Journal
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 383, Issue 5, Pages 1069-1080Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.06.060
Keywords
alkane oxidation; protein evolution; directed evolution; propane monooxygenase; cytochrome P450 BM3
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Funding
- NIH [GM32688]
- DOE [DE-FG0206ER15762]
- U.S. Army Research Office [AROICB DAAD19-03-D-0004]
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The evolutionary pressures that shaped the specificity and catalytic efficiency of enzymes can only be speculated. While directed evolution experiments show that new functions can be acquired under positive selection with few mutations, the role of negative selection in eliminating undesired activities and achieving high specificity remains unclear. Here we examine intermediates along the 'lineage' from a naturally occurring C-12-C-20 fatty acid hydroxylase (P450(BM3)) to a laboratory-evolved P450 propane monooxygenase (P450(PMO)) having 20 heme domain substitutions compared to P450(BM3). Biochemical, crystallographic, and computational analyses show that a minimal perturbation of the P450(BM3) fold and substrate-binding pocket accompanies a significant broadening of enzyme substrate range and the emergence of propane activity. In contrast, refinement of the enzyme catalytic efficiency for propane oxidation (similar to 9000-fold increase in k(cat)/K-m) involves profound reshaping and partitioning of the substrate access pathway. Remodeling of the substrate-recognition mechanisms ultimately results in remarkable narrowing of the substrate profile around propane and enables the acquisition of a basal iodomethane dehalogenase activity as yet unknown in natural alkane monooxygenases. A highly destabilizing L188P substitution in a region of the enzyme that undergoes a large conformational change during catalysis plays an important role in adaptation to the gaseous alkane. This work demonstrates that positive selection alone is sufficient to completely respecialize the cytochrome P450 for function on a normative substrate. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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