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Lavrov KV, Shemyakina AO, Grechishnikova EG, Gerasimova TV, Kalinina TI, Novikov AD, Leonova TE, Ryabchenko LE, Bayburdov TA, Yanenko AS. A new concept of biocatalytic synthesis of acrylic monomers for obtaining water-soluble acrylic heteropolymers. Metab Eng Commun 2024; 18:e00231. [PMID: 38222043 PMCID: PMC10787234 DOI: 10.1016/j.mec.2023.e00231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2023] [Revised: 11/03/2023] [Accepted: 12/13/2023] [Indexed: 01/16/2024] Open
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Rhodococcus strains were designed as model biocatalysts (BCs) for the production of acrylic acid and mixtures of acrylic monomers consisting of acrylamide, acrylic acid, and N-alkylacrylamide (N-isopropylacrylamide). To obtain BC strains, we used, among other approaches, adaptive laboratory evolution (ALE), based on the use of the metabolic pathway of amide utilization. Whole genome sequencing of the strains obtained after ALE, as well as subsequent targeted gene disruption, identified candidate genes for three new amidases that are promising for the development of BCs for the production of acrylic acid from acrylamide. New BCs had two types of amidase activities, acrylamide-hydrolyzing and acrylamide-transferring, and by varying the ratio of these activities in BCs, it is possible to influence the ratio of monomers in the resulting mixtures. Based on these strains, a prototype of a new technological concept for the biocatalytic synthesis of acrylic monomers was developed for the production of water-soluble acrylic heteropolymers containing valuable N-alkylacrylamide units. In addition to the possibility of obtaining mixtures of different compositions, the advantages of the concept are a single starting reagent (acrylamide), more unification of processes (all processes are based on the same type of biocatalyst), and potentially greater safety for personnel and the environment compared to existing chemical technologies.
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- Konstantin V. Lavrov
- NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, Kurchatov Genomic Center, 123182, Akademika Kurchatova pl. 1, Moscow, Russia
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- NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, Kurchatov Genomic Center, 123182, Akademika Kurchatova pl. 1, Moscow, Russia
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- NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, Kurchatov Genomic Center, 123182, Akademika Kurchatova pl. 1, Moscow, Russia
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- NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, Kurchatov Genomic Center, 123182, Akademika Kurchatova pl. 1, Moscow, Russia
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- NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, Kurchatov Genomic Center, 123182, Akademika Kurchatova pl. 1, Moscow, Russia
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- NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, Kurchatov Genomic Center, 123182, Akademika Kurchatova pl. 1, Moscow, Russia
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- NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, Kurchatov Genomic Center, 123182, Akademika Kurchatova pl. 1, Moscow, Russia
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- NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, Kurchatov Genomic Center, 123182, Akademika Kurchatova pl. 1, Moscow, Russia
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- Saratov Chemical Plant of Acrylic Polymers “AKRYPOL”, 410059, Saratov, Russia
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- NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, Kurchatov Genomic Center, 123182, Akademika Kurchatova pl. 1, Moscow, Russia
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Liu M, Li S. Nitrile biosynthesis in nature: how and why? Nat Prod Rep 2024; 41:649-671. [PMID: 38193577 DOI: 10.1039/d3np00028a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2024]
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Covering: up to the end of 2023Natural nitriles comprise a small set of secondary metabolites which however show intriguing chemical and functional diversity. Various patterns of nitrile biosynthesis can be seen in animals, plants, and microorganisms with the characteristics of both evolutionary divergence and convergence. These specialized compounds play important roles in nitrogen metabolism, chemical defense against herbivores, predators and pathogens, and inter- and/or intraspecies communications. Here we review the naturally occurring nitrile-forming pathways from a biochemical perspective and discuss the biological and ecological functions conferred by diversified nitrile biosyntheses in different organisms. Elucidation of the mechanisms and evolutionary trajectories of nitrile biosynthesis underpins better understandings of nitrile-related biology, chemistry, and ecology and will ultimately benefit the development of desirable nitrile-forming biocatalysts for practical applications.
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- Mingyu Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237, China.
- Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, Shandong 266237, China
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Paulsel TQ, Williams GJ. Current State-of-the-Art Toward Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Polyketide Natural Products. Chembiochem 2023; 24:e202300386. [PMID: 37615926 PMCID: PMC10964317 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.202300386] [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: 05/23/2023] [Revised: 08/19/2023] [Accepted: 08/21/2023] [Indexed: 08/25/2023]
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Polyketide natural products have significant promise as pharmaceutical targets for human health and as molecular tools to probe disease and complex biological systems. While the biosynthetic logic of polyketide synthases (PKS) is well-understood, biosynthesis of designer polyketides remains challenging due to several bottlenecks, including substrate specificity constraints, disrupted protein-protein interactions, and protein solubility and folding issues. Focusing on substrate specificity, PKSs are typically interrogated using synthetic thioesters. PKS assembly lines and their products offer a wealth of information when studied in a chemoenzymatic fashion. This review provides an overview of the past two decades of polyketide chemoenzymatic synthesis and their contributions to the field of chemical biology. These synthetic strategies have successfully yielded natural product derivatives while providing critical insights into enzymatic promiscuity and mechanistic activity.
