Patent Application
20220090029
The present invention relates to the field of biochemical industry, and specifically relates to a production method of homochiral L-glufosinate-ammonium, which is a method for producing optically pure L-glufosinate-ammonium using a glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase mutant derived from microorganisms.
Glufosinate-ammonium is the second largest herbicide that transgenic crops are resistant to in the world. It was developed and produced by Hearst Corporation (now owned by Bayer after several mergers). Its chemical name is 4-[hydroxy (methyl) phosphonoyl]-DL-homoalanine, also known as glufosinate ammonium salt, Basta, Buster, etc. It is a phosphonic acid herbicide, a glutamine synthetase inhibitor and a nonselective (killing), contact herbicide.
At present, three major herbicides in the world are glyphosate, glufosinate and paraquat. Compared with paraquat and glyphosate, glufosinate has excellent herbicidal performance and less side-effect to crops. With glufosinate-tolerant transgenic crops developed rapidly, market demand for glufosinate-ammonium will be huge in the future, and the prospects are very broad.
Glufosinate-ammonium has two optical isomers, L-glufosinate-ammonium and D-glufosinate-ammonium. However, only the L-configuration has the features of physiological activity, easy decomposability in soil and less toxicity to humans and animals, is a broad-spectrum herbicide, and is less destructive to environment.
Glufosinate-ammonium has two enantiomers, D and L, but only the L-configuration has the features of phytotoxicity, easy decomposability in the soil and less toxicity to humans and animals, and is less destructive to environment. At present, glufosinate-ammonium on the market is generally a racemic mixture. If glufosinate-ammonium products can be used in the form of optically pure L-isomer, the amount of glufosinate-ammonium applied can be reduced by 50%, which is very important for improving atomic economy and reducing the cost and environmental pressure. The currently reported methods to produce L-glufosinate-ammonium are mainly chemical synthesis methods including resolution of racemic glufosinate-ammonium, chiral pool method, chiral auxiliary group method and asymmetric catalysis method. However, they have problems that D-glufosinate-ammonium is not easy to racemize and reuse, that the synthesis steps are lengthy, that the reaction requires ultra-low temperature, that the product ee value is low, that the yield is low, and that the chiral resolution reagents are expensive. In contrast, biosynthesis has the advantages of strict stereoselectivity, mild reaction conditions, and easy separation and purification of products. Therefore, exploring the feasibility of using biosynthesis to produce L-glufosinate-ammonium has very important industrial value and significant social benefits.
According to raw materials and methods, biological methods of producing L-glufosinate-ammonium mainly include the following three categories:
1) Using L-glufosinate-ammonium derivative as a substrate, obtain L-glufosinate-ammonium by enzymatic hydrolysis directly. The main advantages are high conversion rate and high ee value of the product, but it is expensive and difficult to obtain chiral raw materials as precursors (Organophosphorus analogues and derivatives or the natural L-amino carboxylic acids and peptides. I. Enzymatic synthesis or D-, DL-, and L-phosphinothricin and their cyclicanalogues[J]. BμLlchemsocjpn, 1988,61(10):3699-3704.). For example, the simplest biological method to prepare L-glufosinate-ammonium is to directly hydrolyze bialaphos by a protease. Bialaphos is a natural tripeptide. Under the catalysis of the protease, bialaphos removes 2 molecules of L-alanine to generate L-glufosinate-ammonium.
