Guided evolution of enzymes with new substrate specificities

Journal of Molecular Biology
A S el HawraniJ J Holbrook

Abstract

A gene library was constructed coding for all possible variants of two amino acids (101, 102) in a solvent-exposed surface return loop (alpha E-beta D) of Bacillus stearothermophilus L-lactate dehydrogenase (bsLDH). All but one of 38 enzyme variants examined were thermally stable and had native-like hydrodynamic properties. In this sample, there was no bias detected in either the DNA or amino acid sequences encoded. We argue that the alpha E-beta D surface loop sequence is unimportant for protein folding or stability and can be fully varied to select enzymes with new substrate specificities. The selection of NAD-dependent dehydrogenases with specificity for: malate, phenyllactate, hydroxyisocaproate and 4-phenyl-2-hydroxy-butanoate from two bsLDH libraries is described. This required a highly discriminatory screen for 2-hydroxy acid dehydrogenase activity to select enzymes which, in the absence of the natural allosteric activator fructose-1,6-bisphosphate (FBP), maintained high temperature stability and catalytic activity without substrate inhibition. In general the amino acid residues at positions 101 and 102 which determined substrate specificity were as expected from hydrophobic and ionic complementarity to the substrate. Fo...Continue Reading

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