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Exploration of alternate catalytic mechanisms and optimization strategies for retroaldolase design.

Abstract：

:Designed retroaldolases have utilized a nucleophilic lysine to promote carbon-carbon bond cleavage of β-hydroxy-ketones via a covalent Schiff base intermediate. Previous computational designs have incorporated a water molecule to facilitate formation and breakdown of the carbinolamine intermediate to give the Schiff base and to function as a general acid/base. Here we investigate an alternative active-site design in which the catalytic water molecule was replaced by the side chain of a glutamic acid. Five out of seven designs expressed solubly and exhibited catalytic efficiencies similar to previously designed retroaldolases for the conversion of 4-hydroxy-4-(6-methoxy-2-naphthyl)-2-butanone to 6-methoxy-2-naphthaldehyde and acetone. After one round of site-directed saturation mutagenesis, improved variants of the two best designs, RA114 and RA117, exhibited among the highest kcat (>10(-3)s(-1)) and kcat/KM (11-25M(-1)s(-1)) values observed for retroaldolase designs prior to comprehensive directed evolution. In both cases, the >10(5)-fold rate accelerations that were achieved are within 1-3 orders of magnitude of the rate enhancements reported for the best catalysts for related reactions, including catalytic antibodies (kcat/kuncat=10(6) to 10(8)) and an extensively evolved computational design (kcat/kuncat>10(7)). The catalytic sites, revealed by X-ray structures of optimized versions of the two active designs, are in close agreement with the design models except for the catalytic lysine in RA114. We further improved the variants by computational remodeling of the loops and yeast display selection for reactivity of the catalytic lysine with a diketone probe, obtaining an additional order of magnitude enhancement in activity with both approaches.

journal_name

J Mol Biol

journal_title

Journal of molecular biology

authors

Bjelic S,Kipnis Y,Wang L,Pianowski Z,Vorobiev S,Su M,Seetharaman J,Xiao R,Kornhaber G,Hunt JF,Tong L,Hilvert D,Baker D

doi

10.1016/j.jmb.2013.10.012

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2014-01-09 00:00:00

pages

256-71

issue

eissn

0022-2836

issn

1089-8638

pii

S0022-2836(13)00655-4

journal_volume

426

pub_type

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Exploration of alternate catalytic mechanisms and optimization strategies for retroaldolase design.