重组基因工程菌在不对称还原羰基化合物中的应用

手性醇是药物合成的重要手性砌块,利用生物催化剂不对称还原羰基化合物是手性醇制备的重要方法。介绍了生物催化还原羰基化合物的反应原理及特点,综述了重组基因工程菌的构建及其在不对称还原羰基化合物中的应用情况,展望了今后研究发展的方向。     

利用微生物重组技术促进羰基不对称还原研究进展

手性醇是许多手性药物合成的关键手性砌块,利用微生物细胞催化相应前手性羰基化合物不对称还原,是合成手性醇的重要方法之一。但应用野生微生物催化时,反应的时空产率、立体选择性较低。详细介绍了利用微生物重组技术以促进前手性羰基化合物不对称还原反应合成手性醇的国内外研究进展。从酶的种类、表达系统以及辅酶再生系统3个方面对重组细胞催化反应体系的构建进行了概述。同时按照反应底物的类型,对重组微生物在催化不同类型羰基化合物不对称还原合成手性醇中的应用分别进行了归纳和介绍。     

刊首语

手性生物制造是以生物、化学、工程及信息等多学科的交叉为手段,以手性医药、农药、材料等产品的高质量合成为目标,以绿色高效和高选择性为特征,以结构生物学、合成生物学、反应工程学及系统工程理论等为技术支撑,为手性化学品的高效清洁生产提供创造性设计思想和新型科学方法。手性化学品合成占据整个化学品制造领域的核心地位;手性生物制造是化学品绿色制造的必然趋势。     

生物制造手性化学品的现状及其发展趋势

手性化学品是传统制造工业的重要产品之一,具有高度选择性的生物制造技术尤其适用于高光学纯度化学品的制造过程,大力发展手性化学品生物制造技术,符合国家重大需求,也是实现绿色制造的重要手段。论述了生物制造手性化学品的重要意义及国内外研究现状,对生物制造手性化学品的未来发展方向和趋势进行了展望。     

羰基还原酶及其催化不对称合成大基团手性羟基类化合物的研究进展

手性羟基化合物以其独特的光、热和化学性质广泛应用于医药、农药、精细化工、功能材料等行业.立体专一性羰基还原酶能够直接针对关键手性位点催化不对称还原潜手性底物获得目的手性产物.基于羰基还原酶的底物多样性,具有不同化学结构和功能的醇类、酯类、氨基酸、环氧化合物等重要手性中间体能够通过不对称还原途径实现单一光学活性对映体的高效制备.然而,针对具有应用价值的含有大基团、结构复杂的潜手性羰基化合物,已知的羰基还原酶通常催化活性较低.本文综述了生物催化不对称氧化还原反应的特点和规律及其关键立体选择性羰基还原酶的性质和结构特征,并在此基础上,重点针对大基团手性羟基化合物的不对称合成,总结了羰基还原酶及其催化系统开发和应用的研究进展,并进一步提出解决该关键问题的主要发展策略.     

微生物法还原氯代苯乙酮制备手性醇

手性醇是合成手性药物、农业化学品、香料和液晶等物质的重要中间体[1] 。 2 1世纪是手性药物发展迅速的时代 ,手性醇合成方法的成熟与改进对于手性药物的合成具有积极的促进作用。光学活性的苯乙醇及其衍生物可用于合成手性药物 ,如 :L 氯丙那林、R 沙丁胺醇[2 ] 、R 肾上腺素、S 心得安、S 舒喘宁、S 氟西汀和R 托莫西汀[3,4 ] 等。目前 ,生产手性醇的主要方法有化学法和生物法两种[5] 。利用微生物中酶的立体选择性能够合成一些化学方法难以合成的手性中间体[5] 。化学法中采用的反应体系一般为有机溶剂 ,而微生物法采用水相体系 ,微…     

还原酶催化羰基不对称还原的应用进展

羰基不对称还原作为合成手性醇的重要方法,已成为近年来有机合成的研究热点。与传统化学法相比,利用还原酶催化前手性羰基化合物的不对称还原具有显著优势。介绍了还原酶的来源与形式,对完整细胞还原酶与游离还原酶在手性药物不对称合成中的应用进行了简要综述。     

