ketones, furnishing optically active alcohol products at the high conversion of 65-99.9% and in moderate-to-high isolated yields (38-91%) with excellent anti-Prelog (R)-stereoselectivity (up to >99% ee) at substrate concentrations up to 100 mM.
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- Aleksandra Rudzka
- Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Biotransformation, Department of Drugs Technology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Chemistry, Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 75, 00-662, Warsaw, Poland
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- Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Biotransformation, Department of Drugs Technology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Chemistry, Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 75, 00-662, Warsaw, Poland
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- Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Biotransformation, Department of Drugs Technology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Chemistry, Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 75, 00-662, Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of Chemistry, University of Graz, NAWI Graz, BioTechMed Graz, Field of Excellence BioHealth, Heinrichstrasse 28, 8010, Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Chemistry, University of Graz, NAWI Graz, BioTechMed Graz, Field of Excellence BioHealth, Heinrichstrasse 28, 8010, Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Chemistry, University of Graz, NAWI Graz, BioTechMed Graz, Field of Excellence BioHealth, Heinrichstrasse 28, 8010, Graz, Austria
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- Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Biotransformation, Department of Drugs Technology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Chemistry, Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 75, 00-662, Warsaw, Poland.
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Pletzer-Zelgert J, Ehrt C, Fender I, Griewel A, Flachsenberg F, Klebe G, Rarey M. LifeSoaks: a tool for analyzing solvent channels in protein crystals and obstacles for soaking experiments. Acta Crystallogr D Struct Biol 2023; 79:837-856. [PMID: 37561404 PMCID: PMC10478636 DOI: 10.1107/s205979832300582x] [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: 04/27/2023] [Accepted: 07/03/2023] [Indexed: 08/11/2023] Open
Abstract
Due to the structural complexity of proteins, their corresponding crystal arrangements generally contain a significant amount of solvent-occupied space. These areas allow a certain degree of intracrystalline protein flexibility and mobility of solutes. Therefore, knowledge of the geometry of solvent-filled channels and cavities is essential whenever the dynamics inside a crystal are of interest. Especially in soaking experiments for structure-based drug design, ligands must be able to traverse the crystal solvent channels and reach the corresponding binding pockets. Unsuccessful screenings are sometimes attributed to the geometry of the crystal packing, but the underlying causes are often difficult to understand. This work presents LifeSoaks, a novel tool for analyzing and visualizing solvent channels in protein crystals. LifeSoaks uses a Voronoi diagram-based periodic channel representation which can be efficiently computed. The size and location of channel bottlenecks, which might hinder molecular diffusion, can be directly derived from this representation. This work presents the calculated bottleneck radii for all crystal structures in the PDB and the analysis of a new, hand-curated data set of structures obtained by soaking experiments. The results indicate that the consideration of bottleneck radii and the visual inspection of channels are beneficial for planning soaking experiments.
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- Center for Bioinformatics, Universität Hamburg, Bundesstrasse 43, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
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- Center for Bioinformatics, Universität Hamburg, Bundesstrasse 43, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
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- Center for Bioinformatics, Universität Hamburg, Bundesstrasse 43, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
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- Center for Bioinformatics, Universität Hamburg, Bundesstrasse 43, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
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- Institut für Pharmazeutische Chemie, Universität Marburg, Marbacher Weg 6-10, 35032 Marburg, Germany
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- Center for Bioinformatics, Universität Hamburg, Bundesstrasse 43, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
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Lu L, Wang X, Zhou L, Liu Q, Zhang G, Xue B, Hu C, Shen X, Sun X, Yan Y, Wang J, Yuan Q. Establishing biosynthetic pathway for the production of p-hydroxyacetophenone and its glucoside in Escherichia coli. Metab Eng 2023; 76:110-119. [PMID: 36746296 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2023.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2022] [Revised: 01/10/2023] [Accepted: 02/03/2023] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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p-Hydroxyacetophenone (p-HAP) and its glucoside picein are plant-derived natural products that have been extensively used in chemical, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries owing to their antioxidant, antibacterial and antiseptic activities. However, the natural biosynthetic pathways for p-HAP and picein have yet been resolved so far, limiting their biosynthesis in microorganisms. In this study, we design and construct a biosynthetic pathway for de novo production of p-HAP and picein from glucose in E. coli. First, screening and characterizing pathway enzymes enable us to successfully establish functional biosynthetic pathway for p-HAP production. Then, the rate-limiting step in the pathway caused by a reversible alcohol dehydrogenase is completely eliminated by modulating intracellular redox cofactors. Subsequent host strain engineering via systematic increase of precursor supplies enables production enhancement of p-HAP with a titer of 1445.3 mg/L under fed-batch conditions. Finally, a novel p-HAP glucosyltransferase capable of generating picein from p-HAP is identified and characterized from a series of glycosyltransferases. On this basis, de novo biosynthesis of picein from glucose is achieved with a titer of 210.7 mg/L under fed-batch conditions. This work not only demonstrates a microbial platform for p-HAP and picein synthesis, but also represents a generalizable pathway design strategy to produce value-added compounds.
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- Liangyu Lu
- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China; Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China; Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China; Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China; Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China; Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China; Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China; Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China; Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China; Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China
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- College of Engineering, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China; Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China; Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China.
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Zhao W, Liu M, Qin Y, Bing H, Zhang F, Zhao G. Characterization and functional of four mutants of hydroxy fatty acid dehydrogenase from Lactobacillus plantarum p-8. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2022; 369:6633657. [PMID: 35798009 DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fnac060] [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: 12/16/2021] [Revised: 04/25/2022] [Accepted: 07/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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In this study, the hydroxy fatty acid dehydrogenase CLA-DH from Lactobacillus plantarum p-8 and its four mutant variants were expressed in Escherichia coli Rosetta (DE3). UV spectrophotometry was employed to verify the catalytic power of the purified CLA-DH to convert ricinoleic acid into 12-oxo-cis-9-octadecenoic acid in the presence of oxidized nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+). The optimum reaction temperature for CLA-DH was 45°C, with a maintained stability between 20°C and 40°C. The optimal pH for CLA-DH catalytic activity was 6.0-7.0, with a maintained stability at a pH range of 6.0-8.0. In addition, Fe3+ promoted enzyme activity, whereas Cu2+, Zn2+, and Fe2+ inhibited enzyme activity (P < 0.05). The Km, Vmax, Kcat, and Kcat/Km of CLA-DH were determined as 2.19 ± 0.34 μM, 2.06 ± 0.28 μM min-1, 2.00 ± 0.27 min-1, and 0.92 ± 0.02 min-1μM-1, respectively. Site-directed mutagenesis and molecular dynamics simulations demonstrated that both Tyr156 and Ser143 residues play significant roles in the catalysis of CLA-DH, and its solubility is affected by Lys160 and Asp63. Moreover, Gas chromatography determined that recombinant CLA-DH could be successfully applied to Conjugated linoleic acids production.
