微生物脂肪酶蛋白质工程*

微生物脂肪酶催化的化学反应具有严格的立体选择性、位点选择性等专一性,催化活性高而副反应少,催化反应不需要辅助因子等特点,因此广泛应用于工农业生产中的诸多领域。利用蛋白质工程技术,提高微生物脂肪酶的特异性、活性和稳定性,对提高微生物脂肪酶制剂产品的市场竞争能力,扩大微生物脂肪酶的应用领域,具有重要的意义。综述了蛋白质工程技术在微生物脂肪酶改性方面的应用现状、存在问题及前景。     

微生物脂肪酶稳定性研究进展

脂肪酶广泛应用于食品、药物、生物燃料、诊断、生物修复、化学品、化妆品、清洁剂、饲料、皮革和生物传感器等工业领域,微生物脂肪酶是商品化脂肪酶的重要来源。高温、酸性、碱性和有机溶剂等恶劣的工业生产环境使得脂肪酶的进一步工业应用受到限制,获取稳定性好的脂肪酶成为打破这一限制的关键环节。本文重点对提高微生物脂肪酶稳定性的策略进行了综述:挖掘极端微生物脂肪酶资源;利用定向进化、理性设计和半理性设计等蛋白质工程策略改造脂肪酶;利用物理吸附、封装、共价结合和交联等酶的固定化技术提高脂肪酶的稳定性;利用物理/化学修饰、表面展示以及多种改良策略相结合提高脂肪酶的稳定性。结合作者前期对酶工程的研究发现,新型酶催化剂的获得应该基于明确的设计思路,结合多种改造方法,基于定向进化-理性设计、定向进化-半理性设计、蛋白质工程-酶的固定化、蛋白质工程-物理/化学修饰、酶的固定化-物理/化学修饰等组合改造,比单一的改造方法具有更高的效率。     

假单胞菌属脂肪酶的分子生物学研究进展

微生物脂肪酶是商品化脂肪酶的主要来源,并广泛应用于诸多工业领域。与其他微生物脂肪酶相比,细菌脂肪酶催化反应的类型更多、活性更高、稳定性更好,其中又以假单胞菌属(Pseudomonas)脂肪酶的性能最为优越。作为性能最为优越、应用最为广泛的一类脂肪酶,假单胞菌属脂肪酶研究一直是脂肪酶领域的热点。就假单胞菌属脂肪酶的分子生物学研究进展进行归纳和述评,包括基因资源挖掘及克隆、基因表达调控及分泌机制、活性过表达策略、蛋白质结晶及3D结构解析、蛋白质工程,并对其未来研究方向做出展望,以期为后续研究提供有益参考。     

新型微生物脂肪酶资源开发

微生物脂肪酶是一类重要的工业生物催化剂, 广泛应用于工农业生产的诸多领域。筛选、挖掘和开发出具有新型催化活性或高稳定性的微生物脂肪酶一直是脂肪酶研究的重点。本文从极端微生物、宏基因组技术、基因组数据库挖掘、定向进化技术、固定化技术和化学修饰技术等方面介绍了当前新型脂肪酶开发的途径和方法。     

微生物脂肪酶活性构像的形成及激活过程中的影响因子

微生物脂肪酶是一类具有重要应用价值的生物催化剂。作为一种胞外酶,其活性构像的形成及激活是一个高度复杂而特异性的生理过程。综述了作为微生物脂肪酶的结构成分,参与脂肪酶折叠和激活过程中的各种因子及其作用机制,这些因子包括脂肪酶特异性的折叠酶、脂肪酶激活因子、前序列、钙离子和二硫键等。     

微生物脂肪酶的共价键固定化

以N-羟基琥珀酰亚胺为活性官能团、丙烯酸为单体制备了一种含酯基的新型聚合物载体.利用微生物脂肪酶中的氨基易于氨解活化载体中的酯基生成酰胺的特点固定微生物脂肪酶,HPLC 和FT-IR 表征说明微生物脂肪酶与载体以共价键方式结合.探讨了微生物脂肪酶的最佳固定条件,固定脂肪酶酶活为游离酶活的75%,与游离酶相比,最适温度提高5℃(45℃),最适pH 值提高0.5(7.5);5 次使用后仍具有75.7% 的相对活力.     

