生物催化氨基酸C—N裂解反应的研究进展

氨基酸脱氨酶能催化系列氨基酸C—N裂解反应生成对应的α 酮酸和氨,是代谢途径及生物催化的重要酶.综述了近年来催化氨基酸C—N裂解反应的5'磷酸吡哆醛介导的苏氨酸脱氨酶、黄素腺嘌呤二核苷酸介导的L氨基酸脱氨酶和L氨基酸氧化酶,以及这些关键酶应用于多酶级联反应中以生产α 羟基酸、α 酮酸、D氨基酸等精细化学品的研究进展.此...     

猪毛中氨基酸含量测定

<正> 毛发角蛋白中氨基酸含量分析早已有报导,方法是脱脂毛发用6NHCl,在110℃下,按照各个氨基酸最佳水解时间,水解24—72小时。在酸水解时遭到部分破坏的氨基酸,如胱氨酸、酪氨酸、苏氨酸、丝氨酸等,则采用外推法分别计算出时间为零时的各个氨基酸含量。但是目前工业生产胱氨酸,所用原料猪毛中含有10—15%猪皮杂质,其水解条件是依     

高必需氨基酸玉米突变体的筛选

谷物是世界上多数人的主食,但在谷物的营养成分中却缺少人类和非反刍动物所必需的氨基酸:赖氨酸、苏氨酸、色氨酸等。而氨基酸是按一定比例合成蛋白质的,缺少其中任何一种,都会限制其他氨基酸的利用。所以谷物中最缺少的赖氨酸又称为第一限制性氨基酸,水稻和小麦的第二限制性氨基酸是苏氨酸,玉米的第二限制性氨基酸是色氨酸。因此,提高这些氨基酸的含量将大大改善氨基酸平衡,改良谷     

天冬氨酸家族主要氨基酸高产菌株的选育策略

L-苏氨酸与L-赖氨酸是L-天冬氨酸家族氨基酸(AFAAs)中的重要成员,近年来由于其在食品、化妆品、动物饲料添加剂等方面的广泛应用而备受关注,市场需求逐年上升。运用代谢工程手段构建高产菌,可有效地提高L-苏氨酸和L-赖氨酸的生产水平。本文详述了L-苏氨酸与L-赖氨酸的合成途径、调控机制以及两种氨基酸高产菌株的构建策略。     

赖氨酸菌种选育初报

赖氨酸是人和动物必需的氨基酸之一,由于机体不能合成,必须经常由食物供给。一般在动物性蛋白质中含量较高,而以谷类为主的食物最易缺乏赖氨酸。赖氨酸主要用于强化食品、动物饲料添加剂,在医疗上可用做复方氨基酸输液和复方赖氨酸制剂等。有关赖氨酸菌种选育,文献上有以高丝氨酸缺陷型或苏氨酸和甲硫氨酸双缺陷型突变株;赖氨酸结构类似物如S—(2—氨基乙基)—L—半胱氨酸(AEC)     

蔬菜腌制过程中的氨基酸组成变化

在腌制过程中,芥菜的精氨酸和组氨酸等碱性氨基酸含量和氨基酸总量逐渐减少,酸性氨基酸和疏水性氨基酸含量增加。在各种氨基酸中,苏氨酸含量最高,占４４．７４％,其次是谷氨酸和丙氨酸。在腌制后,芥菜的氨基酸组成发生了显著的变化,苏氨酸下降幅度最大,而蛋氨酸、苯丙氨酸、亮氨酸、异亮氨酸、缬氨酸和赖氨酸等必需氨基酸摩尔组分显著提高。理想氨基酸模式谱的相关系数腌制前为０．０６０１７,腌制２１６小时后增到０．４９９７８,表明腌制加工可显著提高蔬菜蛋白质的营养效价。     

