重组固氮菌腈水合酶催化3-（4-氯苯基）戊二腈的选择性水解

通过基因数据挖掘方法（genome mining）获得了来源于固氮菌Herbaspirillum seropedicae SmR1中的腈水合酶基因hsn1。构建了hsn1／pETDuet-1／BL21的大肠杆菌共表达重组菌,经IPTG诱导获得了具有良好催化能力的Co^2＋依赖型腈水合酶HSN1。利用全细胞反应研究了HSN1的底物谱,发现HSN1对底物3-（4-氯苯基）戊二腈有良好的区域选择性及一定的对映选择性,它可以选择性地水解1个腈基得到3-（4-氯苯基）-4-氰基丁酰胺,该化合物可通过一步化学反应合成巴氯芬。     

3-氰基吡啶水合酶的反应条件及影响因子

研究了芳腈水合酶催化水合3-氰基吡啶生成尼克酰胺的反应条件及影响因子.酶反应的最适pH为8.0,最适温度为25℃.酶在pH8.5于25℃保温4小时或在25—30℃于pH8.0保温3小时是稳定的.反应液中加入Fe~(3 )(1.5 mmol/L)可使酶活力增加 50%,而加入NH_4~ (300 mmol/L)则使酶活降低了67%.Ag~ 和 Hg(2 )”强烈地抑制酶反应活性,在浓度均为 5mmol/L时,抑制率分别为99.7%和100%.NaCN(50 mmol/L)和苯甲腈(100 mmol/L)对酶活性的抑制率分别为78%和85%.该酶作用于 3-氰基吡啶的Km为62.5 mmol/L,V_(max)为85.8 μmol·min~(-1)·mg~(-1).     

腈类物降解菌多样性和产腈水合酶研究进展

腈水合酶催化反应在有机合成领域已有广泛的应用。作为一类重要的催化剂,腈水合酶可以将腈类物质转化为相应的酰胺。由于这种酶具有固有的立体和区域选择性,在精细化工领域已成为绿色、温和、对同分异构体具有选择性的催化剂。同时腈水合酶在生物修复和环境保护中也起着重要作用。综述了目前国内外腈水合酶的研究进展,包括降解腈类的微生物多样性、腈水合酶的催化特性、产腈水合酶菌株的改造以及腈水合酶相关基因的克隆与研究。对固定化酶和腈水合酶的应用也进行了叙述。     

3-氰基吡啶水合酶的反应条件及影响因子

研究了芳腈水合酶催化水合3-氰基吡啶生成尼克酰胺的反应条件及影响因子.酶反应的最适pH为8.0,最适温度为25℃.酶在pH8.5于25℃保温4小时或在25—30℃于pH8.0保温3小时是稳定的.反应液中加入Fe~(3+)(1.5 mmol/L)可使酶活力增加 50%,而加入NH_4~+(300 mmol/L)则使酶活降低了67%.Ag~+和 Hg(2+)”强烈地抑制酶反应活性,在浓度均为 5mmol/L时,抑制率分别为99.7%和100%.NaCN(50 mmol/L)和苯甲腈(100 mmol/L)对酶活性的抑制率分别为78%和85%.该酶作用于 3-氰基吡啶的Km为62.5 mmol/L,V_(max)为85.8 μmol·min~(-1)·mg~(-1).     

DA-F127水凝胶包埋固定化含腈水合酶细胞

腈水合酶是一类可催化腈类化合物转化生成相应酰胺类物质的酶。含腈水合酶的游离细胞催化水合反应存在酶容易失活、细胞无法重复利用、分离纯化困难等缺陷,细胞固定化技术可有效解决这些问题。为探索合适的固定化方法,以含腈水合酶的重组E. coli细胞为研究对象,以固定化酶活回收率和批次反应情况为评价指标,筛选比较了几种常用的包埋固定化方法。结果表明,DA-F127水凝胶包埋固定化细胞不仅具有较高的酶活回收率,而且稳定性也很好。对该方法进行了固定化条件和操作稳定性优化,当DA-F127浓度为15%、UV光源距离为20cm、光照时间为6min、菌体含量为20mg/g固定化细胞时,酶活回收率为89. 74%,并且可以催化9批次150g/L的3-氰基吡啶完成转化,第九批次转化率可达98. 26%。与游离细胞催化过程相比,单位质量游离细胞的烟酰胺产量提高了12倍,具有良好的工业应用前景。     

3-氰基吡啶水合酶产生菌的筛选及其酶形成条件

应用富集培养和梯度底物浓度定向筛选技术,从长期被腈化物污染的土壤中筛选到一株产 3-氰基吡啶水合酶(3-cyanopyridine hydratase)活性较高的马红球菌(Rhodococcus e-qui)SHB-121.研究了该菌3-氰基吡啶水合酶的最适形成条件.在最适条件下,酶的比活力达5.3u/mg干细胞,比在初筛条件下的酶活力提高95倍,而在其细胞内共存的尼克酰胺(烟酰胺)水解酶活力很低.     

