头孢菌素C乙酰化酶的半理性改造及7-ACA的生物合成

CPC乙酰化酶是一步酶法制备7-ACA的关键酶,针对它的研究具有重大的经济价值。为了获得对CPC具有更高催化活性的CPC乙酰化酶,以Pseudomonas sp SE 83来源的Ⅲ型CPC乙酰化酶CA Ⅲ为亲本,借助分子对接的手段确定了它与CPC结合的关键氨基酸残基,并确定将这些关键氨基酸残基突变为侧链基团更小的氨基酸残基,对CA Ⅲ的编码基因利用多点定点突变试剂盒完成定点突变后借助p ET32a质粒在E.coli BL21(DE3)中实现了可溶性表达,获得了对CPC催化活性更高的重组突变体reCA Ⅲ~M,其比酶活为26.7 IU/mg,较原酶提高了3.44倍。此外,初步研究了利用reCA Ⅲ~M进行一步酶法生产7-ACA的工艺,40 IU/g CPC的加酶量、25℃的条件下反应12 h,CPC的转化率和7-ACA的得率分别可达96.3%和63.4%,表明该酶具有良好的应用前景。CPC乙酰化酶的分子改造上取得的较为理想的结果,为该酶进一步的分子改造及应用奠定了坚实的基础,也为其它酶的分子改造提供了可资借鉴的经验。     

地中海富盐菌PhaE蛋白乙酰化修饰对其功能的影响

【目的】研究地中海富盐菌PHA合酶(Pha EC)中Pha E亚基乙酰化修饰对其功能的影响,探讨乙酰化修饰对菌体生理代谢的调控作用。【方法】蔗糖密度梯度离心收集PHA颗粒,质谱鉴定颗粒结合蛋白Pha E的乙酰化位点。将乙酰化位点(赖氨酸,K)分别突变为精氨酸(R)(模拟去乙酰化)或谷氨酰胺(Q)(模拟乙酰化),利用同源双交换原理,将突变后的基因原位敲入基因组。以野生型为对照,检测突变对菌体生长、葡萄糖消耗和PHA合成能力的影响。利用Western blot检测PHA颗粒上Pha E的含量,进一步分析乙酰化修饰对蛋白功能的影响。【结果】在Pha E蛋白105位和170位赖氨酸(K)2个位点检测到乙酰化修饰。利用遗传操作系统将突变的基因原位敲入,共得到6种突变株。发酵结果表明,任何一种单突变对菌体生长及PHA合成的影响均不明显。但当2个位点同时突变成精氨酸(K105R/K170R)时,突变株生长及合成PHA的能力均受到明显抑制,2个位点同时突变成谷氨酰胺(K105Q/K170Q)则无明显影响。进一步的Western blot结果表明,突变成精氨酸的双突变株的PHA颗粒上,Pha E蛋白的含量相较于野生型约降低了一半。【结论】Pha E蛋白的去乙酰化能够导致菌株利用葡萄糖合成PHA的能力显著降低,其可能原因是降低了Pha E与PHA颗粒或PHA颗粒上Pha C的结合能力,从而降低了Pha EC合酶的活性。     

β-甘露聚糖酶末端残基变体对其酶学特性的影响

本研究用宇佐美曲霉Aspergillus usamii的5家族β-甘露聚糖酶AuMan5A为母本,借助同源建模、分子对接及分子动力学模拟等理性设计方法,将AuMan5A的N-末端和C-末端分别截去3个无规则的氨基酸残基,构建出截短的β-甘露聚糖酶 AuMan5A^N3C3.将AuMan5A和AuMan5A^N3C3的编码基因分别在毕赤酵母GS115中进行表达,对表达产物进行了初步纯化并分析比较了其酶学特性及各自的表达水平. 结果表明,reAuMan5A和reAuMan5A^N3C3的最适温度Topt均为70 ℃,reAuMan5A^N3C3在60 ℃的半衰期t_1/2⁶⁰为38 min,较reAuMan5A（t_1/2⁶⁰=40 min）略有降低;在相同表达条件下,reAuMan5A^N3C3上清液的β-甘露聚糖酶活性为73.4 U/mL,较reAuMan5A 的52.8 U/mL提高了39.0%;纯化的reAuMan5A^N3C3酶比活性为182.7 U/mg protein,较reAuMan5A的126.3 U/mg protein提高了44.7%. 与reAuMan5A相比,reAuMan5A^N3C3对角豆胶的Km值下降不明显,Vmax值有显著提高.     

