Directed Evolution of (R)-2-Hydroxyglutarate Dehydrogenase Improves 2-Oxoadipate Reduction by 2 Orders of Magnitude
ACS SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY(2022)
Abstract
Pathway engineering is commonly employed to improve the production of various metabolites but may incur in bottlenecks due to the low catalytic activity of a particular reaction step. The reduction of 2-oxoadipate to (R)-2-hydroxyadipate is a key reaction in metabolic pathways that exploit 2-oxoadipate conversion via alpha-reduction to produce adipic acid, an industrially important platform chemical. Here, we engineered (R)-2-hydroxyglutarate dehydrogenase from Acidaminococcus fermentans (Hgdh) with the aim of improving 2-oxoadipate reduction. Using a combination of computational analysis, saturation mutagenesis, and random mutagenesis, three mutant variants with a 100-fold higher catalytic efficiency were obtained. As revealed by rational analysis of the mutations found in the variants, this improvement could be ascribed to a general synergistic effect where mutation A206V played a key role since it boosted the enzyme's activity by 4.8-fold. The Hgdh variants with increased activity toward 2-oxoadipate generated within this study pave the way for the bio-based production of adipic acid.
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Key words
adipic acid,protein engineering,random mutagenesis,saturation mutagenesis,(R)-2-hydroxyacid dehydrogenase,(R)-2-hydroxyadipate
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