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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 269, Issue 18, Pages 4495-4504Publisher
BLACKWELL PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2002.03143.x
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7-ADCA; cephalosporin acylase; directed evolution; Pseudomonas SY-77; selection methods
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Semi-synthetic cephalosporin antibiotics belong to the top 10 of most sold drugs, and are produced from 7-aminodesacetoxycephalosporanic acid (7-ADCA). Recently new routes have been developed which allow for the production of adipyl-7-ADCA by a novel fermentation process. To complete the biosynthesis of 7-ADCA a highly active adipyl acylase is needed for deacylation of the adipyl derivative. Such an adipyl acylase can be generated from known glutaryl acylases. The glutaryl acylase of Pseudomonas SY-77 was mutated in a first round by exploration mutagenesis. For selection the mutants were grown on an adipyl substrate. The residues that are important to the adipyl acylase activity were identified, and in a second round saturation mutagenesis of this selected stretch of residues yielded variants with a threefold increased catalytic efficiency. The effect of the mutations could be rationalized on hindsight by the 3D structure of the acylase. In conclusion, the substrate specificity of a dicarboxylic acid acylase was shifted towards adipyl-7-ADCA by a two-step directed evolution strategy. Although derivatives of the substrate were used for selection, mutants retained activity on the beta-lactam substrate. The strategy herein described may be generally applicable to all beta-lactam acylases.
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