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- Wei Zhao
- College of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, 29 Erdos Street, Hohhot 010011, China.,College of Food Science, Shanxi Normal University, 339 Taiyu Road, Taiyuan 030031, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, 29 Erdos Street, Hohhot 010011, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, 29 Erdos Street, Hohhot 010011, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, 29 Erdos Street, Hohhot 010011, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, 29 Erdos Street, Hohhot 010011, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, 29 Erdos Street, Hohhot 010011, China
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Corrado ML, Knaus T, Schwaneberg U, Mutti FG. High-Yield Synthesis of Enantiopure 1,2-Amino Alcohols from l-Phenylalanine via Linear and Divergent Enzymatic Cascades. Org Process Res Dev 2022; 26:2085-2095. [PMID: 35873603 PMCID: PMC9295148 DOI: 10.1021/acs.oprd.1c00490] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Enantiomerically
pure 1,2-amino alcohols are important compounds
due to their biological activities and wide applications in chemical
synthesis. In this work, we present two multienzyme pathways for the
conversion of l-phenylalanine into either 2-phenylglycinol
or phenylethanolamine in the enantiomerically pure form. Both pathways
start with the two-pot sequential four-step conversion of l-phenylalanine into styrene via subsequent deamination, decarboxylation,
enantioselective epoxidation, and enantioselective hydrolysis. For
instance, after optimization, the multienzyme process could convert
507 mg of l-phenylalanine into (R)-1-phenyl-1,2-diol
in an overall isolated yield of 75% and >99% ee. The opposite enantiomer,
(S)-1-phenyl-1,2-diol, was also obtained in a 70%
yield and 98–99% ee following the same approach. At this stage,
two divergent routes were developed to convert the chiral diols into
either 2-phenylglycinol or phenylethanolamine. The former route consisted
of a one-pot concurrent interconnected two-step cascade in which the
diol intermediate was oxidized to 2-hydroxy-acetophenone by an alcohol
dehydrogenase and then aminated by a transaminase to give enantiomerically
pure 2-phenylglycinol. Notably, the addition of an alanine dehydrogenase
enabled the connection of the two steps and made the overall process
redox-self-sufficient. Thus, (S)-phenylglycinol was
isolated in an 81% yield and >99.4% ee starting from ca. 100 mg
of
the diol intermediate. The second route consisted of a one-pot concurrent
two-step cascade in which the oxidative and reductive steps were not
interconnected. In this case, the diol intermediate was oxidized to
either (S)- or (R)-2-hydroxy-2-phenylacetaldehyde
by an alcohol oxidase and then aminated by an amine dehydrogenase
to give the enantiomerically pure phenylethanolamine. The addition
of a formate dehydrogenase and sodium formate was required to provide
the reducing equivalents for the reductive amination step. Thus, (R)-phenylethanolamine was isolated in a 92% yield and >99.9%
ee starting from ca. 100 mg of the diol intermediate. In summary, l-phenylalanine was converted into enantiomerically pure 2-phenylglycinol
and phenylethanolamine in overall yields of 61% and 69%, respectively.
This work exemplifies how linear and divergent enzyme cascades can
enable the synthesis of high-value chiral molecules such as amino
alcohols from a renewable material such as l-phenylalanine
with high atom economy and improved sustainability.
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- Maria L. Corrado
- Van’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, HIMS-Biocat, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, Amsterdam 1098 XH, The Netherlands
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- Van’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, HIMS-Biocat, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, Amsterdam 1098 XH, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Biotechnology, RWTH Aachen University, Worringerweg 3, Aachen 52074, Germany
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- Van’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, HIMS-Biocat, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, Amsterdam 1098 XH, The Netherlands
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Liu S, Wang Z, Chen K, Yu L, Shi Q, Dong X, Sun Y. Cascade chiral amine synthesis catalyzed by site-specifically co-immobilized alcohol and amine dehydrogenases. Catal Sci Technol 2022. [DOI: 10.1039/d2cy00514j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Sustainable and efficient production of chiral amines was realized with an oriented co-immobilized dual-enzyme system via SiBP-tag.
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- Si Liu
- Department of Biochemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology and Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering and Frontiers Science Center for Synthetic Biology (Ministry of Education), Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China
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- Department of Biochemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology and Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering and Frontiers Science Center for Synthetic Biology (Ministry of Education), Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China
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- Department of Biochemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology and Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering and Frontiers Science Center for Synthetic Biology (Ministry of Education), Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China
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- Department of Biochemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology and Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering and Frontiers Science Center for Synthetic Biology (Ministry of Education), Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China
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- Department of Biochemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology and Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering and Frontiers Science Center for Synthetic Biology (Ministry of Education), Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China
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- Department of Biochemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology and Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering and Frontiers Science Center for Synthetic Biology (Ministry of Education), Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China
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- Department of Biochemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology and Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering and Frontiers Science Center for Synthetic Biology (Ministry of Education), Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China
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Wang T, Zhang XY, Zheng YC, Bai YP. Stereoselective synthesis of chiral δ-lactones via an engineered carbonyl reductase. Chem Commun (Camb) 2021; 57:10584-10587. [PMID: 34559867 DOI: 10.1039/d1cc04542c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A carbonyl reductase variant, SmCRM5, from Serratia marcescens was obtained through structure-guided directed evolution. The variant showed improved specific activity (U mg-1) towards most of the 16 tested substrates and gave high stereoselectivities of up to 99% in the asymmetric synthesis of 13 γ-/δ-lactones. In particular, SmCRM5 showed a 13.8-fold higher specific activity towards the model substrate, i.e., 5-oxodecanoic acid, and gave (R)-δ-decalactone in 99% ee with a space-time yield (STY) of 301 g L-1 d-1. The preparative synthesis of six δ-lactones in high yields and with high enantiopurities showed the feasibility of the biocatalytic synthesis of these high-value-added chemicals, providing a cost-effective and green alternative to noble-metal catalysis.
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- Tao Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center for Biomanufacturing, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center for Biomanufacturing, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center for Biomanufacturing, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center for Biomanufacturing, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, China.
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von Horsten S, Lippert ML, Geisselbrecht Y, Schühle K, Schall I, Essen LO, Heider J. Inactive pseudoenzyme subunits in heterotetrameric BbsCD, a novel short-chain alcohol dehydrogenase involved in anaerobic toluene degradation. FEBS J 2021; 289:1023-1042. [PMID: 34601806 DOI: 10.1111/febs.16216] [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: 08/10/2021] [Revised: 09/16/2021] [Accepted: 09/29/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Anaerobic toluene degradation proceeds by fumarate addition to produce (R)-benzylsuccinate as first intermediate, which is further degraded via β-oxidation by five enzymes encoded in the conserved bbs operon. This study characterizes two enzymes of this pathway, (E)-benzylidenesuccinyl-CoA hydratase (BbsH), and (S,R)-2-(α-hydroxybenzyl)succinyl-CoA dehydrogenase (BbsCD) from Thauera aromatica. BbsH, a member of the enoyl-CoA hydratase family, converts (E)-benzylidenesuccinyl-CoA to 2-(α-hydroxybenzyl)succinyl-CoA and was subsequently used in a coupled enzyme assay with BbsCD, which belongs to the short-chain dehydrogenases/reductase (SDR) family. The BbsCD crystal structure shows a C2-symmetric heterotetramer consisting of BbsC2 and BbsD2 dimers. BbsD subunits are catalytically active and capable of binding NAD+ and substrate, whereas BbsC subunits represent built-in pseudoenzyme moieties lacking all motifs of the SDR family required for substrate binding or catalysis. Molecular modeling studies predict that the active site of BbsD is specific for conversion of the (S,R)-diastereomer of 2-(α-hydroxybenzyl)succinyl-CoA to (S)-2-benzoylsuccinyl-CoA by hydride transfer to the re-face of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD)+ . Furthermore, BbsC subunits are not engaged in substrate binding and merely serve as scaffold for the BbsD dimer. BbsCD represents a novel clade of related enzymes within the SDR family, which adopt a heterotetrameric architecture and catalyze the β-oxidation of aromatic succinate adducts.
