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Sridhar S, Zavarise A, Kiema TR, Dalwani S, Eriksson T, Hajee Y, Reddy Enugala T, Wierenga RK, Widersten M. Crystal structures and kinetic studies of a laboratory evolved aldehyde reductase explain the dramatic shift of its new substrate specificity. IUCrJ 2023:S205225252300444X. [PMID: 37261425 DOI: 10.1107/s205225252300444x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
Abstract
The Fe2+-dependent E. coli enzyme FucO catalyzes the reversible interconversion of short-chain (S)-lactaldehyde and (S)-1,2-propanediol, using NADH and NAD+ as cofactors, respectively. Laboratory-directed evolution experiments have been carried out previously using phenylacetaldehyde as the substrate for screening catalytic activity with bulky substrates, which are very poorly reduced by wild-type FucO. These experiments identified the N151G/L259V double mutant (dubbed DA1472) as the most active variant with this substrate via a two-step evolutionary pathway, in which each step consisted of one point mutation. Here the crystal structures of DA1472 and its parent D93 (L259V) are reported, showing that these amino acid substitutions provide more space in the active site, though they do not cause changes in the main-chain conformation. The catalytic activity of DA1472 with the physiological substrate (S)-lactaldehyde and a series of substituted phenylacetaldehyde derivatives were systematically quantified and compared with that of wild-type as well as with the corresponding point-mutation variants (N151G and L259V). There is a 9000-fold increase in activity, when expressed as kcat/KM values, for DA1472 compared with wild-type FucO for the phenylacetaldehyde substrate. The crystal structure of DA1472 complexed with a non-reactive analog of this substrate (3,4-dimethoxyphenylacetamide) suggests the mode of binding of the bulky group of the new substrate. These combined structure-function studies therefore explain the dramatic increase in catalytic activity of the DA1472 variant for bulky aldehyde substrates. The structure comparisons also suggest why the active site in which Fe2+ is replaced by Zn2+ is not able to support catalysis.
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- Shruthi Sridhar
- Department of Chemistry - BMC, Uppsala University, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry - BMC, Uppsala University, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Oulu, PO Box 5400, Oulu FI-90014, Finland
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- Department of Chemistry - BMC, Uppsala University, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry - BMC, Uppsala University, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Oulu, PO Box 5400, Oulu FI-90014, Finland
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- Department of Chemistry - BMC, Uppsala University, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
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Enugala TR, Morató MC, Kamerlin SCL, Widersten M. The Role of Substrate-Coenzyme Crosstalk in Determining Turnover Rates in Rhodococcus ruber Alcohol Dehydrogenase. ACS Catal 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c01654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Thilak Reddy Enugala
- Department of Chemistry − BMC, Uppsala University, Box 576, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry − BMC, Uppsala University, Box 576, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry − BMC, Uppsala University, Box 576, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
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Al-Smadi D, Enugala TR, Kessler V, Mhashal AR, Lynn Kamerlin SC, Kihlberg J, Norberg T, Widersten M. Chemical and Biochemical Approaches for the Synthesis of Substituted Dihydroxybutanones and Di- and Tri-Hydroxypentanones. J Org Chem 2019; 84:6982-6991. [PMID: 31066559 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.9b00742] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
Polyhydroxylated compounds are building blocks for the synthesis of carbohydrates and other natural products. Their synthesis is mainly achieved by different synthetic versions of aldol-coupling reactions, catalyzed either by organocatalysts, enzymes, or metal-organic catalysts. We have investigated the formation of 1,4-substituted 2,3-dihydroxybutan-1-one derivatives from para- and meta-substituted phenylacetaldehydes by three distinctly different strategies. The first involved a direct aldol reaction with hydroxyacetone, dihydroxyacetone, or 2-hydroxyacetophenone, catalyzed by the cinchona derivative cinchonine. The second was reductive cross-coupling with methyl- or phenylglyoxal promoted by SmI2, resulting in either 5-substituted 3,4-dihydroxypentan-2-ones or 1,4 bis-phenyl-substituted butanones, respectively. Finally, in the third case, aldolase catalysis was employed for synthesis of the corresponding 1,3,4-trihydroxylated pentan-2-one derivatives. The organocatalytic route with cinchonine generated distereomerically enriched syn-products (de = 60-99%), with moderate enantiomeric excesses (ee = 43-56%) but did not produce aldols with either hydroxyacetone or dihydroxyacetone as donor ketones. The SmI2-promoted reductive cross-coupling generated product mixtures with diastereomeric and enantiomeric ratios close to unity. This route allowed for the production of both 1-methyl- and 1-phenyl-substituted 2,3-dihydroxybutanones at yields between 40-60%. Finally, the biocatalytic approach resulted in enantiopure syn-(3 R,4 S) 1,3,4-trihydroxypentan-2-ones.
