Establishing a coumarin production platform by protein and metabolic engineering.

Autor: Xie C; State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, No.15, Beisanhuan East Road, Beijing, 100029, China., An N; State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, No.15, Beisanhuan East Road, Beijing, 100029, China., Zhou L; State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, No.15, Beisanhuan East Road, Beijing, 100029, China., Shen X; State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, No.15, Beisanhuan East Road, Beijing, 100029, China., Wang J; State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, No.15, Beisanhuan East Road, Beijing, 100029, China., Yan Y; School of Chemical, Materials and Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, United States., Sun X; State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, No.15, Beisanhuan East Road, Beijing, 100029, China. Electronic address: sunxx@mail.buct.edu.cn., Yuan Q; State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, No.15, Beisanhuan East Road, Beijing, 100029, China. Electronic address: yuanqp@mail.buct.edu.cn.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Metabolic engineering [Metab Eng] 2024 Nov; Vol. 86, pp. 89-98. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Sep 21.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2024.09.009
Abstrakt: Coumarins are a vast family of natural products with diverse biological activities. Cinnamyl-CoA ortho-hydroxylases (CCHs) catalyze the gateway and rate-limiting step in coumarin biosynthesis. However, engineering CCHs is challenging due to the large size of the substrates and the vague structure-activity relationship. Herein, directed evolution and structure-guided engineering were performed to engineer a CCH (AtF6'H from Arabidopsis thaliana) using a fluorescence-based screening method, yielding the transplantable surface mutations and the substrate-specific pocket mutations with improved activity. Structural analysis and molecular dynamics simulations elucidated the conformational changes that led to increased catalytic efficiency. Applying appropriate variants with the optimized upstream biosynthetic pathways improved the titers of three simple coumarins by 5 to 22-fold. Further introducing glycosylation modules resulted in the production of four coumarin glucosides, among which the titer of aesculin was increased by 15.7-fold and reached 3 g/L in scale-up fermentation. This work unleashed the potential of CCHs and established an Escherichia coli platform for coumarins production.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare no competing financial interest.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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