Development and application of a screening assay for glycoside phosphorylases |
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Authors: | MRM De Groeve GH Tran J Stout SN Savvides |
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Institution: | a Laboratory of Industrial Microbiology and Biocatalysis, Department of Biochemical and Microbial Technology, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium b Laboratory for Protein Biochemistry and Biomolecular Engineering, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium |
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Abstract: | Glycoside phosphorylases (GPs) are interesting enzymes for the glycosylation of chemical molecules. They require only a glycosyl phosphate as sugar donor and an acceptor molecule with a free hydroxyl group. Their narrow substrate specificity, however, limits the application of GPs for general glycoside synthesis. Although an enzyme’s substrate specificity can be altered and broadened by protein engineering and directed evolution, this requires a suitable screening assay. Such a screening assay has not yet been described for GPs. Here we report a screening procedure for GPs based on the measurement of released inorganic phosphate in the direction of glycoside synthesis. It appeared necessary to inhibit endogenous phosphatase activity in crude Escherichia coli cell extracts with molybdate, and inorganic phosphate was measured with a modified phosphomolybdate method. The screening system is general and can be used to screen GP enzyme libraries for novel donor and acceptor specificities. It was successfully applied to screen a residue E649 saturation mutagenesis library of Cellulomonas uda cellobiose phosphorylase (CP) for novel acceptor specificity. An E649C enzyme variant was found with novel acceptor specificity toward alkyl β-glucosides and phenyl β-glucoside. This is the first report of a CP enzyme variant with modified acceptor specificity. |
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Keywords: | Cellobiosides Glycoside phosphorylase High-throughput screening Inorganic phosphate determination Mutagenesis |
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