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- Derar Al-Smadi
- Department of Chemistry-BMC , Uppsala University , Box 576, SE-751 23 Uppsala , Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry-BMC , Uppsala University , Box 576, SE-751 23 Uppsala , Sweden
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- Department of Molecular Sciences , Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences , Box 7015, SE-750 07 Uppsala , Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry-BMC , Uppsala University , Box 576, SE-751 23 Uppsala , Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry-BMC , Uppsala University , Box 576, SE-751 23 Uppsala , Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry-BMC , Uppsala University , Box 576, SE-751 23 Uppsala , Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry-BMC , Uppsala University , Box 576, SE-751 23 Uppsala , Sweden
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Ma H, Engel S, Enugala TR, Al-Smadi D, Gautier C, Widersten M. New Stereoselective Biocatalysts for Carboligation and Retro-Aldol Cleavage Reactions Derived from d-Fructose 6-Phosphate Aldolase. Biochemistry 2018; 57:5877-5885. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.8b00814] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Huan Ma
- Department of Chemistry-BMC, Uppsala University, Box 576, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry-BMC, Uppsala University, Box 576, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry-BMC, Uppsala University, Box 576, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry-BMC, Uppsala University, Box 576, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry-BMC, Uppsala University, Box 576, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry-BMC, Uppsala University, Box 576, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
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Maurer D, Enugala TR, Hamnevik E, Bauer P, Lüking M, Petrović D, Hillier H, Kamerlin SCL, Dobritzsch D, Widersten M. Stereo- and Regioselectivity in Catalyzed Transformation of a 1,2-Disubstituted Vicinal Diol and the Corresponding Diketone by Wild Type and Laboratory Evolved Alcohol Dehydrogenases. ACS Catal 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.8b01762] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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- Dirk Maurer
- Department of Chemistry − BMC, Uppsala University, Box 576, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry − BMC, Uppsala University, Box 576, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry − BMC, Uppsala University, Box 576, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Box 596, SE-751 24 Uppsala, Sweden
- Biophysics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE-100 44, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry − BMC, Uppsala University, Box 576, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Box 596, SE-751 24 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry − BMC, Uppsala University, Box 576, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Box 596, SE-751 24 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry − BMC, Uppsala University, Box 576, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry − BMC, Uppsala University, Box 576, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Box 596, SE-751 24 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry − BMC, Uppsala University, Box 576, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry − BMC, Uppsala University, Box 576, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
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Hamnevik E, Maurer D, Enugala TR, Chu T, Löfgren R, Dobritzsch D, Widersten M. Directed Evolution of Alcohol Dehydrogenase for Improved Stereoselective Redox Transformations of 1-Phenylethane-1,2-diol and Its Corresponding Acyloin. Biochemistry 2018; 57:1059-1062. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.8b00055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Emil Hamnevik
- Department of Chemistry-BMC, Uppsala University, Box 576, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry-BMC, Uppsala University, Box 576, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry-BMC, Uppsala University, Box 576, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry-BMC, Uppsala University, Box 576, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry-BMC, Uppsala University, Box 576, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry-BMC, Uppsala University, Box 576, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry-BMC, Uppsala University, Box 576, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
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Hamnevik E, Enugala TR, Maurer D, Ntuku S, Oliveira A, Dobritzsch D, Widersten M. Relaxation of nonproductive binding and increased rate of coenzyme release in an alcohol dehydrogenase increases turnover with a nonpreferred alcohol enantiomer. FEBS J 2017; 284:3895-3914. [DOI: 10.1111/febs.14279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2017] [Revised: 08/18/2017] [Accepted: 09/25/2017] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Emil Hamnevik
- Department of Chemistry – BMC Uppsala University Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry – BMC Uppsala University Sweden
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology Uppsala University Sweden
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Ma H, Enugala TR, Widersten M. A Microplate Format Assay for Real-Time Screening for New Aldolases that Accept Aryl-Substituted Acceptor Substrates. Chembiochem 2015; 16:2595-8. [PMID: 26449620 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201500466] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [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: 09/09/2015] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
Abstract
Aldolases are potentially important biocatalysts for asymmetric synthesis of polyhydroxylated compounds. Fructose 6-phosphate aldolase (FSA) is of particular interest by virtue of its unusually relaxed dependency on phosphorylated substrates. FSA has been reported to be a promising catalyst of aldol addition involving aryl-substituted acceptors such as phenylacetaldehyde that can react with donor ketones such as hydroxyacetone. Improvement of the low intrinsic activity with bulky acceptor substrates of this type is of great interest but has been hampered by the lack of powerful screening protocols applicable in directed evolution strategies. Here we present a new screen allowing for direct spectrophotometric recording of retro-aldol cleavage. The assay utilizes an aldehyde reductase produced in vitro by directed evolution; it reduces the aldehyde product formed after cleavage of the aldol by FSA. The assay is suitable both for steady-state enzyme kinetics and for real-time activity screening in a 96-well format.
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- Huan Ma
- Department of Chemistry, BMC, Uppsala University, Box 576, 751 23, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, BMC, Uppsala University, Box 576, 751 23, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, BMC, Uppsala University, Box 576, 751 23, Uppsala, Sweden.
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