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- Thaddeus Q Paulsel
- Department of Chemistry, NC State University Dabney Hall, Room 208, Campus Box 8204, 2620 Yarbrough Dr., NC State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
- Comparative Medicine Institute, NC State University, 1060 William Moore Dr., NC State University, Raleigh, NC 27607, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, NC State University Dabney Hall, Room 208, Campus Box 8204, 2620 Yarbrough Dr., NC State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
- Comparative Medicine Institute, NC State University, 1060 William Moore Dr., NC State University, Raleigh, NC 27607, USA
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Hashimoto Y, Ube Y, Doi S, Kumano T, Kobayashi M. Metal chaperone, NhpC, involved in the metallocenter biosynthesis of nitrile hydratase. J GEN APPL MICROBIOL 2021; 67:24-32. [DOI: 10.2323/jgam.2020.03.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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- Yoshiteru Hashimoto
- Institute of Applied Biochemistry and Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Tsukuba
- Microbiology Research Center for Sustainability (MiCS), The University of Tsukuba
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- Institute of Applied Biochemistry and Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Tsukuba
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- Institute of Applied Biochemistry and Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Tsukuba
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- Institute of Applied Biochemistry and Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Tsukuba
- Microbiology Research Center for Sustainability (MiCS), The University of Tsukuba
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- Institute of Applied Biochemistry and Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Tsukuba
- Microbiology Research Center for Sustainability (MiCS), The University of Tsukuba
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Sofeo N, Hart JH, Butler B, Oliver DJ, Yandeau-Nelson MD, Nikolau BJ. Altering the Substrate Specificity of Acetyl-CoA Synthetase by Rational Mutagenesis of the Carboxylate Binding Pocket. ACS Synth Biol 2019; 8:1325-1336. [PMID: 31117358 DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.9b00008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Acetyl-CoA synthetase (ACS) is a member of a large superfamily of enzymes that display diverse substrate specificities, with a common mechanism of catalyzing the formation of a thioester bond between Coenzyme A and a carboxylic acid, while hydrolyzing ATP to AMP and pyrophosphate. As an activated form of acetate, acetyl-CoA is a key metabolic intermediate that links many metabolic processes, including the TCA cycle, amino acid metabolism, fatty acid metabolism and biosynthetic processes that generate many polyketides and some terpenes. We explored the structural basis of the specificity of ACS for only activating acetate, whereas other members of this superfamily utilize a broad range of other carboxylate substrates. By computationally modeling the structure of the Arabidopsis ACS and the Pseudomonas chlororaphis isobutyryl-CoA synthetase using the experimentally determined tertiary structures of homologous ACS enzymes as templates, we identified residues that potentially comprise the carboxylate binding pocket. These predictions were systematically tested by mutagenesis of four specific residues. The resulting rationally redesigned carboxylate binding pocket modified the size and chemo-physical properties of the carboxylate binding pocket. This redesign successfully switched a highly specific enzyme from using only acetate, to be equally specific for using longer linear (up to hexanoate) or branched chain (methylvalerate) carboxylate substrates. The significance of this achievement is that it sets a precedent for understanding the structure-function relationship of an enzyme without the need for an experimentally determined tertiary structure of that target enzyme, and rationally generates new biocatalysts for metabolic engineering of a broad range of metabolic processes.
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- Naazneen Sofeo
- Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
- Engineering Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
- Center for Metabolic Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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- Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
- Engineering Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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- Engineering Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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- Department of Genetics, Development, and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
- Engineering Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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- Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
- Department of Genetics, Development, and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
- Engineering Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
- Center for Metabolic Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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- Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
- Engineering Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
- Center for Metabolic Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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Weng JY, Bu XL, He BB, Cheng Z, Xu J, Da LT, Xu MJ. Rational engineering of amide synthetase enables bioconversion to diverse xiamenmycin derivatives. Chem Commun (Camb) 2019; 55:14840-14843. [DOI: 10.1039/c9cc07826f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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To improve the enzyme promiscuity, we engineered XimA by site-directed mutagenesis at a specific position based on our theoretical model.
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- Jing-Yi Weng
- Key Laboratory of Systems Biomedicine (Ministry of Education)
- Shanghai Centre for Systems Biomedicine
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Shanghai 200240
- P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism
- School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Shanghai 200240
- P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism
- School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Shanghai 200240
- P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism
- School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Shanghai 200240
- P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism
- School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Shanghai 200240
- P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Biomedicine (Ministry of Education)
- Shanghai Centre for Systems Biomedicine
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Shanghai 200240
- P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Biomedicine (Ministry of Education)
- Shanghai Centre for Systems Biomedicine
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Shanghai 200240
- P. R. China
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Carpenter SM, Williams GJ. Extender Unit Promiscuity and Orthogonal Protein Interactions of an Aminomalonyl-ACP Utilizing Trans-Acyltransferase from Zwittermicin Biosynthesis. ACS Chem Biol 2018; 13:3361-3373. [PMID: 30484625 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.8b00867] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Trans-acting acyltransferases (trans-ATs) are standalone enzymes that select and deliver extender units to polyketide synthase assembly lines. Accordingly, there is interest in leveraging trans-ATs as tools to regioselectively diversify polyketide structures. Yet, little is known regarding the extender unit and acyl carrier protein (ACP) specificity of trans-ATs, particularly those that utilize unusual ACP-linked extender units. For example, the biosynthesis of the antibiotic zwittermicin involves the trans-AT ZmaF, which is responsible for installing a rare ACP-linked aminomalonyl extender unit. Here, we developed a method to access a panel of non-natural and non-native ACP-linked extender units and used it to probe the promiscuity of ZmaF, revealing one of the most promiscuous ATs characterized to date. Furthermore, we demonstrated that ZmaF is highly orthogonal with respect to its ACP specificity, and the ability of ZmaF to trans-complement noncognate PKS modules was also explored. Together, these results set the stage for further engineering ZmaF as a tool for polyketide diversification.
