Journal
CHEMBIOCHEM
Volume 23, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/cbic.202100439
Keywords
artificial enzyme cascades; biocatalysis; enzyme-material hybridization; P450s; substrate engineering
Funding
- NSF
- SC EPSCoR/IDeA Program under NSF Award [OIA-1655740]
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Cytochrome P450 enzymes play a crucial role in the oxidative transformation of organic substrates, but face limitations in synthetic biology applications. Recent research has focused on emerging strategies such as substrate engineering, decoy-based auxiliaries, and designing artificial enzyme cascades to improve P450 enzyme activity. Remaining challenges and future opportunities will be discussed in this minireview.
Cytochrome P450 enzymes (P450s, CYPs) catalyze the oxidative transformation of a wide range of organic substrates. Their functions are crucial to xenobiotic metabolism and steroid transformation in humans and other organisms. The enzymes are promising for synthetic biology applications but limited by several drawbacks including low turnover rates, poor stability, the dependance of expensive cofactors and redox partners, and the narrow substrate scope. To conquer these obstacles, emerging strategies including substrate engineering, usage of decoy and decoy-based small molecules auxiliaries, designing of artificial enzyme cascades and the incorporation of materials have been explored based on the unique properties of P450s. These strategies can be applied to a wide range of P450s and can be combined with protein engineering to improve the enzymatic activities. This minireview will focus on some recent developments of these strategies which have been used to leverage P450 catalysis. Remaining challenges and future opportunities will also be discussed.
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