Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide kinase mutant and application thereof
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the technical fields of genetic engineering and enzyme catalysis, and particularly relates to a nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide kinase mutant and application thereof in catalyzing and generating NADP+ by taking nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide as a substrate.
Background
NADP is an abbreviation for nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate), abbreviated as coenzyme II, an oxidative coenzyme which is widely involved in the redox metabolism of living organisms and in a range of other biochemical reactions. It acts as a hydrogen transporter during biological oxidation and participates in various anabolic reactions, such as the synthesis of lipids, fatty acids and nucleotides, in the form of reduced NADPH. Coenzyme II has wide application in the fields of life science, enzyme catalysis asymmetric synthesis, medical care and the like.
Coenzyme II is widely present in organisms but in very low levels. At present, various methods for preparing nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate are available, including chemical synthesis, biological enzyme catalysis, yeast fermentation extraction and the like. The chemical method takes nicotinamide as a raw material and synthesizes NADP through multi-step reaction, but the chemical method has the problems of long reaction route, harsh reaction conditions, poor selectivity, easy generation of byproducts, low yield and the like, and has higher production cost, and the problem of environmental pollution is caused by the need of using an organic solvent. For the method of yeast fermentation extraction, since the content of NADP+ in yeast is too low, the method has a great limitation on an industrial production scale. Biological enzyme catalysis is gradually the mainstream method for industrially preparing NADP+ because of the inherent advantages of high efficiency, environmental protection, mild reaction conditions, strong stereoselectivity, high conversion rate compared with a fermentation method and the like.
In order to improve the catalytic efficiency of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide kinase (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide kinase, NADK), reduce the biocatalysis synthesis cost of NADP and improve the industrial application value of NADK, the invention utilizes a saturation mutation technology to randomly mutate NADK genes, and obtains NADK variant genes with improved enzyme activity through a large number of screening.
Disclosure of Invention
In view of the above-mentioned drawbacks of the prior art, the technical problem to be solved by the present invention is how to improve the catalytic efficiency of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide kinase, reduce the biocatalytic synthesis cost of NADP, and improve the industrial application value of NADK.
To achieve the above object, the present invention provides a Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide Kinase (NADK) mutant having higher catalytic activity compared to a wild type.
Preferably, the mutation site of the mutation is arginine on the wild type of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide kinase.
Preferably, the mutation site of the mutation is arginine at position 120, 236 or 237 on the wild type nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide kinase.
Preferably, the mutation is from arginine to histidine, glutamic acid or lysine.
Preferably, the mutant is one or more of R120H, R236E and R237K.
Preferably, the mutant is R120H; R236E; R237K; R236E, R237K; or R120H, R236E, R237K.
Preferably, the wild type nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide kinase is derived from salmonella typhimurium (Salmonella enterica subsp. Enterica serovar Typhimurium str. LT2), the coding nucleotide sequence of which is shown in SEQ ID NO. 1, and the amino acid sequence of which is shown in SEQ ID NO. 2.
Preferably, the amino acid sequences of the mutants are shown in SEQ ID NO. 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12.
In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a polynucleotide encoding the nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide kinase mutant described above.
Preferably, the nucleotide sequence of the polynucleotide is shown as SEQ ID NO. 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11.
In another preferred embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a vector comprising the polynucleotide described above.
In a further preferred embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an expression system comprising the vector described above.
According to the prior public knowledge, any gene is connected into various expression vectors after being operated or transformed, is transformed into a proper host cell, and can over-express target protein through induction under proper conditions. Therefore, the expression vector of the NADK enzyme and the mutant thereof can be pET or pCW or pUC or pPIC9k and the like, and the expression host can be escherichia coli, pichia pastoris, streptomycete, bacillus subtilis and the like.
The NADK gene sequence is synthesized by Changzhou-radix Yuan biotechnology Co Ltd, and is codon optimized for the codon preference of colibacillus, and NdeI and HindIII restriction endonuclease sites are respectively added at two ends of the coding region. The target gene fragment is subjected to restriction enzyme NdeI and HindIII digestion, then is connected with a pET28a (+) vector (Novagen company) subjected to double digestion, is transformed and screened to obtain a positive plasmid, and the positive plasmid NADK002-pET28a (+) is transferred into BL21 (DE 3) host bacteria, so that an in vitro heterologous expression system of NADK is constructed.
In a further preferred embodiment of the present invention there is provided the use of a mutant of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide kinase as described above for the production of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate.
