乙酰酯-木糖苷双功能酶底物识别和催化机制

作者：Hao Cao, Lichao Sun, Ying Huang, Xin Liu,Dong Yang, Tengfei Liu,Xiaojing Jia,Boting Wen, Tianyi Gu, Fengzhong Wang*,†, and Fengjiao Xin*,†

刊物名称：ACS Catalysis

影响因子：12.221

出版年份：January 14, 2019

DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.8b03383

内容摘要：Enzymes are usually characterized by their evolutionarily conserved catalytic domains; however, this work presents the incidental gain-of-function of an enzyme in a loop region by natural evolution of its amino acids. A bifunctional acetyl ester−xyloside hydrolase (CLH10) was heterologously expressed, purified, and characterized. The primary sequence of CLH10 contains the fragments of the conserved sequence of esterase and glycosidase, which distribute in a mixed type. The crystal structure revealed that the primary sequence folded into two  ndependent structural regions to undertake both acetyl esterase and β-1,4-xylanase hydrolase functions. CLH10 is capable of cleaving both the β-1,4-xylosidic bond-linked main chain and the ester bond-linked acetylated side chain of xylan, which renders it valuable because it can  degrade acetylated xylan within one enzyme. Significantly, the β-1,4-xylanase activity of CLH10 appears to have been fortuitously obtained because of the variable Asp10 and Glu139 located in its loop region, which suggested that the exposed loop region might act as a potential hot-spot for the design and generation of promising enzyme function in both directed evolution and rational protein design.

该研究得到了中国农科院科技创新工程、国家重点研发计划（2017YFD0400204）、国家自然科学基金（31801475，31700701）和中国博士后基金（2018M630230）的资助。通讯作者为辛凤姣研究员和王凤忠研究员，共同第一作者为博士后曹浩、助理研究员孙丽超。