Tuning amino acid dehydrogenases with featured sequences for L-phosphinothricin synthesis by reductive amination
Tuning amino acid dehydrogenases with featured sequences for L-phosphinothricin synthesis by reductive amination
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DOI:
10.1016/j.jbiotec.2020.03.001
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发表时间:
2020-03-20
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4.1
通讯作者:
Zheng, Yu-Guo
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作者:
Cheng, Feng;Li, Heng;Zheng, Yu-Guo
Biosynthesizing unnatural chiral amino acids is challenging due to the limited reductive amination activity of amino acid dehydrogenase (AADH). Here, for the asymmetric synthesis of L-phosphinothricin from 2-oxo-4-[(hydroxy)(methyl)phosphinoyl]butyric acid (PPO), a glutamate dehydrogenase gene (named GluDH3) from Pseudomonas monteilii was selected, cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli (E. coli). To boost its activity, a "two-step"-based computational approach was developed and applied to select the potential beneficial amino acid positions on GluDH3. L-phosphinothricin was synthesized by GluDH-catalyzed asymmetric amination using the D-glucose dehydrogenase from Exiguobacterium sibiricum (EsGDH) for NADPH regeneration. Using lyophilized E. coli cells that co-expressed GluDH3_V375S and EsGDH, up to 89.04 g L-1 PPO loading was completely converted to L-phosphinothricin within 30 min at 35 degrees C with a space-time yield of up to 4.752 kg.L-1.d(-1). The beneficial substitution V375S with increased polar interactions between K90, T193, and substrate PPO exhibited 168.2-fold improved catalytic efficiency (k(cat)/K-M) and 344.8-fold enhanced specific activity. After the introduction of serine residues into other GluDHs at specific positions, forty engineered GluDHs exhibited the catalytic functions of "glufosinate dehydrogenase" towards PPO.