Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown
Published: April 9, 2025
Distal protein engineering facilitates the efficient identification of novel modification sites and synergistic modulation enzyme functions to meet demands biocatalysts for industrial applications. Using hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase as a target protein, this study presents distal site saturation test-iterative parallel mutagenesis (DSST-IPM) strategy design high-performance enzymes. Twelve single-point mutations were identified improve stability-activity trade-off in site, targeting 34 residues. S176G Q245L exhibited significant melting temperature (Tm) increase 11.3 10.6 °C, respectively. Iterative screening yielded mutation7β-HSDH-M6b, which showed 13.3 °C higher Tm 5.92-fold catalytic activity (kcat/Km) than wild-type 7β-HSDH. Systematic analysis molecular dynamics simulations, quantum mechanical calculations, dynamic cross-correlation matrix (DCCM), mechanism behind enhanced performance M6b was elucidated. It uncovered that critical fourth shell could influence conformational during enzyme-catalyzed reaction, leading alterations inter-regional force interaction network. This thus offers an advanced framework improving efficiency highly active, thermostable
Language: Английский