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Kollerov V, Tarlachkov S, Shutov A, Kazantsev A, Donova M. Identification of a Gene Encoding a New Fungal Steroid 7-Hydroxylase and Its Functional Characterization in Pichia pastoris Yeast. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:17256. [PMID: 38139084 PMCID: PMC10744122 DOI: 10.3390/ijms242417256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2023] [Revised: 11/29/2023] [Accepted: 12/04/2023] [Indexed: 12/24/2023] Open
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The hydroxylation of steroids in the C7β position is one of the rare reactions that allow the production of value-added precursors in the synthesis of ursodeoxycholic acid and other pharmaceuticals. Recently, we discovered this activity in the ascomycete Curvularia sp. VKM F-3040. In this study, the novel gene of 7-hydroxylase (P450cur) was identified as being heterologously expressed and functionally characterized in Pichia pastoris. Transcriptome data mining and differential expression analysis revealed that 12 putative genes in Curvularia sp. mycelia significantly increased their expression in response to dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA). The transcriptional level of the most up-regulated cytochrome P450cur gene was increased more than 300-fold. A two-gene construct with a candidate P450cur gene and the gene of its natural redox partner, NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase (CPR), which is interconnected by a T2A element, was created. Using this construct, recombinant P. pastoris strains co-expressing fungal P450cur and CPR genes were obtained. The functional activity of the recombinant P450cur was studied in vivo during the bioconversion of androstane steroids. The fungal 7-monooxygenase predominantly catalyzed the 7β-hydroxylation of androstadienedione (ADD), DHEA, and androstenediol, whereas 1-dehydrotestosterone was hydroxylated by P450cur mainly at the C7-Hα position. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a recombinant yeast capable of catalyzing the 7α/β-hydroxylation of ADD and DHEA.
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- Vyacheslav Kollerov
- Federal Research Center «Pushchino Center for Biological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences», G.K. Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospekt Nauki, 5, 142290 Pushchino, Russia; (S.T.); (A.S.); (M.D.)
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- Federal Research Center «Pushchino Center for Biological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences», G.K. Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospekt Nauki, 5, 142290 Pushchino, Russia; (S.T.); (A.S.); (M.D.)
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- Federal Research Center «Pushchino Center for Biological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences», G.K. Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospekt Nauki, 5, 142290 Pushchino, Russia; (S.T.); (A.S.); (M.D.)
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- Chemical Department, Moscow State University, GSP-1, Leninskiye Gori, 1, 119991 Moscow, Russia;
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- Federal Research Center «Pushchino Center for Biological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences», G.K. Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospekt Nauki, 5, 142290 Pushchino, Russia; (S.T.); (A.S.); (M.D.)
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Donova MV. Current Trends and Perspectives in Microbial Bioconversions of Steroids. Methods Mol Biol 2023; 2704:3-21. [PMID: 37642835 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3385-4_1] [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: 08/31/2023]
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The microbiological transformation of sterols is currently the technological basis for the industrial production of valuable steroid precursors, the so-called synthons, from which a wide range of steroid and indane isoprenoids are obtained by combined chemical and enzymatic routes. These compounds include value-added corticoids, neurosteroids, sex hormones, bile acids, and other terpenoid lipids required by the medicine, pharmaceutical, food, veterinary, and agricultural industries.Progress in understanding the molecular mechanisms of microbial degradation of steroids, and the development and implementation of genetic technologies, opened a new era in steroid biotechnology. Metabolic engineering of microbial producers makes it possible not only to improve the biocatalytic properties of industrial strains by enhancing their target activity and/or suppressing undesirable activities in order to avoid the formation of by-products or degradation of the steroid core, but also to redirect metabolic fluxes in cells towards accumulation of new metabolites that may be useful for practical applications. Along with whole-cell catalysis, the interest of researchers is growing in enzymatic methods that make it possible to carry out selective structural modifications of steroids, such as the introduction of double bonds, the oxidation of steroidal alcohols, or the reduction of steroid carbonyl groups. A promising area of research is strain engineering based on the heterologous expression of foreign steroidogenesis systems (bacterial, fungal, or mammalian) that ensure selective formation of demanded hydroxylated steroids.Here, current trends and progress in microbial steroid biotechnology over the past few years are briefly reviewed, with a particular focus on the application of metabolic engineering and synthetic biology techniques to improve existing and create new whole-cell microbial biocatalysts.
