Background
L- (-) -menthol, also called levomenthol, is liquid at room temperature, has poor water solubility, a cool flavor and a certain fragrance, and is often used in the processing of alcoholic beverages, condiments, oral health products, cosmetics and other products (Phytochemistry,2013,96: 15-25). In nature, (-) -menthol is present in oil gland secretory cells of mint plant leaves and can be obtained by extraction, atmospheric distillation, etc. (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A,1999,97: 2934-2939). Menthol consumption has increased dramatically in recent years, and by 2018, (-) -menthol has consumed up to about 4 ten thousand tons (anhui. chem. ind.,2018), of which about 70% is distilled from plant mint and is greatly influenced by factors such as weather, land, and manpower. About 30% of (-) -menthol is synthesized chemically. So far, the market of the (-) -menthol in our country is large, but the large-area planting production area of the menthol in our country is less, so that the natural (-) -menthol used in the industries of food and the like is mostly imported from India and Brazil. So far, no menthol chemical method synthesis enterprise with high yield and good technology exists in China.
The current chemical synthesis of (-) -menthol is unique to both Takasago, Japan, and Symrise, Germany. The Japanese Takasago enterprise synthesizes (-) -menthol (chem.Biodvers, 2014,11: 1688-; the company Symrise, Germany, prepares (-) -menthol by enantiomeric resolution (US 20100249467A 1,2010). However, both of them have disadvantages that the former catalyst is expensive and seriously contaminated, and the latter catalyst is difficult to be separated and has more loss. Both enterprises Takasago and Symrise, Germany were removed, leaving the chemical synthesis method on a smaller scale (CN 107056587B, 2017).
Since the (-) -menthol obtained by plant extraction and chemical synthesis methods still cannot meet the market demand, the biological synthesis method of the (-) -menthol attracts more and more attention of scholars. However, the biosynthesis of (-) -menthol is still in its initial stage, and most of them is the preparation of (-) -menthol by kinetic resolution of racemic menthol derivatives (Tetrahedron asymmetry, 2003,14: 3313-3319). At present, the effect is more remarkable that the menthyl acetate is resolved by fixing esterase of the bacillus subtilis in an aqueous two-phase system, the loading capacity of a substrate can be improved to 3M, and meanwhile, the conversion rate of more than 40 percent and the e.e. value of 97 percent are ensured, so that the mass production of the L-menthol becomes possible (adv. Synth. Catal.,2010,351: 405-. However, these methods are not synthesized from inexpensive compounds such as glycerol and (-) -limonene, and face the same difficulties as the plant extraction method of (-) -menthol (Research on Chemical Intermediates,2018,44: 6847-. Thus, it is more likely that efficient biosynthesis of (-) -menthol can be achieved in microorganisms that mimic the de novo synthetic pathway of (-) -menthol in plants (Journal of Biological Chemistry,1992,267: 7582-7587).
Although the current approach to de novo construction of (-) -menthol in microorganisms has not been realized, excellent progress has been made. The subject group of Nigel S.Scrutton couples the last two steps in the menthol pathway, alkene reductase (NtDBR) and (-) -menthone reductase (MMR) are simultaneously constructed into Escherichia coli, (-) -menthol is successfully synthesized from (+) -pulegone through a one-pot enzymatic method, and the last two steps in the (-) -menthol biosynthesis pathway (ACS Synth.biol.,2015,4:1112-1123) are opened, so that the in vitro menthol construction pathway is hopeful. Subsequently in 2018, the group achieved the synthesis of (-) -menthol (25.5mg/L) from (+) -cis-isopulegone by replacing isopulegone isomerase (IPGI) with bacterially derived isomerase (KSI). In addition to 2014, the Andrea Schmid task group succeeded in de novo synthesis of 2.7g/L of (-) -limonene in E.coli (Biotechnol. J.,2014,9:1000-1012), so that the bottlenecks of the (-) -menthol pathway of the present microorganisms are limonene-3-hydroxylase (L3H) and isopnthenol dehydrogenase (IPDH).
Isomenthenol dehydrogenase (IPDH) belongs to the SDR superfamily. Such enzymes can catalyze the oxidation of isomenthol to the corresponding ketone. This enzyme was originally found in plants of the genus Mentha (Archives of Biochemistry)&Biophysics,1985,238:49-60), which is capable of catalyzing the oxidation of both isopenthenol (isoperienol) and carveol (carvacol), and is therefore also known as an isopenthenol/carveol dehydrogenase (Plant Physiology,2004,136: 4215-4227). In 2005, the enzyme in peppermint was successfully heterologously expressed and characterized in E.coli, but its viability was very low, kcat/KmOnly 0.027s-1·mM-1. In addition, the enzyme was found in other plants (biol. pharm. Bull.,2014,37:847-852), microorganisms (Journal of Biological Chemistry,1999,274:26292-26304), fungi (Fungal Biology,2017,121: 137-144). However, most of these isomenthenol dehydrogenases have not characterized the substrate isomenthenol, and the crystal structure of the enzyme has not been resolved at present.