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- Samantha M. Carpenter
- Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-8204, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-8204, United States
- Comparative Medicine Institute, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-8204, United States
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Abe T, Kobayashi K, Kawamura S, Sakaguchi T, Shiiba K, Kobayashi M. Dipeptide synthesis by internal adenylation domains of a multidomain enzyme involved in nonribosomal peptide synthesis. J GEN APPL MICROBIOL 2018; 65:1-10. [PMID: 29899192 DOI: 10.2323/jgam.2018.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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The adenylation domain of nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) is responsible for its selective substrate recognition and activation of the substrate (yielding an acyl-O-AMP intermediate) on ATP consumption. DhbF is an NRPS involved in bacillibactin synthesis and consists of multiple domains [adenylation domain, condensation domain, peptidyl carrier protein (PCP) domain, and thioesterase domain]; DhbFA1 and DhbFA2 (here named) are "internal" adenylation domains in the multidomain enzyme DhbF. We firstly succeeded in expressing and purifying the "internal" adenylation domains DhbFA1 and DhbFA2 separately. Furthermore, we initially demonstrated dipeptide synthesis by "internal" adenylation domains. When glycine and L-cysteine were used as substrates of DhbFA1, the formation of N-glycyl-L-cysteine (Gly-Cys) was observed. Furthermore, when L-threonine and L-cysteine were used as substrates of DhbFA2, N-L-threonyl-L-cysteine (Thr-Cys) was formed. These findings showed that both adenylation domains produced dipeptides by forming a carbon-nitrogen bond comprising the carboxyl group of an amino acid and the amino group of L-cysteine, although these adenylation domains are acid-thiol ligase using 4'-phosphopantetheine (bound to the PCP domain) as a substrate. Furthermore, DhbFA1 and DhbFA2 synthesized oligopeptides as well as dipeptides.
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- Tomoko Abe
- Division of Life Science, School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Denki University
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- Division of Life Science, School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Denki University
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- Division of Life Science, School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Denki University
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- Division of Life Science, School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Denki University
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- Division of Life Science, School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Denki University
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- Institute of Applied Biochemistry, and Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Tsukuba
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Overproduction and characterization of the first enzyme of a new aldoxime dehydratase family in Bradyrhizobium sp. Int J Biol Macromol 2018; 115:746-753. [PMID: 29698761 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2018.04.103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2018] [Revised: 04/18/2018] [Accepted: 04/19/2018] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Almost 100 genes within the genus Bradyrhizobium are known to potentially encode aldoxime dehydratases (Oxds), but none of the corresponding proteins have been characterized yet. Aldoximes are natural substances involved in plant defense and auxin synthesis, and Oxds are components of enzymatic cascades enabling bacteria to transform, utilize and detoxify them. The aim of this work was to characterize a representative of the highly conserved Oxds in Bradyrhizobium spp. which include both plant symbionts and members of the soil communities. The selected oxd gene from Bradyrhizobium sp. LTSPM299 was expressed in Escherichia coli, and the corresponding gene product (OxdBr1; GenBank: WP_044589203) was obtained as an N-His6-tagged protein (monomer, 40.7 kDa) with 30-47% identity to Oxds characterized previously. OxdBr1 was most stable at pH ca. 7.0-8.0 and at up to 30 °C. As substrates, the enzyme acted on (aryl)aliphatic aldoximes such as E/Z-phenylacetaldoxime, E/Z-2-phenylpropionaldoxime, E/Z-3-phenylpropionaldoxime, E/Z-indole-3-acetaldoxime, E/Z-propionaldoxime, E/Z-butyraldoxime, E/Z-valeraldoxime and E/Z-isovaleraldoxime. Some of the reaction products of OxdBr1 are substrates of nitrilases occurring in the same genus. Regions upstream of the oxd gene contained genes encoding a putative aliphatic nitrilase and its transcriptional activator, indicating the participation of OxdBr1 in the metabolic route from aldoximes to carboxylic acids.
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Nitrile Metabolizing Enzymes in Biocatalysis and Biotransformation. Appl Biochem Biotechnol 2018; 185:925-946. [DOI: 10.1007/s12010-018-2705-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2017] [Accepted: 01/19/2018] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Yamada M, Hashimoto Y, Kumano T, Tsujimura S, Kobayashi M. New function of aldoxime dehydratase: Redox catalysis and the formation of an unexpected product. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0175846. [PMID: 28410434 PMCID: PMC5391958 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0175846] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2016] [Accepted: 03/31/2017] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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In general, hemoproteins are capable of catalyzing redox reactions. Aldoxime dehydratase (OxdA), which is a unique heme-containing enzyme, catalyzes the dehydration of aldoximes to the corresponding nitriles. Its reaction is a rare example of heme directly activating an organic substrate, unlike the utilization of H2O2 or O2 as a mediator of catalysis by other heme-containing enzymes. While it is unknown whether OxdA catalyzes redox reactions or not, we here for the first time detected catalase activity (which is one of the redox activities) of wild-type OxdA, OxdA(WT). Furthermore, we constructed a His320 → Asp mutant of OxdA [OxdA(H320D)], and found it exhibits catalase activity. Determination of the kinetic parameters of OxdA(WT) and OxdA(H320D) revealed that their Km values for H2O2 were similar to each other, but the kcat value of OxdA(H320D) was 30 times higher than that of OxdA(WT). Next, we examined another redox activity and found it was the peroxidase activity of OxdAs. While both OxdA(WT) and OxdA(H320D) showed the activity, the activity of OxdA(H320D) was dozens of times higher than that of OxdA(WT). These findings demonstrated that the H320D mutation enhances the peroxidase activity of OxdA. OxdAs (WT and H320D) were found to catalyze another redox reaction, a peroxygenase reaction. During this reaction of OxdA(H320D) with 1-methoxynaphthalene as a substrate, surprisingly, the reaction mixture changed to a color different from that with OxdA(WT), which was due to the known product, Russig’s blue. We purified and identified the new product as 1-methoxy-2-naphthalenol, which has never been reported as a product of the peroxygenase reaction, to the best of our knowledge. These findings indicated that the H320D mutation not only enhanced redox activities, but also significantly altered the hydroxylation site of the substrate.
