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Hamdan SH, Maiangwa J, Nezhad NG, Ali MSM, Normi YM, Shariff FM, Rahman RNZRA, Leow TC. Knotting terminal ends of mutant T1 lipase with disulfide bond improved structure rigidity and stability. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2023; 107:1673-1686. [PMID: 36752811 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-023-12396-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2022] [Revised: 12/22/2022] [Accepted: 01/17/2023] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
Abstract
Lipase biocatalysts offer unique properties which are often impaired by low thermal and methanol stability. In this study, the rational design was employed to engineer a disulfide bond in the protein structure of Geobacillus zalihae T1 lipase in order to improve its stability. The selection of targeted disulfide bond sites was based on analysis of protein spatial configuration and change of Gibbs free energy. Two mutation points (S2C and A384C) were generated to rigidify the N-terminal and C-terminal regions of T1 lipase. The results showed the mutant 2DC lipase improved methanol stability from 35 to 40% (v/v) after 30 min of pre-incubation. Enhancement in thermostability for the mutant 2DC lipase at 70 °C and 75 °C showed higher half-life at 70 °C and 75 °C for 30 min and 52 min, respectively. The mutant 2DC lipase maintained the same optimum temperature (70 °C) as T1 lipase, while thermally induced unfolding showed the mutant maintained higher rigidity. The kcat/Km values demonstrated a relatively small difference between the T1 lipase (WT) and 2DC lipase (mutant). The kcat/Km (s-1 mM-1) of the T1 and 2DC showed values of 13,043 ± 224 and 13,047 ± 312, respectively. X-ray diffraction of 2DC lipase crystal structure with a resolution of 2.04 Å revealed that the introduced single disulfide bond did not lower initial structural interactions within the residues. Enhanced methanol and thermal stability are suggested to be strongly related to the newly disulfide bridge formation and the enhanced compactness and rigidity of the mutant structure. KEY POINTS: • Protein engineering via rational design revealed relative improved enzymatic performance. • The presence of disulfide bond impacts on the rigidity and structural function of proteins. • X-ray crystallography reveals structural changes accompanying protein modification.
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Affiliation(s)
- Siti Hajar Hamdan
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, UPM Serdang, 43400, Selangor, Malaysia
- Enzyme Microbial Technology Research Centre, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, UPM Serdang, 43400, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Kaduna State University, PMB 2336, Kaduna, Nigeria
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, UPM Serdang, 43400, Selangor, Malaysia
- Enzyme Microbial Technology Research Centre, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, UPM Serdang, 43400, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Enzyme Microbial Technology Research Centre, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, UPM Serdang, 43400, Selangor, Malaysia
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, UPM Serdang, 43400, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, UPM Serdang, 43400, Selangor, Malaysia
- Enzyme Microbial Technology Research Centre, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, UPM Serdang, 43400, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Enzyme Microbial Technology Research Centre, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, UPM Serdang, 43400, Selangor, Malaysia
- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM Serdang, 43400, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Enzyme Microbial Technology Research Centre, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, UPM Serdang, 43400, Selangor, Malaysia
- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM Serdang, 43400, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, UPM Serdang, 43400, Selangor, Malaysia.
- Enzyme Microbial Technology Research Centre, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, UPM Serdang, 43400, Selangor, Malaysia.
- Institute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, UPM Serdang, 43400, Selangor, Malaysia.
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Maiangwa J, Hamdan SH, Mohamad Ali MS, Salleh AB, Zaliha Raja Abd Rahman RN, Shariff FM, Leow TC. Enhancing the stability of Geobacillus zalihae T1 lipase in organic solvents and insights into the structural stability of its variants. J Mol Graph Model 2021; 105:107897. [PMID: 33770705 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmgm.2021.107897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2020] [Revised: 03/04/2021] [Accepted: 03/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
Critical to the applications of proteins in non-aqueous enzymatic processes is their structural dynamics in relation to solvent polarity. A pool of mutants derived from Geobacillus zalihae T1 lipase was screened in organic solvents (methanol, ethanol, propanol, butanol and pentanol) resulting in the selection of six mutants at initial screening (A83D/K251E, R21C, G35D/S195 N, K84R/R103C/M121I/T272 M and R106H/G327S). Site-directed mutagenesis further yielded quadruple mutants A83D/M121I/K251E/G327S and A83D/M121I/S195 N/T272 M, both of which had improved activity after incubation in methanol. The km and kcat values of these mutants vary marginally with the wild-type enzyme in the methanol/substrate mixture. Thermally induced unfolding of mutants was accompanied with some loss of secondary structure content. The root mean square deviations (RMSD) and B-factors revealed that changes in the structural organization are intertwined with an interplay of the protein backbone with organic solvents. Spatially exposed charged residues showed correlations between the solvation dynamics of the methanol solvent and the hydrophobicity of the residues. The short distances of the radial distribution function provided the required distances for hydrogen bond formation and hydrophobic interactions. These dynamic changes demonstrate newly formed structural interactions could be targeted and incorporated experimentally on the basis of solvent mobility and mutant residues.