IPDH is known to provide a new method for the future synthesis of isomenthenone, besides having an important role in the microbial synthesis pathway of (-) -menthol. Isomenthenone, which can be used as an "alarm" for warning mites from being away (Agricultural and Biological Chemistry,1987,51:3441-3442), is an important substance in the Biological world, and although other applications of the isopenthenone are unknown at present, more applications of the isopenthenone are discovered along with improvement of a method for synthesizing the isopenthenone. So far, The research on The preparation of isomenthenone has been still shallow, and only chemical synthesis methods exist, such as The oxidation of (-) -limonene to (-) -isomenthenone by ruthenium, pyrrole complexes (The Journal of Organic Chemistry,1999,64: 7365-. The only preparation to achieve the gram scale was the method used in the topic group of Nigel s.scrutton (j.nat. prod.,2018,81: 1546-. In conclusion, the current method for synthesizing the isomenthenone by the enzyme method has not appeared.
In summary, IPDH occupies an important position in the microbial synthesis route of (-) -menthol and the preparation of isomenthenone, but known isomenthenol dehydrogenase MpIPDH has the problems of low catalytic activity, existence in the form of membrane protein, low space-time yield and the like. Therefore, there is a need for enzyme catalysts with better catalytic performance to meet the needs of efficient menthol synthesis pathways in microorganisms and the needs of enzymatic synthesis of isomenthenone.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to solve the technical problem of providing an alcohol dehydrogenase mutant with obviously improved catalytic performance aiming at the defects of the isomenthenol dehydrogenase in the prior art.
According to one technical scheme of the invention, the alcohol dehydrogenase mutant with obviously improved catalytic performance is obtained.
First, protein BLAST was carried out using MpIPDH (Plant Physiology,2005,137:863-872, NCBI Number: Q5C919.1) reported as a probe in the bacterial bank at NCBI to obtain a sequence having a certain homology to MpIPDH. Secondly, after the homologous sequences are compared, the sequences of related bond motif are screened out, wherein the key motif is such as SDR catalytic triad (Ser-Tyr-Lys), NAD (P)+Binding to motif (- (T) GXXXXGXG-), SDR conserved motif (NNAG) and NAD+-a dependent binding residue Asp; deleting sequences with high homology between every two sequences to ensure that the homology between every two sequences is less than 85 percent, thereby obtaining the enzyme library of the alcohol dehydrogenase. Through activity detection of candidate enzyme, screening to obtain reductase PaIPDH derived from Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and the amino acid sequence of the reductase PaIPDH is shown in a sequence table SEQ ID No. 2.
In the invention, the enzyme gene is used as a female parent, and is subjected to directed evolution modification by adopting strategies such as alanine scanning, crystal structure guidance, site-specific saturation mutation, iterative combinatorial mutation and the like, and an alcohol dehydrogenase mutant with obviously improved activity and thermal stability is identified and obtained by combining with an activity detection rescreening of an ultraviolet spectrophotometer method.
The alcohol dehydrogenase mutant is a derivative protein obtained by replacing 1 or more amino acid residues in 95 th glutamic acid, 97 th glutamic acid, 154 th methionine, 189 th valine, 191 th aspartic acid, 194 th methionine, 195 th phenylalanine, 199 th tyrosine and 208 th phenylalanine of an amino acid sequence shown as SEQ ID No.2 with other amino acid residues; meanwhile, the derived protein has higher catalytic performance and stability than the protein consisting of the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID No. 2.
Compared with wild alcohol dehydrogenase, the alcohol dehydrogenase mutant provided by the invention has higher catalytic activity and stability effect.
The present invention also encompasses proteins derived by replacing other amino acid residues with other amino acid residues that do not affect the catalytic performance of the alcohol dehydrogenase mutant.
The present invention provides various preferred alcohol dehydrogenase mutants, which are proteins consisting of any one of the following amino acid sequences:
(1) replacing glutamic acid at position 95 of the amino acid sequence shown as SEQ ID No.2 with valine (E95V);
(2) the glutamic acid at position 95 of the amino acid sequence shown as SEQ ID No.2 is replaced by phenylalanine (E95F);
(3) the glutamic acid at position 97 of the amino acid sequence shown as SEQ ID No.1 is replaced by methionine (E97M);
(4) the methionine at position 154 of the amino acid sequence shown as SEQ ID No.2 is replaced by histidine (M154H);
(5) replacing valine at position 189 of the amino acid sequence shown as SEQ ID No.2 with tryptophan (V189W);
(6) replacing valine at position 189 of the amino acid sequence shown as SEQ ID No.2 with isoleucine (V189I);
(7) replacing aspartic acid at position 191 of the amino acid sequence shown as SEQ ID No.2 with valine (D191V);
(8) substitution of methionine at position 194 of the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID No.2 with lysine (M194K);
(9) substitution of methionine at position 194 of the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID No.2 with asparagine (M194N);
(10) replacing phenylalanine at position 195 of the amino acid sequence shown as SEQ ID No.2 with tryptophan (F195W);
(11) replacing phenylalanine at position 195 of the amino acid sequence shown as SEQ ID No.2 with methionine (F195M);
(12) substitution of tyrosine 199 to valine (Y199V) of the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID No. 2;
(13) replacing tyrosine 199 th of the amino acid sequence shown as SEQ ID No.2 with histidine (Y199H);
(14) replacing glutamic acid at position 95 of the amino acid sequence shown as SEQ ID No.2 with valine (E95V), and replacing phenylalanine at position 208 with histidine (F208H);
(15) the glutamic acid at position 97 of the amino acid sequence shown as SEQ ID No.2 is replaced by methionine (E97M), and the methionine at position 154 is replaced by histidine (M154H);
(16) the methionine at position 194 of the amino acid sequence shown as SEQ ID No.2 is replaced by lysine (M194K), and the tyrosine at position 199 is replaced by serine (Y199W);
(17) substitution of methionine at position 194 with lysine (M194K), substitution of tyrosine at position 199 with histidine (Y199H), substitution of phenylalanine at position 208 with histidine (F208H) of the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID No. 2;
(18) the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID No.2 has the amino acid sequence with glutamic acid at position 95 substituted by phenylalanine (E95F), valine at position 189 substituted by tryptophan (V189W), phenylalanine at position 195 substituted by tryptophan (F195W) and tyrosine at position 199 substituted by valine (Y199V).
