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APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 92, Issue 3, Pages 509-517Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-011-3362-8
Keywords
Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA); Improved two-phase reaction system (iTPRS); 2-Hydroxybutyrate (2HB); Ralstonia eutropha; Class I PHA synthase
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- New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) of Japan
- Global COE Program [B01]
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, Japan [21310060, 21760632]
- Regional Innovation Cluster Program (Global Type)
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [21760632, 21310060, 22651032, 23310059] Funding Source: KAKEN
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A previously established improved two-phase reaction system has been applied to analyze the substrate specificities and polymerization activities of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) synthases. We first analyzed the substrate specificity of propionate coenzyme A (CoA) transferase and found that 2-hydroxybutyrate (2HB) was converted into its CoA derivative. Then, the synthesis of PHA incorporating 2HB was achieved by a wild-type class I PHA synthase from Ralstonia eutropha. The PHA synthase stereoselectively polymerized (R)-2HB, and the maximal molar ratio of 2HB in the polymer was 9 mol%. The yields and the molecular weights of the products were decreased with the increase of the (R)-2HB concentration in the reaction mixture. The weight-average molecular weight of the polymer incorporating 9 mol% 2HB was 1.00 x 10(5), and a unimodal peak with polydispersity of 3.1 was observed in the GPC chart. Thermal properties of the polymer incorporating 9 mol% 2HB were analyzed by DSC and TG-DTA. T (g), T (m), and T (d) (10%) were observed at -1.1A degrees C, 158.8A degrees C, and 252.7A degrees C, respectively. In general, major components of PHAs are 3-hydroxyalkanoates, and only engineered class II PHA synthases have been reported as enzymes having the ability to polymerize HA with the hydroxyl group at C2 position. Thus, this is the first report to demonstrate that wild-type class I PHA synthase was able to polymerize 2HB.
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