溶胶凝胶法固定化黑曲霉脂肪酶的性质研究

近年来溶胶-凝胶法固定脂肪酶已成为研究热点。选用TMOS、MTMS、ETMS和PTMS 4种硅烷试剂对黑曲霉脂肪酶进行了固定化研究。固定化的最佳配方为ETMS/TMOS=5：1、水与硅烷试剂分子比为8;固定化脂肪酶的固定率为80.2%、相对活性为136.3%;以乳化橄榄油作为底物,在50℃和pH4.0的条件下,固定化脂肪酶与游离脂肪酶K_m分别为1.899×10^-4M和2.789×10^-4M;最适反应pH均为pH4.0,固定化脂肪酶在pH4.0~pH5.5之间其活性能保持95%以上;固定化脂肪酶最适反应温度为60℃,较游离脂肪酶提高了10℃;固定化脂肪酶的酸碱稳定性和热稳定性较非固定化酶有显著的提高。固定化脂肪酶的使用寿命和保存稳定性良好,使用12次后仍能够保留71.7%活性,在室温避光条件下保存180天后仍可保留79.2%活性。     

细菌脂肪酶基因表达调控的研究进展

摘要:微生物脂肪酶是商品化脂肪酶的主要来源,广泛应用于食品、饮料、油脂、洗涤剂、饲料、纺织、皮革、新型材料、精细化工、医药、化妆品、造纸、污染治理、生物能源等工业领域。与真菌脂肪酶相比,细菌脂肪酶催化反应的类型更多、活性更高、稳定性更好,其中又以假单胞菌属(Pseudomonas)脂肪酶的性能最为优越。截至目前,常规育种、培养基和发酵条件优化等策略均不能从根本上解决细菌脂肪酶产量低的问题,而阐明其基因表达调控的分子机制、筛选主效调控因子、构建同源表达基因工程菌是解决问题的有效办法。本文从直接调控因子、群体感应系统、Gac/Rsm信号转导系统、调控Gac/Rsm信号转导系统的调控因子、其他调控因子等方面,对细菌脂肪酶基因表达调控的研究进展进行了评述;结合作者的相关研究结果,对该领域的研究前景进行了展望,以期为基因工程菌的构建提供有益参考。     

脂肪酶的固定化及其在食品领域的应用

脂肪酶(lipase,EC 3.1.1.3)是一类能将长链脂肪酸甘油酯水解成脂肪酸和单甘油酯、甘油二酯或甘油的生物酶,主要来源于动物、植物和微生物。脂肪酶在食品领域的应用有巨大潜能,改善脂肪酶的性能对于实现工业上连续化和低成本的生产具有重要的意义。固定化酶技术可以通过提高脂肪酶的酶活力、稳定性及回收率显著改善脂肪酶的性能。固定化脂肪酶在食品领域中被广泛应用于糖酯合成、油脂改性、芳香味酯类化合物及抗坏血酸酯类抗氧化剂的合成。介绍了脂肪酶及固定化酶技术,并综述了近7年固定化脂肪酶在食品领域中的应用。最后对如何提高脂肪酶性能进行了展望。     

器壁固定化脂肪酶Pseudomonas cepacia lipase的非水活性与稳定性

许多脂肪酶在有机体系中表现出催化作用,可用于绿色有机合成. 但其催化活性和稳定性明显低于水/油（有机相）界面上的表现. 为了提高脂肪酶在有机反应体系中的活性和稳定性,依据脂肪酶的界面活化机制,以水为酶蛋白构象优化剂、羧甲基纤维素为赋形剂,通过物理吸附的方式,将典型的假单胞菌脂肪酶（Pseudomonas cepacia lipase）固定在锥形瓶的内壁上,形成简易的生物反应器. 为方便检测器壁固定化酶促反应动力学,选择特征吸收为640 nm的生化指示剂2,6-二氯靛酚为反应底物,乙酸乙烯酯为酰化试剂,丙酮为溶剂. 光谱检测表明,催化反应0.5 h后,器壁固定化脂肪酶转化底物的能力是脂肪酶粉的6倍. 在每次催化5 h共10次的循环催化中,器壁固定化脂肪酶的催化活性平均每次仅降低3.2%,而酶粉降低11.8%. 结果表明,该器壁固定化脂肪酶的活性和稳定性相对于酶粉明显提高,这将为通过固定化有效提高脂肪酶的非水催化作用提供重要的参考.     