2) Using precursor of racemic glufosinate-ammonium as a substrate, obtain L-glufosinate-ammonium by enantioselective hydrolysis of an enzyme. The main advantage is that raw materials are relatively easy to obtain, and that the catalyst has high activity, but its theoretical yield can only reach 50%, which will cause waste of raw materials. Natchev reported a method to prepare L-glufosinate-ammonium by using α-chymotrypsin to hydrolyze the ethyl ester of bialaphos. The method firstly undergoes a 3-step reaction to transform racemic glufosinate into the diethyl ester of bialaphos, secondly selectively hydrolyzes of the C-terminal ester group of the diethyl ester of bialaphos by alkaline mesintericopeptidase, thirdly undergoes α-chymotrypsin-catalyzed hydrolysis of the peptide bond (ChemInrormAbstract:Total Synthesis and Enzyme-Substrate Interaction or D-, DL-, and L-Phosphinotricine, “Bialaphos” (Sr-1293) and Its Cyclic Analogues[J]. ChemInrorm, 1989, 1(17):125-131.), in which, the α-chymotrypsin can selectively hydrolyze the ethyl ester of L-bialaphos to produce the ethyl ester of L-glufosinate-ammonium, and finally use phosphodiesterase to hydrolyze P-terminal ester group to obtain L-glufosinate-ammonium.
3) Using α-keto acid-2-carbonyl-4-[(hydroxy)(methyl)phosphinoyl]-butyric acid as a substrate, obtain L-glufosinate-ammonium by asymmetric synthesis of enzymes, mainly including transaminase and glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase. When studying metabolic pathways of glufosinate-ammonium in soil microorganisms, researchers have already found that transaminase decomposes L-glufosinate-ammonium into α-keto acid-2-carbonyl-4-[(hydroxy)(methyl)phosphinoyl]-butyric acid (PPO for short) by transamination. In the 1990s, SchμLz A et al. (Stereospecific production or the herbicide phosphinothricin (glufosinate) by transamination: isolation and characterization of a phosphinothricin-specific transaminase from Escherichia coli[J]. Applied & Environmental Microbiology, 1990, 56(1):1-6.) have already used a transaminase cloned from E. coli to catalyze transamination to produce L-glufosinate-ammonium using 2-carbonyl-4-[(hydroxy)(methyl)phosphinoyl]-butyric acid as a substrate and L-glutamic acid as an amino donor. Immobilize the transaminase and install it in a bioreactor to catalyze preparation of L-glufosinate-ammonium, the product concentration can reach 76.1 g/L, the highest yield is 50 g/(L·h), the ee value of L-glufosinate-ammonium exceeds 99.9%. However, using transaminase to prepare L-glufosinate-ammonium has two major drawbacks, one is that the raw material PPO cannot be completely converted into L-PPT, and the maximum conversion rate is only 90%; the second is that it requires more than 4 times the equivalent of L-glutamic acid as amino donor to make the reversible reaction proceed in the direction of generating L-PPT, and that the excess glutamic acid brings great trouble to the separation of L-glufosinate-ammonium.
In many enzymatic synthesis routes of glufosinate-ammonium, ketone carbonyl group of a keto acid intermediate is a prochiral group, which can construct a chiral center through an enzymatic synthesis route. The keto acid route has also become a suitable route for industrial development and production of L-glufosinate-ammonium because the raw materials are cheap and easy to obtain and it avoid highly toxic cyanide.
Glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase (EC 1.4.1.-, AADH) is an enzyme that can reversibly deaminate amino acids to produce corresponding keto acids, and the reaction requires participation of nucleoside coenzymes (NAD(P)+). According to its substrate specificity, it can be divided into glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase, leucine dehydrogenase, alanine dehydrogenase, valine dehydrogenase and so on. Because of its excellent catalytic efficiency and selectivity, glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase is widely used in the synthesis of natural and unnatural α-amino acids. For instance, Li et al. used leucine dehydrogenase to prepare L-tert-leucine, 0.6M substrate was completely converted within 5.5 h, and the ee value of the product reached 99% (Stereoselective synthesis or L-tert-leucine by a newly cloned leucine dehydrogenase from Exiguobacterium sibiicum[J]. Journal or Molecular Catalysis B Enzymatic, 2014, 105(7):11-17). Hanson et al. used glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase to prepare L-6-hydroxynorleucine, the final yield was 91-97% and the ee value was greater than 99% (Enzymatic synthesis or L-6-hydroxynorleucine.[J]. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, 1999, 7(10): 2247-2252).