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- Masatoshi Yamada
- Institute of Applied Biochemistry and Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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- Institute of Applied Biochemistry and Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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- Institute of Applied Biochemistry and Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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- Division of Materials Science, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, The University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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- Institute of Applied Biochemistry and Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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Abe T, Hashimoto Y, Sugimoto S, Kobayashi K, Kumano T, Kobayashi M. Amide compound synthesis by adenylation domain of bacillibactin synthetase. J Antibiot (Tokyo) 2016; 70:435-442. [DOI: 10.1038/ja.2016.117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2016] [Revised: 07/07/2016] [Accepted: 08/29/2016] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Kumano T, Takizawa Y, Shimizu S, Kobayashi M. Nitrile-synthesizing enzyme: Gene cloning, overexpression and application for the production of useful compounds. J GEN APPL MICROBIOL 2016; 62:174-80. [DOI: 10.2323/jgam.2016.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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- Takuto Kumano
- Institute of Applied Biochemistry, and Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba
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- Division of Applied Life Science, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
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- Division of Applied Life Science, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
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- Institute of Applied Biochemistry, and Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba
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Kumano T, Suzuki T, Shimizu S, Kobayashi M. Nitrile-synthesizing enzyme: Screening, purification and characterization. J GEN APPL MICROBIOL 2016; 62:167-73. [DOI: 10.2323/jgam.2016.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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- Takuto Kumano
- Institute of Applied Biochemistry, and Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba
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- Division of Applied Life Science, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
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- Division of Applied Life Science, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
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- Institute of Applied Biochemistry, and Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba
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Abe T, Hashimoto Y, Zhuang Y, Ge Y, Kumano T, Kobayashi M. Peptide Bond Synthesis by a Mechanism Involving an Enzymatic Reaction and a Subsequent Chemical Reaction. J Biol Chem 2015; 291:1735-1750. [PMID: 26586916 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m115.700989] [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: 10/27/2015] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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We recently reported that an amide bond is unexpectedly formed by an acyl-CoA synthetase (which catalyzes the formation of a carbon-sulfur bond) when a suitable acid and l-cysteine are used as substrates. DltA, which is homologous to the adenylation domain of nonribosomal peptide synthetase, belongs to the same superfamily of adenylate-forming enzymes, which includes many kinds of enzymes, including the acyl-CoA synthetases. Here, we demonstrate that DltA synthesizes not only N-(d-alanyl)-l-cysteine (a dipeptide) but also various oligopeptides. We propose that this enzyme catalyzes peptide synthesis by the following unprecedented mechanism: (i) the formation of S-acyl-l-cysteine as an intermediate via its "enzymatic activity" and (ii) subsequent "chemical" S → N acyl transfer in the intermediate, resulting in peptide formation. Step ii is identical to the corresponding reaction in native chemical ligation, a method of chemical peptide synthesis, whereas step i is not. To the best of our knowledge, our discovery of this peptide synthesis mechanism involving an enzymatic reaction and a subsequent chemical reaction is the first such one to be reported. This new process yields peptides without the use of a thioesterified fragment, which is required in native chemical ligation. Together with these findings, the same mechanism-dependent formation of N-acyl compounds by other members of the above-mentioned superfamily demonstrated that all members most likely form peptide/amide compounds by using this novel mechanism. Each member enzyme acts on a specific substrate; thus, not only the corresponding peptides but also new types of amide compounds can be formed.
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- Tomoko Abe
- From the Institute of Applied Biochemistry and Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572 and; the Division of Life Science and Engineering, School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Denki University, Hatoyama, Hiki-gun, Saitama 350-0394, Japan
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- From the Institute of Applied Biochemistry and Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572 and
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- From the Institute of Applied Biochemistry and Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572 and
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- From the Institute of Applied Biochemistry and Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572 and
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- From the Institute of Applied Biochemistry and Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572 and
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- From the Institute of Applied Biochemistry and Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572 and.
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Fang S, An X, Liu H, Cheng Y, Hou N, Feng L, Huang X, Li C. Enzymatic degradation of aliphatic nitriles by Rhodococcus rhodochrous BX2, a versatile nitrile-degrading bacterium. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2015; 185:28-34. [PMID: 25746475 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2015.02.078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2014] [Revised: 02/18/2015] [Accepted: 02/19/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Nitriles are common environmental pollutants, and their removal has attracted increasing attention. Microbial degradation is considered to be the most acceptable method for removal. In this work, we investigated the biodegradation of three aliphatic nitriles (acetonitrile, acrylonitrile and crotononitrile) by Rhodococcus rhodochrous BX2 and the expression of their corresponding metabolic enzymes. This organism can utilize all three aliphatic nitriles as sole carbon and nitrogen sources, resulting in the complete degradation of these compounds. The degradation kinetics were described using a first-order model. The degradation efficiency was ranked according to t1/2 as follows: acetonitrile>trans-crotononitrile>acrylonitrile>cis-crotononitrile. Only ammonia accumulated following the three nitriles degradation, while amides and carboxylic acids were transient and disappeared by the end of the assay. mRNA expression and enzyme activity indicated that the tested aliphatic nitriles were degraded via both the inducible NHase/amidase and the constitutive nitrilase pathways, with the former most likely preferred.