去乙酰化酶1基因对牛前体脂肪细胞凋亡影响的研究

去乙酰化酶1(sirtuin type1,SIRTl)是一个新的脂肪细胞调控因子,通过与其靶基因叉头转录因子1(the forkhead box O family1,FoxO1)相互作用,参与细胞增殖、分化、衰老、凋亡和代谢过程.利用吖啶橙(acridine orange,AO)染色、流式细胞仪、荧光定量PCR(quantitative real-timePCR,qPCR)等技术方法,研究SIRT1的抑制剂———烟酸胺(nicotinamide,NAM)处理后对鲁西黄牛皮下前体脂肪细胞(bovine subcutaneous preadipocytes,BSP)和肌内前体脂肪细胞(bovine intramuscular preadipocytes,BIP)凋亡的影响.观察了BSP和BIP的凋亡形态;比较了SIRT1基因抑制后,相关基因如FoxO1等在两种细胞之间的表达差异.结果表明,NAM对BSP和BIP细胞表现出相同的生长抑制作用,处理组的BSP和BIP细胞的凋亡率均显著高于对照组,其作用可能通过抑制SIRT1,激活FoxO1凋亡通路实现.SIRT1及其相关基因对BSP和BIP的调控存在不同途径.     

漆酶Lac1338的酶学特性测定及定向突变对其酶解染料影响北大核心CSCD

为了获得表达量高、热稳定性好的漆酶,通过密码子优化合成漆酶基因lac1338、连接到pET-32a(+)载体上并在Escherichia coli BL21(DE3)中表达,获得HIS-Lac1338蛋白。酶学性质测定结果显示,以ABTS为底物时,HIS-Lac1338的比活力高达22.8 U/mg,Km和Vmax分别为567μmol/L和2.8 mmol/(L·min·g);HIS-Lac1338的最适反应温度为55℃,最适pH为6.0;在55℃以下保温2 h能保留50%的酶活性,在pH 4-8范围内孵育4 h仍保留50%以上的活性;HIS-Lac1338对Cu^(2+)抗性强,Ca^(2+)、Na^+、K^+对HIS-Lac1338有促进作用,而Co^(2+)、Fe^(2+)、Hg^(2+)、Ag^+等重金属离子对HIS-Lac1338有抑制作用。易错PCR方法得到的Lac1338的突变酶Lac16与HIS-Lac1338相比,对酸性紫7、溴酚蓝、考马斯亮蓝的降解率分别由10.9%、20%和25%提高到90.5%、67.8%和85%。结果表明,HIS-Lac1338具有较好的温度及pH稳定性,而通过易错PCR技术定向突变获得的突变酶Lac16的染料降解率大大提高。     

α-酮戊二酸依赖型双加氧酶催化特性及反应耦联辅因子对其催化羟基化反应的影响

【目的】以重组大肠杆菌表达的枯草芽孢杆菌(Bacillus subtilis)L-异亮氨酸双加氧酶(L-isoleucine dioxygenase,IDO)为研究对象,考察其催化L-异亮氨酸(L-Ile)羟基化反应的影响因素,构建IDO催化合成羟基氨基酸的反应体系。【方法】通过Ni-NTA亲和层析法从重组大肠杆菌(Escherichia coli)BL21/p ET28a-ido中纯化获得重组IDO,以L-Ile为底物,考察重组IDO催化羟基化反应的影响因素,并进一步针对耦联反应优化α-酮戊二酸(α-KG)在重组IDO酶促转化体系中的添加浓度。【结果】基于重组IDO催化L-Ile羟基化的活性测定,计算该酶Km为0.247 mmol/L,kcat为1.260 s-1,kcat/Km为5.101 L/(mmol·s),与其他同源酶动力学参数比较分析表明,重组IDO的底物亲和性及催化效率较高。重组IDO催化反应的最适温度为20°C、最适p H为7.0;在35°C以下较为稳定;反应体系中Fe2+最适浓度为1 mmol/L。重组IDO可催化不同L-氨基酸反应,对L-异亮氨酸、L-正亮氨酸、L-甲硫氨酸的活性较高。通过优化α-KG浓度,反应体系中添加30 mmol/Lα-KG时,可将底物浓度提高至70 mmol/L,产物4-羟基异亮氨酸(4-HIL)的摩尔产率达66.20%,表明α-KG作为反应耦联辅因子,其浓度对重组IDO催化L-Ile羟基化具有显著影响。【结论】重组IDO的底物亲和性、催化效率、最适催化条件、稳定性等基本性质有利于催化L-Ile羟基化反应。在其催化反应体系中,α-KG作为反应耦联辅因子,对酶促转化效果影响显著。研究结果为4-HIL及其他羟基氨基酸的酶促转化提供了研究基础。     

化学修饰对青霉素G酰化酶活性的影响

为进一步阐明大肠杆菌AE 109青霉素G酰化酶(PA,E.C.3.5.1.11)的结构与功能关系,研究了数种修饰剂对酶活性的影响;同时测定了四种作用物存在下对各修饰剂修饰酶的影响。结果表明Ser残基处于酶的活性部位,Met残基可能处于与底物结合的部位,His和Cys残基与酶的活性无关。     

