Journal
MOLECULES
Volume 26, Issue 21, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/molecules26216586
Keywords
transglycosidation; hydrolysis; contact-residues; amylase; glucanotransferase; coevolution; enrichment-factor; specificity
Funding
- DGAPA-UNAM through PAPIIT
- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACYT), Mexico
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The proteins in the CAZy glycoside hydrolase family GH13 catalyze the hydrolysis of polysaccharides and perform transglycosylation, with identifying structural determinants associated with reaction specificity being crucial for enzyme modification and design. A computational approach is proposed in this work to decode the determinant structural composition defining the reaction specificity, showing the capacity to identify residues outside of the active center that affect the reaction specificity.
The proteins within the CAZy glycoside hydrolase family GH13 catalyze the hydrolysis of polysaccharides such as glycogen and starch. Many of these enzymes also perform transglycosylation in various degrees, ranging from secondary to predominant reactions. Identifying structural determinants associated with GH13 family reaction specificity is key to modifying and designing enzymes with increased specificity towards individual reactions for further applications in industrial, chemical, or biomedical fields. This work proposes a computational approach for decoding the determinant structural composition defining the reaction specificity. This method is based on the conservation of coevolving residues in spatial contacts associated with reaction specificity. To evaluate the algorithm, mutants of alpha-amylase (TmAmyA) and glucanotransferase (TmGTase) from Thermotoga maritima were constructed to modify the reaction specificity. The K98P/D99A/H222Q variant from TmAmyA doubled the transglycosydation/hydrolysis (T/H) ratio while the M279N variant from TmGTase increased the hydrolysis/transglycosidation ratio five-fold. Molecular dynamic simulations of the variants indicated changes in flexibility that can account for the modified T/H ratio. An essential contribution of the presented computational approach is its capacity to identify residues outside of the active center that affect the reaction specificity.
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