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- Shumei Fang
- College of Resource and Environment, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, Heilongjiang, PR China; College of Life Science and Technology, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Daqing 16339, Heilongjiang, PR China
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- College of Resource and Environment, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, Heilongjiang, PR China
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- College of Resource and Environment, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, Heilongjiang, PR China
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- College of Resource and Environment, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, Heilongjiang, PR China
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- College of Resource and Environment, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, Heilongjiang, PR China
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- College of Resource and Environment, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, Heilongjiang, PR China
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- College of Resource and Environment, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, Heilongjiang, PR China
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- College of Resource and Environment, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, Heilongjiang, PR China.
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A new synthetic route to N-benzyl carboxamides through the reverse reaction of N-substituted formamide deformylase. Appl Environ Microbiol 2013; 80:61-9. [PMID: 24123742 DOI: 10.1128/aem.02429-13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Previously, we isolated a new enzyme, N-substituted formamide deformylase, that catalyzes the hydrolysis of N-substituted formamide to the corresponding amine and formate (H. Fukatsu, Y. Hashimoto, M. Goda, H. Higashibata, and M. Kobayashi, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 101:13726-13731, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405082101). Here, we discovered that this enzyme catalyzed the reverse reaction, synthesizing N-benzylformamide (NBFA) from benzylamine and formate. The reverse reaction proceeded only in the presence of high substrate concentrations. The effects of pH and inhibitors on the reverse reaction were almost the same as those on the forward reaction, suggesting that the forward and reverse reactions are both catalyzed at the same catalytic site. Bisubstrate kinetic analysis using formate and benzylamine and dead-end inhibition studies using a benzylamine analogue, aniline, revealed that the reverse reaction of this enzyme proceeds via an ordered two-substrate, two-product (bi-bi) mechanism in which formate binds first to the enzyme active site, followed by benzylamine binding and the subsequent release of NBFA. To our knowledge, this is the first report of the reverse reaction of an amine-forming deformylase. Surprisingly, analysis of the substrate specificity for acids demonstrated that not only formate, but also acetate and propionate (namely, acids with numbers of carbon atoms ranging from C1 to C3), were active as acid substrates for the reverse reaction. Through this reaction, N-substituted carboxamides, such as NBFA, N-benzylacetamide, and N-benzylpropionamide, were synthesized from benzylamine and the corresponding acid substrates.
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Begemann MB, Zess EK, Walters EM, Schmitt EF, Markley AL, Pfleger BF. An organic acid based counter selection system for cyanobacteria. PLoS One 2013; 8:e76594. [PMID: 24098537 PMCID: PMC3788122 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2013] [Accepted: 09/02/2013] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Cyanobacteria are valuable organisms for studying the physiology of photosynthesis and carbon fixation, as well as metabolic engineering for the production of fuels and chemicals. This work describes a novel counter selection method for the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 based on organic acid toxicity. The organic acids acrylate, 3-hydroxypropionate, and propionate were shown to be inhibitory towards Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 and other cyanobacteria at low concentrations. Inhibition was overcome by a loss of function mutation in the gene acsA, which is annotated as an acetyl-CoA ligase. Loss of AcsA function was used as a basis for an acrylate counter selection method. DNA fragments of interest were inserted into the acsA locus and strains harboring the insertion were isolated on selective medium containing acrylate. This methodology was also used to introduce DNA fragments into a pseudogene, glpK. Application of this method will allow for more advanced genetics and engineering studies in Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 including the construction of markerless gene deletions and insertions. The acrylate counter-selection could be applied to other cyanobacterial species where AcsA activity confers acrylate sensitivity (e.g. Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803).
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- Matthew B. Begemann
- Microbiology Doctoral Training Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- Microbiology Doctoral Training Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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Liu Y, Cui W, Xia Y, Cui Y, Kobayashi M, Zhou Z. Self-subunit swapping occurs in another gene type of cobalt nitrile hydratase. PLoS One 2012; 7:e50829. [PMID: 23226397 PMCID: PMC3511329 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050829] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2012] [Accepted: 10/25/2012] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Self-subunit swapping is one of the post-translational maturation of the cobalt-containing nitrile hydratase (Co-NHase) family of enzymes. All of these NHases possess a gene organization of <β-subunit> <α-subunit> <activator protein>, which allows the activator protein to easily form a mediatory complex with the α-subunit of the NHase after translation. Here, we discovered that the incorporation of cobalt into another type of Co-NHase, with a gene organization of <α-subunit> <β-subunit> <activator protein>, was also dependent on self-subunit swapping. We successfully isolated a recombinant NHase activator protein (P14K) of Pseudomonas putida NRRL-18668 by adding a Strep-tag N-terminal to the P14K gene. P14K was found to form a complex [α(StrepP14K)2] with the α-subunit of the NHase. The incorporation of cobalt into the NHase of P. putida was confirmed to be dependent on the α-subunit substitution between the cobalt-containing α(StrepP14K)2 and the cobalt-free NHase. Cobalt was inserted into cobalt-free α(StrepP14K)2 but not into cobalt-free NHase, suggesting that P14K functions not only as a self-subunit swapping chaperone but also as a metallochaperone. In addition, NHase from P. putida was also expressed by a mutant gene that was designed with a <β-subunit> <α-subunit> <P14K> order. Our findings expand the general features of self-subunit swapping maturation.