We cloned a glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase gene from Pseudomonas moorei WP_090325311.1, and realized heterologous expression of the gene in Escherichia coli. The enzyme can catalyze the asymmetric reductive amination of 2-carbonyl-4-[(hydroxy)(methyl)phosphinoyl]-butyric acid to produce L-glufosinate-ammonium. However, the activity of this wild-type enzyme on 2-carbonyl-4-[(hydroxy)(methyl)phosphinoyl]-butyric acid was not high enough, which limited its industrial application. Based on the reported crystal structure of the glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase, we used molecular simulations to determine the spatial structure of the enzyme and possible glufosinate-ammonium sites related to activity, and used site-directed mutagenesis technique to improve catalytic activity of the glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase on 2-carbonyl-4-[(hydroxy)(methyl)phosphinoyl]-butyric acid, so the enzyme will have stronger industrial application value.
Aiming at the problems that the existing glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenases showed low activity and low substrate concentration on the asymmetric reductive amination of 2-carbonyl-4-[(hydroxy)(methyl)phosphinoyl]-butyric acid, the present invention provides a glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase mutant, a recombinant strain containing the glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase mutant gene and a crude enzyme solution thereof, wherein the recombinant strain and the crude enzyme solution are used as a biocatalyst for chiral biosynthesis of L-glufosinate-ammonium to make activity of the catalyst increased by nearly 10 times, and the substrate concentration increased by 5 times. Finally, 90 g/L 2-carbonyl-4-[(hydroxy)(methyl)phosphinoyl]-butyric acid can be completely catalyzed to produce L-glufosinate-ammonium within only 40 minutes (transaminases usually take 40 hours), and the ee value was greater than 99%. The method has high conversion rate of raw materials, high yield, and easy separation and purification of products.
Technical solutions adopted in the present invention are as follows:
The present invention provides a glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase mutant, wherein the glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase mutant is obtained by single- or multi-site mutation of the amino acids at position 107, 188, 239, 357 of the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID No.6.
Further, the mutant is obtained by: mutating leucine at position 107 into arginine (L 107R), mutating leucine at position 107 into arginine+phenylalanine at position 188 into proline (L107R-F188P), mutating leucine at position 107 into arginine+glycine at position 239 into lysine (L107R-G239K), mutating leucine at position 107 into arginine+phenylalanine at position 188 into proline+glycine at position 239 into tyrosine (L107R-F188P-G239K), mutating leucine at position 107 into arginine+phenylalanine at position 188 into proline+glycine at position 239 into cysteine (L107R-F188P-G239C), mutating leucine at position 107 into arginine+phenylalanine at position 188 into proline+glycine at position 239 into lysine (L107R-F188P-G239K), or mutating leucine at position 107 into arginine+phenylalanine at position 188 into proline+glycine at position 239 into lysine+phenylalanine at position 357 into glycine (L107R-F188P-G239K-F357G), preferably the mutant is L107R-F188P-G 239K-F357G.
The present invention also relates to an encoding gene and an engineered strain of the glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase mutant.
The present invention also provides an application of the glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase mutant in catalyzing 2-carbonyl-4-[(hydroxy)(methyl)phosphinoyl]-butyric acid to produce L-glufosinate-ammonium, and the application is carried out as follows: put wet cells or a crude enzyme solution as a catalyst, 2-carbonyl-4-[(hydroxy)(methy)phosphinoyl]-butyric acid as a substrate, glucose as a cosubstrate and an inorganic amino donor into a pH 7.5 buffer to construct a conversion system, carry out the reaction at 35° C. and 600 rpm, after reacting completely, subject the reaction solution to separation and purification, thereby obtaining L-glufosinate-ammonium; in which, the wet wells are obtained by fermentation culture of the recombinant engineered strain containing a gene of the glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase mutant and a gene of a glucose dehydrogenase, and the crude enzyme solution is obtained by subjecting the wet cells to ultrasonic disintegration. In the conversion system, the amount of the catalyst calculated by the weight of the wet cells is 20˜100 g/L (20˜100 g of the wet cells/L buffer), the initial concentration of the substrate is 10-500 mM, the concentration of the glucose is 12-600 mM, and the concentration of the inorganic amino donor is 50 mM-1.5M; the inorganic amino donor is preferably (NH4)2SO4.