生物制造手性化学品研究现状及发展趋势

手性化学品是传统制造工业的重要产品之一,现代生物技术的快速进步极大地推动了生物制造手性化学品的快速发展。目前,生物制造手性化学品受到世界各国的广泛关注,已经成为发达国家工业生物技术领域重要的科技与产业发展方向。本文主要介绍了国内外生物制造手性化学品的研究现状和发展趋势。今后应大力加强系统技术平台和理论体系的构建,为建设重要手性化学品的先进绿色生物制造产业提供全面的技术支撑。     

利用短短芽孢杆菌进行酮还原酶CgKR2的高效表达与纯化

酮还原酶CgKR2能够一步还原前手性羰基化合物生成高附加值的手性醇,有望解决手性醇传统制备方法的步骤烦琐和高成本问题,具有很高的经济效益。研究表明,CgKR2催化底物2-氧代-4-苯基丁酸乙酯(OPBE)生成普利类降压药的重要中间体(R)-2-羟基-4-苯基丁酸乙酯[(R)-HPBE]具有良好效果。但CgKR2的生产成本高昂、过程烦琐。利用短短芽孢杆菌胞外分泌表达酮还原酶CgKR2,获得该酶的高效表达,并经简便的一步镍亲和层析纯化,即获得高纯度酮还原酶CgKR2,产率高达每升发酵7. 8mg纯酶。以酶标板法测定其比活力、温度稳定性以及动力学参数等基本酶学性质,结果显示,CgKR2的比活力为(78. 32±7. 62) U/mg、Km为(0. 2±0. 02) mmol/L、Vmax为(117. 64±3. 6)μmol/(min·mg)、Kcat为73s-1,与以往报道的数据一致,并且获得的CgKR2纯酶在30℃下孵育72h依然保持80%的活性,酶活的稳定性远好于以往的制备方法。开发出的一套简便高效的酮还原酶CgKR2表达纯化工艺,降低了生产成本、简化了生产工艺,可推进手性醇生物催化制备的普及,对其他生物催化工程酶的制备方法研究也有借鉴作用。     

手性医药化学品的绿色生物合成

手性在自然界中普遍存在,与生命现象密切相关,也显著影响物质的性能。手性医药化学品的化学合成存在原子经济性、过程经济性差、环境污染和资源浪费严重等问题。生物合成技术具有过程绿色、选择性好等优势。近年来,生物合成技术在手性医药化学品合成关键酶的选择、催化机制解析、光学纯手性中间体合成途径构建、工艺开发及放大生产等方面均取得长足进步,有望解决手性中心构筑复杂、光学纯度低、污染大等手性化学品制造的瓶颈问题,推动我国医药行业的绿色可持续发展。本文主要总结了中国科学院天津工业生物技术研究所成立以来在手性医药化学品生物催化合成方面的一些研究进展。     

Biocatalytic ketone reduction: A green and efficient access to enantiopure alcohols

Chiral secondary alcohols play an important role in pharmaceutical, agrochemical, and chemical industries. In recent years, impressive steps forward have been achieved towards biocatalytic ketone reduction as a green and useful access to enantiopure alcohols. An increasing number of novel and robust enzymes are now accessible as a result of the ongoing progress in genomics, screening and evolution technologies, while process engineering provides further success in areas of biocatalytic reduction in meeting synthetic challenges. The versatile platform of these techniques and strategies offers the possibility to apply high substrate loading and thus to overcome the limitation of low volumetric productivity of usual enzymatic processes which is the bottleneck for their practical application. In addition, the integration of bioreduction with other enzymatic or chemical steps allows the efficient synthesis of more complex chiral products.     