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- Yi Liu
- Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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- Institute of Applied Biochemistry, and Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
- * E-mail: (MK); (ZMZ)
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
- * E-mail: (MK); (ZMZ)
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Sato H, Hashimoto Y, Fukatsu H, Kobayashi M. Novel isonitrile hydratase involved in isonitrile metabolism. J Biol Chem 2010; 285:34793-802. [PMID: 20826798 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m110.150227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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We previously discovered N-substituted formamide deformylase (NfdA) in Arthrobacter pascens F164, which degrades N-substituted formamide (Fukatsu, H., Hashimoto, Y., Goda, M., Higashibata, H., and Kobayashi, M. (2004) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 101, 13726-13731). In this study, we found an enzyme involved in the first step of isonitrile metabolism, isonitrile hydratase, that hydrates isonitrile to the corresponding N-substituted formamide. First, we investigated the optimum culture conditions for the production of isonitrile hydratase. The highest enzyme activity was obtained when A. pascens F164 was cultured in a nutrient medium containing N-benzylformamide. This Arthrobacter isonitrile hydratase was purified, characterized, and compared with Pseudomonas putida N19-2 isonitrile hydratase (InhA), which is the sole one reported at present. Arthrobacter isonitrile hydratase was found to have a molecular mass of about 530 kDa and to consist of 12 identical subunits. The apparent K(m) value for cyclohexyl isocyanide was 0.95 ± 0.05 mm. A. pascens F164 grew and exhibited the isonitrile hydratase and N-substituted formamide deformylase activities when cultured in a medium containing an isonitrile as the sole carbon and nitrogen sources. However, both enzyme activities were not observed on culture in a medium containing glycerol and (NH(4))(2)SO(4) as the sole carbon and nitrogen sources, respectively. These findings suggested that the Arthrobacter enzyme is an inducible enzyme, possibly involved in assimilation and/or detoxification of isonitrile. Moreover, gene cloning of the Arthrobacter enzyme revealed no sequence similarity between this enzyme and InhA. Comparison of their properties and features demonstrated that the two enzymes are biochemically, immunologically, and structurally different from each other. Thus, we discovered a new isonitrile hydratase named InhB.
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- Hiroyoshi Sato
- Institute of Applied Biochemistry and Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan
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Zhou Z, Hashimoto Y, Cui T, Washizawa Y, Mino H, Kobayashi M. Unique Biogenesis of High-Molecular Mass Multimeric Metalloenzyme Nitrile Hydratase: Intermediates and a Proposed Mechanism for Self-Subunit Swapping Maturation. Biochemistry 2010; 49:9638-48. [DOI: 10.1021/bi100651v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Zhemin Zhou
- Institute of Applied Biochemistry and Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan
- Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology (Ministry of Education), School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Avenue, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214122, China
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- Institute of Applied Biochemistry and Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan
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- Institute of Applied Biochemistry and Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan
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- Institute of Applied Biochemistry and Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan
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- Division of Material Science (Physics), Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
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- Institute of Applied Biochemistry and Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan
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FadD from Pseudomonas putida CA-3 is a true long-chain fatty acyl coenzyme A synthetase that activates phenylalkanoic and alkanoic acids. J Bacteriol 2009; 191:7554-65. [PMID: 19820085 DOI: 10.1128/jb.01016-09] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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A fatty acyl coenzyme A synthetase (FadD) from Pseudomonas putida CA-3 is capable of activating a wide range of phenylalkanoic and alkanoic acids. It exhibits the highest rates of reaction and catalytic efficiency with long-chain aromatic and aliphatic substrates. FadD exhibits higher k(cat) and K(m) values for aromatic substrates than for the aliphatic equivalents (e.g., 15-phenylpentadecanoic acid versus pentadecanoic acid). FadD is inhibited noncompetitively by both acrylic acid and 2-bromooctanoic acid. The deletion of the fadD gene from P. putida CA-3 resulted in no detectable growth or polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) accumulation with 10-phenyldecanoic acid, decanoic acid, and longer-chain substrates. The results suggest that FadD is solely responsible for the activation of long-chain phenylalkanoic and alkanoic acids. While the CA-3DeltafadD mutant could grow on medium-chain substrates, a decrease in growth yield and PHA accumulation was observed. The PHA accumulated by CA-3DeltafadD contained a greater proportion of short-chain monomers than did wild-type PHA. Growth of CA-3DeltafadD was unaffected, but PHA accumulation decreased modestly with shorter-chain substrates. The complemented mutant regained 70% to 90% of the growth and PHA-accumulating ability of the wild-type strain depending on the substrate. The expression of an extra copy of fadD in P. putida CA-3 resulted in increased levels of PHA accumulation (up to 1.6-fold) and an increase in the incorporation of longer-monomer units into the PHA polymer.
