Abstract：
:Semisynthetic cephalosporins are widely used antibiotics currently produced by different chemical steps under harsh conditions, which results in a considerable amount of toxic waste. Biocatalytic synthesis by the cephalosporin acylase from Pseudomonas sp. strain N176 is a promising alternative. Despite intensive engineering of the enzyme, the catalytic activity is still too low for a commercially viable process. To identify the bottlenecks which limit the success of protein engineering efforts, a series of MD simulations was performed to study for two acylase variants (WT, M6) the access of the substrate cephalosporin C from the bulk to the active site and the stability of the enzyme-substrate complex. In both variants, cephalosporin C was binding to a non-productive substrate binding site (E86α, S369β, S460β) at the entrance to the binding pocket, preventing substrate access. A second non-productive binding site (G372β, W376β, L457β) was identified within the binding pocket, which competes with the active site for substrate binding. Noteworthy, substrate binding to the protein surface followed a Langmuir model resulting in binding constants K = 7.4 and 9.2 mM for WT and M6, respectively, which were similar to the experimentally determined Michaelis constants KM = 11.0 and 8.1 mM, respectively.
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Ferrario V,Fischer M,Zhu Y,Pleiss Jdoi
10.1038/s41598-019-48849-zsubject
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2019-08-27 00:00:00pages
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