DA-F127水凝胶包埋固定化含腈水合酶细胞

腈水合酶是一类可催化腈类化合物转化生成相应酰胺类物质的酶。含腈水合酶的游离细胞催化水合反应存在酶容易失活、细胞无法重复利用、分离纯化困难等缺陷,细胞固定化技术可有效解决这些问题。为探索合适的固定化方法,以含腈水合酶的重组E.coli细胞为研究对象,以固定化酶活回收率和批次反应情况为评价指标,筛选比较了几种常用的包埋固定化方法。结果表明,DA-F127水凝胶包埋固定化细胞不仅具有较高的酶活回收率,而且稳定性也很好。对该方法进行了固定化条件和操作稳定性优化,当DA-F127浓度为15%、UV光源距离为20cm、光照时间为6min、菌体含量为20mg/g 固定化细胞时,酶活回收率为89.74%,并且可以催化9批次150g/L的3-氰基吡啶完成转化,第九批次转化率可达98.26%。与游离细胞催化过程相比,单位质量游离细胞的烟酰胺产量提高了12倍,具有良好的工业应用前景。     

棒状杆菌腈水合酶的形成条件

本文研究了棒状杆菌(cORYNEBACTERIUM)ZBB-2l腈水合酶形成的最适条件。在培养基中加入Fe2+、维生素B1和L-谷氨酸等,并以n-丁腈做诱导物,可明显促进该菌腈水合酶的生物合成。ZBB-21菌在选定的培养基中,于28℃培养64小时,其腈水合酶比活力可达83．1u／mg,而酰胺酶的比活力只有1．1u／mg。腈水合酶比活力比以前报道的提高9倍。     

恶臭假单胞菌腈水合酶βAla97影响催化己二腈的区域选择性

对恶臭假单胞菌(Pseudomonas putida)腈水合酶(Pp NHase)催化己二腈进行研究,发现Pp NHase只能催化己二腈中1个氰基生成单酰胺产物5-氰基戊酰胺,具有区域选择性;睾丸酮丛毛单胞菌(Comamonas testosteroni)腈水合酶(Ct NHase)能催化己二腈直接生成己二酰二胺,不具有催化区域选择性。为了阐明这一区域选择性差异的机制,对Ct NHase和Pp NHaseβ亚基的氨基酸序列进行比对,结果显示同源性为94.1%,Ct NHase存在βAla97缺失。基于此分析,构建了Pp NHaseβ97位Ala的缺失突变体(ΔAla97)。利用高效液相色谱检测ΔAla97催化己二腈的产物,发现ΔAla97能将底物完全催化为己二酰二胺,表明βAla97是影响催化己二腈由5-氰基戊酰胺向己二酰二胺转化的关键氨基酸。     

恶臭假单胞菌JP-1腈水合酶的诱导形成

恶臭假单胞菌JP-1能利用乙腈、丙腈、异丁腈、乙酰胺和丙酰胺作为生长的碳源和氮源。培养液中丙腈的代谢产物经证明是丙酰胺、丙酸和氨。腈水合酶是诱导酶,经丙腈诱导的适应细胞的腈水合酶活力比未适应的细胞高得多。生长细胞用0.3%丙腈诱导14小时后,即具有很高的转化丙烯腈成丙烯酰胺的活力,丙烯腈转化率为90%。除丙腈外,丙酰胺、异丁腈、正丁腈都是腈水合酶的有效诱导物。     

Ferrous and ferric ions-based high-throughput screening strategy for nitrile hydratase and amidase

Rapid and direct screening of nitrile-converting enzymes is of great importance in the development of industrial biocatalytic process for pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals. In this paper, a combination of ferrous and ferric ions was used to establish a novel colorimetric screening method for nitrile hydratase and amidase with α-amino nitriles and α-amino amides as substrates, respectively. Ferrous and ferric ions reacted sequentially with the cyanide dissociated spontaneously from α-amino nitrile solution, forming a characteristic deep blue precipitate. They were also sensitive to weak basicity due to the presence of amino amide, resulting in a yellow precipitate. When amino amide was further hydrolyzed to amino acid, it gave a light yellow solution. Mechanisms of color changes were further proposed. Using this method, two isolates with nitrile hydratase activity towards 2-amino-2,3-dimethyl butyronitrile, one strain capable of hydrating 2-amino-4-(hydroxymethyl phosphiny) butyronitrile and another microbe exhibiting amidase activity against 2-amino-4-methylsulfanyl butyrlamide were obtained from soil samples and culture collections of our laboratory. Versatility of this method enabled it the first direct and inexpensive high-throughput screening system for both nitrile hydratase and amidase.     