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- Marina V Donova
- G.K. Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, Federal Research Center "Pushchino Scientific Center for Biological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences", Pushchino, Russia.
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Galán B, Felpeto-Santero C, García JL. Production of 11α-Hydroxysteroid Derivatives by Corynebacterium glutamicum Expressing the Rhizopus oryzae Hydroxylating System. Methods Mol Biol 2023; 2704:277-289. [PMID: 37642851 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3385-4_17] [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: 08/31/2023]
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Hydroxylation of steroids has acquired special relevance for the pharmaceutical industry. Particularly, the 11α-hydroxylation of steroids is a process of biotechnological importance currently carried out at industrial scale for the production of contraceptive drugs and glucocorticoids. This process is performed by several fungal species including Rhizopus nigricans, Aspergillus ochraceus, Aspergillus niger, and Rhizopus oryzae that are used to produce by biotransformation hydroxylated steroids for pharmaceutical purposes (Wang et al., J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol 171:254-261, 2017). However, the development of more efficient biotransformation processes is essential since the steroidal derivatives obtained by the in vivo hydroxylation are often a mixture of hydroxylated compounds in different positions of the steroid molecule. This phenomenon is due to the large number of different CYPs contained in the fungal strains.The genes responsible for the 11α-hydroxylase activity in R. oryzae consisting in the cytochrome CYP509C12 and its redox partner, the reductase RoCPR1, have been chemically synthetized forming a synthetic operon named FUN optimized to be expressed in bacteria. To express this operon, we have selected the strain Corynebacterium glutamicum R31 that is a robust and GRAS bacterial strain widely used for industrial purposes. The synthetic operon has been cloned in the pECXK-99E vector, yielding pXKFUN plasmid, and transformed C. glutamicum R31 to generate C. glutamicum R31 (pXKFUN) strain. This strain is not a steroid degrader and can efficiently transport C19 and C21 steroids across the cytoplasmic membrane (García-Fernandez et al. Catalysts 316:1-12, 2017). C. glutamicum can be used as a clean host for steroid biotransformation, because it does not introduce additional undesired side reactions on the steroids, thus reducing the contamination of the final products (Felpeto-Santero et al., Microbiol Biotechnol 12:856-868, 2019). Here we show a proof of concept that C. glutamicum can be used as a suitable chassis to perform steroid biotransformation expressing eukaryotic cytochromes. The protocol below provides detailed information on steroid 11α-hydroxylations by Corynebacterium recombinant strain.
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- Beatriz Galán
- Department of Microbial and Plant Biotechnology, Margarita Salas Centre for Biological Research-CSIC, Madrid, Spain.
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- Department of Microbial and Plant Biotechnology, Margarita Salas Centre for Biological Research-CSIC, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Microbial and Plant Biotechnology, Margarita Salas Centre for Biological Research-CSIC, Madrid, Spain
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Biotransformation of Androstenedione by Filamentous Fungi Isolated from Cultural Heritage Sites in the State Tretyakov Gallery. BIOLOGY 2022; 11:biology11060883. [PMID: 35741405 PMCID: PMC9220046 DOI: 10.3390/biology11060883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2022] [Revised: 05/31/2022] [Accepted: 06/06/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Simple Summary Microorganisms are able to grow on substrates of the most diverse nature. One of the most practical habitats, in terms of cultural heritage conservation, is fine art objects such as tempera or oil paintings on canvas. Since tempera paints are produced on the basis of egg yolk, which is one of the richest sources of cholesterol in nature (up to 2% of dry weight), and in the process of aging of tempera materials, changes in cholesterol do not affect the core structure of the steroid nucleus, the group of fungi that we have isolated are tempera painting destructors is seen as a promising object for screening for their possible steroid-transforming activities. In this regard, the purpose of our work was to determine the ability to transform pharmaceutically significant steroids with