Rational design of a thermostable 2′-deoxyribosyltransferase for nelarabine production by prediction of disulfide bond engineering sites

One of the major drawbacks of the industrial implementation of enzymatic processes is the low operational stability of the enzymes under tough industrial conditions. In this respect, the use of thermostable enzymes in the industry is gaining ground during the last decades. Herein, we report a struct...

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Autores: Cruz, Guillermo, Acosta, Javier, Mancheño Gómez, José Miguel, Del Arco, Jon, Fernández Lucas, Jesús
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/108897
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/108897
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:577.15
577.2
615.012
Biocatalysis
2′-deoxyribosyltransferase
Thermal stability
Structural bioinformatics
Nucleoside analogues
Bioquímica (Biología)
Biología molecular (Biología)
Bioinformática
Química farmaceútica
2403 Bioquímica
2415 Biología Molecular
2302.09 Enzimología
2390 Química Farmacéutica
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Sumario:One of the major drawbacks of the industrial implementation of enzymatic processes is the low operational stability of the enzymes under tough industrial conditions. In this respect, the use of thermostable enzymes in the industry is gaining ground during the last decades. Herein, we report a structure-guided approach for the development of novel and thermostable 2′-deoxyribosyltransferases (NDTs) based on the computational design of disulfide bonds on hot spot positions. To this end, a small library of NDT variants from Lactobacillus delbrueckii (LdNDT) with introduced cysteine pairs was created. Among them, LdNDTS104C (100% retained activity) was chosen as the most thermostable variant, displaying a six- and two-fold enhanced long-term stability when stored at 55 °C (t1/255 °C ≈ 24 h) and 60 °C (t1/260 °C ≈ 4 h), respectively. Moreover, the biochemical characterization revealed that LdNDTS104C showed >60% relative activity across a broad range of temperature (30–90 °C) and pH (5–7). Finally, to study the potential application of LdNDTS104C as an industrial catalyst, the enzymatic synthesis of nelarabine was successfully carried out under different substrate conditions (1:1 and 3:1) at different reaction times. Under these experimental conditions, the production of nelarabine was increased up to 2.8-fold (72% conversion) compared with wild-type LdNDT.