Cobalt-dependent transcription of the nitrile hydratase gene in Rhodococcus rhodochrous M8

Abstract The effects of cobalt ions on the activities of Rhodococcus rhodochrous M8 enzymes for nitrile utilization, nitrile hydratase and amidase, were investigated. In contrast to amidase, synthesis of nitrile hydratase and its activity required cobalt ions in the growth medium. Northern blot analysis showed that in the presence of cobalt ions, the level of mRNA for nitrile hydratase genes was several times higher than that under cobalt-limited conditions. It was assumed that the low nitrile hydratase activity in cells grown in the absence of cobalt ions is connected either with the weak expression of nitrile hydratase genes or with the rapid degradation of nitrile hydratase mRNA.     

The nitrilase family of CN hydrolysing enzymes - a comparative study

The enzymes nitrilase, cyanide dihydratase and cyanide hydratase are a group of closely related proteins. The proteins show significant similarities at the amino acid and protein structure level but the enzymes show many differences in catalytic capability. Nitrilases, while catalysing the hydration of nitrile to the corresponding acid, vary widely in substrate specificity. Cyanide dihydratase and cyanide hydratase use HCN as the only efficient substrate but produce acid and amide products, respectively. The similarities of all these enzymes at the amino acid level but the functional differences between them provide a rich source of material for the study of structure/function relationships in this biotechnologically important group of enzymes. This review provides an overview of current understanding of the genetics and biochemistry of this interesting group of enzymes.     

The origin of proteins: Heteropolypeptides from hydrogen cyanide and water

Evidence from laboratory and extraterrestrial chemistry is presented consistent with the hypothesis that the original heteropolypeptides on Earth were synthesized spontaneously from hydrogen cyanide and water without the intervening formation of α-amino acids, a key step being the direct polymerization of atmospheric hydrogen cyanide to polyaminomalononitrile (IV) via dimeric HCN. Molecular orbital calculations (INDO) show that the most probable structure for (HCN)₂ is azacyclopropenylidenimine. Successive reactions of hydrogen cyanide with the reactive nitrile side chains of IV then yield heteropolyamidines which are converted by water to heteropolypeptides. To study this postulated modification of a homopolymer to a heteropolymer, poly-α-cyanoglycine (IX) was prepared from the N-carboxyanhydride of α-cyanoglycine. Hydrolysis of IX, a polyamide analog of the polyamidine IV, yielded glycine. However, when IX was hydrolysed after being treated with hydrogen cyanide, other α-amino acids were also obtained including alanine, serine, aspartic acid and glutamic acid, suggesting that the nitrile groups of IX (and therefore of IV) are indeed readily attacked by hydrogen cyanide as predicted. Further theoretical and experimental studies support the view that hydrogen cyanide polymerization along these lines is a universal process that accounts not only for the past formation of primitive proteins on Earth, but also for the yellow-brown-orange colors of Jupiter today and for the presence of water-soluble compounds hydrolyzable to α-amino acids in materials obtained from environments as diverse as the moon, carbonaceous chondrites and the reaction chambers used to simulate organic synthesis in planetary atmospheres.     

The Arabidopsis thaliana isogene NIT4 and its orthologs in tobacco encode beta-cyano-L-alanine hydratase/nitrilase

Nitrilases (nitrile aminohydrolases, EC ) are enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nitriles to the corresponding carbon acids. Among the four known nitrilases of Arabidopsis thaliana, the isoform NIT4 is the most divergent one, and homologs of NIT4 are also known from species not belonging to the Brassicaceae like Nicotiana tabacum and Oryza sativa. We expressed A. thaliana NIT4 as hexahistidine tag fusion protein in Escherichia coli. The purified enzyme showed a strong substrate specificity for beta-cyano-l-alanine (Ala(CN)), an intermediate product of cyanide detoxification in higher plants. Interestingly, not only aspartic acid but also asparagine were identified as products of NIT4-catalyzed Ala(CN) hydrolysis. Asn itself was no substrate for NIT4, indicating that it is not an intermediate but one of two reaction products. NIT4 therefore has both nitrilase and nitrile hydratase activity. Several lines of evidence indicate that the catalytic center for both reactions is the same. The NIT4 homologs of N. tabacum were found to catalyze the same reactions and protein extracts of A. thaliana, N. tabacum and Lupinus angustifolius also converted Ala(CN) to Asp and Asn in vitro. NIT4 may play a role in cyanide detoxification during ethylene biosynthesis because extracts from senescent leaves of A. thaliana showed higher Ala(CN) hydratase/nitrilase activities than extracts from nonsenescent tissue.     