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- Department of Biology, Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany
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Corrado ML, Knaus T, Mutti FG. High Regio- and Stereoselective Multi-enzymatic Synthesis of All Phenylpropanolamine Stereoisomers from β-Methylstyrene. Chembiochem 2021; 22:2345-2350. [PMID: 33880862 PMCID: PMC8359840 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.202100123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2021] [Revised: 04/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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We present a one-pot cascade for the synthesis of phenylpropanolamines (PPAs) in high optical purities (er and dr up to >99.5 %) and analytical yields (up to 95 %) by using 1-phenylpropane-1,2-diols as key intermediates. This bioamination entails the combination of an alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH), an ω-transaminase (ωTA) and an alanine dehydrogenase to create a redox-neutral network, which harnesses the exquisite and complementary regio- and stereo-selectivities of the selected ADHs and ωTAs. The requisite 1-phenylpropane-1,2-diol intermediates were obtained from trans- or cis-β-methylstyrene by combining a styrene monooxygenase with epoxide hydrolases. Furthermore, in selected cases, the envisioned cascade enabled to obtain the structural isomer (1S,2R)-1-amino-1-phenylpropan-2-ol in high optical purity (er and dr >99.5 %). This is the first report on an enzymatic method that enables to obtain all of the four possible PPA stereoisomers in great enantio- and diastereo-selectivity.
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- Maria L. Corrado
- Van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, HIMS-BiocatUniversity of AmsterdamScience Park 9041098 XHAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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- Van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, HIMS-BiocatUniversity of AmsterdamScience Park 9041098 XHAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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- Van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, HIMS-BiocatUniversity of AmsterdamScience Park 9041098 XHAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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Redesign of a short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase for asymmetric synthesis of ethyl (R)-2-hydroxy-4-phenylbutanoate based on per-residue free energy decomposition and sequence conservatism analysis. GREEN SYNTHESIS AND CATALYSIS 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.gresc.2020.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Rational design of the carbonyl reductase EbSDR8 for efficient biosynthesis of enantiopure (R)-3-chloro-1-phenyl-1-propanol. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2020; 104:9219-9228. [PMID: 32954455 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-020-10904-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2020] [Revised: 09/01/2020] [Accepted: 09/10/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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(R)-3-Chloro-1-phenyl-1-propanol ((R)-CPPO) is an important chiral intermediate for antidepressants. For its efficient biosynthesis, the carbonyl reductase EbSDR8 was engineered to asymmetrically reduce the unnatural substrate 3-chloro-1-phenyl-1-propanone (3-CPP) at high concentrations. Molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulations of the resulting mutants suggested enlarged substrate binding pocket and more reasonable interactions between the enzyme and the substrate or cofactor as the reasons for the enhanced catalytic activity and thus the remarkably improved conversion of high-concentration 3-CPP. Using the best mutant EbSDR8G94A/L153I/Y188A/Y202M as the whole-cell biocatalyst, reduction of 3-CPP (1.0 M) was conducted using 100% isopropanol as both the solvent and co-substrate for NADH regeneration, delivering (R)-CPPO with ˃ 99% eep and 95.5% conversion. This result suggests EbSDR8G94A/L153I/Y188A/Y202M as a potential biocatalyst for green production of (R)-CPPO at the industrial scale. KEY POINTS: • Rational design of EbSDR8 by modulating steric hindrance and molecular interactions; • Non-aqueous biocatalysis using isopropanol as both the solvent and co-substrate; • Whole-cell catalyzed production of 161 g/L enantiopure (R)-CPPO from 1.0 M of 3-CPP. Graphical Abstract.
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Stereoselective synthesis of the key intermediate of ticagrelor and its diverse analogs using a new alcohol dehydrogenase from Rhodococcus kyotonensis. Process Biochem 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.procbio.2020.01.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Borowiecki P, Telatycka N, Tataruch M, Żądło‐Dobrowolska A, Reiter T, Schühle K, Heider J, Szaleniec M, Kroutil W. Biocatalytic Asymmetric Reduction of γ‐Keto Esters to Access Optically Active γ‐Aryl‐γ‐butyrolactones. Adv Synth Catal 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/adsc.201901483] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Paweł Borowiecki
- Warsaw University of TechnologyFaculty of ChemistryDepartment of Drugs Technology and Biotechnology Koszykowa 3 00-664 Warsaw Poland
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- Warsaw University of TechnologyFaculty of ChemistryDepartment of Drugs Technology and Biotechnology Koszykowa 3 00-664 Warsaw Poland
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- Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, PAS Niezapominajek 8 30-239 Krakow Poland
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences Kasprzaka 44/52 01-224 Warsaw Poland
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- Institute of ChemistryUniversity of Graz NAWI Graz, BioTechMed Graz, Heinrichstrasse 28 8010 Graz Austria
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- Laboratory of MicrobiologyLOEWE Center for Synthetic MicrobiologyPhilipps University of Marburg Marburg
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- Laboratory of MicrobiologyLOEWE Center for Synthetic MicrobiologyPhilipps University of Marburg Marburg
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- Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, PAS Niezapominajek 8 30-239 Krakow Poland
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- Institute of ChemistryUniversity of Graz NAWI Graz, BioTechMed Graz, Heinrichstrasse 28 8010 Graz Austria
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Wang H, Zheng Y, Chen F, Xu J, Yu H. Enantioselective Bioamination of Aromatic Alkanes Using Ammonia: A Multienzymatic Cascade Approach. ChemCatChem 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201902253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Hui Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor EngineeringEast China University of Science and Technology 130 Meilong Road Shanghai 200237 P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor EngineeringEast China University of Science and Technology 130 Meilong Road Shanghai 200237 P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor EngineeringEast China University of Science and Technology 130 Meilong Road Shanghai 200237 P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor EngineeringEast China University of Science and Technology 130 Meilong Road Shanghai 200237 P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor EngineeringEast China University of Science and Technology 130 Meilong Road Shanghai 200237 P.R. China
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Shang YP, Chen Q, Li AT, Quan S, Xu JH, Yu HL. Attenuated substrate inhibition of a haloketone reductase via structure-guided loop engineering. J Biotechnol 2020; 308:141-147. [PMID: 31866427 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2019.12.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2019] [Revised: 11/26/2019] [Accepted: 12/18/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Substrate inhibition of enzymes is one of the main obstacles encountered frequently in industrial biocatalysis. Haloketone reductase SsCR was seriously inhibited by substrate 2,2',4'-trichloroacetophenone. In this study, two essential loops were found that have a relationship with substrate binding by conducting X-ray crystal structure analysis. Three key residues were selected from the tips of the loops and substituted with amino acids with lower hydrophobicity to weaken the hydrophobic interactions that bridge the two loops, resulting in a remarkable reduction of substrate inhibition. Among these variants, L211H showed a significant attenuation of substrate inhibition, with a Ki of 16 mM, which was 16 times that of the native enzyme. The kinetic parameter kcat/Km of L211H was 3.1 × 103 s-1 mM-1, showing the comparable catalytic efficiency to that of the wild-type enzyme (WT). At the substrate loading of 100 mM, the space time yield of variant L211H in asymmetric reduction of the haloketone was 3-fold higher than that of the WT.
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- Yue-Peng Shang
- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center for Biomanufacturing, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center for Biomanufacturing, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China.
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- Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Green Transformation of Bio-resources, Hubei Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, 368 Youyi Road, Wuchang, Wuhan, 430062, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center for Biomanufacturing, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center for Biomanufacturing, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center for Biomanufacturing, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China.
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Corrado ML, Knaus T, Mutti FG. Regio- and stereoselective multi-enzymatic aminohydroxylation of β-methylstyrene using dioxygen, ammonia and formate. GREEN CHEMISTRY : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL AND GREEN CHEMISTRY RESOURCE : GC 2019; 21:6246-6251. [PMID: 33628112 PMCID: PMC7116804 DOI: 10.1039/c9gc03161h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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We report an enzymatic route for the formal regio- and stereoselective aminohydroxylation of β-methylstyrene that consumes only dioxygen, ammonia and formate; carbonate is the by-product. The biocascade entails highly selective epoxidation, hydrolysis and hydrogen-borrowing alcohol amination. Thus, β-methylstyrene was converted into 1R,2R and 1S,2R-phenylpropanolamine in 59-63% isolated yields, and up to >99.5: <0.5 dr and er.