The alcohol dehydrogenase mutant provided by the invention is suitable for being used as an isomenthenol dehydrogenase mutant.
The second technical scheme of the invention provides nucleic acid for coding the alcohol dehydrogenase mutant and a recombinant expression vector containing the nucleic acid sequence of the alcohol dehydrogenase mutant gene.
The nucleic acid codes for the expression of an evolutionarily engineered alcohol dehydrogenase mutant according to claim one, the source of which comprises: cloning the gene sequence of the series of alcohol dehydrogenase mutants in the technical scheme I by using a genetic engineering technology; or obtaining the nucleic acid molecule for coding the alcohol dehydrogenase mutant according to the technical scheme one by a method of artificial complete sequence synthesis.
The recombinant expression vector can be constructed by connecting the coding nucleic acid sequence of the alcohol dehydrogenase mutant gene of the invention to various commercially available empty vectors by a conventional method in the field. The commercially available empty vector may be any plasmid vector conventional in the art, so long as the recombinant expression vector can normally replicate in a corresponding expression host and express the corresponding alcohol dehydrogenase.
The preferred plasmid vectors are different for different expression hosts. It will be clear to one of ordinary skill in the art how to select appropriate vectors, promoters, enhancers and host cells. For E.coli hosts, the plasmid vector is preferably the pET-28a (+) plasmid. The recombinant expression vector of the escherichia coli can be prepared by the following method: the alcohol dehydrogenase mutant gene fragment obtained by PCR amplification is subjected to double digestion by using restriction enzymes EcoR I and Hind III, meanwhile, an unloaded plasmid pET-28a (+) is subjected to double digestion by using the restriction enzymes EcoR I and Hind III, the DNA fragment of the alcohol dehydrogenase mutant subjected to the enzyme digestion and the unloaded plasmid are recovered, and the DNA fragment and the unloaded plasmid are connected by using T4 DNA ligase to construct a recombinant expression vector containing the encoding nucleic acid of the alcohol dehydrogenase mutant for escherichia coli expression.
The third technical scheme of the invention provides a recombinant expression transformant containing the alcohol dehydrogenase mutant gene or the recombinant expression vector thereof. The recombinant expression transformant can be prepared by transforming an already constructed recombinant expression vector into a host cell.
The host cell is a variety of conventional host cells in the art, so long as the recombinant expression vector is capable of stably self-replicating and efficiently expressing a protein of interest upon induction by an inducing agent. Coli BL21(DE3) is preferred as the host cell for the efficient expression of the alcohol dehydrogenase mutant of the present invention.
The fourth technical scheme of the invention provides a recombinant alcohol dehydrogenase mutant catalyst, which is in any one of the following forms:
(1) culturing the recombinant expression transformant of the present invention, and isolating a transformant cell containing the alcohol dehydrogenase mutant;
(2) culturing the recombinant expression transformant of the present invention, and isolating a crude enzyme solution containing the alcohol dehydrogenase mutant;
(3) and (3) freeze-drying the crude enzyme solution of the alcohol dehydrogenase mutant to obtain crude enzyme powder.