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- Jonathan Maiangwa
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Enzyme Microbial Technology Research Center, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, 43400, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia; Department of Microbiology Kaduna State University, Nigeria; Enzyme Microbial Technology Research Centre, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, 43400, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Department of Biochemistry, Enzyme Microbial Technology Research Centre, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, 43400, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Department of Biochemistry, Enzyme Microbial Technology Research Centre, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, 43400, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Enzyme Microbial Technology Research Centre, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, 43400, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Department of Microbiology, Enzyme Microbial Technology Research Centre, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Institute of Bioscience, 43400, UPM Serdang, Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Enzyme Microbial Technology Research Center, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, 43400, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia; Enzyme Microbial Technology Research Centre, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, 43400, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia; Institute of Bioscience, 43400, UPM Serdang, Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
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Ang TF, Maiangwa J, Salleh AB, Normi YM, Leow TC. Dehalogenases: From Improved Performance to Potential Microbial Dehalogenation Applications. Molecules 2018; 23:E1100. [PMID: 29735886 PMCID: PMC6100074 DOI: 10.3390/molecules23051100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2018] [Revised: 04/07/2018] [Accepted: 04/09/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The variety of halogenated substances and their derivatives widely used as pesticides, herbicides and other industrial products is of great concern due to the hazardous nature of these compounds owing to their toxicity, and persistent environmental pollution. Therefore, from the viewpoint of environmental technology, the need for environmentally relevant enzymes involved in biodegradation of these pollutants has received a great boost. One result of this great deal of attention has been the identification of environmentally relevant bacteria that produce hydrolytic dehalogenases—key enzymes which are considered cost-effective and eco-friendly in the removal and detoxification of these pollutants. These group of enzymes catalyzing the cleavage of the carbon-halogen bond of organohalogen compounds have potential applications in the chemical industry and bioremediation. The dehalogenases make use of fundamentally different strategies with a common mechanism to cleave carbon-halogen bonds whereby, an active-site carboxylate group attacks the substrate C atom bound to the halogen atom to form an ester intermediate and a halide ion with subsequent hydrolysis of the intermediate. Structurally, these dehalogenases have been characterized and shown to use substitution mechanisms that proceed via a covalent aspartyl intermediate. More so, the widest dehalogenation spectrum of electron acceptors tested with bacterial strains which could dehalogenate recalcitrant organohalides has further proven the versatility of bacterial dehalogenators to be considered when determining the fate of halogenated organics at contaminated sites. In this review, the general features of most widely studied bacterial dehalogenases, their structural properties, basis of the degradation of organohalides and their derivatives and how they have been improved for various applications is discussed.
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- Thiau-Fu Ang
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
- Enzyme and Microbial Technology Research Centre, Centre of Excellence, University Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
- Enzyme and Microbial Technology Research Centre, Centre of Excellence, University Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
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- Enzyme and Microbial Technology Research Centre, Centre of Excellence, University Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
- Institute of Bioscience, University Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
- Enzyme and Microbial Technology Research Centre, Centre of Excellence, University Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
- Enzyme and Microbial Technology Research Centre, Centre of Excellence, University Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
- Institute of Bioscience, University Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
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Maiangwa J, Mohamad Ali MS, Salleh AB, Rahman RNZRA, Normi YM, Mohd Shariff F, Leow TC. Lid opening and conformational stability of T1 Lipase is mediated by increasing chain length polar solvents. PeerJ 2017; 5:e3341. [PMID: 28533982 PMCID: PMC5438581 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.3341] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2016] [Accepted: 04/21/2017] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The dynamics and conformational landscape of proteins in organic solvents are events of potential interest in nonaqueous process catalysis. Conformational changes, folding transitions, and stability often correspond to structural rearrangements that alter contacts between solvent molecules and amino acid residues. However, in nonaqueous enzymology, organic solvents limit stability and further application of proteins. In the present study, molecular dynamics (MD) of a thermostable Geobacillus zalihae T1 lipase was performed in different chain length polar organic solvents (methanol, ethanol, propanol, butanol, and pentanol) and water mixture systems to a concentration of 50%. On the basis of the MD results, the structural deviations of the backbone atoms elucidated the dynamic effects of water/organic solvent mixtures on the equilibrium state of the protein simulations in decreasing solvent polarity. The results show that the solvent mixture gives rise to deviations in enzyme structure from the native one simulated in water. The drop in the flexibility in H2O, MtOH, EtOH and PrOH simulation mixtures shows that greater motions of residues were influenced in BtOH and PtOH simulation mixtures. Comparing the root mean square fluctuations value with the accessible solvent area (SASA) for every residue showed an almost correspondingly high SASA value of residues to high flexibility and low SASA value to low flexibility. The study further revealed that the organic solvents influenced the formation of more hydrogen bonds in MtOH, EtOH and PrOH and thus, it is assumed that increased intraprotein hydrogen bonding is ultimately correlated to the stability of the protein. However, the solvent accessibility analysis showed that in all solvent systems, hydrophobic residues were exposed and polar residues tended to be buried away from the solvent. Distance variation of the tetrahedral intermediate packing of the active pocket was not conserved in organic solvent systems, which could lead to weaknesses in the catalytic H-bond network and most likely a drop in catalytic activity. The conformational variation of the lid domain caused by the solvent molecules influenced its gradual opening. Formation of additional hydrogen bonds and hydrophobic interactions indicates that the contribution of the cooperative network of interactions could retain the stability of the protein in some solvent systems. Time-correlated atomic motions were used to characterize the correlations between the motions of the atoms from atomic coordinates. The resulting cross-correlation map revealed that the organic solvent mixtures performed functional, concerted, correlated motions in regions of residues of the lid domain to other residues. These observations suggest that varying lengths of polar organic solvents play a significant role in introducing dynamic conformational diversity in proteins in a decreasing order of polarity.
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- Jonathan Maiangwa
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology/Enzyme Microbial Technology Research center/Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Serlangor, Malaysia
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- Department of Biochemistry/Enzyme Microbial Technology Research center/Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Department of Biochemistry/Enzyme Microbial Technology Research center/Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Department of Microbiology/Enzyme Microbial Technology Research center/Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology/Enzyme Microbial Technology Research center/Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Serlangor, Malaysia
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- Department of Microbiology/Enzyme Microbial Technology Research center/Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology/Enzyme and Microbial Technology Research center/Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science/Institute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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