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Lappe A, Luelf UJ, Keilhammer M, Bokel A, Urlacher VB. Bacterial cytochrome P450 enzymes: Semi-rational design and screening of mutant libraries in recombinant Escherichia coli cells. Methods Enzymol 2023; 693:133-170. [PMID: 37977729 DOI: 10.1016/bs.mie.2023.09.011] [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] [Indexed: 11/19/2023]
Abstract
Bacterial cytochromes P450 (P450s) have been recognized as attractive targets for biocatalysis and protein engineering. They are soluble cytosolic enzymes that demonstrate higher stability and activity than their membrane-associated eukaryotic counterparts. Many bacterial P450s possess broad substrate spectra and can be produced in well-known expression hosts like Escherichia coli at high levels, which enables quick and convenient mutant libraries construction. However, the majority of bacterial P450s interacts with two auxiliary redox partner proteins, which significantly increase screening efforts. We have established recombinant E. coli cells for screening of P450 variants that rely on two separate redox partners. In this chapter, a case study on construction of a selective P450 to synthesize a precursor of several chemotherapeutics, (-)-podophyllotoxin, is described. The procedure includes co-expression of P450 and redox partner genes in E. coli with subsequent whole-cell conversion of the substrate (-)-deoxypodophyllotoxin in 96-deep-well plates. By omitting the chromatographic separation while measuring mass-to-charge ratios specific for the substrate and product via MS in so-called multiple injections in a single experimental run (MISER) LC/MS, the analysis time could be drastically reduced to roughly 1 min per sample. Screening results were verified by using isolated P450 variants and purified redox partners.
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- Alessa Lappe
- Institute of Biochemistry, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
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Pewklang T, Wet-osot S, Wangngae S, Ngivprom U, Chansaenpak K, Duangkamol C, Lai RY, Noisa P, Sukwattanasinitt M, Kamkaew A. Flavylium-Based Hypoxia-Responsive Probe for Cancer Cell Imaging. Molecules 2021; 26:4938. [PMID: 34443527 PMCID: PMC8400153 DOI: 10.3390/molecules26164938] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2021] [Revised: 08/06/2021] [Accepted: 08/11/2021] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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A hypoxia-responsive probe based on a flavylium dye containing an azo group (AZO-Flav) was synthesized to detect hypoxic conditions via a reductase-catalyzed reaction in cancer cells. In in vitro enzymatic investigation, the azo group of AZO-Flav was reduced by a reductase in the presence of reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) followed by fragmentation to generate a fluorescent molecule, Flav-NH2. The response of AZO-Flav to the reductase was as fast as 2 min with a limit of detection (LOD) of 0.4 μM. Moreover, AZO-Flav displayed high enzyme specificity even in the presence of high concentrations of biological interferences, such as reducing agents and biothiols. Therefore, AZO-Flav was tested to detect hypoxic and normoxic environments in cancer cells (HepG2). Compared to the normal condition, the fluorescence intensity in hypoxic conditions increased about 10-fold after 15 min. Prolonged incubation showed a 26-fold higher fluorescent intensity after 60 min. In addition, the fluorescence signal under hypoxia can be suppressed by an electron transport process inhibitor, diphenyliodonium chloride (DPIC), suggesting that reductases take part in the azo group reduction of AZO-Flav in a hypoxic environment. Therefore, this probe showed great potential application toward in vivo hypoxia detection.
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- Thitima Pewklang
- School of Chemistry, Institute of Science, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima 30000, Thailand; (T.P.); (S.W.-o.); (S.W.); (U.N.); (C.D.)
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- School of Chemistry, Institute of Science, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima 30000, Thailand; (T.P.); (S.W.-o.); (S.W.); (U.N.); (C.D.)
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- School of Chemistry, Institute of Science, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima 30000, Thailand; (T.P.); (S.W.-o.); (S.W.); (U.N.); (C.D.)
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- School of Chemistry, Institute of Science, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima 30000, Thailand; (T.P.); (S.W.-o.); (S.W.); (U.N.); (C.D.)
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- National Nanotechnology Center, National Science and Technology Development Agency, Thailand Science Park, Pathum Thani 12120, Thailand;
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- School of Chemistry, Institute of Science, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima 30000, Thailand; (T.P.); (S.W.-o.); (S.W.); (U.N.); (C.D.)
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- School of Chemistry, Institute of Science, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima 30000, Thailand; (T.P.); (S.W.-o.); (S.W.); (U.N.); (C.D.)
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- Laboratory of Cell-Based Assays and Innovations, Institute of Agricultural Technology, School of Biotechnology, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima 30000, Thailand;
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- Thailand Nanotec-CU Center of Excellence on Food and Agriculture, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand;
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- School of Chemistry, Institute of Science, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima 30000, Thailand; (T.P.); (S.W.-o.); (S.W.); (U.N.); (C.D.)