dominant fungi-destructors of tempera paintings, previously isolated in the State Tretyakov Gallery. Consequently, we have demonstrated for the first time that fungi-destructors of tempera paintings have steroid-transforming activity and are promising microorganisms for screening for biotechnologically significant transformations of steroids with further industrial use. Abstract The transformation of steroids by microorganisms is widely used in medical biotechnology. A huge group of filamentous fungi is one of the most promising taxa for screening new biocatalytic reactions in order to obtain pharmaceutically significant steroids. In this work, we screened 10 filamentous fungi-destructors of egg tempera for the ability to biotransform androst-4-en-3,17-dione (AD) during cultivation in a liquid nutrient medium or in a buffer solution. These taxonomically unrelated strains, belonging to the classes Eurotiomycetes, Dothideomycetes and Sordariomycetes, are dominant representatives of the microbiome from halls where works of tempera painting are stored in the State Tretyakov Gallery (STG, Moscow, Russia). Since the binder of tempera paints, egg yolk, contains about 2% cholesterol, these degrading fungi appear to be a promising group for screening for steroid converting activity. It turned out that all the studied fungi-destructors are able to transform AD. Some strains showed transformation efficiency close to the industrial strain Curvularia lunata RNCIM F-981. In total, 33 steroids formed during the transformation of AD were characterized, for 19 of them the structure was established by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry analysis. In this work, we have shown for the first time that fungi-destructors of tempera paintings can efficiently transform steroids.
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Microbial Steroid Production Technologies: Current Trends and Prospects. Microorganisms 2021; 10:microorganisms10010053. [PMID: 35056503 PMCID: PMC8779116 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms10010053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2021] [Revised: 12/20/2021] [Accepted: 12/22/2021] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Kollerov V, Shutov A, Kazantsev A, Donova M. Hydroxylation of pregnenolone and dehydroepiandrosterone by zygomycete Backusella lamprospora VKM F-944: selective production of 7α-OH-DHEA. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2021; 106:535-548. [PMID: 34939135 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-021-11737-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2021] [Revised: 12/04/2021] [Accepted: 12/11/2021] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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In this paper, we studied the transformation of two 3β-hydroxy-5-ene-steroids-pregnenolone and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) by Backusella lamprospora VKM F- 944. The soil-dwelling zygomycete wild-type strain has been earlier selected during the screening and previously unexplored for this purpose. The fungus fully converted pregnenolone to form a mixture of axial 7α-hydroxy-pregnenolone and 7α,11α-dihydroxy-pregnenolone, while no metabolites with β-orientation of the hydroxyl group were detected. The pathway to 7α,11α-diOH-pregnenolone seems to include 7α-hydroxylation of 11α-hydroxylated derivative. The only product from DHEA was identified as 7α-hydroxy-DHEA. The structures of steroid metabolites were confirmed by HPLC, mass-spectrometry (MS), and 1H and 13C NMR analyses. Under the optimized conditions, the yield of 7α-OH-DHEA reached 94% (w/w) or over 14 g/L in absolute terms, even at high concentration of the substrate (DHEA) (15 g/L). To our knowledge, it is the highest yield of the value-added 7α-OH-DHEA reported so far. The results contribute to the knowledge of the diversity of the wild-type fungal strains capable of effective steroid hydroxylation. They could be applied for the production of allylic steroid 7α-alcohols that are widely used in medicine. KEY POINTS: • Zygomycete Backusella lamprospora actively hydroxylates 3β-hydroxy-5-en-steroids. • Axial 7α-hydroxylation is the preferable reaction by the strain towards pregnenolone and DHEA. • The strain selectively produces 7α-OH-DHEA even at high substrate concentrations (up to 15 g/L).
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- Vyacheslav Kollerov
- G.K. Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, Federal Research Center "Pushchino Center for Biological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences", Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospekt Nauki, 5, 142290, Pushchino, Moscow region, Russia.