The culture method and conditions for the recombinant expression transformant may be methods and conditions that are conventional in the art. In one embodiment of the present invention, the following steps are provided: culturing the recombinant expression transformant of the present invention to obtain a recombinant alcohol dehydrogenase. For recombinant E.coli, the preferred medium is LB medium: 10g/L of peptone, 5g/L of yeast extract, 10g/L of NaCl and 6.5-7.0 of pH. The preferred culture method is: the recombinant Escherichia coli constructed as described above was inoculated into LB medium containing kanamycin and cultured overnight at 37 ℃ with shaking at 180 rpm. Inoculating to 500mL Erlenmeyer flask containing 100mL LB medium (containing kanamycin) at an inoculum size of 1-2% (v/v), shaking and culturing at 37 deg.C and 180rpm, when OD of culture solution is600When the concentration reaches 0.6-0.8, adding isopropyl-beta-D-thiogalactoside (IPTG) with the final concentration of 0.1-0.5mmol/L as an inducer, inducing at 16 ℃ for 16-24h, centrifuging the culture solution, collecting the precipitate, and then washing twice with physiological saline to obtain the recombinant expression transformant cell. And freeze-drying the harvested recombinant cells to obtain freeze-dried cells containing the alcohol dehydrogenase mutant. Suspending the harvested recombinant cells in 5-10 times (v/w) volume of buffer solution, ultrasonically disrupting, centrifuging, and collectingSupernatant fluid, namely obtaining crude enzyme liquid of the recombinant alcohol dehydrogenase mutant. And (3) freezing the collected crude enzyme solution at-80 ℃, and then drying at low temperature by using a vacuum freeze dryer to obtain freeze-dried enzyme powder. The obtained freeze-dried enzyme powder is stored in a refrigerator at 4 ℃ and can be conveniently used.
The activity determination method of the alcohol dehydrogenase mutant comprises the following steps: containing 1mmol/L (-) -trans-isomenthenol and 10mmol/L NAD+Preheating 1mL of reaction system (50mmol/L glycine-sodium hydroxide buffer solution, pH10.0) to 40 ℃, then adding a proper amount of alcohol dehydrogenase mutant, carrying out heat preservation reaction at 40 ℃, detecting the absorbance change of NADH at 340nm on a spectrophotometer, and recording the change value of absorbance within 1 minute.
The enzyme activity is calculated by the following formula:
enzyme activity (U) ═ EW × V × 103(6220X l) wherein EW is the change in absorbance at 340nm in 1 minute; v is the volume of the reaction solution, and the unit is mL; 6220 the molar extinction coefficient of NADH, expressed in L/(mol. cm); l is the path length in cm. 1 enzyme activity unit (U) is defined as 1. mu. mol NAD catalytically reduced per minute under the above conditions+The amount of enzyme required.
The fifth technical scheme of the invention provides application of the alcohol dehydrogenase mutant or the recombinant alcohol dehydrogenase mutant catalyst in catalyzing dehydrogenation reaction of hydroxyl compounds.
Namely, the present invention provides a method for preparing a corresponding ketone by catalyzing a dehydrogenation reaction of a hydroxy compound using an alcohol dehydrogenase mutant or a recombinant alcohol dehydrogenase mutant catalyst.
Wherein the hydroxy compound may be selected from any one of the following compounds:
in the application, the concentration of the hydroxyl compound can be 1-5 mmol/L, and the dosage of the alcohol dehydrogenase mutant in the alcohol dehydrogenase mutant or the recombinant alcohol dehydrogenase mutant catalyst can be 1-50U/mmol of the hydroxyl compound.
In one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a use of the alcohol dehydrogenase mutant or the recombinant alcohol dehydrogenase mutant catalyst for catalyzing a dehydrogenation reaction of a cyclic terpene alcohol having hydroxyl groups at 3-and 6-positions to prepare a cyclic terpene ketone.
In one embodiment of the invention, the cyclic terpene ketones include (-) -isomenthenone, (-) -carvone.
In one embodiment of the invention, the use of the alcohol dehydrogenase mutant or recombinant alcohol dehydrogenase mutant catalyst in catalyzing the dehydrogenation of (-) -trans-isomenthenol to produce (-) -isomenthenone is provided.
In one embodiment of the present invention, NADH or NAD is present in the reaction solution+The amount of the compound is 0.1 to 0.5 mmol/L. O can be utilized in the reaction process2As co-substrate, NAD in the reaction system is realized by reaction catalyzed by NADH dehydrogenase+The coenzyme (2) is circulated, and the phosphate buffer solution of the reaction system is a phosphate buffer solution conventional in the art, such as potassium phosphate buffer solution, and the concentration thereof is preferably 50 mmol/L. The dehydrogenation reaction is carried out under the condition of shaking or stirring. The temperature of the dehydrogenation reaction is 20-40 ℃, and preferably 25 ℃. The time of the dehydrogenation reaction is based on the time of complete conversion of the substrate or self termination of the reaction, and the reaction time is preferably less than 24 h.
In the course of its use in catalyzing the dehydrogenation of (-) -trans-isomenthenol to prepare (-) -isomenthenone, the direct preparation of (-) -isomenthenone from (-) -trans-isomenthenol is not desirable due to the commercial unpreferability of the substrate (-) -trans-isomenthenol. Thus (-) -isomenthenone is synthesized indirectly by introducing a hydroxylation step. The method specifically comprises the following steps: passing through P450camY96F/Y247L(chem. Commun.,2001, 635-doped 636) and the indispensable electron transfer parts Pdx and PdR thereof are co-expressed on ampicillin-resistant pET21a, cheap and cheap (-) -limonene can be mostly hydroxylated into (-) -trans-isopnthrenol, and then the (-) -trans-isopnthrenol generated in the previous hydroxylation step is oxidized into (-) -isopnthrenol through the protein expressed by the kanamycin-resistant pET28a-PaIPDH mutant. Due to the fact thatFor this reason, the first step in the cascade enzyme method, P450cam, is partly consuming NADH to produce NAD+While the second step, PaIPDH mutant, consumes NAD+Generating NADH, namely self-circulating coenzyme. Thus, no external helper enzyme is required to circulate the coenzyme. And through whole cell reaction, the activity of P450 can be kept to the maximum extent without adding coenzyme NAD+/NADH。
Wherein, the reaction process of the alcohol dehydrogenase mutant and P450cam combined transformation for synthesizing (-) -isomenthenone (compound 3a) is shown in figure 1.