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Mellor SB, Vinde MH, Nielsen AZ, Hanke GT, Abdiaziz K, Roessler MM, Burow M, Motawia MS, Møller BL, Jensen PE. Defining optimal electron transfer partners for light-driven cytochrome P450 reactions. Metab Eng 2019; 55:33-43. [PMID: 31091467 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2019.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2019] [Revised: 05/02/2019] [Accepted: 05/04/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Plants and cyanobacteria are promising heterologous hosts for metabolic engineering, and particularly suited for expression of cytochrome P450 (P450s), enzymes that catalyse key steps in biosynthetic pathways leading to valuable natural products such as alkaloids, terpenoids and phenylpropanoids. P450s are often difficult to express and require a membrane-bound NADPH-dependent reductase, complicating their use in metabolic engineering and bio-production. We previously demonstrated targeting of heterologous P450s to thylakoid membranes both in N. benthamiana chloroplasts and cyanobacteria, and functional substitution of their native reductases with the photosynthetic apparatus via the endogenous soluble electron carrier ferredoxin. However, because ferredoxin acts as a sorting hub for photosynthetic reducing power, there is fierce competition for reducing equivalents, which limits photosynthesis-driven P450 output. This study compares the ability of four electron carriers to increase photosynthesis-driven P450 activity. These carriers, three plant ferredoxins and a flavodoxin-like engineered protein derived from cytochrome P450 reductase, show only modest differences in their electron transfer to our model P450, CYP79A1 in vitro. However, only the flavodoxin-like carrier supplies appreciable reducing power in the presence of competition for reduced ferredoxin, because it possesses a redox potential that renders delivery of reducing equivalents to endogenous processes inefficient. We further investigate the efficacy of these electron carrier proteins in vivo by expressing them transiently in N. benthamiana fused to CYP79A1. All but one of the fusion enzymes show improved sequestration of photosynthetic reducing power. Fusion with the flavodoxin-like carrier offers the greatest improvement in this comparison - nearly 25-fold on a per protein basis. Thus, this study demonstrates that synthetic electron transfer pathways with optimal redox potentials can alleviate the problem of endogenous competition for reduced ferredoxin and sets out a new metabolic engineering strategy useful for producing valuable natural products.
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- Silas Busck Mellor
- Copenhagen Plant Science Center, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871, Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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- Copenhagen Plant Science Center, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871, Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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- Copenhagen Plant Science Center, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871, Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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- School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, United Kingdom
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- School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, United Kingdom
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- School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, United Kingdom
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- DyNaMo Center of Excellence, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871, Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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- Villum Research Center for Plant Plasticity, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871, Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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- Villum Research Center for Plant Plasticity, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871, Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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- Copenhagen Plant Science Center, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871, Frederiksberg C, Denmark.
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Hlavica P. Mechanistic basis of electron transfer to cytochromes p450 by natural redox partners and artificial donor constructs. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2015; 851:247-97. [PMID: 26002739 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-16009-2_10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Cytochromes P450 (P450s) are hemoproteins catalyzing oxidative biotransformation of a vast array of natural and xenobiotic compounds. Reducing equivalents required for dioxygen cleavage and substrate hydroxylation originate from different redox partners including diflavin reductases, flavodoxins, ferredoxins and phthalate dioxygenase reductase (PDR)-type proteins. Accordingly, circumstantial analysis of structural and physicochemical features governing donor-acceptor recognition and electron transfer poses an intriguing challenge. Thus, conformational flexibility reflected by togging between closed and open states of solvent exposed patches on the redox components was shown to be instrumental to steered electron transmission. Here, the membrane-interactive tails of the P450 enzymes and donor proteins were recognized to be crucial to proper orientation toward each other of surface sites on the redox modules steering functional coupling. Also, mobile electron shuttling may come into play. While charge-pairing mechanisms are of primary importance in attraction and complexation of the redox partners, hydrophobic and van der Waals cohesion forces play a minor role in docking events. Due to catalytic plasticity of P450 enzymes, there is considerable promise in biotechnological applications. Here, deeper insight into the mechanistic basis of the redox machinery will permit optimization of redox processes via directed evolution and DNA shuffling. Thus, creation of hybrid systems by fusion of the modified heme domain of P450s with proteinaceous electron carriers helps obviate the tedious reconstitution procedure and induces novel activities. Also, P450-based amperometric biosensors may open new vistas in pharmaceutical and clinical implementation and environmental monitoring.
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- Peter Hlavica
- Walther-Straub-Institut für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie der LMU, Goethestrasse 33, 80336, München, Germany,
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Hlavica P, Schulze J, Lewis DFV. Functional interaction of cytochrome P450 with its redox partners: a critical assessment and update of the topology of predicted contact regions. J Inorg Biochem 2003; 96:279-97. [PMID: 12888264 DOI: 10.1016/s0162-0134(03)00152-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The problem of donor-acceptor recognition has been the most important and intriguing one in the area of P450 research. The present review outlines the topological background of electron-transfer complex formation, showing that the progress in collaborative investigations, combining physical techniques with chemical-modification and immunolocalization studies as well as site-directed mutagenesis experiments, has increasingly enabled the substantiation of hypothetical work resulting from homology modelling of P450s. Circumstantial analysis reveals the contact regions for redox proteins to cluster on the proximal face of P450s, constituting parts of the highly conserved, heme-binding core fold. However, more variable structural components located in the periphery of the hemoprotein molecules also participate in donor docking. The cross-reactivity of electron carriers, purified from pro- and eukaryotic sources, with a diversity of P450 species points at a possible evolutionary conservation of common anchoring domains. While electrostatic mechanisms appear to dominate orientation toward each other of the redox partners to generate pre-collisional encounter complexes, hydrophobic forces are likely to foster electron transfer events by through-bonding or pi-stacking interactions. Moreover, electron-tunneling pathways seem to be operative as well. The availability of new P450 crystal structures together with improved validation strategies will undoubtedly permit the production of increasingly satisfactory three-dimensional donor-acceptor models serving to better understand the molecular principles governing functional association of the redox proteins.
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- P Hlavica
- Walther-Straub-Institut für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie, Nussbaumstrasse 26, D-80336, Munich, Germany.
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