青霉素酰化酶固定化前后动力学行为的比较

在优化的固定化条件下,通过戊二醛交联直接将青霉素酰化酶固定化。在优化的环境条件下测定游离酶和两种固定化酶的动力学常数。结果表明,尽管固定化酶的米氏常数增大,但产物抑制作用减弱,裂解青霉素的实验结果表明,固定化酶更适合在工业上应用。     

Changes in the Catalytic Properties of Pyrococcus furiosus Thermostable Amylase by Mutagenesis of the Substrate Binding Sites

Pyrococcus furiosus thermostable amylase (TA) is a cyclodextrin (CD)-degrading enzyme with a high preference for CDs over maltooligosaccharides. In this study, we investigated the roles of four residues (His414, Gly415, Met439, and Asp440) in the function of P. furiosus TA by using site-directed mutagenesis and kinetic analysis. A variant form of P. furiosus TA containing two mutations (H414N and G415E) exhibited strongly enhanced α-(1,4)-transglycosylation activity, resulting in the production of a series of maltooligosaccharides that were longer than the initial substrates. In contrast, the variant enzymes with single mutations (H414N or G415E) showed a substrate preference similar to that of the wild-type enzyme. Other mutations (M439W and D440H) reversed the substrate preference of P. furiosus TA from CDs to maltooligosaccharides. Relative substrate preferences for maltoheptaose over β-CD, calculated by comparing k_cat/K_m ratios, of 1, 8, and 26 for wild-type P. furiosus TA, P. furiosus TA with D440H, and P. furiosus TA with M439W and D440H, respectively, were found. Our results suggest that His414, Gly415, Met439, and Asp440 play important roles in substrate recognition and transglycosylation. Therefore, this study provides information useful in engineering glycoside hydrolase family 13 enzymes.     

The N-terminal Region of the DNA-dependent Protein Kinase Catalytic Subunit Is Required for Its DNA Double-stranded Break-mediated Activation

DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK) plays an essential role in the repair of DNA double-stranded breaks (DSBs) mediated by the nonhomologous end-joining pathway. DNA-PK is a holoenzyme consisting of a DNA-binding (Ku70/Ku80) and catalytic (DNA-PKcs) subunit. DNA-PKcs is a serine/threonine protein kinase that is recruited to DSBs via Ku70/80 and is activated once the kinase is bound to the DSB ends. In this study, two large, distinct fragments of DNA-PKcs, consisting of the N terminus (amino acids 1–2713), termed N-PKcs, and the C terminus (amino acids 2714–4128), termed C-PKcs, were produced to determine the role of each terminal region in regulating the activity of DNA-PKcs. N-PKcs but not C-PKcs interacts with the Ku-DNA complex and is required for the ability of DNA-PKcs to localize to DSBs. C-PKcs has increased basal kinase activity compared with DNA-PKcs, suggesting that the N-terminal region of DNA-PKcs keeps basal activity low. The kinase activity of C-PKcs is not stimulated by Ku70/80 and DNA, further supporting that the N-terminal region is required for binding to the Ku-DNA complex and full activation of kinase activity. Collectively, the results show the N-terminal region mediates the interaction between DNA-PKcs and the Ku-DNA complex and is required for its DSB-induced enzymatic activity.     

Modeling of Transition State by Molecular Dynamics. Prediction of Catalytic Efficiency of the Mutants of Mandelate Racemase

Abstract

Modeling of transition state by molecular dynamic method often requires modification of the force field parameters to describe energy profile accurately. In this work, we avoided the modification by modeling a series of mutants at binding-related site. In predicting the catalytic efficiency (k _cat /K _m ) of the mutants of mandelate racemase (MR), the prediction performance of three energy subsets was investigated. It was indicated that the interaction-energy subset exhibited better prediction performance than whole-system subset and binding-site subset in both quantity and trend. When prediction error (PE) criterion was equal to 5%, 10 out of 12 samples were predicted correctly within interaction-energy subset, which demonstrated a great application potential of this method in prediction of enzyme catalytic efficiency and enzyme rational design.     