In which the protein P450cam is coexpressedY96F/Y247LThe DNA sequence of the-Pdx-PdR is shown as a sequence table SEQ ID No. 3.
After the oxidation reaction is finished, separating and extracting the oxidation product cyclic terpene ketone in the reaction liquid by a conventional method.
The method for separating and extracting the oxidation product cyclic terpene ketone in the reaction liquid is preferably that ethyl acetate is added into the reaction liquid for extraction, anhydrous sodium sulfate is added into an organic phase obtained by extraction for overnight drying, and due to the volatility of the product, an extraction liquid is concentrated by a reduced pressure distillation method at 20-25 ℃ to remove the solvent, so that a crude product of the product ketone is obtained. Preferably, the crude ketone product is separated by silica gel column chromatography, 200-300 mesh silica gel is adopted, and the eluent is petroleum ether: ethyl acetate 50: 1 (or 100:1), after the elution is finished, detecting the purity by GC, then collecting and combining elution tubes meeting the purity requirement, removing the solvent by a reduced pressure distillation method, and purifying to obtain the pure product of the target (-) -isomenthenone.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following innovation and improvement effects:
the invention provides an alcohol dehydrogenase mutant with better catalytic performance, which can efficiently catalyze the hydroxyl dehydrogenation reaction of cyclohexane 3 site-/6 site-alcohol to prepare optically pure ketone compounds such as: (-) -isomenthenone and (-) -carvone. The (-) -isomenthenone and the (-) -carvone are cyclic terpene ketone compounds, and the cyclic terpene ketone compounds have unique fragrance and antibacterial and anticancer effects, so that the cyclic terpene ketone compounds have wide application in the fragrance market and the medicine marketAnd (4) value. The alcohol dehydrogenase can catalyze the conversion of hydrophobic (-) -trans-iso-menthenol substrate with the concentration as high as 8mM, the conversion rate of more than 80 percent is realized, and the yield reaches 128.6mg L-1Is the highest yield of the current enzyme method for synthesizing (-) -isomenthenone. Compared with parent alcohol dehydrogenase PaIPDH, the alcohol dehydrogenase mutant obtained by the invention has the advantages of higher catalytic activity, high stability and the like, so that the mutant is more suitable for construction of a high-efficiency (-) -menthol synthesis way in microorganisms and has a great prospect.
Detailed Description
The individual reaction or detection conditions described in the context of the present invention may be combined or modified according to common general knowledge in the art and may be verified experimentally. The technical solutions and technical effects of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the specific embodiments, but the scope of the present invention is not limited to these embodiments, and all changes or equivalent substitutions that do not depart from the spirit of the present invention are included in the scope of the present invention.
The material sources in the following examples are:
the genome Pseudomonas aeruginosa contains a nucleic acid sequence shown in a sequence table SEQ ID No.1 and is extracted in a laboratory where the inventor is located.
The empty plasmid vector pET28a was purchased from Novagen.
Coli BL21(DE3) competent cells, PrimeSTAR (HS), Taq DNA polymerase, agarose gel DNA recovery kits were purchased from Beijing Tiangen Biochemical technology Ltd.
The restriction enzymes EcoR I, Hind III are all commercially available from New England Biolabs (NEB).
In the examples, mM is abbreviated as mmol/L.
Unless otherwise indicated, specific experiments in the following examples were performed according to methods and conditions conventional in the art, or according to the commercial instructions of the kits.
Example 1 construction of alcohol dehydrogenase PaIPDH
The PCR technology is adopted to construct alcohol dehydrogenase PaIPDH with an amino acid sequence shown as a sequence table SEQ ID No. 2.
The primers used were:
the sequence of the upstream primer is as follows: CCGGAATTCATGAGCAAACTTCTTTCCGGCCAGG are provided.
The sequence of the downstream primer is as follows: CCCAAGCTTTCAGATCGCCGTCGC are provided.
Wherein, the GAATTC sequence in the upstream primer is the enzyme cutting site of EcoR I, and the AAGCTT sequence in the downstream primer is the enzyme cutting site of Hind III.
