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- Title
An Efficient Protein Evolution Workflow for the Improvement of Bacterial PET Hydrolyzing Enzymes.
- Authors
Pirillo, Valentina; Orlando, Marco; Tessaro, Davide; Pollegioni, Loredano; Molla, Gianluca
- Abstract
Enzymatic degradation is a promising green approach to bioremediation and recycling of the polymer poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET). In the past few years, several PET-hydrolysing enzymes (PHEs) have been discovered, and new variants have been evolved by protein engineering. Here, we report on a straightforward workflow employing semi-rational protein engineering combined to a high-throughput screening of variant libraries for their activity on PET nanoparticles. Using this approach, starting from the double variant W159H/S238F of Ideonella sakaiensis 201-F6 PETase, the W159H/F238A-ΔIsPET variant, possessing a higher hydrolytic activity on PET, was identified. This variant was stabilized by introducing two additional known substitutions (S121E and D186H) generating the TS-ΔIsPET variant. By using 0.1 mg mL−1 of TS-ΔIsPET, ~10.6 mM of degradation products were produced in 2 days from 9 mg mL−1 PET microparticles (~26% depolymerization yield). Indeed, TS-ΔIsPET allowed a massive degradation of PET nanoparticles (>80% depolymerization yield) in 1.5 h using only 20 μg of enzyme mL−1. The rationale underlying the effect on the catalytic parameters due to the F238A substitution was studied by enzymatic investigation and molecular dynamics/docking analysis. The present workflow is a well-suited protocol for the evolution of PHEs to help generate an efficient enzymatic toolbox for polyester degradation.
- Subjects
PROTEIN engineering; MOLECULAR dynamics; WORKFLOW; ENZYMES; HIGH throughput screening (Drug development)
- Publication
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022, Vol 23, Issue 1, p264
- ISSN
1661-6596
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/ijms23010264