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JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOENGINEERING
Volume 124, Issue 1, Pages 23-27Publisher
SOC BIOSCIENCE BIOENGINEERING JAPAN
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiosc.2017.02.004
Keywords
Amino acid racemase; Pyrococcus horikoshii OT-3; Broad substrate specificity; Kinetics; Hyperthermophilic archaeon
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A novel amino acid racemase with broad substrate specificity (BAR) was recently isolated from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus horikoshii OT-3. Characterization of this enzyme has been difficult, however, because the recombinant enzyme is produced mainly as an inclusion body in Escherichia coli. In this study, expression of the recombinant protein into the soluble fraction was markedly improved by co-expression with chaperone molecules. The purified enzyme retained its full activity after incubation at 80 degrees C for at least 2 h in buffer (pH 7-10), making this enzyme the most thermostable amino acid racemase so far known. Besides the nine amino acids containing hydrophobic and aromatic amino acids previously reported (Kawakami et al., Amino Adds, 47, 1579-1587, 2015), the enzyme exhibited substantial activity toward Thr (about 42% of relative activity toward Phe) and showed no activity toward Arg, His, Gin, and Asn. The substrate specificity of this enzyme thus differs markedly from those of other known amino acid racemases. In particular, the high reaction rate with Trp and Tyr, in addition to Leu, Met and Phe as substrates is a noteworthy feature of this enzyme. The high reactivity toward Trp and Tyr, as well as extremely high thermostability, is likely a major advantage of using BAR for biochemical conversion of these aromatic amino acids. (C) 2017, The Society for Biotechnology, Japan. All rights reserved.
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