PCR was carried out using 2 XTaq DNA polymerase using the genome Pseudomonas aeruginosa as a template. PCR System (20. mu.L): 2 XTaq DNA polymerase 10. mu.L, upstream and downstream primers (10. mu.M) 1. mu.L each, DMSO 1. mu.L, genomic Pseudomonas aeruginosa 2. mu.L, and sterilized distilled water to make up to 20. mu.L. PCR reaction procedure: (1) pre-denaturation at 94 ℃ for 10 min; (2) denaturation at 94 deg.C for 1 min; (3) annealing at 55 ℃ for 30 s; (4) extending for 1min at 72 ℃; carrying out 30 cycles in all of the steps (2) to (4); finally, extension is carried out for 10min at 72 ℃, and the product is stored at 4 ℃. And (3) carrying out agarose gel electrophoresis analysis and verification on the PCR product, then carrying out gel cutting, purification and recovery, and carrying out double digestion on the recovered target gene DNA fragment and the unloaded plasmid pET28a for 6h at 37 ℃ by using restriction enzymes EcoR I and Hind III respectively. The double restriction products are analyzed and verified by agarose gel electrophoresis, then the gel is cut, purified and recovered, and the obtained linearized pET28a plasmid and the purified target gene DNA fragment are placed at 16 ℃ for overnight connection by using T4 DNA ligase. The ligation product was transformed into E.coli BL21(DE3) competent cells, and uniformly spread on LB agar plates containing 50. mu.g/ml kanamycin, and placed in an incubator at 37 ℃ for static culture for about 12 hours.
The transformants on the transformation plates were pipetted into 4mL LB tubes and incubated overnight at 37 ℃ on a 220rpm shaker. After the sequencing verification, 50% of glycerol is added for bacterium preservation, so that pET28a-PaIPDH recombinant bacteria are obtained.
Example 2 semi-rational design construction of alcohol dehydrogenase PaIPDH mutant
On the basis of example 1, PaIPDH and its coenzyme NAD+Carrying out the proteinCrystallization yields PaIPDH-NAD+And (3) crystal compound, wherein a PaIPDH structure is subjected to molecular docking with a substrate molecule, and then alanine scanning is carried out on amino acids near a substrate pocket. With the assistance of software such as Pymol, Swiss-model, Autodockvina and the like, in the spatial stereo structure of alcohol dehydrogenase PaIPDH of an amino acid sequence shown in a sequence table SEQ ID No.2, amino acid residues around a binding site of a substrate (-) -trans-isoperienol comprise: glutamic acid at position 95, glutamic acid at position 97, glutamine at position 98, methionine at position 154, valine at position 189, aspartic acid at position 191, threonine at position 192, methionine at position 194, phenylalanine 195, tyrosine at position 199, phenylalanine at position 208. After sensitive sites are obtained from alanine scanning, the activity of the enzyme is further improved through site-directed saturation mutation and combined mutation. Site-directed mutagenesis is carried out on the amino acid residues at the sites by using a site-directed mutagenesis technology.
The primers used are shown in table 1:
TABLE 1 primer Table
PCR amplification was performed using PrimeStar (HS) premix using pET28a-PaIPDH as a template. The PCR system is as follows: 2 XPrimeStar HS premix 10 uL, upstream and downstream primers 1 uL, pET28a-PaIPDH plasmid 40ng, DMSO1 uL, adding sterile distilled water to make up to 20 uL. PCR reaction procedure: (1) pre-denaturation at 95 ℃ for 3 min; (2) denaturation at 98 ℃ for 10 s; (3) annealing at 55 ℃ for 15 s; (4) extending for 6min and 20s at 72 ℃; carrying out 18 cycles in all of the steps (2) to (4); finally, extension is carried out for 10min at 72 ℃. After the reaction, 1. mu.L of restriction enzyme Dpn I and 2. mu.L of 2 XCutsmart were added to 20. mu.L of PCR product, and the mixture was incubated at 37 ℃ for 2 hours to digest and degrade the template sufficiently, and the digested product was transformed into E.coli BL21(DE3) competent cells, spread uniformly on LB agar plates containing 50. mu.g/ml kanamycin, and left to stand in a 37 ℃ incubator for about 12 hours. The obtained monoclonal colonies were picked up to 4mL of LB medium and cultured at 37 ℃ overnight on a shaker at 220 rpm. After sequencing verification, pET28a-PaIPDH mutant recombinant bacteria are obtained.
Purifying PaIPDH mutant protein from broken supernatant of pET28a-PaIPDH mutant recombinant bacteria, and purifying with NAD+As a coenzyme, the activity of the expressed protein was measured in a 1mL cuvette. Containing 1mmol/L (-) -trans-isomenthenol and 10mmol/L NAD+Preheating 1mL of reaction system (50mmol/L glycine-sodium hydroxide buffer solution, pH10.0) to 40 ℃, adding a proper amount of alcohol dehydrogenase mutant, carrying out heat preservation reaction at 40 ℃, detecting absorbance change of NADH at 340nm on a spectrophotometer, recording the change value of absorbance within 1 minute, and calculating enzyme activity.
The activity of the obtained series of alcohol dehydrogenase mutants on (-) -trans-isopenthenol is improved by detecting the activity of the alcohol dehydrogenase PaIPDH through site-directed mutagenesis, wherein the glutamic acid at the 95 th position is replaced by phenylalanine (E95F), the valine at the 189 th position is replaced by tryptophan (V189W), the phenylalanine at the 195 th position is replaced by tryptophan (F195W), and the tyrosine at the 199 th position is replaced by valine (Y199V). On the basis, saturation mutation is carried out on some sites, and mutation points are combined to obtain mutants with obviously improved activity on (-) -trans-isopenthenol, and the sequences of the mutants and the activity of the mutants on the (-) -trans-isopenthenol are listed in a table 2.