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- Maria L Corrado
- Van't Hoff Institute for MolecularSciences, HIMS-Biocat, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Van't Hoff Institute for MolecularSciences, HIMS-Biocat, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Van't Hoff Institute for MolecularSciences, HIMS-Biocat, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Su BM, Shao ZH, Li AP, Naeem M, Lin J, Ye LD, Yu HW. Rational Design of Dehydrogenase/Reductases Based on Comparative Structural Analysis of Prereaction-State and Free-State Simulations for Efficient Asymmetric Reduction of Bulky Aryl Ketones. ACS Catal 2019. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.9b04778] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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- Bing-Mei Su
- College of Chemical Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350116, China
- Institute of Bioengineering, College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- College of Pharmaceutical Science, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China
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- Institute of Bioengineering, College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- College of Chemical Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350116, China
- College of Biological Science and Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350116, China
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- Institute of Bioengineering, College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- Institute of Bioengineering, College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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Ellis GA, Klein WP, Lasarte-Aragonés G, Thakur M, Walper SA, Medintz IL. Artificial Multienzyme Scaffolds: Pursuing in Vitro Substrate Channeling with an Overview of Current Progress. ACS Catal 2019. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.9b02413] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- Gregory A. Ellis
- Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering, Code 6900, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20375, United States
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- Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering, Code 6900, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20375, United States
- National Research Council, Washington, D.C. 20001, United States
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- Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering, Code 6900, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20375, United States
- College of Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia 22030, United States
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- Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering, Code 6900, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20375, United States
- College of Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia 22030, United States
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- Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering, Code 6900, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20375, United States
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- Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering, Code 6900, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20375, United States
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Structural basis for a highly (S)-enantioselective reductase towards aliphatic ketones with only one carbon difference between side chain. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2019; 103:9543-9553. [DOI: 10.1007/s00253-019-10093-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2019] [Revised: 08/05/2019] [Accepted: 08/05/2019] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Zhang G, Johnston T, Quin MB, Schmidt-Dannert C. Developing a Protein Scaffolding System for Rapid Enzyme Immobilization and Optimization of Enzyme Functions for Biocatalysis. ACS Synth Biol 2019; 8:1867-1876. [PMID: 31305981 DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.9b00187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Immobilization of enzymes is required for most biocatalytic processes, but chemistries used in enzyme immobilization are limited and can be challenging. Genetically encoded protein-based biomaterials could provide easy-to-use immobilization platforms for biocatalysts. We recently developed a self-assembling protein scaffold that covalently immobilized SpyTagged enzymes by engineering the bacterial microcompartment protein EutM from Salmonella enterica with a SpyCatcher domain. We also identified a range of EutM homologues as robust protein nanostructures with diverse architectures and electrostatic surface properties. In this work, we created a modular immobilization platform with tunable surface properties by developing a toolbox of self-assembling, robust EutM-SpyCatcher scaffolds. Using an alcohol dehydrogenase as model biocatalyst, we show that the scaffolds improve enzyme activity and stability. This work provides a modular, easy-to-use immobilization system that can be tailored for the optimal function of biocatalysts of interest.
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- Guoqiang Zhang
- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108, United States
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Houwman JA, Knaus T, Costa M, Mutti FG. Efficient synthesis of enantiopure amines from alcohols using resting E. coli cells and ammonia. GREEN CHEMISTRY : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL AND GREEN CHEMISTRY RESOURCE : GC 2019; 21:3846-3857. [PMID: 33628111 PMCID: PMC7116806 DOI: 10.1039/c9gc01059a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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α-Chiral amines are pivotal building blocks for chemical manufacturing. Stereoselective amination of alcohols is receiving increased interest due to its higher atom-efficiency and overall improved environmental footprint compared with other chemocatalytic and biocatalytic methods. We previously developed a hydrogen-borrowing amination by combining an alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) with an amine dehydrogenase (AmDH) in vitro. Herein, we implemented the ADH-AmDH bioamination in resting Escherichia coli cells for the first time. Different genetic constructs were created and tested in order to obtain balanced expression levels of the dehydrogenase enzymes in E. coli. Using the optimized constructs, the influence of several parameters towards the productivity of the system were investigated such as the intracellular NAD+/NADH redox balance, the cell loading, the survival rate of recombinant E. coli cells, the possible toxicity of the components of the reaction at different concentrations and the influence of different substrates and cosolvents. In particular, the cofactor redox-balance for the bioamination was maintained by the addition of moderate and precise amounts of glucose. Higher concentrations of certain amine products resulted in toxicity and cell death, which could be alleviated by the addition of a co-solvent. Notably, amine formation was consistent using several independently grown E. coli batches. The optimized E. coli/ADH-AmDH strains produced enantiopure amines from the alcohols with up to 80% conversion and a molar productivity up to 15 mM. Practical applicability was demonstrated in a gram-scale biotransformation. In summary, the present E. coli-ADH-AmDH system represents an important advancement towards the development of 'green', efficient and selective biocatalytic processes for the amination of alcohols.
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- Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, HIMS-Biocat, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH, The Netherlands
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- Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, HIMS-Biocat, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH, The Netherlands
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- Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, HIMS-Biocat, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH, The Netherlands
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Shanati T, Lockie C, Beloti L, Grogan G, Ansorge-Schumacher MB. Two Enantiocomplementary Ephedrine Dehydrogenases from Arthrobacter sp. TS-15 with Broad Substrate Specificity. ACS Catal 2019. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.9b00621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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- Tarek Shanati
- Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden 01062, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, United Kingdom
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Zhang G, Schmidt-Dannert S, Quin MB, Schmidt-Dannert C. Protein-based scaffolds for enzyme immobilization. Methods Enzymol 2019; 617:323-362. [PMID: 30784408 DOI: 10.1016/bs.mie.2018.12.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Biocatalysis is emerging as an alternative approach to chemical synthesis of industrially relevant complex molecules. To obtain suitable yields of compounds in a cost-effective manner, biocatalytic reaction cascades must be efficient, robust, and self-sufficient. One approach is to immobilize biocatalysts on a solid support, stabilizing the enzymes and providing optimal microenvironments for reaction sequences. Protein-based scaffolds can be designed as immobilization platforms for biocatalysts, enabling the genetically encoded spatial organization of single enzymes and multistep enzyme cascades. Additionally, protein scaffolds are versatile, are easily adapted, and remain robust under different reaction conditions. In this chapter, we describe methods for the design and production of a self-assembling protein scaffold system for in vitro coimmobilization of biocatalytic cascade enzymes. We provide detailed methods for the characterization of the protein scaffolds, as well as approaches to load biocatalytic cargo enzymes and test activity of immobilized cascades. In addition, we also discuss methods for the development of a scaffold building block toolbox with different surface properties, which could be adapted for a diversity of biocatalysts requiring alternative microenvironments for function.
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- Guoqiang Zhang
- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States.
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- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States.