In the reaction system of the present invention, the catalyst may be used in the form of a crude enzyme solution of broken cells, resting cells of the engineered strain expressing the recombinant enzyme, a purified enzyme or an immobilized enzyme.
The catalyst of the present invention is prepared by a method as follows: the recombinant strain E. coli BL21(DE3)/pETDuet-1-PPTGDH E3-GDH containing glucose dehydrogenase and glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase E3 is inoculated into LB liquid medium containing 50 mg/mL ampicillin and incubated at 37° C. and 200 rpm for 12 hours; the resulting inoculum is inoculated with 1% (v/v) incubating volume to fresh LB liquid medium containing 50 μg/mL ampicillin and incubated at 37° C. and 150 rpm; when OD600=0.6-0.8 is achieved, IPTG is added with a final concentration of 24 μg/mL, and the bacteria solution is subjected to induced expression at 18° C. for 16 hours; the resulting fermentation broth is subjected to centrifugation at 37° C. and 8000 rpm for 20 min, the supernatant is discarded, and the pellet is collected and washed twice with a pH 7.5, 20 mM phosphate buffer (PBS), thereby obtaining the wet cells; the wet cells are resuspended with pH 7.5, 100 mM PBS and subjected to ultrasonic disintegration in an ice-water mixture for 10 min, and the conditions of the ultrasonic disintegration are 400 W and is on, 5 s off, thereby obtaining a crude enzyme solution.
The glucose dehydrogenase of the present invention is derived from Exiguobacterium sibiricum, and the NCBI accession number is KM817194.1 (the nucleotide sequence is shown in SEQ ID No.10), the gene of the glucose dehydrogenase is linked to pET-28b(+) vector by double digests, and the recombinant plasmid is introduced into E. coli BL21(DE3), thereby obtaining the recombinant glucose dehydrogenase strain E. coli BL21(DE3)/pET28b-GDH
Compared with prior art, advantages of the present invention are embodied in:
(1) The method in the present invention uses 2-carbonyl-4-[(hydroxy)(methyl)phosphinoyl]-butyric acid or its salts as a substrate, the glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase directly catalyzes the reductive amination of the substrate with an inorganic amino donor and a coenzyme, thereby obtaining homochiral L-glufosinate-ammonium. The activity of the catalyst can be increased by nearly 10 times, and the substrate concentration can be increased by 5 times. It takes only 40 minutes to completely catalyze 90 g/L 2-carbonyl-4-[(hydroxy)(methyl)phosphinoyl]-butyric acid to produce L-glufosinate-ammonium (while transaminases usually take 40 hours), and the ee value is greater than 99%. The method has features of high conversion rate of raw materials, high yield, easy separation and purification of the product, and high chiral purity.
(2) Compared with catalytic processes such as transaminase, the method in the present invention has features of relatively simple process, high conversion rate of raw materials, a conversion rate up to 100%, and easy separation and purification of the product from the reaction solution.
The present invention is further illustrated below with specific examples. It should be understood that the following examples are only used to illustrate the present invention, not to limit the scope of the present invention.
Experimental methods in the present invention are conventional methods unless otherwise specified, and the specific gene cloning operations refer to the “Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual” edited by J. Sambrook et al.