花馔及其氨基酸营养

应用日立835 50型高效氨基酸自动分析仪,对十五种常见食用花卉干样进行了水解蛋白氢基酸成分测定,结果发现:①花馔中酸水解蛋白氨的基酸种类齐全,总氨基酸含量较高,占食用干物质的6.00—29.45％。②花馔中人体必需氨基酸含量丰富,占总氨基酸含量的29.50—42.60％。尤以亮氨酸、苯丙氨酸、赖氨酸和苏氨酸含量为高。③花馔中甜、鲜类氨基酸含量也较高,分别占总氨基酸的25.94—39.89％,23.35—33.38％,花馔是兼有营养、颜色、美味的天然食物,值得人类利用。     

82分钟内旧树脂使20种氨基酸获高分辨分离

<正> 日立835型氨基酸分析仪,采用2.6mmID×150mm 分析柱(即标准分析柱)作蛋白质水解液分析,缺点有:1)苏氨酸—丝氨酸、甘氨酸—丙氨酸的分辨率往往达不到规定的70%和80%的指标,特别是在树脂柱用久了的时候。门冬氨酸—苏氨酸、胱氨酸—缬氨酸的分辨率也容易敏感地随之降低。2)标准分析柱需要用高纯度的分析用水,对样品因素的耐受能力也比较差,柱子的使用期限不长。     

用高效液相色谱法测二酪氨酸、磷酸酪氨酸、磷酸丝氨酸和磷酸苏氨酸

<正> 4’—二甲氨基偶氮苯—4磺酰氯化物,是一个发色剂,通常用它测氨基酸在P级。本文研究了单柱反相高效液相色谱系统,该系统描述了几种变形氨基酸的丹磺酰氯衍生物的分离和分析。高衍生的G_8(22%和31%)柱来自phenomenex公司,在pH8.1时分离二酪氨酸;磷酸代氨基酸(磷酸丝氨酸,磷酸苏氨酸和磷酸酪氨酸)和正常存在     

抗赖氨酸加苏氨酸莲体细胞变异体的筛选

对籽莲红花建莲（Ｎｅｌｕｍｂｏｎｕｃｉｆｅｒａｃｖ．Ｈｏｎｇｈｕａｊｉａｎｌｉａｎ）和白心湘莲（Ｎ．ｎｕｃｉｆｅｒａｃｖ．Ｂａｉｘｉｎｘｉａｎｇｌｉａｎ）杂交而成的幼胚的子叶、胚轴及幼胚叶（芽）形成的愈伤组织,施以赖氨酸加苏氨酸胁迫培养３０天,从中筛选出抗性愈伤组织并形成再生植株。低浓度的赖氨酸加苏氨酸促进愈伤组织的生长,而高浓度的赖氨酸加苏氨酸则抑制愈伤组织生长,直至具有致死作用,这种致死作用是因为高浓度的赖氨酸加苏氨酸抑制了天冬氨酸合成途径中的天冬氨酸激酶和高丝氨酸脱氢酶造成的,细胞发生变异后对赖氨酸和苏氨酸产生了抗性,即与天冬氨酸合成途径有关的氨基酸增加。抗性愈伤组织与未胁迫的愈伤组织的氨基酸测定表明,在总计１７种氨基酸中,抗性愈伤组织有１４种氨基酸含量超过原始愈伤组织,１种持平,２种不及原始愈伤组织。再生抗性植株的莲籽氨基酸测定显示,在１７种氨基酸中,有１２种超过母本红花建莲,１５种超过父本白心湘莲。     