Technical methods to improve yield,activity and stability in the development of microbial lipases

Lipases are ubiquitous biocatalysts that catalyze various reactions in organic solvents or in solvent-free systems and are increasingly applied in various industrial fields. In view of the excellent catalytic activities and the huge application potential, more than 20 microbial lipases have been realized in large-scale commercial production. The potential for commercial exploitation of a microbial lipase is determined by its yield, activity, stability and other characteristics. This review will survey the various technical methods that have been developed to enhance yield, activity and stability of microbial lipases from four aspects, including improvements in lipase-producing strains, modification of lipase genes, fermentation engineering of lipases and downstream processing technology of lipase products.     

High yield <Emphasis Type="Italic">Rhizopus chinenisis</Emphasis> prolipase production in <Emphasis Type="Italic">Pichia pastoris</Emphasis>: Impact of methanol concentration

Rhizopus lipases have been successfully expressed in Pichia pastors and different fermentation strategies have been investigated. However, there is no sufficient study on the effects of methanol concentration on the production of Rhizopus lipases in P. pastors. In this study, the lipase from Rhizopus chinensis CCTCC M20102 was expressed under different fed-batch fermentation conditions at methanol concentrations ranging from 0.5 to 3.5 g/L. The lipase activity, stability, and productivities were analyzed. The optimum methanol concentration was 1 g/L, with the highest lipase activity of 2,130 U/mL, without degradation. Additional information was obtained from the analysis of methanol consumption and production rates. The results also suggested that the cell concentration at the end of the glycerol fed-batch phase was very important for cell viability and protease activity.     

Production and regulation of different lipase activities from Rhizopus chinensis in submerged fermentation by lipids

The fungal Rhizopus chinensis could produce several types of lipase, which were mainly intracellular. During the whole-cell lipase production by this strain in submerged fermentation, it was observed that two catalytic characteristics (hydrolytic and synthetic activity) of lipases were different with addition of lipids. The hydrolytic activity of the lipase was not induced by lipids efficaciously and could be detected regardless of whether substrate-related compounds were present. However, it was found that the induction of lipids for the synthetic activity lipase was significant, and that nearly no synthetic activity was detected while the medium contained no lipids. When only a little lipid (1 g/L) was added to medium, the synthetic activity increased sharply in the initial process of fermentation. Analysis of crude membrane-bound lipase by SDS-PAGE confirmed this induction. De novo biosynthesis of lipases, especially the lipase with synthetic activity occurred only when lipids existed. Cell growth and maltose repress the lipase production with synthetic activity, but have little influence on the lipase production with hydrolytic activity. Since the production process of mycelium-bound lipase with hydrolytic activity was different, it was reasonable to consider hydrolytic activity and synthetic activity for different application purposes. Whole-cell lipase obtained from fermentation process with high synthetic activity showed excellent catalytic ability in solvent free system on synthesis of ethylcaprylate and ethyloleate, the conversion could reach more than 90% in 5 h.     