Reagents used in upstream genetic engineering operations: one-step cloning kits used in the examples of the present invention were purchased from Vazyme Biotech Co., Ltd., Nanjing; plasmid extraction kits and DNA extraction and purification kits were purchased from Axygen Co., Ltd., Hangzhou; E. coli BL21(DE3), plasmids, etc. were purchased from Sangon Biotech (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.; DNA marker, FastPfu DNA polymerase, low molecular weight protein standards, agarose electrophoresis reagents were purchased from Hangzhou Tsingke Biological Technology Co., Ltd.; and primer synthesis and gene sequencing were completed by Hangzhou tsingke Biological Technology Co., Ltd. Refer to the product manual for the use of the above reagents.
Reagents used in downstream catalysis process: standard reagents 2-carbonyl-4-[(hydroxy)(methyl)phosphinoyl]-butyric acid (PPO), D,L-glufosinate-ammonium and L-glufosinate-ammonium were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich; NADPH was purchased from Bontac Bio-Engineering (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.; and other common reagents were purchased from Sinopharm Chemical Reagent Co., Ltd.
Based on literature reports and homology of gene sequence, 4 dehydrogenases derived from Pseudomonas, Pseudomonas extremaustrahs, Pseudomonas moorei and Pseudomonas saudiphocaensis respectively, were selected from NCBI database. Their NCBI accession numbers are WP_092488511.1, WP_010562566.1, WP_090325311.1 or WP_037025837.1, respectively. The gene sequences were subjected to whole gene synthesis to obtain four glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenases, which were glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase E1 (the nucleotide sequence is shown in SEQ ID NO.1, and the amino acid sequence is shown in SEQ ID NO.2) derived from Pseudomonas, glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase E2 (the nucleotide sequence is shown in SEQ ID NO.3, and the amino acid sequence is shown in SEQ ID NO.4) derived from Pseudomonas extremaustralis, glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase E3 (the nucleotide sequence is shown in SEQ ID NO.5, and the amino acid sequence is shown in SEQ ID NO.6) derived from Pseudomonas moorei and glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase E4 (the nucleotide sequence is shown in SEQ ID NO.7, and the amino acid sequence is shown in SEQ ID NO.8) derived from Pseudomonas saudiphocaensis.
Primers were designed according to the nucleotide sequences shown in SEQ ID NO.1, SEQ ID NO.3, SEQ ID NO.5 and SEQ ID NO.7, and restriction sites Sac I and Not I were added to the primers, respectively:
Plasmid pETDuet-1 was used as an expression vector to construct E. coli BL21 (DE3)/pETDuet-1-PPTGDH:
Construction of expression plasmids: under initialization of the above primers, the genomes of Pseudomonas, Pseudomonas extremaustrahs, Pseudomonas moorei and Pseudomonas saudiphocaensis were used as templates respectively, and high-fidelity Pfu DNA polymerase was used for amplification to obtain the gene sequences of glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenases E1, E2, E3, and E4, respectively. After sequencing, restriction enzymes Sac I and Not I (Takara) were used to digest the amplified fragments, and T4 DNA ligase (Takara) was used to ligate the fragment and pETDuet-1 which had been digested by the same restriction enzymes to construct expression plasmids pETDuet-1-PPTGDHE1, pETDuet-1-PPTGDHE2, pETDuet-1-PPTGDHE3 and pETDuet-1-PPTGDHE4.
Construction of recombinant E. coli: the competent cells of E. coli BL21 (DE3) (Invitrogen) stored at −80° C. were kept in an ice bath at 0° C. for 10 minutes, added with 5 μL of plasmids pETDuet-1-PPTGDHE1, pETDuet-1-PPTGDHE2, pETDuet-1-PPTGDHE3 or pETDuet-1-PPTGDHE4 under a super-clean bench, kept in an ice bath at 0° C. for 30 minutes, subjected to heat shock in a water bath at 42° C. for 90 s, kept in an ice bath at 0° C. for 2 min, added with 600 μL of LB medium, and incubated at 37° C. for 1 h with horizontal shaking at 200 rpm. The resulting inoculum was spread on an LB plate containing 50 μg/ml ampicillin and incubated at 37° C. for 8-12 h, and then the single colonies were picked for sequencing to screen recombinant E. coli containing the recombinant expression vectors, E. coli BL21(DE3)/pETDuet-1-PPTGDHE1, E. coli BL21(DE3)/pETDuet-1-PPTGDHE2, E. coli BL21(DE3)/pETDuet-1-PPTGDHE3 and E. coli BL21(DE3)/pETDuet-1-PPTGDHE4, respectively.