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An J, Nie Y, Xu Y. Structural insights into alcohol dehydrogenases catalyzing asymmetric reductions. Crit Rev Biotechnol 2019; 39:366-379. [DOI: 10.1080/07388551.2019.1566205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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- Jianhong An
- School of Biotechnology and Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
- School of Ophthalmology and Optometry, and Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
- State Key Laboratory of Optometry, Ophthalmology and Vision Science, Wenzhou, China
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- School of Biotechnology and Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
- International Joint Research Laboratory for Brewing Microbiology, Applied Enzymology at Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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- School of Biotechnology and Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
- International Joint Research Laboratory for Brewing Microbiology, Applied Enzymology at Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
- State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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Liu J, Li Z. Enhancing cofactor recycling in the bioconversion of racemic alcohols to chiral amines with alcohol dehydrogenase and amine dehydrogenase by coupling cells and cell-free system. Biotechnol Bioeng 2019; 116:536-542. [PMID: 30536736 DOI: 10.1002/bit.26896] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2018] [Revised: 11/24/2018] [Accepted: 12/06/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) and amine dehydrogenase (AmDH)-catalyzed one-pot cascade conversion of an alcohol to an amine provides a simple preparation of chiral amines. To enhance the cofactor recycling in this reaction, we report a new concept of coupling whole-cells with the cell-free system to enable separated intracellular and extracellular cofactor regeneration and recycling. This was demonstrated by the respective biotransformation of racemic 4-phenyl-2-butanol 1a and 1-phenyl-2-propanol 1b to (R)-4-phenylbutan-2-amine 3a and (R)-1-phenylpropan-2-amine 3b. Escherichia coli cells expressing S-enantioselective CpsADH, R-enantioselective PfODH, and NADH oxidase (NOX) was developed to oxidize racemic alcohols 1a-b to ketones 2a-b with full conversion via intracellular NAD+ recycling. AmDH and glucose dehydrogenase (GDH) were used to convert ketones 2a-b to amines (R)-3a-b with 89-94% conversion and 891-943 times recycling of NADH. Combining the cells and enzymes for the cascade transformation of racemic alcohols 1a-b gave 70% and 48% conversion to the amines (R)-3a and (R)-3b in 99% ee, with a total turnover number (TTN) of 350 and 240 for NADH recycling, respectively. Improved results were obtained by using the E. coli cells with immobilized AmDH and GDH: (R)-3a was produced in 99% ee with 71-84% conversion and a TTN of 1410-1260 for NADH recycling, the highest value so far for the ADH-AmDH-catalyzed cascade conversion of alcohols to amines. The concept might be generally applicable to this type of reactions.
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- Ji Liu
- Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 4, Singapore
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- Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 4, Singapore
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Study of the biochemical formation pathway of aroma compound 1-phenylethanol in tea ( Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze) flowers and other plants. Food Chem 2018; 258:352-358. [DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2018.03.095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2018] [Revised: 03/20/2018] [Accepted: 03/20/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Qin F, Qin B, Zhang W, Liu Y, Su X, Zhu T, Ouyang J, Guo J, Li Y, Zhang F, Tang J, Jia X, You S. Discovery of a Switch Between Prelog and Anti-Prelog Reduction toward Halogen-Substituted Acetophenones in Short-Chain Dehydrogenase/Reductases. ACS Catal 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.8b00807] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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- Fengyu Qin
- School of Life Sciences and Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, 103 Wenhua Road, Shenhe, Shenyang 110016, People’s Republic of China
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- Wuya College of Innovation, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, 103 Wenhua Road, Shenhe, Shenyang 110016, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Life Sciences and Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, 103 Wenhua Road, Shenhe, Shenyang 110016, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Life Sciences and Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, 103 Wenhua Road, Shenhe, Shenyang 110016, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Life Sciences and Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, 103 Wenhua Road, Shenhe, Shenyang 110016, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Life Sciences and Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, 103 Wenhua Road, Shenhe, Shenyang 110016, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Engineering, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, 103 Wenhua Road, Shenhe, Shenyang 110016, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Life Sciences and Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, 103 Wenhua Road, Shenhe, Shenyang 110016, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Life Sciences and Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, 103 Wenhua Road, Shenhe, Shenyang 110016, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Life Sciences and Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, 103 Wenhua Road, Shenhe, Shenyang 110016, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Life Sciences and Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, 103 Wenhua Road, Shenhe, Shenyang 110016, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Engineering, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, 103 Wenhua Road, Shenhe, Shenyang 110016, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Life Sciences and Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, 103 Wenhua Road, Shenhe, Shenyang 110016, People’s Republic of China
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Zhang G, Quin MB, Schmidt-Dannert C. Self-Assembling Protein Scaffold System for Easy in Vitro Coimmobilization of Biocatalytic Cascade Enzymes. ACS Catal 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.8b00986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- Guoqiang Zhang
- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, 1479 Gortner Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, 1479 Gortner Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, 1479 Gortner Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108, United States
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Böhmer W, Knaus T, Mutti FG. Hydrogen-Borrowing Alcohol Bioamination with Coimmobilized Dehydrogenases. ChemCatChem 2018; 10:731-735. [PMID: 29515675 PMCID: PMC5837013 DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201701366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2017] [Revised: 10/12/2017] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The amination of alcohols is an important transformation in chemistry. The redox-neutral (i.e., hydrogen-borrowing) asymmetric amination of alcohols is enabled by the combination of an alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) with an amine dehydrogenase (AmDH). In this work, we enhanced the efficiency of hydrogen-borrowing biocatalytic amination by co-immobilizing both dehydrogenases on controlled porosity glass FeIII ion-affinity beads. The recyclability of the dual-enzyme system was demonstrated (5 cycles) with total turnover numbers of >4000 and >1000 for ADH and AmDH, respectively. A set of (S)-configured alcohol substrates was aminated with up to 95% conversion and >99%ee (R). Preparative-scale amination of (S)-phenylpropan-2-ol resulted in 90% conversion and 80% yield of the product in 24 h.
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- Wesley Böhmer
- Van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, HIMS-BiocatUniversity of AmsterdamScience Park 9041098 XHAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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- Van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, HIMS-BiocatUniversity of AmsterdamScience Park 9041098 XHAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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- Van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, HIMS-BiocatUniversity of AmsterdamScience Park 9041098 XHAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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DFT-based prediction of reactivity of short-chain alcohol dehydrogenase. J Comput Aided Mol Des 2017; 31:587-602. [PMID: 28550607 PMCID: PMC5487757 DOI: 10.1007/s10822-017-0026-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2017] [Accepted: 05/20/2017] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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The reaction mechanism of ketone reduction by short chain dehydrogenase/reductase, (S)-1-phenylethanol dehydrogenase from Aromatoleum aromaticum, was studied with DFT methods using cluster model approach. The characteristics of the hydride transfer process were investigated based on reaction of acetophenone and its eight structural analogues. The results confirmed previously suggested concomitant transfer of hydride from NADH to carbonyl C atom of the substrate with proton transfer from Tyr to carbonyl O atom. However, additional coupled motion of the next proton in the proton-relay system, between O2′ ribose hydroxyl and Tyr154 was observed. The protonation of Lys158 seems not to affect the pKa of Tyr154, as the stable tyrosyl anion was observed only for a neutral Lys158 in the high pH model. The calculated reaction energies and reaction barriers were calibrated by calorimetric and kinetic methods. This allowed an excellent prediction of the reaction enthalpies (R2 = 0.93) and a good prediction of the reaction kinetics (R2 = 0.89). The observed relations were validated in prediction of log Keq obtained for real whole-cell reactor systems that modelled industrial synthesis of S-alcohols.
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Optimization of the Production of 1-Phenylethanol Using Enzymes from Flowers of Tea (Camellia sinensis) Plants. Molecules 2017; 22:molecules22010131. [PMID: 28098803 PMCID: PMC6155620 DOI: 10.3390/molecules22010131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2016] [Revised: 01/06/2017] [Accepted: 01/10/2017] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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1-Phenylethanol (1PE) can be used as a fragrance in food flavoring and cosmetic industries and as an intermediate in the pharmaceutical industry. 1PE can be synthesized from acetophenone, and the cost of 1PE is higher than the cost of acetophenone. Therefore, it is important to establish an effective and low-cost approach for producing 1PE. Our previous studies found that tea (Camellia sinensis) flowers, which are an abundant and waste resource, contained enzymes that could transform acetophenone to 1PE. In the present study, we extracted crude enzymes from tea flowers and optimized the production conditions of 1PE using response surface methodology. The optimized conditions were an extraction pH of 7.0, a reaction pH of 5.3, a reaction temperature of 55 °C, a reaction time of 100 min, a coenzyme NADPH concentration of 3.75 μmol/mL in the reaction assay, and a substrate acetophenone concentration of 1.25 μmol/mL in the reaction assay. The results provide essential information for future industrial 1PE production using plant-derived enzymes.
