Mao Yaping, Ma Ying, Chen Tong, Ma Xiaohui, Xu Yanqin, Bu Junling, Li Qishuang, Jin Baolong, Wang Yanan, Li Yong, Cui Guanghong, Zhao Yujun, Tang Jinfu, Shen Ye, Lai Changjiangsheng, Zeng Wen, Chen Min, Guo Juan, Huang Luqi
State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Dao-di Herbs, National Resource Center for Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China.
Yunnan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Kunming 650500, China.
ACS Synth Biol. 2020 Jul 17;9(7):1763-1770. doi: 10.1021/acssynbio.0c00136. Epub 2020 Jul 3.
Cytochrome P450s (CYPs) are important enzymes in the secondary metabolism of plants and have been recognized as key players in bioengineering and synthetic biology. Previously reported CYP76AH1 and CYP76AH3, having greater than 80% sequence homology, played a continuous catalytic role in the biosynthesis of tanshinones in . Homology modeling indicates that four sites might be responsible for differences in catalytic activity between the two enzymes. A series of modeling-based mutational variants of CYP76AH1 were designed to integrate the functions of the two CYPs. The mutant CYP76AH1, which integrated the functions of CYP76AH1 and CYP76AH3, was found to efficiently catalyze C11 and C12 hydroxylation and C7 oxidation of miltiradiene substrates. Integration and utilization of CYP76AH1 by synthetic biology methods allowed the robust production of 11-hydroxy ferruginol, sugiol, and 11-hydroxy sugiol in yeast. The functionally integrated CYP gene after active site modifications improves catalytic efficiency by reducing the transfer of intermediate metabolites between component proteins. This provides a synthetic biology reference for improving the catalytic efficiencies of systems that produce plant natural products in microorganisms.
细胞色素P450(CYPs)是植物次生代谢中的重要酶,并且已被公认为生物工程和合成生物学中的关键角色。先前报道的CYP76AH1和CYP76AH3,序列同源性大于80%,在丹参酮的生物合成中发挥连续的催化作用。同源建模表明,四个位点可能是这两种酶催化活性差异的原因。设计了一系列基于建模的CYP76AH1突变体,以整合这两种CYPs的功能。发现整合了CYP76AH1和CYP76AH3功能的突变体CYP76AH1能够有效催化丹参二萜烯底物的C11和C12羟基化以及C7氧化。通过合成生物学方法对CYP76AH1进行整合和利用,使得在酵母中能够大量生产11-羟基铁锈醇、苏乔醇和11-羟基苏乔醇。活性位点修饰后功能整合的CYP基因通过减少中间代谢物在组成蛋白之间的转移提高了催化效率。这为提高微生物中生产植物天然产物系统的催化效率提供了合成生物学参考。