Preparation of the competent cells: the strain E. coli BL21(DE3) preserved in a glycerol stock tube in a refrigerator at −80° C. was subjected to streak plate method on a non-antibiotic LB plate and cultivated at 37° C. for 10 h, thereby obtaining single colonies; some of the single colonies on the LB plate were picked and inoculated to a tube containing 5 mL of LB medium, and cultivated at 37° C. and 180 rpm for 9 h; 200 μL of the bacterial solution from the tube was inoculated to 50 mL of LB medium and further incubated at 37° C. and 180 rpm until OD600=0.4-0.6 was achieved; the resulting bacterial solution was pre-cooled on ice, taken into a sterilized centrifuge tube, placed on ice for 10 minutes, and centrifuged at 4° C. and 5000 rpm for 10 minutes; the supernatant was discarded while preventing bacterial contamination, the pellet was resuspended in a 0.1 mon pre-cooled CaCl2 aqueous solution, placed on ice for 30 minutes and centrifuged at 4° C. and 5000 rpm for 10 minutes; the supernatant was discarded, the pellet was resuspended in a 0.1 mon pre-cooled CaCl2 aqueous solution containing 15% glycerol; each 100 μL of the resuspended cells were taken into a 1.5 mL sterilized centrifuge tube and stored in a refrigerator at −80° C. for use.
1. Wet cells containing the glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase: the recombinant strains E. coli BL21(DE3)/pETDuet-1-PPTGDHE1, E. coli BL21(DE3)/pETDuet-1-PPTGDHE2, E. coli BL21(DE3)/pETDuet-1-PPTGDHE3 and E. coli BL21(DE3)/pETDuet-1-PPTGDHE4 were respectively inoculated into LB liquid medium containing 50 μg/mL ampicillin, incubated at 37° C. and 200 rpm for 12 hours, the resulting inoculum was inoculated with 1% (v/v) incubating volume to fresh LB liquid medium containing 50 μg/mL ampicillin, incubated at 37° C. and 150 rpm until OD600=0.6-0.8 was achieved, added with IPTG at a final concentration of 0.1 mM, incubated at 18° C. for 16 h, and centrifuged at 4° C. and 8000 rpm for 20 min, the supernatant was discarded, and the pellet was collected and washed twice with a pH 7.5, 20 mM phosphate buffer (PBS), thereby obtaining wet cells of E. coli BL21(DE3)/pETDuet-1-PPTGDHE1, E. coli BL21(DE3)/pETDuet-1-PPTGDHE2, E. coli BL21(DE3)/pETDuet-1-PPTGDHE3 and E. coli BL21(DE3)/pETDuet-1-PPTGDHE4 containing the corresponding glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase.