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- G.K. Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, Federal Research Center "Pushchino Center for Biological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences", Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospekt Nauki, 5, 142290, Pushchino, Moscow region, Russia
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- Chemical Department, Moscow State University, GSP-1, Leninskiye Gori, 1, Moscow, Russia
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- G.K. Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, Federal Research Center "Pushchino Center for Biological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences", Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospekt Nauki, 5, 142290, Pushchino, Moscow region, Russia
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Felpeto‐Santero C, Galán B, García JL. Production of 11α-hydroxysteroids from sterols in a single fermentation step by Mycolicibacterium smegmatis. Microb Biotechnol 2021; 14:2514-2524. [PMID: 33660943 PMCID: PMC8601193 DOI: 10.1111/1751-7915.13735] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2020] [Accepted: 12/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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11α-hydroxylated steroid synthons are one of the most important commercially pharmaceutical intermediates used for the production of contraceptive drugs and glucocorticoids. These compounds are currently produced by biotransformation using fungal strains in two sequential fermentation steps. In this work, we have developed by a rational design new recombinant bacteria able to produce 11α-hydroxylated synthons in a single fermentation step using cholesterol (CHO) or phytosterols (PHYTO) as feedstock. We have designed a synthetic operon expressing the 11α-hydroxylating enzymes from the fungus Rhizopus oryzae that was cloned into engineered mutant strains of Mycolicibacterium smegmatis that were previously created to produce 4-androstene-3,17-dione (AD), 1,4-androstadiene-3,17-dione (ADD) from sterols. The introduction of the fungal synthetic operon in these modified bacterial chassis has allowed producing for the first time 11αOH-AD and 11αOH-ADD with high yields directly from sterols in a single fermentation step. Remarkably, the enzymes of sterol catabolic pathway from M. smegmatis recognized the 11α-hydroxylated intermediates as alternative substrates and were able to efficiently funnel sterols to the desired hydroxylated end-products.
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- Carmen Felpeto‐Santero
- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas Margarita SalasAgencia del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasMadridSpain
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- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas Margarita SalasAgencia del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasMadridSpain
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- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas Margarita SalasAgencia del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasMadridSpain
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Felpeto-Santero C, Galán B, García JL. Engineering the Steroid Hydroxylating System from Cochliobolus lunatus in Mycolicibacterium smegmatis. Microorganisms 2021; 9:microorganisms9071499. [PMID: 34361934 PMCID: PMC8306143 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms9071499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2021] [Revised: 07/07/2021] [Accepted: 07/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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14α-hydroxylated steroids are starting materials for the synthesis of contraceptive and anti-inflammatory compounds in the steroid industry. A synthetic bacterial operon containing the cytochrome P450 CYP103168 and the reductase CPR64795 of the fungus Cochlioboluslunatus able to hydroxylate steroids has been engineered into a shuttle plasmid named pMVFAN. This plasmid was used to transform two mutants of Mycolicibacterium smegmatis named MS6039-5941 and MS6039 that accumulate 4-androstene-3,17-dione (AD), and 1,4-androstadiene-3,17-dione (ADD), respectively. The recombinant mutants MS6039-5941 (pMVFAN) and MS6039 (pMVFAN) were able to efficiently express the hydroxylating CYP system of C.lunatus and produced in high yields 14αOH-AD and 14αOH-ADD, respectively, directly from cholesterol and phytosterols in a single fermentation step. These results open a new avenue for producing at industrial scale these and other hydroxylated steroidal synthons by transforming with this synthetic operon other Mycolicibacterium strains currently used for the commercial production of steroidal synthons from phytosterols as feedstock.
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Donoso RA, Ruiz D, Gárate-Castro C, Villegas P, González-Pastor JE, de Lorenzo V, González B, Pérez-Pantoja D. Identification of a self-sufficient cytochrome P450 monooxygenase from Cupriavidus pinatubonensis JMP134 involved in 2-hydroxyphenylacetic acid catabolism, via homogentisate pathway. Microb Biotechnol 2021; 14:1944-1960. [PMID: 34156761 PMCID: PMC8449657 DOI: 10.1111/1751-7915.13865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2020] [Revised: 05/24/2021] [Accepted: 05/26/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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The self-sufficient cytochrome P450 RhF and its homologues belonging to the CYP116B subfamily have attracted considerable attention due to the potential for biotechnological applications based in their ability to catalyse an array of challenging oxidative reactions without requiring additional protein partners. In this work, we showed for the first time that a CYP116B self-sufficient cytochrome P450 encoded by the ohpA gene harboured by Cupriavidus pinatubonensis JMP134, a β-proteobacterium model for biodegradative pathways, catalyses the conversion of 2-hydroxyphenylacetic acid (2-HPA) into homogentisate. Mutational analysis and HPLC metabolite detection in strain JMP134 showed that 2-HPA is degraded through the well-known homogentisate pathway requiring a 2-HPA 5-hydroxylase activity provided by OhpA, which was additionally supported by heterologous expression and enzyme assays. The ohpA gene belongs to an operon including also ohpT, coding for a substrate-binding subunit of a putative transporter, whose expression is driven by an inducible promoter responsive to 2-HPA in presence of a predicted OhpR transcriptional regulator. OhpA homologues can be found in several genera belonging to Actinobacteria and α-, β- and γ-proteobacteria lineages indicating a widespread distribution of 2-HPA catabolism via homogentisate route. These results provide first time evidence for the natural function of members of the CYP116B self-sufficient oxygenases and represent a significant input to support novel kinetic and structural studies to develop cytochrome P450-based biocatalytic processes.