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Zhou Z, Hashimoto Y, Kobayashi M. Self-subunit swapping chaperone needed for the maturation of multimeric metalloenzyme nitrile hydratase by a subunit exchange mechanism also carries out the oxidation of the metal ligand cysteine residues and insertion of cobalt. J Biol Chem 2009; 284:14930-8. [PMID: 19346246 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m808464200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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The incorporation of cobalt into low molecular mass nitrile hydratase (L-NHase) of Rhodococcus rhodochrous J1 has been found to depend on the alpha-subunit exchange between cobalt-free L-NHase (apo-L-NHase lacking oxidized cysteine residues) and its cobalt-containing mediator (holo-NhlAE containing Cys-SO(2)(-) and Cys-SO(-) metal ligands), this novel mode of post-translational maturation having been named self-subunit swapping, and NhlE having been recognized as a self-subunit swapping chaperone (Zhou, Z., Hashimoto, Y., Shiraki, K., and Kobayashi, M. (2008) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 105, 14849-14854). We discovered here that cobalt was inserted into both the cobalt-free NhlAE (apo-NhlAE) and the cobalt-free alpha-subunit (apo-alpha-subunit) in an NhlE-dependent manner in the presence of cobalt and dithiothreitol in vitro. Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectroscopy analysis revealed that the non-oxidized cysteine residues in apo-NhlAE were post-translationally oxidized after cobalt insertion. These findings suggested that NhlE has two activities, i.e. cobalt insertion and cysteine oxidation. NhlE not only functions as a self-subunit swapping chaperone but also a metallochaperone that includes a redox function. Cobalt insertion and cysteine oxidation occurred under both aerobic and anaerobic conditions when Co(3+) was used as a cobalt donor, suggesting that the oxygen atoms in the oxidized cysteines were derived from water molecules but not from dissolved oxygen. Additionally, we isolated apo-NhlAE after the self-subunit swapping event and found that it was recycled for cobalt transfer into L-NHase.
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- Zhemin Zhou
- Institute of Applied Biochemistry and Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan
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Discovery of posttranslational maturation by self-subunit swapping. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2008; 105:14849-54. [PMID: 18809911 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0803428105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Several general mechanisms of metallocenter biosynthesis have been reported and reviewed, and in all cases, the components or subunits of an apoprotein remain in the final holoprotein. Here, we first discovered that one subunit of an apoenzyme did not remain in the functional holoenzyme. The cobalt-containing low-molecular-mass nitrile hydratase (L-NHase) of Rhodococcus rhodochrous J1 consists of beta- and alpha-subunits encoded by the nhlBA genes, respectively. An ORF, nhlE, just downstream of nhlBA, was found to be necessary for L-NHase activation. In contrast to the cobalt-containing L-NHase (holo-L-NHase containing Cys-SO(2)(-) and Cys-SO(-) metal ligands) derived from nhlBAE, the gene products derived from nhlBA were cobalt-free L-NHase (apo-L-NHase lacking oxidized cysteine residues). We discovered an L-NHase maturation mediator, NhlAE, consisting of NhlE and the cobalt- and oxidized cysteine-containing alpha-subunit of L-NHase. The incorporation of cobalt into L-NHase was shown to depend on the exchange of the nonmodified cobalt-free alpha-subunit of apo-L-NHase with the cobalt-containing cysteine-modified alpha-subunit of NhlAE. This is a posttranslational maturation process different from general mechanisms of metallocenter biosynthesis known so far: the unexpected behavior of a protein in a protein complex, which we named "self-subunit swapping."
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Taniguchi K, Murata K, Murakami Y, Takahashi S, Nakamura T, Hashimoto K, Koshino H, Dohmae N, Yohda M, Hirose T, Maeda M, Odaka M. Novel catalytic activity of nitrile hydratase from Rhodococcus sp. N771. J Biosci Bioeng 2008; 106:174-9. [DOI: 10.1263/jbb.106.174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2008] [Accepted: 05/22/2008] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Transcriptional regulation of the nitrile hydratase gene cluster in Pseudomonas chlororaphis B23. J Bacteriol 2008; 190:4210-7. [PMID: 18408036 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00061-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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An enormous amount of nitrile hydratase (NHase) is inducibly produced by Pseudomonas chlororaphis B23 after addition of methacrylamide as the sole nitrogen source to a medium. The expression pattern of the P. chlororaphis B23 NHase gene cluster in response to addition of methacrylamide to the medium was investigated. Recently, we reported that the NHase gene cluster comprises seven genes (oxdA, amiA, nhpA, nhpB, nhpC, nhpS, and acsA). Sequence analysis of the 1.5-kb region upstream of the oxdA gene revealed the presence of a 936-bp open reading frame (designated nhpR), which should encode a protein with a molecular mass of 35,098. The deduced amino acid sequence of the nhpR product showed similarity to the sequences of transcriptional regulators belonging to the XylS/AraC family. Although the transcription of the eight genes (nhpR, oxdA, amiA, nhpABC, nhpS, and acsA) in the NHase gene cluster was induced significantly in the P. chlororaphis B23 wild-type strain after addition of methacrylamide to the medium, transcription of these genes in the nhpR disruptant was not induced, demonstrating that nhpR codes for a positive transcriptional regulator in the NHase gene cluster. A reverse transcription-PCR experiment revealed that five genes (oxdA, amiA, nhpA, nhpB, and nhpC) are cotranscribed, as are two other genes (nhpS and acsA). The transcription start sites for nhpR, oxdA, nhpA, and nhpS were mapped by primer extension analysis, and putative -12 and -24 sigma(54)-type promoter binding sites were identified. NhpR was found to be the first transcriptional regulator of NHase belonging to the XylS/AraC family.