华根霉脂肪酶有机相合成酶活的研究

通过比较7种微生物脂肪酶的有机相合成酶活、水相水解酶活及在正庚烷中催化己酸乙酯合成的能力,证明了合成酶活与水解酶活相关性不高,合成酶活比水解酶活更能反映脂肪酶的合成能力。通过比较两株华根霉(Rhizopus chinensis)脂肪酶酶活,发现合成酶活相差较大,表明相同种属微生物的脂肪酶合成酶活存在不同。对．Rhizopus chinensis-2液态发酵产脂肪酶进程研究发现,水解酶活高峰先于合成酶活高峰大约12h。将不同培养时间的Rhizopus chinensis-2全细胞脂肪酶用于催化己酸乙酯合成,具有高合成酶活的全细胞脂肪酶催化己酸乙酯合成反应较快。因此,全细胞脂肪酶用于催化有机相酯合成反应时,具有高脂肪酶合成酶活的菌体具有较好的催化酯合成能力。     

固液态发酵中橄榄油对Rhizopus chinensis全细胞脂肪酶的影响

主要对华根霉全细胞脂肪酶固态和液态两种发酵过程进行比较,并着重探讨不同培养方式下橄榄油对其合成活力和水解活力的影响。结果表明：液态培养较有利于菌体生长,对脂肪酶的生产也有一定的促进作用。橄榄油的加入不仅有利于菌体生长、提高脂肪酶水解活力,更可使脂肪酶的合成活力显著增加,液态发酵下的效果更为明显。橄榄油在整个发酵过程中可能既作为碳源又是脂肪酶的诱导物。另外,全细胞脂肪酶的水解活力和合成活力在固液态发酵条件下均存在不对应性,表明华根霉可能产性质不同的脂肪酶同功酶。     

High cell density fed-batch fermentations for lipase production: feeding strategies and oxygen transfer

This review is focused on the production of microbial lipases by high cell density fermentation. Lipases are among the most widely used of the enzyme catalysts. Although lipases are produced by animals and plants, industrial lipases are sourced almost exclusively from microorganisms. Many of the commercial lipases are produced using recombinant species. Microbial lipases are mostly produced by batch and fed-batch fermentation. Lipases are generally secreted by the cell into the extracellular environment. Thus, a crude preparation of lipases can be obtained by removing the microbial cells from the fermentation broth. This crude cell-free broth may be further concentrated and used as is, or lipases may be purified from it to various levels. For many large volume applications, lipases must be produced at extremely low cost. High cell density fermentation is a promising method for low-cost production: it allows a high concentration of the biomass and the enzyme to be attained rapidly and this eases the downstream recovery of the enzyme. High density fermentation enhances enzyme productivity compared with the traditional submerged culture batch fermentation. In production of enzymes, a high cell density is generally achieved through fed-batch operation, not through perfusion culture which is cumbersome. The feeding strategies used in fed-batch fermentations for producing lipases and the implications of these strategies are discussed. Most lipase-producing microbial fermentations require oxygen. Oxygen transfer in such fermentations is discussed.     

Lipase synthesis in hydrocarbon fermentation.

A study was undertaken to establish conditions and relationships for the production of lipases during hydrocarbon fermentation. A culture of Candida lipolytica was isolated by a kerosene enrichment technique from oil-soaked soil and this microbe was used to study the production of lipase on a kerosene-mineral salts medium. The optimum pH, medium, and temperature for lipase synthesis were established and the properties of the isolated enzyme in terms of its activity and lipid specificity were studied.     

Alkaline lipase production by Citrobacter freundii IIT-BT L139

Around 150 lipase producing bacterial isolates were screened from the local soils enriched with oil. Citrobacrer freundii IIT-BT L139, an isolated microbial strain, produced lipase that had high activity (8.8 U/ml) at pH 9.0 and 40 degrees C. The 16S rDNA phylogenetic studies showed that Citrobacter freundii belongs to the family Enterobacteriaceae and later confirmed by the microbial identification. Suitable C and N sources for lipase production were deduced to be starch and peptone-urea, respectively. In a controlled fermenter (1 L), the lipase activity was found to increase by 36% (12 Uml(-1)). The variation of lipase activity, pH and dissolved oxygen (DO) during growth of the organism in the controlled batch fermenter were monitored. The rheological characteristics of the fermentation broth indicated that it behaved like a Newtonian fluid throughout the fermentation. The fermentation time was comparatively short (60 h). The lipase was also found to be substantially resistant to common detergents. This lipase was, thus, characterized as alkaline, thermostable and solvent stable, which was essentially desirable in pharmaceutical, detergent and other industrial applications or production.