TABLE 2 list of alcohol dehydrogenase mutant sequences and corresponding activity improvements
The alcohol dehydrogenase PaIPDH mutant amino acid has one of the following sequences:
(1) replacing glutamic acid at position 95 of the amino acid sequence shown as SEQ ID No.2 with valine (E95V);
(2) the glutamic acid at position 95 of the amino acid sequence shown as SEQ ID No.2 is replaced by phenylalanine (E95F);
(3) the glutamic acid at position 97 of the amino acid sequence shown as SEQ ID No.1 is replaced by methionine (E97M);
(4) the methionine at position 154 of the amino acid sequence shown as SEQ ID No.2 is replaced by histidine (M154H);
(5) replacing valine at position 189 of the amino acid sequence shown as SEQ ID No.2 with tryptophan (V189W);
(6) replacing valine at position 189 of the amino acid sequence shown as SEQ ID No.2 with isoleucine (V189I);
(7) replacing aspartic acid at position 191 of the amino acid sequence shown as SEQ ID No.2 with valine (D191V);
(8) substitution of methionine at position 194 of the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID No.2 with lysine (M194K);
(9) substitution of methionine at position 194 of the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID No.2 with asparagine (M194N);
(10) replacing phenylalanine at position 195 of the amino acid sequence shown as SEQ ID No.2 with tryptophan (F195W);
(11) replacing phenylalanine at position 195 of the amino acid sequence shown as SEQ ID No.2 with methionine (F195M);
(12) substitution of tyrosine 199 to valine (Y199V) of the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID No. 2;
(13) replacing tyrosine 199 th of the amino acid sequence shown as SEQ ID No.2 with histidine (Y199H);
(14) replacing glutamic acid at position 95 of the amino acid sequence shown as SEQ ID No.2 with valine (E95V), and replacing phenylalanine at position 208 with histidine (F208H);
(15) the glutamic acid at position 97 of the amino acid sequence shown as SEQ ID No.2 is replaced by methionine (E97M), and the methionine at position 154 is replaced by histidine (M154H);
(16) the methionine at position 194 of the amino acid sequence shown as SEQ ID No.2 is replaced by lysine (M194K), and the tyrosine at position 199 is replaced by serine (Y199W);
(17) substitution of methionine at position 194 with lysine (M194K), substitution of tyrosine at position 199 with histidine (Y199H), substitution of phenylalanine at position 208 with histidine (F208H) of the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID No. 2;
(18) the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID No.2 has the amino acid sequence with glutamic acid at position 95 substituted by phenylalanine (E95F), valine at position 189 substituted by tryptophan (V189W), phenylalanine at position 195 substituted by tryptophan (F195W) and tyrosine at position 199 substituted by valine (Y199V).
Example 3 expression and purification of recombinase PaIPDH mutant E95F/V189W/F195W/Y199V
The expression strain obtained in example 2, E.coli/pET28a-PaIPDHE95F/V189W/F195W/Y199VInoculated into LB liquid medium (tryptone: 10g/L, yeast extract: 5g/L, NaCl: 10g/L) containing 50. mu.g/mL kanamycin, shake-cultured at 220rpm at 37 ℃ for 24 hours, and inoculated at 1% inoculum size into 100mL TB liquid medium (tryptone: 12g/L, yeast extract: 24g/L, glycerol: 4mL/L, KH) containing 50. mu.g/mL kanamycin2PO4:2.31g/L,K2HPO412.54g/L), cultured in a shaker at 37 ℃ and 220rpm, when the optical density OD of the culture solution is600When the concentration reaches 0.6-0.8, 0.2mM IPTG is added for induction, and the culture is continued at 16 ℃ for 20-24 h. After completion of the culture, the culture solution was centrifuged at 8000 Xg and 4 ℃ to remove the supernatant, and the cells were washed twice with 0.9% physiological saline. Then purified buffer A (0.59 g/LNaH)2PO4·2H2O,5.8g/L Na2HPO4·12H2O,500mM NaCl, 5mM imidazole, 375. mu.L/L beta-mercaptoethanol, pH 7.4), the ratio of cells to buffer was 1: 20 (g/mL). After the resuspension was complete, the cells were sonicated (260W, 4s working, 6s pause). The disruption solution was centrifuged at 8000 Xg at 4 ℃ to remove the precipitate, and a supernatant containing the protein was obtained. The supernatant containing the target protein was poured onto a nickel column previously equilibrated with purification buffer a. Purification with buffer B (0.59g/L NaH)2PO4·2H2O,5.8g/L Na2HPO4·12H2O,500mM NaCl, 500mM imidazole, 375. mu.L/L beta-mercaptoethanol, pH 7.4-7.6) and purification buffer A are premixed for gradient elution with imidazole concentration of 0-250 mM. SDS-PAGE is carried out by a vertical electrophoresis apparatus, the concentration of the separation gel is 12.5%, and the collected eluted protein is detected, so that the purity of the mutant obtained by the method is over 90%, and the molecular weight is about 30 kDa. The appropriate eluate was collected, concentrated by ultrafiltration using a 10kDa ultrafiltration membrane at 4 ℃ and purified buffer C (0.59g/L NaH)2PO4·2H2O,5.8g/L Na2HPO4·12H2O,200mM NaCl, 2mM DTT), and finally carrying out ultrafiltration concentration to 1mL of protein solution by using a 10kDa ultrafiltration membrane at 4 ℃, adding 20% of glycerol and placing at-80 ℃ for later use.