Overproduction of threonine aldolase circumvents the biosynthetic role of pyruvate decarboxylase in glucose-limited chemostat cultures of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Pyruvate decarboxylase-negative (Pdc(-)) mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae require small amounts of ethanol or acetate to sustain aerobic, glucose-limited growth. This nutritional requirement has been proposed to originate from (i) a need for cytosolic acetyl coenzyme A (acetyl-CoA) for lipid and lysine biosynthesis and (ii) an inability to export mitochondrial acetyl-CoA to the cytosol. To test this hypothesis and to eliminate the C(2) requirement of Pdc(-) S. cerevisiae, we attempted to introduce an alternative pathway for the synthesis of cytosolic acetyl-CoA. The addition of L-carnitine to growth media did not restore growth of a Pdc(-) strain on glucose, indicating that the C(2) requirement was not solely due to the inability of S. cerevisiae to synthesize this compound. The S. cerevisiae GLY1 gene encodes threonine aldolase (EC 4.1.2.5), which catalyzes the cleavage of threonine to glycine and acetaldehyde. Overexpression of GLY1 enabled a Pdc(-) strain to grow under conditions of carbon limitation in chemostat cultures on glucose as the sole carbon source, indicating that acetaldehyde formed by threonine aldolase served as a precursor for the synthesis of cytosolic acetyl-CoA. Fractionation studies revealed a cytosolic localization of threonine aldolase. The absence of glycine in these cultures indicates that all glycine produced by threonine aldolase was either dissimilated or assimilated. These results confirm the involvement of pyruvate decarboxylase in cytosolic acetyl-CoA synthesis. The Pdc(-) GLY1 overexpressing strain was still glucose sensitive with respect to growth in batch cultivations. Like any other Pdc(-) strain, it failed to grow on excess glucose in batch cultures and excreted pyruvate when transferred from glucose limitation to glucose excess.     

Serine hydroxymethyltransferase and threonine aldolase: are they identical?

Serine hydroxymethyltransferase, a pyridoxal phosphate-dependent enzyme, catalyses the interconversion of serine and glycine, both of which are major sources of one-carbon units necessary for the synthesis of purine, thymidylate, methionine, and so on. Threonine aldolase catalyzes the pyridoxal phosphate-dependent, reversible reaction between threonine and acetaldehyde plus glycine. No extensive studies have been carried out on threonine aldolase in animal tissues, and it has long been believed that serine hydroxymethyltransferase and threonine aldolase are the same, i.e. one entity. This is based on the finding that rabbit liver serine hydroxymethyltransferase possesses some threonine aldolase activity. Recently, however, many kinds of threonine aldolase and corresponding genes were isolated from micro-organisms, and these enzymes were shown to be distinct from serine hydroxymethyltransferase. The experiments with isolated hepatocytes and cell-free extracts from various animals revealed that threonine is degraded mainly through the pathway initiated by threonine 3-dehydrogenase, and there is little or no contribution by threonine aldolase. Thus, although serine hydroxymethyltransferase from some mammalian livers exhibits a low threonine aldolase activity, the two enzymes are distinct from each other and mammals lack the "genuine" threonine aldolase.     

Enzymatic breakdown of threonine by threonine aldolase

1. The enzyme which splits threonine to acetaldehyde and glycine has been partially purified from rat liver (five- to sixfold purification) and the name threonine aldolase proposed for it. 2. The general properties of threonine aldolase have been studied. The enzyme is unstable to a pH below 5. The pH optimum of the enzyme reaction is at 7.5-7.7. The initial rate of production of acetaldehyde is proportional to the enzyme concentration, and when the enzyme concentration is constant, the production of acetaldehyde is proportional to the time, provided that the substrate is in excess. The enzyme is inhibited by the carbonyl group reagent, hydroxylamine. Attempts to demonstrate that pyridoxal phosphate is a cofactor were unsuccessful. 3. The enzyme splits only L-allothreonine and L-threonine and is inactive against the D-forms of these amino acids. 4. The enzyme reaction on DL-allothreonine follows first order kinetics. From the first order velocity constants and the initial rates of the rates of the reaction at various substrate concentrations the Michaelis constant, Ks, for this substrate has been evaluated. Michaelis constants have also been determined for threonine. 5. The optimum temperature for the enzymatic breakdown of DL-allothreonine at pH 7.65 was found to be 50 degrees C. in phosphate buffer and 48 degrees C. in tris-maleate buffer. The rate of thermal inactivation of the enzyme threonine aldolase obeys a first order reaction. The heat of thermal inactivation was calculated by the aid of the van't Hoff-Arrhenius equation to be 43,000 cal. per mole for the temperature range 41.2-46.6 degrees C. 6. Equivalent amounts of acetaldehyde and glycine were formed from DL-allothreonine and the enzymatic breakdown of DL-allothreonine was found to be irreversible.     

