Journal
CHEMBIOCHEM
Volume 13, Issue 6, Pages 872-878Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201200006
Keywords
Baeyer-Villiger monooxygenase; biotransformation; flavoprotein; NADPH; oxidoreductase
Funding
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
- PML Applications Ltd.
- NERC [NE/F014406/1, pml010004] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/F014406/1, pml010004] Funding Source: researchfish
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A gene from the marine bacterium Stenotrophomonas maltophilia encodes a 38.6 kDa FAD-containing flavoprotein (Uniprot B2FLR2) named S. maltophilia flavin-containing monooxygenase (SMFMO), which catalyses the oxidation of thioethers and also the regioselective BaeyerVilliger oxidation of the model substrate bicyclo[3.2.0]hept-2-en-6-one. The enzyme was unusual in its ability to employ either NADH or NADPH as nicotinamide cofactor. The KM and kcat values for NADH were 23.7+/-9.1 mu M and 0.029 s-1 and 27.3+/-5.3 mu M and 0.022 s-1 for NADPH. However, kcat/KM value for the ketone substrate in the presence of 100 mu M cofactor was 17 times greater for NADH than for NADPH. SMFMO catalysed the quantitative conversion of 5 mM ketone in the presence of substoichiometric concentrations of NADH with the formate dehydrogenase cofactor recycling system, to give the 2-oxa and 3-oxa lactone products of BaeyerVilliger reaction in a ratio of 5:1, albeit with poor enantioselectivity. The conversion with NADPH was 15?%. SMFMO also catalysed the NADH-dependent transformation of prochiral aromatic thioethers, giving in the best case, 80?% ee for the transformation of p-chlorophenyl methyl sulfide to its R enantiomer. The structure of SMFMO reveals that the relaxation in cofactor specificity appears to be accomplished by the substitution of an arginine residue, responsible for recognition of the 2'-phosphate on the NADPH ribose in related NADPH-dependent FMOs, with a glutamine residue in SMFMO. SMFMO is thus representative of a separate class of single-component, flavoprotein monooxygenases that catalyse NADH-dependent oxidations from which possible sequences and strategies for developing NADH-dependent biocatalysts for asymmetric oxygenation reactions might be identified.
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