Example 4 recombinant hydroxydehydrogenase PaIPDH and mutant E95F/V189W/F195W/Y199V catalytic dehydrogenation activity of substrate
The enzyme activity was measured in a 1mL cuvette, and 10. mu.L of 100mM substrate series (the structure is shown in Table 3) and 200. mu.L of 50mM NAD were added to 740. mu.L of glycine-NaOH buffer (50mM, pH10.0)+50 μ L of diluted pure enzyme. Detecting the absorbance change of NADH at 340nm on a spectrophotometer at 40 ℃, recording the change value of absorbance within 1 minute, and calculating the enzyme activity.
TABLE 3 Activity of PaIPDH catalytic series of substrates
Example 5 recombinant Hydroxydehydrogenase PaIPDHE95F/V189W/F195W/Y199VCatalytic synthesis of (-) -isomenthenone
pET21a-P450camY96F/Y247LPdx-Pdr and pET28a-PaIPDH mutant pET28a-PaIPDHE95F/V189W/F195W/Y199VThe two plasmids with different resistance were introduced into E.coli BL21(DE), and then plated to double-resistant platesThe plates were incubated at 37 ℃ for 12 h. The obtained monoclonal colonies were picked up to 4mL of LB medium containing 100. mu.g/mL of ampicillin and 50. mu.g/mL of kanamycin, cultured, and shaken at 37 ℃ and 220rpm overnight. The bacterial solution was inoculated from a test tube at an inoculum size of 1% to a shaking flask LB medium containing 100. mu.g/mL ampicillin and 50. mu.g/mL kanamycin, and cultured at 37 ℃ to OD600After 0.8, 0.2mM IPTG, 0.1mM FeCl were added3And 0.2mM 5-aminolevulinic acid, followed by incubation at 16 ℃ and 180rpm for a further 24 h. After completion of the culture, the culture solution was centrifuged at 8000 Xg and 4 ℃ to remove the supernatant, and the cells were washed twice with 0.9% physiological saline. The harvested pellet was resuspended with 50mM KPB (pH 7.6) to a cell content of 20g/L, and 1L of the cell suspension was added to a 5L three-necked flask, followed by addition of 158.9mg of (-) -limonene (final concentration 8mM), reaction at 25 ℃ and 200rpm for 18 hours, and the concentration of (-) -isomenthenone product was 128.6mg L-1,. After the reaction is finished, the product is extracted by using equal volume of ethyl acetate and dried for 8 hours by using anhydrous sodium sulfate, and the solvent is removed by reduced pressure rotary evaporation at the temperature of 20 ℃ to obtain a yellow crude product. All crude products obtained from the 9 batches of reactions are combined and purified by silica gel column chromatography to obtain a product (-) -isomenthenone, and the mobile phase is petroleum ether/ethyl acetate with the ratio of 100: 1. 529.5mg of yellowish liquid is obtained by separation, the separation yield is 41%, and the purity is more than 92%.
The specific applications of the mutant E95F/V189W/F195W/Y199V (i.e., the glutamic acid at position 95 of the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID No.2 is replaced by phenylalanine, the valine at position 189 is replaced by tryptophan, the phenylalanine at position 195 is replaced by tryptophan, and the tyrosine at position 199 is replaced by valine) in the above examples 4-5 are taken as examples to illustrate the catalytic activity of the substrate in dehydrogenation reaction, the catalytic synthesis of (-) -isomenthenone and the like. It should be noted that: as shown in Table 2, the mutant E95F/V189W/F195W/Y199V is only one of the alcohol dehydrogenase mutants of the invention, and as shown in Table 2, other kinds of alcohol dehydrogenase mutants have much higher specific activity than that of the protein consisting of the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID No.2, so that the technicians in the field know that other kinds of alcohol dehydrogenase mutants can catalyze the dehydrogenation activity of the substrate and catalyze and synthesize (-) -isomenthenone, and have the technical effect superior to that of the protein consisting of the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID No. 2. The embodiment of the invention is only illustrated by taking the mutant E95F/V189W/F195W/Y199V as an example.
The embodiments described above are described to facilitate an understanding and use of the invention by those skilled in the art. It will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications to these embodiments may be made, and the generic principles described herein may be applied to other embodiments without the use of the inventive faculty. Therefore, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and those skilled in the art should make improvements and modifications within the scope of the present invention based on the disclosure of the present invention.
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