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- Raúl A Donoso
- Programa Institucional de Fomento a la Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación (PIDi), Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile.,Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES), Santiago, Chile
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- Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES), Santiago, Chile.,Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile
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- Programa Institucional de Fomento a la Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación (PIDi), Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile.,Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES), Santiago, Chile
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- Programa Institucional de Fomento a la Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación (PIDi), Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile
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- Laboratory of Molecular Adaptation, Department of Molecular Evolution, Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA), Madrid, Spain
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- Systems and Synthetic Biology Department, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain
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- Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES), Santiago, Chile.,Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile
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- Programa Institucional de Fomento a la Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación (PIDi), Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile
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Identification of functional cytochrome P450 and ferredoxin from Streptomyces sp. EAS-AB2608 by transcriptional analysis and their heterologous expression. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2021; 105:4177-4187. [PMID: 33944982 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-021-11304-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2020] [Revised: 03/21/2021] [Accepted: 04/18/2021] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Bioconversion using microorganisms and their enzymes is an important tool in many industrial fields. The discovery of useful new microbial enzymes contributes to the development of industries utilizing bioprocesses. Streptomyces sp. EAS-AB2608, isolated from a soil sample collected in Japan, can convert the tetrahydrobenzotriazole CPD-1 (a selective positive allosteric modulator of metabotropic glutamate receptor 5) to its hydroxylated form at the C4-(R) position. The current study was performed to identify the genes encoding the enzymes involved in CPD-1 bioconversion and to verify their function. To identify gene products responsible for the conversion of CPD-1, we used RNA sequencing to analyze EAS-AB2608; from its 8333 coding sequences, we selected two genes, one encoding cytochrome P450 (easab2608_00800) and the other encoding ferredoxin (easab2608_00799), as encoding desirable gene products involved in the bioconversion of CPD-1. The validity of this selection was tested by using a heterologous expression approach. A bioconversion assay using genetically engineered Streptomyces avermitilis SUKA24 ∆saverm3882 ∆saverm7246 co-expressing the two selected genes (strain ES_SUKA_63) confirmed that these gene products had hydroxylation activity with respect to CPD-1, indicating that they are responsible for the conversion of CPD-1. Strain ES_SUKA_63 also showed oxidative activity toward other compounds and therefore might be useful not only for bioconversion of CPD-1 but also as a tool for synthesis of drug metabolites and in optimization studies of various pharmaceutical lead compounds. We expect that this approach will be useful for bridging the gap between the latest enzyme optimization technologies and conventional enzyme screening using microorganisms. KEY POINTS: • Genes easab2608_00800 (cyp) and easab2608_00799 (fdx) were selected by RNA-Seq. • Selection validity was evaluated by an engineered S. avermitilis expression system. • Strain ES_SUKA_63 showed oxidative activity toward CPD-1 and other compounds.
