Self-sufficient Baeyer-Villiger monooxygenases:: Effective coenzyme regeneration for biooxygenation by fusion engineering
Self-sufficient Baeyer-Villiger monooxygenases:: Effective coenzyme regeneration for biooxygenation by fusion engineering
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.200704630
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发表时间:
2008-01-01
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16.6
通讯作者:
Fraaije, Marco W.
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作者:
Pazmino, Daniel E. Torres;Snajdrova, Radka;Fraaije, Marco W.
Over the past few years, industrial interest in biocatalysts that perform selective oxidative reactions has increased significantly.[1] Baeyer–Villiger monooxygenases (BVMOs) have been identified as a highly versatile class of enzymes for the efficient catalysis of chemo-, regio-, and/or enantioselective oxygenation reactions.[2] Although the most prominent transformation catalyzed by these biocatalysts is a chiral variant of the classical Baeyer–Villiger reaction,[3, 4] the oxygenation of heteroatoms and epoxidation reactions have also been reported.[5] Stoichiometric amounts of O2 and NADPH are required for these reactions. A complication for the largescale application of these reactions is the high cost of the reduced nicotinamide coenzyme.[6] To overcome this problem, several electrochemical and photochemical approaches have been explored.[7] However, the efficiency of these approaches is typically poor. Furthermore, it has been shown that BVMOs require NADP+ for stability and enantioselective catalysis.[8] An efficient and commonly used method for coenzyme regeneration employs whole cells, especially in combination with the recombinant expression of the required biocatalysts.[9] This strategy has been implemented in BVMO-mediated biotransformations with wild-type strains [10] and has proved particularly successful with recombinant overexpression systems.[11, 12] The approach avoids laborious enzyme purification steps and exploits the coenzyme regeneration capacity of the host. Although whole cells have been shown to be effective catalysts for Baeyer–Villiger oxidation,[13] they also exhibit limitations, such as cellular toxicity, enzyme inhibition by the substrate/product, degradation of the product, and poor oxygen-transfer rates.[14] Coenzyme regeneration by using isolated enzymes has also been studied extensively in the past few years.[15] Well-known examples of such NADPH-regenerating enzymes are alcohol dehydrogenase and formate dehydrogenase.[16] A phosphite dehydrogenase (PTDH) was also identified as an effective enzyme for coenzyme regeneration.[17] The favorable thermodynamic equilibrium constant makes the oxidation of phosphite a nearly irreversible process.[18] The exquisite selectivity of PTDH for phosphite also precludes any side reactions, such as those that can occur, for example, when an alcohol dehydrogenase is used. These characteristics make PTDH an ideal candidate for use as a coenzyme regenerating enzyme (CRE) in combination with BVMOs or other NAD (P) H-dependent enzymes.Herein, we report a novel approach to the combination of the catalytic activity of a redox biocatalyst with concomitant coenzyme recycling in a single fusion protein (Scheme 1). During the last decade, a number of fusion protein tags have been developed. These tags are used intensely in life-sciencerelated research and commercial activities. Although the fusion of proteins is a widely applied strategy in, for example, enzyme purification (eg the use of glutathione S transferase (GST) tags)[19] and the subcellular visualization of target proteins (eg with a green fluorescent protein (GFP) tag),[20] this concept is hardly ever encountered in the context of synthetic applications. Only a few isolated examples in the literature provide evidence that the fusion of separate enzymes can result in improved biocatalytic properties.[21] We report herein on the engineering of a number of representative BVMOs that are linked covalently to soluble NADPH-regenerating phosphite dehydrogenase. This construct enables the use of phosphite as a cheap and sacrificial electron donor with whole cells, cell extracts, and purified enzyme. It …