Metabolic engineering of acetaldehyde production by Streptococcus thermophilus

The process of acetaldehyde formation by the yogurt bacterium Streptococcus thermophilus is described in this paper. Attention was focused on one specific reaction for acetaldehyde formation catalyzed by serine hydroxymethyltransferase (SHMT), encoded by the glyA gene. In S. thermophilus, SHMT also possesses threonine aldolase (TA) activity, the interconversion of threonine into glycine and acetaldehyde. In this work, several wild-type S. thermophilus strains were screened for acetaldehyde production in the presence and absence of L-threonine. Supplementation of the growth medium with L-threonine led to an increase in acetaldehyde production. Furthermore, acetaldehyde formation during fermentation could be correlated to the TA activity of SHMT. To study the physiological role of SHMT, a glyA mutant was constructed by gene disruption. Inactivation of glyA resulted in a severe reduction in TA activity and complete loss of acetaldehyde formation during fermentation. Subsequently, an S. thermophilus strain was constructed in which the glyA gene was cloned under the control of a strong promoter (P(LacA)). When this strain was used for fermentation, an increase in TA activity and in acetaldehyde and folic acid production was observed. These results show that, in S. thermophilus, SHMT, displaying TA activity, constitutes the main pathway for acetaldehyde formation under our experimental conditions. These findings can be used to control and improve acetaldehyde production in fermented (dairy) products with S. thermophilus as starter culture.     

Metabolism of l-threonine and fatty acids and tylosin biosynthesis in Streptomyces fradiae

Abstract In Streptomyces fradiae l -threonine is catabolized by threonine dehydratase or threonine aldolase to 2-ketobutyrate or acetaldehyde and glycine, respectively. Threonine dehydratase synthesis is repressed and its activity is inhibited by NH₄⁺ ions. Threonine aldolase is not repressed by NH₄⁺ ions and its activity is slightly stimulated by these ions. The addition of threonine to the medium increased pronouncedly the fraction of non-branched fatty acids with an even carbon number under conditions when threonine dehydratase was repressed and inhibited. The results indicate that threonine serves as a source of propionyl-CoA and 2-methylbutyryl-CoA and also of acetyl-CoA required for tylosin and fatty acid biosynthesis.     

X-ray structures of threonine aldolase complexes: structural basis of substrate recognition

L-Threonine acetaldehyde-lyase (threonine aldolase, TA) is a pyridoxal-5'-phosphate-dependent (PLP) enzyme that catalyzes conversion of L-threonine or L-allo-threonine to glycine and acetaldehyde in a secondary glycine biosynthetic pathway. X-ray structures of Thermatoga maritima TA have been determined as the apo-enzyme at 1.8 A resolution and bound to substrate L-allo-threonine and product glycine at 1.9 and 2.0 A resolution, respectively. Despite low pairwise sequence identities, TA is a member of aspartate aminotransferase (AATase) fold family of PLP enzymes. The enzyme forms a 222 homotetramer with the PLP cofactor bound via a Schiff-base linkage to Lys199 within a domain interface. The structure reveals bound calcium and chloride ions that appear to contribute to catalysis and oligomerization, respectively. Although L-threonine and L-allo-threonine are substrates for T. maritima TA, enzymatic assays revealed a strong preference for L-allo-threonine. Structures of the external aldimines with substrate/product reveal a pair of histidines that may provide flexibility in substrate recognition. Variation in the threonine binding pocket may explain preferences for L-allo-threonine versus L-threonine among TA family members.     

