Williams Gavin J, Goff Randal D, Zhang Changsheng, Thorson Jon S
Laboratory for Biosynthetic Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, School of Pharmacy, National Cooperative Drug Discovery Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 777 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI 53705, USA.
Chem Biol. 2008 Apr;15(4):393-401. doi: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2008.02.017.
A comprehensive two-phase "hot spot" saturation mutagenesis strategy for the rapid evolution of glycosyltransferase (GT) specificity for nonnatural acceptors is described. Specifically, the application of a high-throughput screen (based on the fluorescent acceptor umbelliferone) was used to identify key amino acid hot spots that contribute to GT proficiency and/or promiscuity. Saturation mutagenesis of the corresponding hot spots facilitated the utilization of a lower-throughput screen to provide OleD prodigy capable of efficiently glycosylating the nonnatural acceptor novobiocic acid with an array of unique sugars. Incredibly, even in the absence of a high-throughput screen for novobiocic acid glycosylation, this approach rapidly led to improvements in the desired catalytic activity of several hundred-fold.
描述了一种全面的两阶段“热点”饱和诱变策略,用于糖基转移酶(GT)对非天然受体特异性的快速进化。具体而言,应用高通量筛选(基于荧光受体伞形酮)来鉴定有助于GT活性和/或通用性的关键氨基酸热点。对相应热点进行饱和诱变有助于利用较低通量的筛选,以提供能够用一系列独特糖类有效糖基化非天然受体新生霉素酸的OleD变体。令人惊讶的是,即使在没有针对新生霉素酸糖基化的高通量筛选的情况下,这种方法也能迅速使所需的催化活性提高数百倍。