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Sudhakara S, Chadha A. A carbonyl reductase from Candida parapsilosis ATCC 7330: substrate selectivity and enantiospecificity. Org Biomol Chem 2017; 15:4165-4171. [DOI: 10.1039/c7ob00340d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A purified carbonyl reductase (SRED) asymmetrically reduces ketones and α-ketoesters to (S)-alcohols with a potential application in the synthesis of industrially important chiral molecules.
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- Sneha Sudhakara
- Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry
- Department of Biotechnology
- Indian Institute of Technology Madras
- Chennai 600 036
- India
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- Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry
- Department of Biotechnology
- Indian Institute of Technology Madras
- Chennai 600 036
- India
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Dong F, Zhou Y, Zeng L, Peng Q, Chen Y, Zhang L, Su X, Watanabe N, Yang Z. Elucidation of Differential Accumulation of 1-Phenylethanol in Flowers and Leaves of Tea (Camellia sinensis) Plants. Molecules 2016; 21:molecules21091106. [PMID: 27563859 PMCID: PMC6274408 DOI: 10.3390/molecules21091106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2016] [Revised: 08/16/2016] [Accepted: 08/19/2016] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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1-Phenylethanol (1PE) is a major aromatic volatile in tea (Camellia sinensis) flowers, whereas it occurs in a much smaller amounts in leaves. Enzymes involved in the formation of 1PE in plants and the reason why 1PE differentially accumulates in plants is unknown. In the present study, enzymes in the last step leading from acetophenone to 1PE were isolated from tea flowers by traditional biochemical chromatography. The two types of partially purified enzymes were proposed to be responsible for formations of (R)-1PE and (S)-1PE, respectively. Tea leaves also contained such enzymes having equivalent activities with flowers. Stable isotope labeling experiments indicated that weak transformation from l-phenylalanine to acetophenone in leaves mainly resulted in little occurrence of 1PE in leaves. This study provided an example that differential distribution of some metabolites in plant tissues was not only determined by enzyme(s) in the last step of metabolite formation, but also can be due to substrate availability.
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- Fang Dong
- Guangdong Food and Drug Vocational College, Longdongbei Road 321, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510520, China.
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- Key Laboratory of South China Agricultural Plant Molecular Analysis and Genetic Improvement & Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xingke Road 723, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510650, China.
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- Key Laboratory of South China Agricultural Plant Molecular Analysis and Genetic Improvement & Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xingke Road 723, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510650, China.
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- Key Laboratory of South China Agricultural Plant Molecular Analysis and Genetic Improvement & Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xingke Road 723, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510650, China.
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- Key Laboratory of South China Agricultural Plant Molecular Analysis and Genetic Improvement & Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xingke Road 723, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510650, China.
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- Key Laboratory of South China Agricultural Plant Molecular Analysis and Genetic Improvement & Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xingke Road 723, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510650, China.
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- Guangdong Food and Drug Vocational College, Longdongbei Road 321, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510520, China.
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- Graduate School of Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, 3-5-1 Johoku, Naka-ku, Hamamatsu 432-8561, Japan.
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- Key Laboratory of South China Agricultural Plant Molecular Analysis and Genetic Improvement & Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xingke Road 723, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510650, China.
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Heider J, Szaleniec M, Sünwoldt K, Boll M. Ethylbenzene Dehydrogenase and Related Molybdenum Enzymes Involved in Oxygen-Independent Alkyl Chain Hydroxylation. J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol 2016; 26:45-62. [PMID: 26960184 DOI: 10.1159/000441357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Ethylbenzene dehydrogenase initiates the anaerobic bacterial degradation of ethylbenzene and propylbenzene. Although the enzyme is currently only known from a few closely related denitrifying bacterial strains affiliated to the Rhodocyclaceae, it clearly marks a universally occurring mechanism used for attacking recalcitrant substrates in the absence of oxygen. Ethylbenzene dehydrogenase belongs to subfamily 2 of the DMSO reductase-type molybdenum enzymes together with paralogous enzymes involved in the oxygen-independent hydroxylation of p-cymene, the isoprenoid side chains of sterols and even possibly n-alkanes; the subfamily also extends to dimethylsulfide dehydrogenases, selenite, chlorate and perchlorate reductases and, most significantly, dissimilatory nitrate reductases. The biochemical, spectroscopic and structural properties of the oxygen-independent hydroxylases among these enzymes are summarized and compared. All of them consist of three subunits, contain a molybdenum-bis-molybdopterin guanine dinucleotide cofactor, five Fe-S clusters and a heme b cofactor of unusual ligation, and are localized in the periplasmic space as soluble enzymes. In the case of ethylbenzene dehydrogenase, it has been determined that the heme b cofactor has a rather high redox potential, which may also be inferred for the paralogous hydroxylases. The known structure of ethylbenzene dehydrogenase allowed the calculation of detailed models of the reaction mechanism based on the density function theory as well as QM-MM (quantum mechanics - molecular mechanics) methods, which yield predictions of mechanistic properties such as kinetic isotope effects that appeared consistent with experimental data.
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- Johann Heider
- Laboratory of Microbial Biochemistry, LOEWE Center for Synthetic Microbiology, Philipps University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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Muhr E, Leicht O, González Sierra S, Thanbichler M, Heider J. A Fluorescent Bioreporter for Acetophenone and 1-Phenylethanol derived from a Specifically Induced Catabolic Operon. Front Microbiol 2016; 6:1561. [PMID: 26858693 PMCID: PMC4729919 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01561] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2015] [Accepted: 12/23/2015] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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The β-proteobacterium Aromatoleum aromaticum degrades the aromatic ketone acetophenone, a key intermediate of anaerobic ethylbenzene metabolism, either aerobically or anaerobically via a complex ATP-dependent acetophenone carboxylase and a benzoylacetate-CoA ligase. The genes coding for these enzymes (apcABCDE and bal) are organized in an apparent operon and are expressed in the presence of the substrate acetophenone. To study the conditions under which this operon is expressed in more detail, we constructed a reporter strain by inserting a gene fusion of apcA, the first gene of the apc-bal operon, with the gene for the fluorescent protein mCherry into the chromosome of A. aromaticum. The fusion protein indeed accumulated consistently with the expression pattern of the acetophenone-metabolic enzymes under various growth conditions. After evaluating and quantifying the data by fluorescence microscopy, fluorescence-based flow cytometry and immunoblot analysis, mCherry production was found to be proportional to the applied acetophenone concentrations. The reporter strain allowed quantification of acetophenone within a concentration range of 50 μM (detection limit) to 250 μM after 12 and 24 h. Moreover, production of the Apc-mCherry fusion protein in the reporter strain was highly specific and responded to acetophenone and both enantiomers of 1-phenylethanol, which are easily converted to acetophenone. Other analogous substrates showed either a significantly weaker response or none at all. Therefore, the reporter strain provides a basis for the development of a specific bioreporter system for acetophenone with an application potential reaching from environmental monitoring to petroleum prospecting.
