Hotspot Wizard-informed engineering of a hyperthermophilic β-glucosidase for enhanced enzyme activity at low temperatures.

Autor: Erkanli ME; Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, New York University, Brooklyn, New York, USA., El-Halabi K; Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, New York University, Brooklyn, New York, USA., Kang TK; Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, New York University, Brooklyn, New York, USA., Kim JR; Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, New York University, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Biotechnology and bioengineering [Biotechnol Bioeng] 2024 Jul; Vol. 121 (7), pp. 2079-2090. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Apr 29.
DOI: 10.1002/bit.28732
Abstrakt: Hyperthermophilic enzymes serve as an important source of industrial enzymes due to their high thermostability. Unfortunately, most hyperthermophilic enzymes suffer from reduced activity at low temperatures (e.g., ambient temperature), limiting their applicability. In addition, evolving hyperthermophilic enzymes to increase low temperature activity without compromising other desired properties is generally difficult. In the current study, a variant of β-glucosidase from Pyrococcus furiosus (PfBGL) was engineered to enhance enzyme activity at low temperatures through the construction of a saturation mutagenesis library guided by the HotSpot Wizard analysis, followed by its screening for activity and thermostability. From this library construction and screening, one PfBGL mutant, PfBGL-A4 containing Q214S/A264S/F344I mutations, showed an over twofold increase in β-glucosidase activity at 25 and 50°C compared to the wild type, without compromising high-temperature activity, thermostability and substrate specificity. Our experimental and computational characterizations suggest that the findings with PfBGL-A4 may be due to the elevation of local conformational flexibility around the active site, while slightly compacting the global protein structure. This study showcases the potential of HotSpot Wizard-informed engineering of hyperthermophilic enzymes and underscores the interplays among temperature, enzyme activity, and conformational flexibility in these enzymes.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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