Photosynthesis driven conversion of carbon dioxide to fatty alcohols and hydrocarbons in cyanobacteria

The production of high value biochemicals and high energy biofuels from sustainable resources through the use of microbial based, green conversion technologies could reduce the dependence on petrochemical resources. However, a sustainable source of carbon and a clean, cost effective method for its conversion to high quality biofuel products are obstacles that must be overcome. Here we describe the biosynthesis of fatty alcohols in a genetically engineered cyanobacterial system through heterologously expressing fatty acyl-CoA reductase and the effect of environmental stresses on the production of fatty alcohols in the mutant strains. Hydrocarbon production in three representative types of native cyanobacterial model strains and the mutant strain overexpressing acetyl-CoA carboxylase was evaluated. The results of this investigation demonstrate the potential for direct production of high value chemicals and high energy fuels in a single biological system that utilizes solar energy as the energy source and carbon dioxide as the carbon source.     

Role of alcohols in growth, lipid composition, and membrane fluidity of yeasts, bacteria, and archaea

Increased membrane fluidity, which causes cofactor leakage and loss of membrane potential, has long been documented as a cause for decreased cell growth during exposure to ethanol, butanol, and other alcohols. Reinforcement of the membrane with more complex lipid components is thus thought to be beneficial for the generation of more tolerant organisms. In this study, organisms with more complex membranes, namely, archaea, did not maintain high growth rates upon exposure to alcohols, indicating that more complex lipids do not necessarily fortify the membrane against the fluidizing effects of alcohols. In the presence of alcohols, shifts in lipid composition to more saturated and unbranched lipids were observed in most of the organisms tested, including archaea, yeasts, and bacteria. However, these shifts did not always result in a decrease in membrane fluidity or in greater tolerance of the organism to alcohol exposure. In general, organisms tolerating the highest concentrations of alcohols maintained membrane fluidity after alcohol exposure, whereas organisms that increased membrane rigidity were less tolerant. Altered lipid composition was a common response to alcohol exposure, with the most tolerant organisms maintaining a modestly fluid membrane. Our results demonstrate that increased membrane fluidity is not the sole cause of growth inhibition and that alcohols may also denature proteins within the membrane and cytosol, adversely affecting metabolism and decreasing cell growth.     

Synthesis of N-protected peptide alcohols catalyzed by subtilisin or alpha-chymotrypsin in organic solvents

A series of N-protected peptide alcohols were synthesized using amino alcohols with unprotected hydroxy groups as amino components by the catalysis of subtilisin or alpha-chymotrypsin in organic solvents. N-protected aromatic amino acid esters were more suitable as acyl donors for subtilisin. The influences of different N-protecting groups, organic solvents, and content of water on synthesis of N-protected peptide alcohols were systematically studied.     

A gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric analysis of the esterifying alcohols of pumpkin seed protochlorophylls

The esterifying alcohols of protochlorophyll a and 4-vinyl-(4-desethyl)-protochlorophyll a (purified as the respective pheophytins) from pumpkin seeds were examined by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The results of the analysis suggested that pumpkin seed protochlorophyll a is esterified with all possible C₂₀ isoprenoid alcohols between and including geranylgeraniol and phytol, phytol comprising 90% or more of the mixture of esterifying alcohols, and that the 4-vinyl-(4-desethyl)-protochlorophyll a is esterified with farnesol and all possible C₂₀ isoprenoid alcohols between and including geranylgeranoid and phytanol, phytol comprising 50% or more of the mixture of esterifying alcohols. The 4-vinyl-(4-desethyl)-protochlorophyll a from a sample of older mature pumpkin seeds was found to be richer in esterifying alcohols corresponding to isoprenoid precursors of phytol then was the 4-vinyl-(4-desethyl)-protochlorophyll a from a sample of younger mature seeds. Other isoprenoid alcohols may have been present in very minor quantities in the mixtures of esterifying alcohols from the pumpkin seed protochlorophylls but were not looked for in this study. These results are discussed in terms of a biosynthetic accumulation of 4-vinyl-(4-desethyl)-protochlorophyll a in pumpkin inner seed-coat tissue.     