Coupling of Calcium and Substrate Binding through Loop Alignment in the Outer-Membrane Transporter BtuB

In Gram-negative bacteria, TonB-dependent outer-membrane transporters bind large, scarce organometallic substrates with high affinity preceding active transport. The cobalamin transporter BtuB requires the additional binding of two Ca²⁺ ions before substrate binding can occur, but the underlying molecular mechanism is unknown. Using the crystallographic structures available for different bound states of BtuB, we have carried out extended molecular dynamics simulations of multiple functional states of BtuB to address the role of Ca²⁺ in substrate recruitment. We find that Ca²⁺ binding both stabilizes and repositions key extracellular loops of BtuB, optimizing interactions with the substrate. Interestingly, replacement by Mg²⁺ abolishes this effect, in accordance with experiments. Using a set of new force-field parameters developed for cyanocobalamin, we also simulated the substrate-bound form of BtuB, where we observed interactions not seen in the crystal structure between the substrate and loops previously found to be important for binding and transport. Based on our results, we suggest that the large size of cobalamin compared to other TonB-dependent transporter substrates explains the requirement of Ca²⁺ binding for high-affinity substrate recruitment in BtuB.     

A Conserved Loop in the Catalytic Domain of Eukaryotic Elongation Factor 2 Kinase Plays a Key Role in Its Substrate Specificity

Eukaryotic elongation factor 2 kinase (eEF2K) is the best-characterized member of the α-kinase family. Within this group, only eEF2K and myosin heavy chain kinases (MHCKs) have known substrates. Here we have studied the roles of specific residues, selected on the basis of structural data for MHCK A and TRPM7, in the function of eEF2K. Our data provide the first information regarding the basis of the substrate specificity of α-kinases, in particular the roles of residues in the so-called N/D loop, which appears to occupy a position in the structure of α-kinases similar to that of the activation loop in other kinases. Several mutations in the EEF2K gene occur in tumors, one of which (Arg303Cys) is at a highly conserved residue in the N/D loop. This mutation greatly enhances eEF2K activity and may be cytoprotective. Our data support the concept that the major autophosphorylation site (Thr348 in eEF2K) docks into a binding pocket to help create the kinase-competent conformation. This is similar to the situation for MHCK A and is consistent with this being a common feature of α-kinases.     

The MLLE Domain of the Ubiquitin Ligase UBR5 Binds to Its Catalytic Domain to Regulate Substrate Binding

E3 ubiquitin ligases catalyze the transfer of ubiquitin from an E2-conjugating enzyme to a substrate. UBR5, homologous to the E6AP C terminus (HECT)-type E3 ligase, mediates the ubiquitination of proteins involved in translation regulation, DNA damage response, and gluconeogenesis. In addition, UBR5 functions in a ligase-independent manner by prompting protein/protein interactions without ubiquitination of the binding partner. Despite recent functional studies, the mechanisms involved in substrate recognition and selective ubiquitination of its binding partners remain elusive. The C terminus of UBR5 harbors the HECT catalytic domain and an adjacent MLLE domain. MLLE domains mediate protein/protein interactions through the binding of a conserved peptide motif, termed PAM2. Here, we characterize the binding properties of the UBR5 MLLE domain to PAM2 peptides from Paip1 and GW182. The crystal structure with a Paip1 PAM2 peptide reveals the network of hydrophobic and ionic interactions that drive binding. In addition, we identify a novel interaction of the MLLE domain with the adjacent HECT domain mediated by a PAM2-like sequence. Our results confirm the role of the MLLE domain of UBR5 in substrate recruitment and suggest a potential role in regulating UBR5 ligase activity.     

置换β-甘露聚糖酶底物结合槽内环结构序列改善其酶学特性

位于酶分子活性位点(又称活性中心)附近的环结构对酶促反应特性具有重要影响.本实验室先前在宇佐美曲霉Aspergillus usamii中发现了一种新的5家族β-甘露聚糖酶Au Man5A.通过同源建模、分子对接及多序列比对,发现位于Au Man5A底物结合凹槽侧壁的一段环结构可能对酶的功能有影响.为证明该假说,本研究采用Au Man5A为母本,利用PCR技术将其底物结合槽内的7肽环结构316KSPDGGN322替换成与两种木霉属β-甘露聚糖酶对应的8肽片段AQSNSDPY,构建了杂合酶基因Auman5ALoop,并在毕赤酵母GS115中进行表达,经纯化获得了杂合β-甘露聚糖酶Au Man5ALoop.酶学特性分析结果显示,与原酶Au Man5A比较,Au Man5ALoop的最适反应p H由3.5~4.0扩宽至3.5~5.5;最适反应温度由65℃提高至70℃;以角豆胶为底物,测得Au Man5ALoop的比活性由351.2 U/mg提高至2 089.2 U/mg.利用双倒数作图法测得动力学常数揭示,Au Man5ALoop的Km值较Au Man5A降低了36%,而kcat值是Au Man5A的6.8倍;同时,Au Man5ALoop的催化效率(kcat/Km)提高了10.7倍.我们的结果说明,通过替换Au Man5A底物结合槽内环结构,可明显改进其酶学特性.我们的结果还提示,活性位点附近的环结构对β-甘露聚糖酶的酶学特性具有重要影响.