Catabolism of threonine in mammals by coupling of l-threonine 3-dehydrogenase with 2-amino-3-oxobutyrate-CoA ligase

There is doubt about the l-threonine 3-dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.103) and threonine aldolase (EC 2.1.2.1) catabolic pathways of l-threonine in mammals which are believed to produce aminoacetone and glycine plus acetaldehyde, respectively. l-Threonine 3-dehydrogenase in disrupted guinea-pig liver mitochondria was investigated in a reaction mixture containing l-threonine without and with CoA and oxaloacetate; l-[U-¹⁴C]threonine was included in four similar experiments for autoradiograms. Threonine aldolase was examined in similar mitochondria from liver and kidney. CoA reduced the aminoacetone formed from l-threonine to 10–14% and CoA plus oxaloacetate produced citrate (from CoASAc) in approximately equal amounts to the decrease in aminoacetone. Autoradiograms confirmed the decrease in aminoacetone with the simultaneous appearance of citrate and glycine. No evidence was obtained that threonine aldolase catabolised l-threonine at the concentration used to assay the dehydrogenase. It is concluded that 2-amino-3-oxobutyrate (precursor of aminoacetone), which is produced from l-threonine by l-threonine 3-dehydrogenase, undergoes CoA-dependent cleavage to glycine and CoASAc by 2-amino-3-oxobutyrate-CoA ligase. The results suggest that the coupling of these enzymes provides a new pathway for the catabolism of threonine in mammals.     

Catabolism of threonine in mammals by coupling of l-threonine 3-dehydrogenase with 2-amino-3-oxobutyrate-CoA ligase

There is doubt about the l-threonine 3-dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.103) and threonine aldolase (EC 2.1.2.1) catabolic pathways of l-threonine in mammals which are believed to produce aminoacetone and glycine plus acetaldehyde, respectively. l-Threonine 3-dehydrogenase in disrupted guinea-pig liver mitochondria was investigated in a reaction mixture containing l-threonine without and with CoA and oxaloacetate; l-[U-¹⁴C]threonine was included in four similar experiments for autoradiograms. Threonine aldolase was examined in similar mitochondria from liver and kidney. CoA reduced the aminoacetone formed from l-threonine to 10–14% and CoA plus oxaloacetate produced citrate (from CoASAc) in approximately equal amounts to the decrease in aminoacetone. Autoradiograms confirmed the decrease in aminoacetone with the simultaneous appearance of citrate and glycine. No evidence was obtained that threonine aldolase catabolised l-threonine at the concentration used to assay the dehydrogenase. It is concluded that 2-amino-3-oxobutyrate (precursor of aminoacetone), which is produced from l-threonine by l-threonine 3-dehydrogenase, undergoes CoA-dependent cleavage to glycine and CoASAc by 2-amino-3-oxobutyrate-CoA ligase. The results suggest that the coupling of these enzymes provides a new pathway for the catabolism of threonine in mammals.     

A study of the interaction of glycine and its oligohomopeptides with formaldehyde and acetaldehyde under possible primitive earth conditions

It is established that glycine and glycine oligohomopeptides interact with formaldehyde and acetaldehyde in a homogeneous weak acid medium (pH 3.3–3.7) at mild temperatures (60–80°C) in the absence of inorganic solid substances. Together with the expected serine and threonine, the formation of alanine, glutamic and aspartic acid, norvaline and isoleucine, as well as four non-protein amino acids is also established. It is suggested that the non-protein amino acids are hydroxymethylserine, hydroxymethylthreonine, hydroxymethylaspartic acid and γ-amino-δ-hydroxyvaleric acid. The modes of formation of all protein and non-protein amino acids are discussed. These results strengthen the probability that similar processes may have been one of the pathways for the prebiotic synthesis of amino acids on primitive Earth.     

Specific determination of threonine in biological samples by gas chromatography with electron capture detection

Threonine was oxidized into acetaldehyde at 0 degrees C for 30 min with periodic acid. The acetaldehyde formed was converted to a hydrazone with 2,4-dinitrophenyhydrazine. The hydrazone was extracted with n-heptane and quantified by gas liquid chromatography with electron capture detection. An internal standard, 2-amino-3-hydroxyhexanoic acid, was used. The calibration curve of threonine was linear up to 200 nmol in 200 microl sample solution and the determination limit of threonine was 1 nmol in 200 microl sample solution. The recoveries were 100.0, 94.0 and 100.0% from homogenates of octopus tentacles and blood plasma and rat livers, respectively. This method was applied to the determination of threonine in tissues of rats given threonine and starved octopuses. This threonine determination method has been used for studies on the metabolism of d-lactate.