The invention aims to provide a NADK mutant gene and application thereof, and overcomes the defect of poor catalytic activity of the traditional NADK in the process of catalyzing and synthesizing NADP+. The mutant enzyme expressed by the NADK variant gene obtained by the invention has higher catalytic activity on NAD+, and compared with wild NADK, the catalytic efficiency is increased by 1.9 times. The variant gene provides a wide application prospect for the industrial production of NADP+.
According to the invention, through analyzing the three-dimensional protein structure of NADK, one or more possible sites related to catalysis are predicted by utilizing the energy minimum principle and a molecular docking technology, then the NADK gene is mutated by utilizing a point saturation mutation technology, and the mutant with improved catalytic activity is obtained through screening. More specifically, when arginine (R) at position 120 is mutated to histidine (H), the catalytic activity of the mutant is increased relative to NADK. When arginine (R) at position 236 is mutated to glutamic acid (E), mutant enzyme activity is increased. When arginine (R) at position 237 is mutated to lysine (K), mutant enzyme activity is increased relative to NADK. When the above-mentioned 3-site mutations are combined in pairs or three, the catalytic activity of some mutants is improved more than that of a single mutant.
The conception, specific structure, and technical effects of the present invention will be further described below to fully understand the objects, features, and effects of the present invention.
Detailed Description
The following description will be given to various preferred embodiments of the present invention to make the technical contents thereof more clear and easy to understand. The present invention may be embodied in many different forms of embodiments and the scope of the present invention is not limited to only the embodiments described herein.
In the examples, the experimental procedures, which are not specified in particular conditions, were carried out according to conventional molecular biology experimental procedures, as described in the guidelines for molecular cloning experiments (J. Sambrook, D.W. Lassel, huang Peitang, wang Jiaxi, zhu Houchu, et al, third edition, beijing: science Press, 2002), or according to the methods recommended by the manufacturers of the kits.
EXAMPLE construction of prokaryotic expression System
The NADK gene fragment was synthesized by Changzhou-radix Yuan biotechnology Co., ltd and recombined onto the PUC57 vector. After double digestion with restriction enzymes NdeI and HindIII (available from New England Biolabs, NEB) for 4h at 37℃the digested products were separated by 1% agarose gel electrophoresis and recovered by gel digestion (gel recovery kit was available from Tiangen Biochemical Co., ltd.). Followed by ligation overnight at 16℃with the expression vector pET28a (+) (Novagen) subjected to the same double cleavage under the action of T4 DNA ligase (available from Takara). DH5a competent cells (purchased from Tiangen Biochemical technology (Beijing)) were transformed with the ligation solution, and colony PCR screening and sequencing verification were performed to obtain positive recombinant plasmid NADK-pET28a (+).
The positive recombinant plasmid NADK-pET28a (+) is transformed into expression host bacterium BL21 (DE 3) (purchased from Tiangen Biochemical technology (Beijing) limited company) to obtain prokaryotic expression strain NADK-pET28a (+)/BL 21 (DE 3) which is used as a primary strain for subsequent random mutation and fermentation.
The polyphosphate kinase (PPK 2, from E.coli) for ATP regeneration is synthesized by Changzhou-ary biotechnology Co., ltd, and the subsequent construction of recombinant expression plasmid is the same as that of NADK-pET28a (+) plasmid, and the expression strain is obtained after transfer into BL21 (DE 3).
Example two enzyme shake flask fermentation to prepare enzyme lyophilized powder
The expression strain NADK-pET28a (+)/BL 21 (DE 3) constructed above was cultured in 5ml LB liquid medium [ 10g/l tryptone (OXIO), 5g/l yeast powder (OXIO), 10g/l sodium chloride (national reagent) ] containing 30. Mu.g/ml kanamycin sulfate. The culture conditions were 37℃and 200rpm shaking, and the culture time was overnight. The overnight cultured broth was inoculated at a ratio of 1% (V/V) into 500ml LB liquid medium containing 30. Mu.g/ml kanamycin sulfate, and the culture was continued under shaking conditions of 200rpm at 37 ℃. When the OD600 value of the bacterial liquid reaches between 0.8 and 1.0, an inducer IPTG (isopropyl-. Beta. -D-thiogalactoside, IPTG) with a final concentration of 0.1mM is added, and the induction is carried out at 30 ℃ overnight. After induction, the cells were collected by centrifugation at 8000rpm at 4℃and suspended in 50mM sodium phosphate buffer pH 8.5. Followed by ultrasonication (ultrasonic power of 200W, crushing time of 3 seconds/dwell time of 5 seconds, total duration of 20 minutes). Then, the mixture was centrifuged at 12000rpm at 4℃for 20 minutes, and the supernatant was lyophilized to obtain a crude enzyme powder.
