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Davydova NY, Hutner DA, Gaither KA, Singh DK, Prasad B, Davydov DR. High-Throughput Assay of Cytochrome P450-Dependent Drug Demethylation Reactions and Its Use to Re-Evaluate the Pathways of Ketamine Metabolism. BIOLOGY 2023; 12:1055. [PMID: 37626940 PMCID: PMC10451610 DOI: 10.3390/biology12081055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2023] [Revised: 07/24/2023] [Accepted: 07/25/2023] [Indexed: 08/27/2023]
Abstract
In a search for a reliable, inexpensive, and versatile technique for high-throughput kinetic assays of drug metabolism, we elected to rehire an old-school approach based on the determination of formaldehyde (FA) formed in cytochrome P450-dependent demethylation reactions. After evaluating several fluorometric techniques for FA detection, we chose the method based on the Hantzsch reaction with acetoacetanilide as the most sensitive, robust, and adaptable to high-throughput implementation. Here we provide a detailed protocol for using our new technique for automatized assays of cytochrome P450-dependent drug demethylations and discuss its applicability for high-throughput scanning of drug metabolism pathways in the human liver. To probe our method further, we applied it to re-evaluating the pathways of metabolism of ketamine, a dissociative anesthetic and potent antidepressant increasingly used in the treatment of alcohol withdrawal syndrome. Probing the kinetic parameters of ketamine demethylation by ten major cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes, we demonstrate that in addition to CYP2B6 and CYP3A enzymes, which were initially recognized as the primary metabolizers of ketamine, an important role is also played by CYP2C19 and CYP2D6. At the same time, the involvement of CYP2C9 suggested in the previous reports was deemed insignificant.
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Affiliation(s)
- Nadezhda Y. Davydova
- Department of Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA; (N.Y.D.); (D.A.H.)
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- Department of Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA; (N.Y.D.); (D.A.H.)
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Washington State University, Spokane, WA 99202, USA; (K.A.G.); (D.K.S.); (B.P.)
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Washington State University, Spokane, WA 99202, USA; (K.A.G.); (D.K.S.); (B.P.)
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Washington State University, Spokane, WA 99202, USA; (K.A.G.); (D.K.S.); (B.P.)
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- Department of Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA; (N.Y.D.); (D.A.H.)
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Kreutter D, Schwaller P, Reymond JL. Predicting enzymatic reactions with a molecular transformer. Chem Sci 2021; 12:8648-8659. [PMID: 34257863 PMCID: PMC8246114 DOI: 10.1039/d1sc02362d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2021] [Accepted: 05/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
Abstract
The use of enzymes for organic synthesis allows for simplified, more economical and selective synthetic routes not accessible to conventional reagents. However, predicting whether a particular molecule might undergo a specific enzyme transformation is very difficult. Here we used multi-task transfer learning to train the molecular transformer, a sequence-to-sequence machine learning model, with one million reactions from the US Patent Office (USPTO) database combined with 32 181 enzymatic transformations annotated with a text description of the enzyme. The resulting enzymatic transformer model predicts the structure and stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reaction products with remarkable accuracy. One of the key novelties is that we combined the reaction SMILES language of only 405 atomic tokens with thousands of human language tokens describing the enzymes, such that our enzymatic transformer not only learned to interpret SMILES, but also the natural language as used by human experts to describe enzymes and their mutations.
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- David Kreutter
- Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Bern Freiestrasse 3 3012 Bern Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Bern Freiestrasse 3 3012 Bern Switzerland
- IBM Research Europe Säumerstrasse 4 8803 Rüschlikon Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Bern Freiestrasse 3 3012 Bern Switzerland
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Zhang X, Hu Y, Peng W, Gao C, Xing Q, Wang B, Li A. Exploring the Potential of Cytochrome P450 CYP109B1 Catalyzed Regio-and Stereoselective Steroid Hydroxylation. Front Chem 2021; 9:649000. [PMID: 33681151 PMCID: PMC7930613 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2021.649000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2021] [Accepted: 01/18/2021] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Cytochrome P450 enzyme CYP109B1 is a versatile biocatalyst exhibiting hydroxylation activities toward various substrates. However, the regio- and stereoselective steroid hydroxylation by CYP109B1 is far less explored. In this study, the oxidizing activity of CYP109B1 is reconstituted by coupling redox pairs from different sources, or by fusing it to the reductase domain of two self-sufficient P450 enzymes P450RhF and P450BM3 to generate the fused enzyme. The recombinant Escherichia coli expressing necessary proteins are individually constructed and compared in steroid hydroxylation. The ferredoxin reductase (Fdr_0978) and ferredoxin (Fdx_1499) from Synechococcus elongates is found to be the best redox pair for CYP109B1, which gives above 99% conversion with 73% 15β selectivity for testosterone. By contrast, the rest ones and the fused enzymes show much less or negligible activity. With the aid of redox pair of Fdr_0978/Fdx_1499, CYP109B1 is used for hydroxylating different steroids. The results show that CYP109B1 displayed good to excellent activity and selectivity toward four testosterone derivatives, giving all 15β-hydroxylated steroids as main products except for 9 (10)-dehydronandrolone, for which the selectivity is shifted to 16β. While for substrates bearing bulky substitutions at C17 position, the activity is essentially lost. Finally, the origin of activity and selectivity for CYP109B1 catalyzed steroid hydroxylation is revealed by computational analysis, thus providing theoretical basis for directed evolution to further improve its catalytic properties.
