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  • Titel: General approach to reversing ketol-acid reductoisomerase cofactor dependence from NADPH to NADH
  • Beteiligte: Brinkmann-Chen, Sabine; Flock, Tilman; Cahn, Jackson K. B.; Snow, Christopher D.; Brustad, Eric M.; Mclntosha, John A.; Meinhold, Peter; Zhang, Liang; Arnold, Frances H.
  • Erschienen: National Academy of Sciences, 2013
  • Erschienen in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110 (2013) 27, Seite 10946-10951
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISSN: 0027-8424
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  • Beschreibung: To date, efforts to switch the cofactor specificity of oxidoreductases from nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) to nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) have been made on a caseby-case basis with varying degrees of success. Here we present a straightforward recipe for altering the cofactor specificity of a class of NADPH-dependent oxidoreductases, the ketol-acid reductoisomerases (KARIs). Combining previous results for an engineered NADH-dependent variant of Escherichia coli KARI with available KARI crystal structures and a comprehensive KARI-sequence alignment we identified key cofactor specificity determinants and used this information to construct five KARIs with reversed cofactor preference. Additional directed evolution generated two enzymes having NADH-dependent catalytic efficiencies that are greater than the wild-type enzymes with NADPH. High-resolution structures of a wild-type/variant pair reveal the molecular basis of the cofactor switch.
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