Characterisation of nitrilase and nitrile hydratase biocatalytic systems

Biocatalytic transformations converting aromatic and arylaliphatic nitriles into the analogous related amide or acid were investigated. These studies included synthesis of the -substituted nitrile 3-hydroxy-3-phenylpropionitrile, subsequent enrichment and isolation on this substrate of nitrile-degrading microorganisms from the environment, and a comparative study of enzymatic reactions of nitriles by resting cell cultures and enzymes. Each biocatalyst exhibited a distinctive substrate selectivity profile, generally related to the length of the aliphatic chain of the arylaliphatic nitrile and the position of substituents on the aromatic ring or aliphatic chain. Cell-free nitrilases generally exhibited a narrower substrate range than resting whole cells of Rhodococcus strains. The Rhodococcus strains all exhibited nitrile hydratase activity and converted -hydroxy nitriles (but did not demonstrate enantioselectivity on this substrate). The biocatalysts also mediated the synthesis of a range of -hydroxy carboxylic acids or amides from aldehydes in the presence of cyanide. The use of an amidase inhibitor permits halting the nitrile hydratase/amidase reaction at the amide intermediate.     

Influence of cobalt substitution on the activity of iron-type nitrile hydratase: are cobalt type nitrile hydratases regulated by carbon monoxide?

Comamonas testosteroni Ni1 nitrile hydratase is a Fe-type nitrile hydratase whose native and recombinant forms are identical. Here, the iron of Ni1 nitrile hydratase was replaced by cobalt using a chaperone based Escherichia coli expression system. Cobalt (CoNi1) and iron (FeNi1) enzymes share identical Vmax (30 nmol min(-1) mg(-1)) and Km (200 microM) toward their substrate and identical Ki values for the known competitive inhibitors of FeNi1. However, nitrophenols used as inhibitors do display a different inhibition pattern on both enzymes. Furthermore, CoNi1 and FeNi1 are also different in their sensitivity to nitric oxide and carbon monoxide, CO being selective of the cobalt enzyme. These differences are rationalized in relation to the nature of the catalytic metal center in the enzyme.     

Control of the nitrile-hydrolyzing enzyme activity in Rhodococcus rhodochrous IFO 15564: preferential action of nitrile hydratase and amidase depending on the reaction condition factors and its application to the one-pot preparation of amides from aldehydes

The reaction conditions towards the preferential action of either nitrile hydratase or amidase in the harvested whole cells of Rhodococcus rhodochrous IFO 15564 were elaborated. The amidase showed higher heat tolerance than the nitrile hydratase and, at 45 °C the amidase worked exclusively. DMSO assisted the preferential action of nitrile hydratase, however, at more than 30% (v/v) addition of DMF, the nitrile hydratase activity was completely lost and only amidase worked. A one-pot chemo-enzymatic conversion of aldehydes to amides [(1) aq. NH₃, I₂, DMSO; (2) Na₂S₂O₃; (3) harvested cells of R. rhodochrous] was established. Under these reaction conditions, most of the amidase was lost, and the incubation of the firstly formed intermediates, nitriles in aq. NH₃ was responsible for the selective inhibition of amidase. The freezing of harvested cells in an exhaustively deionized environment provided a long-term preservable “ready to use” for the organic chemist.     

Adaptation of acrylamide producer Rhodococcus rhodochrous M8 to change in ammonium concentration in medium

The mechanism of adaptation of the acrylamide producing strain Rhodococcus rhodochrous M8 to changes in ammonium concentrations in the medium was studied. An increase in the content of ammonium in the medium changed the activity of glutamine synthetase (GS) (EC 6.3.1.2) and glutamine dehydrogenase (GD) (EC 1.4.1.4), the enzymes of ammonium assimilation, as well as the activities of enzymes responsible for nitrile utilization: nitrile hydratase (EC 4.2.1.84) and amidase (EC 3.5.1.4). This also caused inhibition of activation of GS induced by phosphodiesterase (EC 3.1.4.1). Increases in the activities of nitrile hydratase and amidase and resistance of these enzymes to ammonium were observed in mutant of R. rhodichrous resistant to phosphotricine, an inhibitor of GS. An important role of GS in the mechanism of adaptation is suggested.