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- Enrico Muhr
- Laboratory of Microbial Biochemistry, Department of Microbiology, Philipps-Universität Marburg Marburg, Germany
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- Laboratory of Cellular Microbiology, Department of Microbiology, Philipps-Universität Marburg Marburg, Germany
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- LOEWE Center for Synthetic MicrobiologyMarburg, Germany; Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial MicrobiologyMarburg, Germany
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- Laboratory of Cellular Microbiology, Department of Microbiology, Philipps-Universität MarburgMarburg, Germany; LOEWE Center for Synthetic MicrobiologyMarburg, Germany; Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial MicrobiologyMarburg, Germany
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- Laboratory of Microbial Biochemistry, Department of Microbiology, Philipps-Universität MarburgMarburg, Germany; LOEWE Center for Synthetic MicrobiologyMarburg, Germany
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Deng D, Zhang Y, Sun A, Liang J, Hu Y. Functional Characterization of a Novel Marine Microbial GDSL Lipase and Its Utilization in the Resolution of (±)-1-Phenylethanol. Appl Biochem Biotechnol 2016; 179:75-93. [DOI: 10.1007/s12010-016-1980-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2015] [Accepted: 01/04/2016] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Dissecting the Structural Elements for the Activation of β-Ketoacyl-(Acyl Carrier Protein) Reductase from Vibrio cholerae. J Bacteriol 2015; 198:463-76. [PMID: 26553852 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00360-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2015] [Accepted: 11/03/2015] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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UNLABELLED β-Ketoacyl-(acyl carrier protein) reductase (FabG) catalyzes the key reductive reaction in the elongation cycle of fatty acid synthesis (FAS), which is a vital metabolic pathway in bacteria and a promising target for new antibiotic development. The activation of the enzyme is usually linked to the formation of a catalytic triad and cofactor binding, and crystal structures of FabG from different organisms have been captured in either the active or inactive conformation. However, the structural elements which enable activation of FabG require further exploration. Here we report the findings of structural, enzymatic, and binding studies of the FabG protein found in the causative agent of cholera, Vibrio cholerae (vcFabG). vcFabG exists predominantly as a dimer in solution and is able to self-associate to form tetramers, which is the state seen in the crystal structure. The formation of the tetramer may be promoted by the presence of the cofactor NADP(H). The transition between the dimeric and tetrameric states of vcFabG is related to changes in the conformations of the α4/α5 helices on the dimer-dimer interface. Two glycine residues adjacent to the dimer interface (G92 and G141) are identified to be the hinge for the conformational changes, while the catalytic tyrosine (Y155) and a glutamine residue that forms hydrogen bonds to both loop β4-α4 and loop β5-α5 (Q152) stabilize the active conformation. The functions of the aforementioned residues were confirmed by binding and enzymatic assays for the corresponding mutants. IMPORTANCE This paper describes the results of structural, enzymatic, and binding studies of FabG from Vibrio cholerae (vcFabG). In this work, we dissected the structural elements responsible for the activation of vcFabG. The structural information provided here is essential for the development of antibiotics specifically targeting bacterial FabG, especially for the multidrug-resistant strains of V. cholerae.
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Büsing I, Höffken HW, Breuer M, Wöhlbrand L, Hauer B, Rabus R. Molecular Genetic and Crystal Structural Analysis of 1-(4-Hydroxyphenyl)-Ethanol Dehydrogenase from 'Aromatoleum aromaticum' EbN1. J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol 2015; 25:327-39. [PMID: 26488297 DOI: 10.1159/000439113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The dehydrogenation of 1-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-ethanol to 4-hydroxyacetophenone represents the second reaction step during anaerobic degradation of p-ethylphenol in the denitrifying bacterium 'Aromatoleum aromaticum' EbN1. Previous proteogenomic studies identified two different proteins (ChnA and EbA309) as possible candidates for catalyzing this reaction [Wöhlbrand et al: J Bacteriol 2008;190:5699-5709]. Physiological-molecular characterization of newly generated unmarked in-frame deletion and complementation mutants allowed defining ChnA (renamed here as Hped) as the enzyme responsible for 1-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-ethanol oxidation. Hped [1-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-ethanol dehydrogenase] belongs to the 'classical' family within the short-chain alcohol dehydrogenase/reductase (SDR) superfamily. Hped was overproduced in Escherichia coli, purified and crystallized. The X-ray structures of the apo- and NAD(+)-soaked form were resolved at 1.5 and 1.1 Å, respectively, and revealed Hped as a typical homotetrameric SDR. Modeling of the substrate 4-hydroxyacetophenone (reductive direction of Hped) into the active site revealed the structural determinants of the strict (R)-specificity of Hped (Phe(187)), contrasting the (S)-specificity of previously reported 1-phenylethanol dehydrogenase (Ped; Tyr(93)) from strain EbN1 [Höffken et al: Biochemistry 2006;45:82-93].
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- Imke Büsing
- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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Mutti FG, Knaus T, Scrutton NS, Breuer M, Turner NJ. Conversion of alcohols to enantiopure amines through dual-enzyme hydrogen-borrowing cascades. Science 2015; 349:1525-9. [PMID: 26404833 DOI: 10.1126/science.aac9283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 261] [Impact Index Per Article: 29.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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α-Chiral amines are key intermediates for the synthesis of a plethora of chemical compounds at industrial scale. We present a biocatalytic hydrogen-borrowing amination of primary and secondary alcohols that allows for the efficient and environmentally benign production of enantiopure amines. The method relies on a combination of two enzymes: an alcohol dehydrogenase (from Aromatoleum sp., Lactobacillus sp., or Bacillus sp.) operating in tandem with an amine dehydrogenase (engineered from Bacillus sp.) to aminate a structurally diverse range of aromatic and aliphatic alcohols, yielding up to 96% conversion and 99% enantiomeric excess. Primary alcohols were aminated with high conversion (up to 99%). This redox self-sufficient cascade possesses high atom efficiency, sourcing nitrogen from ammonium and generating water as the sole by-product.
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- Francesco G Mutti
- School of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, Manchester M1 7DN, UK. Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester M1 7DN, UK.
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- Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester M1 7DN, UK
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- Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester M1 7DN, UK
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- BASF SE, White Biotechnology Research, GBW/B-A030, 67056 Ludwigshafen, Germany
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- School of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, Manchester M1 7DN, UK.
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Chen R, Deng J, Lin J, Yin X, Xie T, Yang S, Wei D. Assessing the stereoselectivity of carbonyl reductases toward the reduction of OPBE and docking analysis. Biotechnol Appl Biochem 2015; 63:465-70. [DOI: 10.1002/bab.1397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2015] [Accepted: 05/14/2015] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Rong Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering; New World Institute of Biotechnology; East China University of Science and Technology; Shanghai People's Republic of China
- Center for Biomedicine and Health; Division of Basical Medicine; Hangzhou Normal University; Hangzhou People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering; New World Institute of Biotechnology; East China University of Science and Technology; Shanghai People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering; New World Institute of Biotechnology; East China University of Science and Technology; Shanghai People's Republic of China
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- Center for Biomedicine and Health; Division of Basical Medicine; Hangzhou Normal University; Hangzhou People's Republic of China
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- Center for Biomedicine and Health; Division of Basical Medicine; Hangzhou Normal University; Hangzhou People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering; New World Institute of Biotechnology; East China University of Science and Technology; Shanghai People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering; New World Institute of Biotechnology; East China University of Science and Technology; Shanghai People's Republic of China
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Muhr E, Schühle K, Clermont L, Sünwoldt K, Kleinsorge D, Seyhan D, Kahnt J, Schall I, Cordero PR, Schmitt G, Heider J. Enzymes of anaerobic ethylbenzene and p-ethylphenol catabolism in 'Aromatoleum aromaticum': differentiation and differential induction. Arch Microbiol 2015; 197:1051-62. [PMID: 26275558 DOI: 10.1007/s00203-015-1142-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2015] [Revised: 07/24/2015] [Accepted: 08/06/2015] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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The denitrifying bacterium 'Aromatoleum aromaticum' strain EbN1 is one of the best characterized bacteria regarding anaerobic ethylbenzene degradation. EbN1 also degrades various other aromatic and phenolic compounds in the absence of oxygen, one of them being p-ethylphenol. Despite having similar chemical structures, ethylbenzene and p-ethylphenol have been proposed to be metabolized by completely separate pathways. In this study, we established and applied biochemical and molecular biological methods to show the (almost) exclusive presence and specificity of enzymes involved in the respective degradation pathways by recording enzyme activities, complemented by heme staining, immuno- and biotin-blotting analyses. These combined results substantiated the predicted p-ethylphenol degradation pathway. The identified enzymes include a heme c-containing p-ethylphenol-hydroxylase, both an (R)- and an (S)-specific alcohol dehydrogenase as well as a novel biotin-dependent carboxylase. We also establish an activity assay for benzoylacetate-CoA ligases likely being involved in both metabolic pathways.
