Abstract
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | e0171585 |
| Journal | PLOS ONE |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| ISSN | 1932-6203 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
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Design of Trypanosoma rangeli sialidase mutants with improved trans-sialidase activity. / Nyffenegger, Christian; Nordvang, Rune Thorbjørn; Jers, Carsten; Meyer, Anne S.; Mikkelsen, Jørn Dalgaard.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Design of Trypanosoma rangeli sialidase mutants with improved trans-sialidase activity
AU - Nyffenegger, Christian
AU - Nordvang, Rune Thorbjørn
AU - Jers, Carsten
AU - Meyer, Anne S.
AU - Mikkelsen, Jørn Dalgaard
N1 - Copyright: © 2017 Nyffenegger et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - A sialidase (EC 3.2.1.18) from the non-pathogenic Trypanosoma rangeli, TrSA, has been shown to exert trans-sialidase activity after mutation of five specific amino acids in the active site (M96V, A98P, S120Y, G249Y, Q284P) to form the so-called TrSA5mut enzyme. By computational and hypothesis driven approaches additional mutations enhancing the trans-sialidase activity have been suggested. In the present work, we made a systematic combination of these mutations leading to seven new variants of the T. rangeli sialidase, having 6-16 targeted amino acid mutations. The resulting enzyme variants were analyzed via kinetics for their ability to carry out trans-sialidase reaction using CGMP and D-lactose as substrates. The sialidase variants with 15 and 16 mutations, respectively, exhibited significantly improved trans-sialidase activity for D-lactose sialylation. Our results corroborate, that computational studies of trans-glycosylation can be a valuable input in the design of novel trans-glycosidases, but also highlight the importance of experimental validation in order to assess the performance. In conclusion, two of the seven mutants displayed a dramatic switch in specificity from hydrolysis towards trans-sialylation and constitute the most potent trans-sialidase mutants of TrSA described in literature to date.
AB - A sialidase (EC 3.2.1.18) from the non-pathogenic Trypanosoma rangeli, TrSA, has been shown to exert trans-sialidase activity after mutation of five specific amino acids in the active site (M96V, A98P, S120Y, G249Y, Q284P) to form the so-called TrSA5mut enzyme. By computational and hypothesis driven approaches additional mutations enhancing the trans-sialidase activity have been suggested. In the present work, we made a systematic combination of these mutations leading to seven new variants of the T. rangeli sialidase, having 6-16 targeted amino acid mutations. The resulting enzyme variants were analyzed via kinetics for their ability to carry out trans-sialidase reaction using CGMP and D-lactose as substrates. The sialidase variants with 15 and 16 mutations, respectively, exhibited significantly improved trans-sialidase activity for D-lactose sialylation. Our results corroborate, that computational studies of trans-glycosylation can be a valuable input in the design of novel trans-glycosidases, but also highlight the importance of experimental validation in order to assess the performance. In conclusion, two of the seven mutants displayed a dramatic switch in specificity from hydrolysis towards trans-sialylation and constitute the most potent trans-sialidase mutants of TrSA described in literature to date.
U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0171585
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0171585
M3 - Journal article
VL - 12
JO - P L o S One
JF - P L o S One
SN - 1932-6203
IS - 2
M1 - e0171585
ER -