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Engineering a highly active thermophilic ?-glucosidase to enhance its pH stability and saccharification performance.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:?-Glucosidase is an important member of the biomass-degrading enzyme system, and plays vital roles in enzymatic saccharification for biofuels production. Candidates with high activity and great stability over high temperature and varied pHs are always preferred in industrial practice. To achieve cost-effective biomass conversion, exploring natural enzymes, developing high level expression systems and engineering superior mutants are effective approaches commonly used. RESULTS:A newly identified ?-glucosidase of GH3, Bgl3A, from Talaromyces leycettanus JCM12802, was overexpressed in yeast strain Pichia pastoris GS115, yielding a crude enzyme activity of 6000 U/ml in a 3 L fermentation tank. The purified enzyme exhibited outstanding enzymatic properties, including favorable temperature and pH optima (75 °C and pH 4.5), good thermostability (maintaining stable at 60 °C), and high catalytic performance (with a specific activity and catalytic efficiency of 905 U/mg and 9096/s/mM on pNPG, respectively). However, the narrow stability of Bgl3A at pH 4.0-5.0 would limit its industrial applications. Further site-directed mutagenesis indicated the role of excessive O-glycosylation in pH liability. By removing the potential O-glycosylation sites, two mutants showed improved pH stability over a broader pH range (3.0-10.0). Besides, with better stability under pH 5.0 and 50 °C compared with wild type Bgl3A, saccharification efficiency of mutant M1 was improved substantially cooperating with cellulase Celluclast 1.5L. And mutant M1 reached approximately equivalent saccharification performance to commercial ?-glucosidase Novozyme 188 with identical ?-glucosidase activity, suggesting its great prospect in biofuels production. CONCLUSIONS:In this study, we overexpressed a novel ?-glucosidase Bgl3A with high specific activity and high catalytic efficiency in P. pastoris. We further proved the negative effect of excessive O-glycosylation on the pH stability of Bgl3A, and enhanced the pH stability by reducing the O-glycosylation. And the enhanced mutants showed much better application prospect with substantially improved saccharification efficiency on cellulosic materials.

SUBMITTER: Xia W

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4955127 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Engineering a highly active thermophilic β-glucosidase to enhance its pH stability and saccharification performance.

Xia Wei W Xu Xinxin X Qian Lichun L Shi Pengjun P Bai Yingguo Y Luo Huiying H Ma Rui R Yao Bin B

Biotechnology for biofuels 20160720

<h4>Background</h4>β-Glucosidase is an important member of the biomass-degrading enzyme system, and plays vital roles in enzymatic saccharification for biofuels production. Candidates with high activity and great stability over high temperature and varied pHs are always preferred in industrial practice. To achieve cost-effective biomass conversion, exploring natural enzymes, developing high level expression systems and engineering superior mutants are effective approaches commonly used.<h4>Resul ...[more]

PMID: 27446236

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Project description:BACKGROUND:Most ?-glucosidases reported are sensitive to the end product (glucose), making it the rate limiting component of cellulase for efficient degradation of cellulose through enzymatic route. Thus, there are ongoing interests in searching for glucose-tolerant ?-glucosidases, which are still active at high glucose concentration. Although many ?-glucosidases with different glucose-tolerance levels have been isolated and characterized in the past decades, the effects of glucose-tolerance on the hydrolysis of cellulose are not thoroughly studied. RESULTS:In the present study, a novel ?-glucosidase (Bgl6) with the half maximal inhibitory concentration (IC 50) of 3.5 M glucose was isolated from a metagenomic library and characterized. However, its poor thermostability at 50 °C hindered the employment in cellulose hydrolysis. To improve its thermostability, random mutagenesis was performed. A thermostable mutant, M3, with three amino acid substitutions was obtained. The half-life of M3 at 50 °C is 48 h, while that of Bgl6 is 1 h. The K cat/K m value of M3 is 3-fold higher than that of Bgl6. The mutations maintained its high glucose-tolerance with IC 50 of 3.0 M for M3. In a 10-h hydrolysis of cellobiose, M3 completely converted cellobiose to glucose, while Bgl6 reached a conversion of 80 %. Then their synergistic effects with the commercial cellulase (Celluclast 1.5 L) on hydrolyzing pretreated sugarcane bagasse (SCB) were investigated. The supplementation of Bgl6 or mutant M3 to Celluclast 1.5 L significantly improved the SCB conversion from 64 % (Celluclast 1.5 L alone) to 79 % (Bgl6) and 94 % (M3), respectively. To further evaluate the application potential of M3 in high-solids cellulose hydrolysis, such reactions were performed at initial glucose concentration of 20-500 mM. Results showed that the supplementation of mutant M3 enhanced the glucose production from SCB under all the conditions tested, improving the SCB conversion by 14-35 %. CONCLUSIONS:These results not only clearly revealed the significant role of glucose-tolerance in cellulose hydrolysis, but also showed that mutant M3 may be a potent candidate for high-solids cellulose refining.

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Engineering a highly active thermophilic ?-glucosidase to enhance its pH stability and saccharification performance.

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Engineering a highly active thermophilic β-glucosidase to enhance its pH stability and saccharification performance.

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