Model systems of precursor cellular membranes: long-chain alcohols stabilize spontaneously formed oleic acid vesicles

Oleic acid vesicles have been used as model systems to study the properties of membranes that could be the evolutionary precursors of more complex, stable, and impermeable phospholipid biomembranes. Pure fatty acid vesicles in general show high sensitivity to ionic strength and pH variation, but there is growing evidence that this lack of stability can be counterbalanced through mixtures with other amphiphilic or surfactant compounds. Here, we present a systematic experimental analysis of the oleic acid system and explore the spontaneous formation of vesicles under different conditions, as well as the effects that alcohols and alkanes may have in the process. Our results support the hypothesis that alcohols (in particular 10- to 14-C-atom alcohols) contribute to the stability of oleic acid vesicles under a wider range of experimental conditions. Moreover, studies of mixed oleic-acid-alkane and oleic-acid-alcohol systems using infrared spectroscopy and Langmuir trough measurements indicate that precisely those alcohols that increased vesicle stability also decreased the mobility of oleic acid polar headgroups, as well as the area/molecule of lipid.     

Kinetic effects of a single-amino acid mutation in a highly variable loop (residues 114-120) of class IV ADH

Class IV alcohol dehydrogenase shows a deletion at position 117 with respect to class I enzymes, which typically have a Gly residue. In class I structures, Gly117 is part of a loop (residues 114-120) that is highly variable within the alcohol dehydrogenase family. A mutant human class IV enzyme was engineered in which a Gly residue was inserted at position 117 (G117ins). Its kinetic properties, regarding ethanol and primary aliphatic alcohols, secondary alcohols and pH profiles, were determined and compared with the results obtained in previous studies in which the size of the 114-120 loop was modified. For the enzymes considered, a smaller loop was associated with a lower catalytic efficiency towards short-chain alcohols (ethanol and propanol) and secondary alcohols, as well as with a higher K(m) for ethanol at pH 7.5 than at pH 10.0. The effect can be rationalized in terms of a more open, solvent-accessible active site in class IV alcohol dehydrogenase, which disfavors productive binding of ethanol and short-chain alcohols, specially at physiological pH.     

Kinetic effects of a single-amino acid mutation in a highly variable loop (residues 114–120) of class IV ADH

Class IV alcohol dehydrogenase shows a deletion at position 117 with respect to class I enzymes, which typically have a Gly residue. In class I structures, Gly117 is part of a loop (residues 114–120) that is highly variable within the alcohol dehydrogenase family. A mutant human class IV enzyme was engineered in which a Gly residue was inserted at position 117 (G117ins). Its kinetic properties, regarding ethanol and primary aliphatic alcohols, secondary alcohols and pH profiles, were determined and compared with the results obtained in previous studies in which the size of the 114–120 loop was modified. For the enzymes considered, a smaller loop was associated with a lower catalytic efficiency towards short-chain alcohols (ethanol and propanol) and secondary alcohols, as well as with a higher K_m for ethanol at pH 7.5 than at pH 10.0. The effect can be rationalized in terms of a more open, solvent-accessible active site in class IV alcohol dehydrogenase, which disfavors productive binding of ethanol and short-chain alcohols, specially at physiological pH.     

Present state and perspective of downstream processing of biologically produced 1,3-propanediol and 2,3-butanediol

1,3-Propanediol and 2,3-butanediol are two promising chemicals which have a wide range of applications and can be biologically produced. The separation of these diols from fermentation broth makes more than 50% of the total costs in their microbial production. This review summarizes the present state of methods studied for the recovery and purification of biologically produced diols, with particular emphasis on 1,3-propoanediol. Previous studies on the separation of 1,3-propanediol primarily include evaporation, distillation, membrane filtration, pervaporation, ion exchange chromatography, liquid–liquid extraction, and reactive extraction. Main methods for the recovery of 2,3-butanediol include steam stripping, pervaporation, and solvent extraction. No single method has proved to be simple and efficient, and improvements are especially needed with regard to yield, purity, and energy consumption. Perspectives for an improved downstream processing of biologically produced diols, especially 1,3-propanediol are discussed based on our own experience and recent work. It is argued that separation technologies such as aqueous two-phase extraction with short chain alcohols, pervaporation, reverse osmosis, and in situ extractive or pervaporative fermentations deserve more attention in the future.