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- Enrico Muhr
- Laboratory of Microbial Biochemistry, Philipps University Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch-Str. 8, 35043, Marburg, Germany
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- Laboratory of Microbial Biochemistry, Philipps University Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch-Str. 8, 35043, Marburg, Germany
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- Laboratory of Microbial Biochemistry, Philipps University Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch-Str. 8, 35043, Marburg, Germany
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- Laboratory of Microbial Biochemistry, Philipps University Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch-Str. 8, 35043, Marburg, Germany
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- Laboratory of Microbial Biochemistry, Philipps University Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch-Str. 8, 35043, Marburg, Germany.,LOEWE-Center for Synthetic Microbiology, Philipps University Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch-Str. 8, 35043, Marburg, Germany
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- Laboratory of Microbial Biochemistry, Philipps University Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch-Str. 8, 35043, Marburg, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Karl-von-Frisch-Str. 10, 35043, Marburg, Germany
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- Laboratory of Microbial Biochemistry, Philipps University Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch-Str. 8, 35043, Marburg, Germany
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- Laboratory of Microbial Biochemistry, Philipps University Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch-Str. 8, 35043, Marburg, Germany
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- Laboratory of Microbial Biochemistry, Philipps University Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch-Str. 8, 35043, Marburg, Germany
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- Laboratory of Microbial Biochemistry, Philipps University Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch-Str. 8, 35043, Marburg, Germany. .,LOEWE-Center for Synthetic Microbiology, Philipps University Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch-Str. 8, 35043, Marburg, Germany.
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Dudzik A, Snoch W, Borowiecki P, Opalinska-Piskorz J, Witko M, Heider J, Szaleniec M. Asymmetric reduction of ketones and β-keto esters by (S)-1-phenylethanol dehydrogenase from denitrifying bacterium Aromatoleum aromaticum. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2014; 99:5055-69. [PMID: 25549618 PMCID: PMC4445480 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-014-6309-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2014] [Revised: 12/04/2014] [Accepted: 12/09/2014] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Enzyme-catalyzed enantioselective reductions of ketones and keto esters have become popular for the production of homochiral building blocks which are valuable synthons for the preparation of biologically active compounds at industrial scale. Among many kinds of biocatalysts, dehydrogenases/reductases from various microorganisms have been used to prepare optically pure enantiomers from carbonyl compounds. (S)-1-phenylethanol dehydrogenase (PEDH) was found in the denitrifying bacterium Aromatoleum aromaticum (strain EbN1) and belongs to the short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase family. It catalyzes the stereospecific oxidation of (S)-1-phenylethanol to acetophenone during anaerobic ethylbenzene mineralization, but also the reverse reaction, i.e., NADH-dependent enantioselective reduction of acetophenone to (S)-1-phenylethanol. In this work, we present the application of PEDH for asymmetric reduction of 42 prochiral ketones and 11 β-keto esters to enantiopure secondary alcohols. The high enantioselectivity of the reaction is explained by docking experiments and analysis of the interaction and binding energies of the theoretical enzyme-substrate complexes leading to the respective (S)- or (R)-alcohols. The conversions were carried out in a batch reactor using Escherichia coli cells with heterologously produced PEDH as whole-cell catalysts and isopropanol as reaction solvent and cosubstrate for NADH recovery. Ketones were converted to the respective secondary alcohols with excellent enantiomeric excesses and high productivities. Moreover, the progress of product formation was studied for nine para-substituted acetophenone derivatives and described by neural network models, which allow to predict reactor behavior and provides insight on enzyme reactivity. Finally, equilibrium constants for conversion of these substrates were derived from the progress curves of the reactions. The obtained values matched very well with theoretical predictions.
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- A. Dudzik
- Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Niezapominajek 8, 30-239 Kraków, Poland
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- Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Niezapominajek 8, 30-239 Kraków, Poland
- Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Department of Biotechnology and Physical Chemistry, Cracow University of Technology, Warszawska 24 St., 31-155 Krakow, Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Warsaw University of Technology, Noakowskiego 3, 00-664 Warsaw, Poland
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- Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Niezapominajek 8, 30-239 Kraków, Poland
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- Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Niezapominajek 8, 30-239 Kraków, Poland
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- Laboratory for Microbial Biochemistry, Philipps University of Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch Strasse 8, D-35043 Marburg, Germany
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- Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Niezapominajek 8, 30-239 Kraków, Poland
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Chen R, Liu X, Wang J, Lin J, Wei D. Cloning, expression, and characterization of an anti-Prelog stereospecific carbonyl reductase from Gluconobacter oxydans DSM2343. Enzyme Microb Technol 2014; 70:18-27. [PMID: 25659628 DOI: 10.1016/j.enzmictec.2014.12.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2014] [Revised: 12/09/2014] [Accepted: 12/11/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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A new anti-Prelog stereospecific carbonyl reductase (GoKR) from Gluconobacter oxydans DSM2343 was cloned and identified in Escherichia coli. This GoKR formed a homo-tetramer with a subunit size of approximately 27.0kDa. GoKR exhibited full activity with NADPH but not with NADH as a cofactor. The optimal pH and temperature were 9.0 and 30°C, respectively. GoKR reduced various ketones, including aliphatic and aromatic ketones, α- and β-keto esters. Aromatic ketones were reduced to (R)-enantiomers, whereas keto esters were reduced to (S)-hydroxy esters with different enantioselectivities. The data indicate that GoKR does not obey Prelog's rule and exhibits anti-Prelog enantiopreference. Enzyme-substrate-cofactor docking analysis showed that hydride transfer occurred at the si faces of carbonyl group for ethyl 4-chloro-3-oxobutanoate (COBE), which was then selectively reduced to the chiral (S)-alcohol. Excellent enantioselectivities were obtained for reducing COBE and ethyl 2-oxo-4-phenylbutyrate into the corresponding (S)-type products. These products are important for synthesizing HMG-CoA reductase (statins) and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, respectively.
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- Rong Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, New World Institute of Biotechnology, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China; Center for Biomedicine and Health, Division of Basical Medicine, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 310012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, New World Institute of Biotechnology, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, New World Institute of Biotechnology, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, New World Institute of Biotechnology, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, New World Institute of Biotechnology, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China.
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Tataruch M, Heider J, Bryjak J, Nowak P, Knack D, Czerniak A, Liesiene J, Szaleniec M. Suitability of the hydrocarbon-hydroxylating molybdenum-enzyme ethylbenzene dehydrogenase for industrial chiral alcohol production. J Biotechnol 2014; 192 Pt B:400-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2014.06.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2014] [Revised: 05/23/2014] [Accepted: 06/25/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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