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Category: Applied and Industrial Microbiology
Enzyme Engineering by Directed Evolution, Page 1 of 2
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This chapter treats exclusively directed evolution of proteins, the primary focus being on recent methodology developments. During the past 25 years, numerous gene mutagenesis methods have been developed. It is difficult even for experts to make the optimal choice, because comparative studies focusing on relative efficiency are rare. A few select studies in directed evolution are reviewed in the chapter, because they allow conclusions regarding the relative merits of different mutagenesis methods and strategies. In a landmark study, single-gene DNA shuffling was applied to turn Escherichia coli β-galactosidase (BGAL) into a β-fucosidase, thereby changing the substrate scope. The enzyme hydrolyzes β-galactosyl linkages such as the β (1,4)-linkage in lactose. In principle, epPCR and DNA shuffling are independent of structural data, whereas saturation mutagenesis generally needs such knowledge to make a decision regarding the randomization sites. Alternatively, saturation mutagenesis can be applied systematically at every single amino acid position, as was reported in the thermostabilization of a xylanase. Subsequent to the first directed evolution study regarding the enantioselectivity of enzymes, which involved four cycles of epPCR in the hydrolytic kinetic resolution of a chiral ester catalyzed by a lipase, numerous academic and industrial studies have appeared that contribute to the generalization of this new approach to asymmetric catalysis. Subsequent investigations addressed the reasons for the apparent efficacy of iterative combinatorial active-site saturation testing as a form of iterative saturation mutagenesis (ISM).
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Individual steps in directed evolution.
Genetic selection system for laboratory evolution of enantioselectivity in a kinetic resolution ( 43 ).
Schematic illustration of QuikChange (Stratagene) ( 19 ).
Scheme illustrating the improved method for PCR-based saturation mutagenesis useful in the case of difficult-to-amplify templates ( 55 ). The gene is represented by the dotted section, the vector backbone is shown in light gray, and the formed megaprimer in black. In the first stage of the PCR both the mutagenic primer (positions randomized represented by a white square) and the antiprimer (or another mutagenic primer, shown to the right) anneal to the template, and the amplified sequence is used as a megaprimer in the second stage. Finally, the template plasmids are digested by use of DpnI and the resulting library is transformed in bacteria. The scheme on the left illustrates the three possible options in the choice of the megaprimer size for a single-site randomization experiment. The scheme to the right represents an experiment with two sites simultaneously randomized.
Library coverage calculated for NNK codon degeneracy at sites composed of one, two, three, four, and five amino acid positions (aa, amino acids) ( 44 ).
Library coverage calculated for NDT degeneracy at sites composed of one, two, three, four, and five amino acid positions (aa, amino acids) ( 44 ).
ISM using four sites, A, B, C, and D, each site in a given upward pathway in the fitness landscape being visited only once ( 48 ).
Scheme illustrating DNA shuffling for the case in which the parental genes originate from the WT by some sort of mutagenesis.
Thermostability diagram in the B-FIT-based evolution of Lip A ( 41 , 42 ).
Iterative CASTing in the enhancement of enantioselectivity of the hydrolytic kinetic resolution of glycidyl phenyl ether catalyzed by ANEH variants ( 48 ).
Oversampling necessary for 95% coverage as a function of NNK and NDT codon degeneracy assuming the absence of amino acid bias (44)