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Abe T, Hashimoto Y, Hosaka H, Tomita-Yokotani K, Kobayashi M. Discovery of amide (peptide) bond synthetic activity in Acyl-CoA synthetase. J Biol Chem 2008; 283:11312-21. [PMID: 18305111 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m709654200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Acyl-CoA synthetase, which is one of the acid-thiol ligases (EC 6.2.1), plays key roles in metabolic and regulatory processes. This enzyme forms a carbon-sulfur bond in the presence of ATP and Mg(2+), yielding acyl-CoA thioesters from the corresponding free acids and CoA. This enzyme belongs to the superfamily of adenylate-forming enzymes, whose three-dimensional structures are analogous to one another. We here discovered a new reaction while studying the short-chain acyl-CoA synthetase that we recently reported (Hashimoto, Y., Hosaka, H., Oinuma, K., Goda, M., Higashibata, H., and Kobayashi, M. (2005) J. Biol. Chem. 280, 8660-8667). When l-cysteine was used as a substrate instead of CoA, N-acyl-l-cysteine was surprisingly detected as a reaction product. This finding demonstrated that the enzyme formed a carbon-nitrogen bond (EC 6.3.1 acid-ammonia (or amide) ligase (amide synthase); EC 6.3.2 acid-amino acid ligase (peptide synthase)) comprising the amino group of the cysteine and the carboxyl group of the acid. N-Acyl-d-cysteine, N-acyl-dl-homocysteine, and N-acyl-l-cysteine methyl ester were also synthesized from the corresponding cysteine analog substrates by the enzyme. Furthermore, this unexpected enzyme activity was also observed for acetyl-CoA synthetase and firefly luciferase, indicating the generality of the new reaction in the superfamily of adenylate-forming enzymes.
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- Tomoko Abe
- Institute of Applied Biochemistry, and Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan
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Tani A, Somyoonsap P, Minami T, Kimbara K, Kawai F. Polyethylene glycol (PEG)–carboxylate–CoA synthetase is involved in PEG metabolism in Sphingopyxis macrogoltabida strain 103. Arch Microbiol 2007; 189:407-10. [DOI: 10.1007/s00203-007-0320-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2007] [Revised: 10/03/2007] [Accepted: 10/24/2007] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Kato Y, Tsuda T, Asano Y. Purification and partial characterization of N-hydroxy-l-phenylalanine decarboxylase/oxidase from Bacillus sp. strain OxB-1, an enzyme involved in aldoxime biosynthesis in the “aldoxime–nitrile pathway”. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS 2007; 1774:856-65. [PMID: 17544345 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2007.04.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2007] [Revised: 03/27/2007] [Accepted: 04/25/2007] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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An enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of N-hydroxy-l-phenylalanine to phenylacetaldoxime was shown to be present in the Z-phenylacetaldoxime-degrading bacterium, Bacillus sp. strain OxB-1. The aldoxime-forming enzyme, which is induced by L-phenylalanine, was purified 8,050-fold to apparent homogeneity with a yield of 15.2%. The enzyme has a subunit M(r) of about 86,000. The enzyme converts N-hydroxy-L-phenylalanine (K(m) 0.99 mM) to only one geometrical isomer, namely Z-phenylacetaldoxime. Relatively large amounts of pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP) are required to be present in the reaction mixture because PLP reacts non-enzymatically with the N-hydroxy amino acid substrate to form a nitrone. Several characteristics of the enzyme were compared with those of other PLP-dependent aromatic amino acid-converting enzymes described in the literature. The enzyme is tentatively named "N-hydroxy-L-phenylalanine decarboxylase/oxidase". Finally, the possible biosynthesis and metabolism of phenylacetaldoxime in Bacillus sp. strain OxB-1 is discussed.
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- Yasuo Kato
- Biotechnology Research Center, Faculty of Engineering, Toyama Prefectural University, 5180 Kurokawa, Imizu, Toyama 939-0398, Japan
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Kato Y, Asano Y. Molecular and enzymatic analysis of the “aldoxime–nitrile pathway” in the glutaronitrile degrader Pseudomonas sp. K-9. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2006; 70:92-101. [PMID: 16003557 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-005-0044-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2005] [Revised: 04/29/2005] [Accepted: 05/30/2005] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
Abstract
A gene cluster responsible for aldoxime metabolism in the glutaronitrile degrader Pseudomonas sp. K-9 was analyzed genetically and enzymatically. The cluster was composed of genes coding for aldoxime dehydratase (Oxd), nitrile hydratase (NHase), NHase activator, amidase, acyl-CoA ligase, and some regulatory and functionally unknown proteins, which were similar to proteins appearing in the "aldoxime-nitrile pathway" gene cluster from strains having Fe-containing NHase. A key enzyme in the cluster, OxdK, which has 32.7-90.3 % identity with known Oxds, was overexpressed in Escherichia coli cells under the control of a T7 promoter in its His(6)-tagged form, purified, and characterized. The enzyme showed similar characteristics with the known Oxds coexisting with an Fe-containing NHase in its subunit structure, substrate specificity, and effects on various compounds. The enzyme can be classified into a group of "aliphatic aldoxime dehydratase (EC 4.99.1.5)." The existence of a gene cluster of enzymes responsible for aldoxime metabolism via the aldoxime-nitrile pathway (aldoxime-->nitrile-->amide-->acid-->acyl-CoA) in Pseudomonas sp. K-9, and the fact that the proteins comprising the cluster are similar to those acting on aliphatic type substrates, evidently clarified the alkylaldoxime-degrading pathway in that strain.
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Affiliation(s)
- Yasuo Kato
- Biotechnology Research Center, Faculty of Engineering, Toyama Prefectural University, 5180 Kurokawa, Kosugi, Toyama 939-0398, Japan
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