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Wang X, Yang X, Jia X, Jin P, Wang Z, Lu F, Liu X. Determination of steroid hydroxylation specificity of an industrial strain Aspergillus ochraceus TCCC41060 by cytochrome P450 gene CYP68J5. ANN MICROBIOL 2020. [DOI: 10.1186/s13213-020-01577-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Fungal biocatalysts for labdane diterpene hydroxylation. Bioprocess Biosyst Eng 2020; 43:1051-1059. [PMID: 32020446 DOI: 10.1007/s00449-020-02303-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2019] [Accepted: 01/27/2020] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Labdane diterpenes and their derivatives have shown remarkable biological activities and are useful as chiral building blocks for the synthesis of a variety of bioactive compounds. There is great interest in developing biocatalyst technology to achieve regio- and stereoselective hydroxylation of unactivated C-H bonds in complex natural products, since the functionalization of unactivated C-H bonds generally requires hard reaction conditions and highly reactive oxidizing agents, which are limited regarding the control of regio- and stereoselectivity. Filamentous fungi are efficient biocatalysts capable of catalyzing a wide variety of hydroxylation reactions, and the use of whole cell biocatalysts provides advantages regarding cofactor regeneration and is much less expensive. Therefore, the goal of this study was to select biocatalysts to develop biotransformation processes that can be scalable under mild reaction conditions for hydroxylation of a labdane diterpene, 3β-acetoxy-copalic acid, which contains the trans-decalin moiety and a side chain dienic system appropriate for the preparation of a variety of compounds. Biotransformation processes were carried out and five filamentous fungi were selected as capable of producing hydroxylated diterpenes at positions C-3, C-6, C-7 and C-18 of the trans-decalin moiety and C-13 of the side chain dienic system. Hydroxylation reactions occurred with regio- and stereoselectivity by using some fungi that produced only the 6α, 7α and 13α-hydroxyl derivatives. The chemical structures of the hydroxylated diterpenes were determined from spectrometric and spectroscopic data, and the relative stereochemistry of stereogenic centers was established from coupling constants, by NOE-diff experiments and/or by computational calculations.
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Kollerov V, Shutov A, Kazantsev A, Donova M. Biotransformation of androstenedione and androstadienedione by selected Ascomycota and Zygomycota fungal strains. PHYTOCHEMISTRY 2020; 169:112160. [PMID: 31600654 DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2019.112160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2019] [Revised: 08/30/2019] [Accepted: 09/26/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Filamentous fungi is a huge phylum of lower eukaryotes with diverse activities towards various substrates, however, their biocatalytic potential towards steroids remains greatly underestimated. In this study, more than forty Ascomycota and Zygomycota fungal strains of 23 different genera were screened for the ability to catalyze structural modifications of 3-oxo-androstane steroids, - androst-4-ene-3,17-dione (AD) and androsta-1,4-diene-3,17-dione (ADD). Previously unexplored for these purposes strains of Absidia, Acremonium, Beauveria, Cunninghamella, Doratomyces, Drechslera, Fusarium, Gibberella genera were revealed capable of producing in a good yield valuable 7α-, 7β-, 11α- and 14α-hydroxylated derivatives, as well as 17β-reduced and 1(2)-dehydrogenated androstanes. The bioconversion routes of AD and ADD were proposed based on the key intermediates identification and time courses of the bioprocesses. Six ascomycete strains were discovered to provide effective 7β-hydroxylation of ADD which has not been so far reported. The structures of major products and intermediates were confirmed by HPLC, mass-spectrometry (MS), 1H and 13C NMR analyses. The results contribute to the knowledge on the functional diversity of steroid-transforming filamentous fungi. Previously unexplored fungal biocatalysts capable of effective performing structural modification of AD and ADD can be applied for industrial bioprocesses of new generation.
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Affiliation(s)
- Vyacheslav Kollerov
- Federal Research Center «Pushchino Center for Biological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences», G.K. Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospekt Nauki, 5, 142290, Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia; Pharmins Ltd., Institutskaya ul, 4, 142290, Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia.
| | - Andrei Shutov
- Federal Research Center «Pushchino Center for Biological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences», G.K. Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospekt Nauki, 5, 142290, Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia; Pharmins Ltd., Institutskaya ul, 4, 142290, Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia
| | - Alexey Kazantsev
- Moscow State University, GSP-1, Leninskiye Gori, 1, Chemical Department, Moscow, Russia
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- Federal Research Center «Pushchino Center for Biological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences», G.K. Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospekt Nauki, 5, 142290, Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia; Pharmins Ltd., Institutskaya ul, 4, 142290, Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia
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