EXAMPLE construction of triple mutant library
Construction of the mutant: three-dimensional structural simulation of NADK was performed using homology modeling and the potential sites involved in catalysis and substrate binding were predicted using molecular docking and energy minimization principles, initially identified as three sites 120, 236, 237. Then, the four sites were subjected to saturation mutation respectively using NADK-pET28a (+) recombinant plasmid as a template (for specific mutation operations, reference is made to Stratagene Corp.)Site-Directed Mutagenesis Kit description of operation). Wherein the 120-site mutation forward primer: GGAAGGCNNKTATATTAGTGAAAAACGTTTTCTG, reverse primer: ATATAMNNGCCTTCCAGCACATCACT;236 mutation forward primer: TAGCCATNNKCGCAGCGATCTGGAAATTAGTTGC, reverse primer: CTGCGMNNATGGCTAAAGCGCAGGCG;237 site mutation forward primer: CCATCGTNNKAGCGATCTGGAAATTAGTTGCG, reverse primer: TCGCTMNNACGATGGCTAAAGCGCAGG.
Example four culture of mutants
Mutant culture: after transforming BL21 (DE 3) host bacteria with the above-obtained plasmid, the plasmid was spread on LB solid medium containing 30. Mu.g/ml kanamycin, and cultured overnight at 37℃in an inverted manner, and then the monoclonal antibody was picked up from the plate and cultured in a 96-well plate. The overnight cultured bacterial liquid was transferred to a 96-well plate containing fresh LB medium, and after shaking culture at 37℃and 220rpm for 4 hours, IPTG was added to the culture to give a final concentration of 0.1mM for induction, and the culture was continued overnight at 30 ℃. The cells were collected by centrifugation at 4000rpm for 10min at 4℃and suspended in 50mM sodium phosphate buffer pH8.5, followed by centrifugation to obtain a supernatant.
EXAMPLE five screening of mutants
Screening of mutants: using a substrate NAD concentration of 10g/L, ATP concentration of 50g/L and 10mM magnesium sulfate heptahydrate as reaction conditions, an appropriate amount of the supernatant prepared above was mixed with 10mM sodium phosphate buffer pH7.0, and the volume was made up to 2ml. Next, the mixture was placed under a constant temperature magnetic stirrer at 37℃to carry out a stirring reaction. After 20 minutes of reaction, samples were taken for HPLC detection.
The mutation sites contained in the clones with significantly improved mutant enzyme activity were as follows:
arginine (R) at position 120 is mutated to histidine (H);
arginine (R) at position 236 is mutated to glutamic acid (E);
arginine (R) at position 237 is mutated to lysine (K).
And then carrying out pairwise combined mutation and three combined mutations on the sites, wherein the activity detection shows that the catalytic activity of the combined mutation of the individual sites is obviously improved compared with that of single-point mutation, and the specific enzyme activity values are shown in the following table:
1U is defined as the amount of enzyme required to produce 1. Mu. Mol of product per unit of time (1 min).
Example six biocatalysis of mutants
400mg of substrate NAD was dissolved in 10mL of 50mM sodium phosphate buffer pH6.5, after the substrate was completely dissolved, 25mM sodium hexametaphosphate, 5mM ATP, 25mM magnesium sulfate heptahydrate, NADK mutant and PPK2 enzyme were added in amounts of 2g/L and 1g/L, respectively, and the reaction was stirred under a magnetic stirrer at a constant temperature of 50℃and carried out for 2 hours, followed by HPLC detection. The substrate conversion rate is more than 99%, and the generation rate of NADP can reach 95%.
The substrate conversion and product formation rates for the different mutants are shown in Table 2 below.
TABLE 2 substrate conversion and product formation of NADK with different mutants
Amino acid sequence numbering
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Mutant name
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Substrate conversion (%)
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Product yield (%)
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SEQ ID NO:2
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WildtypeNADK
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82%
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78%
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SEQ ID NO:4
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R236E
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84%
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80%
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SEQ ID NO:6
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R120H
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85%
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81%
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SEQ ID NO:8
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R237K
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85%
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81%
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SEQ ID NO:10
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R236E-R237K
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90%
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85%
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SEQ ID NO:12
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R236E-R237K-R120H
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99%
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95% |
The foregoing describes in detail preferred embodiments of the present invention. It should be understood that numerous modifications and variations can be made in accordance with the concepts of the invention without requiring creative effort by one of ordinary skill in the art. Therefore, the technical solutions obtained by logic analysis, reasoning or limited experiments based on the prior art by those skilled in the art according to the present invention should be within the scope of protection defined by the claims.