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- Xiaodong Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering, Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Green Transformation of Bio-Resources, Hubei Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering, Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Green Transformation of Bio-Resources, Hubei Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, National Engineering Laboratory for Green Chemical Productions of Alcohols, Ethers and Esters, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering, Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Green Transformation of Bio-Resources, Hubei Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering, Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Green Transformation of Bio-Resources, Hubei Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, National Engineering Laboratory for Green Chemical Productions of Alcohols, Ethers and Esters, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering, Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Green Transformation of Bio-Resources, Hubei Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, China
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Finnigan JD, Young C, Cook DJ, Charnock SJ, Black GW. Cytochromes P450 (P450s): A review of the class system with a focus on prokaryotic P450s. ADVANCES IN PROTEIN CHEMISTRY AND STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY 2020; 122:289-320. [PMID: 32951814 DOI: 10.1016/bs.apcsb.2020.06.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
Abstract
Cytochromes P450 (P450s) are a large superfamily of heme-containing monooxygenases. P450s are found in all Kingdoms of life and exhibit incredible diversity, both at sequence level and also on a biochemical basis. In the majority of cases, P450s can be assigned into one of ten classes based on their associated redox partners, domain architecture and cellular localization. Prokaryotic P450s now represent a large diverse collection of annotated/known enzymes, of which many have great potential biocatalytic potential. The self-sufficient P450 classes (Class VII/VIII) have been explored significantly over the past decade, with many annotated and biochemically characterized members. It is clear that the prokaryotic P450 world is expanding rapidly, as the number of published genomes and metagenome studies increases, and more P450 families are identified and annotated (CYP families).
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- Prozomix Limited, Haltwhistle, Northumberland, United Kingdom
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- Prozomix Limited, Haltwhistle, Northumberland, United Kingdom
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- Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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Li RJ, Zhang Z, Acevedo-Rocha CG, Zhao J, Li A. Biosynthesis of organic molecules via artificial cascade reactions based on cytochrome P450 monooxygenases. GREEN SYNTHESIS AND CATALYSIS 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.gresc.2020.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Zhang X, Peng Y, Zhao J, Li Q, Yu X, Acevedo-Rocha CG, Li A. Bacterial cytochrome P450-catalyzed regio- and stereoselective steroid hydroxylation enabled by directed evolution and rational design. BIORESOUR BIOPROCESS 2020. [DOI: 10.1186/s40643-019-0290-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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AbstractSteroids are the most widely marketed products by the pharmaceutical industry after antibiotics. Steroid hydroxylation is one of the most important functionalizations because their derivatives enable a higher biological activity compared to their less polar non-hydroxylated analogs. Bacterial cytochrome P450s constitute promising biocatalysts for steroid hydroxylation due to their high expression level in common workhorses like Escherichia coli. However, they often suffer from wrong or insufficient regio- and/or stereoselectivity, low activity, narrow substrate range as well as insufficient thermostability, which hampers their industrial application. Fortunately, these problems can be generally solved by protein engineering based on directed evolution and rational design. In this work, an overview of recent developments on the engineering of bacterial cytochrome P450s for steroid hydroxylation is presented.
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Li RJ, Xu JH, Chen Q, Zhao J, Li AT, Yu HL. Enhancing the Catalytic Performance of a CYP116B Monooxygenase by Transdomain Combination Mutagenesis. ChemCatChem 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201800054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Ren-Jie Li
- Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Synthetic Biotechnology; State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering; East China University of Science and Technology; 130 Meilong Road Shanghai 200237 P.R. China
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- Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Synthetic Biotechnology; State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering; East China University of Science and Technology; 130 Meilong Road Shanghai 200237 P.R. China
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- Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Synthetic Biotechnology; State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering; East China University of Science and Technology; 130 Meilong Road Shanghai 200237 P.R. China
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- Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Tianjin 300308 P.R. 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; Wuhan 430062 P.R. China
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- Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Synthetic Biotechnology; State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering; East China University of Science and Technology; 130 Meilong Road Shanghai 200237 P.R. China
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Tavanti M, Porter JL, Sabatini S, Turner NJ, Flitsch SL. Panel of New Thermostable CYP116B Self-Sufficient Cytochrome P450 Monooxygenases that Catalyze C−H Activation with a Diverse Substrate Scope. ChemCatChem 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201701510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Michele Tavanti
- School of Chemistry, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology; University of Manchester; 131 Princess Street Manchester M1 7DN UK
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- School of Chemistry, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology; University of Manchester; 131 Princess Street Manchester M1 7DN UK
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- School of Chemistry, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology; University of Manchester; 131 Princess Street Manchester M1 7DN UK
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- School of Chemistry, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology; University of Manchester; 131 Princess Street Manchester M1 7DN UK
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- School of Chemistry, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology; University of Manchester; 131 Princess Street Manchester M1 7DN UK
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Li RJ, Li A, Zhao J, Chen Q, Li N, Yu HL, Xu JH. Engineering P450LaMO stereospecificity and product selectivity for selective C–H oxidation of tetralin-like alkylbenzenes. Catal Sci Technol 2018. [DOI: 10.1039/c8cy01448e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Via Phe scanning based protein engineering, P450LaMO increased enantioselectivity to er 98 : 2 and product selectivity, alcohol : ketone, to ak 99 : 1.
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- Ren-Jie Li
- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering
- Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center for Biomanufacturing
- East China University of Science and Technology
- Shanghai 200237
- P. R. 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
- Wuhan 430062
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- Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Tianjin 300308
- P. R. 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
- P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Engineering
- College of Light Industry and Food Sciences
- South China University of Technology
- Guangzhou
- 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
- P. R. 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
- P. R. China
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