2. Wet cells containing glucose dehydrogenase: a glucose dehydrogenase gene derived from Exiguobacterium sibiricum (the NCBI accession number is KM817194.1) was inserted into pET-28b(+) by double digests, the resulting recombinant plasmid was introduced into E. coli BL21(DE3), thereby obtaining a recombinant glucose dehydrogenase strain E. coli BL21(DE3)/pET28b-esgdh. The recombinant glucose dehydrogenase strain E. coli BL21(DE3)/pET28b-esgdh was inoculated to LB liquid medium containing kanamycin at a final concentration of 50 μg/mL and cultivated at 37° C. for 9 hours. The resulting inoculum was inoculated with 3.5% incubating volume to 3 L of fermentation medium in a 5 L fermentor. The 5 L fermentation tank was firstly disassembled for cleaning. After the cleaning, the fermentation tank was added a small amount of water. After installation, the inoculation port was opened, and the blank fermentation tank was placed in a sterilization pot at 121° C. for 20 minutes. After the sterilization, the prepared medium was added to the fermentation tank, the air outlet and inlet were sealed, the fermentation tank was installed and sealed and the inoculation port was open. The fermentation tank and the prepared lactose as an inducer were put in a sterilization pot and sterilized at 115° C. for 30 minutes (lactose cannot be sterilized at 121° C.). The inoculation port of the sterilized fermentation tank was screwed and the sterilized fermentation tank was installed on the operating system, condensed water and air were passed (a sterile membrane must be installed on the air inlet pipe), the air outlet was inserted below the liquid level of the conical flask, and when the temperature of the medium dropped to 37° C., the fire trap was placed on the inoculation port, and the resulting seed liquid was inoculated to the fermentation tank. The bacteria were incubated at 37° C. and 500 rpm for about 3-4 hours and met the density requirement of OD 6-8. After the temperature of the fermentation tank was reduced to 28° C., lactose was added as an inducer with a final concentration of 16 g/L, and then the bacteria was incubated at 28° C. and 500 rpm for 12 h. The incubated bacteria were centrifuged at 8000 rpm for 10 min and washed twice with pH 7.5, 20 mM phosphate buffer (PBS) to obtain wet cells containing glucose dehydrogenase GDH; the fermentation medium composition was as follows: tryptone 45 g, yeast extract 36 g, sodium chloride 30 g, potassium dihydrogen phosphate 4.08 g, glycerol 45 g, dipotassium hydrogen phosphate trihydrate 6.84 g, ammonium sulfate 15 g, magnesium sulfate 1.125 g, defoamer 4 g, and 3 L of distilled water was added to dissolve.
LB medium: 10 g/L peptone, 5 g/L yeast extract, 10 g/L NaCl, the solvent is water, pH7.4.
LB solid medium: 10 g/L peptone, 5 g/L yeast extract, 10 g/L NaCl, 18 g/L agar, the solvent is water, pH7.4.
3. Standard enzyme activity detection system: 25 g/L lysis of wet cells, 100 mM substrate PPO, 10 mM coenzyme NADPH, 250 mM (NH4)2SO4, the reaction medium is a pH 7.5 phosphate buffer, the total system is 400 μL. The enzyme activity unit (U) is defined as follows: under the standard conditions, the amount of enzyme required for producing 1 μmol L-glufosinate-ammonium in one minute is one enzyme activity unit, U.
Prepare a reaction solution according to the above standard enzyme activity detection system, react in a metal bath shaking reactor at 35° C. for 10 minutes, add 40 μL of 5M NaOH to terminate the reaction, and store the resulting sample on ice. After diluting the sample to a certain volume, use HPLC with pre-column derivatization to detect the concentration of the substrate L-glufosinate-ammonium, and calculate enzyme activities. The results are shown in Table 1.
The concentration of the substrate was detected by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), and the analysis method was as follows: Chromatographic column model: QS-C18, 5 μm, 4.6×250 mm. Mobile phase: 50 mM ammonium dihydrogen phosphate was dissolved in 800 mL ultrapure water, 10 mL tetrabutylammonium hydroxide (10%) was added, water was used to dilute it to 1000 mL, the pH was adjusted to 3.8 with phosphoric acid, the resulting solution was mixed with acetonitrile at a ratio of 88:12. The detection wavelength was 232 nm, and the flow rate was 1.0 mL/min. Column temperature: 40° C., the peak time of 2-carbonyl-4-[(hydroxy)(methyl)phosphinoyl]-butyric acid was 9.7 min.
The chiral analysis and concentration analysis of the product were carried out by high performance liquid chromatography with pre-column derivatization. The specific analysis methods were as follows:
(1) Chromatography conditions: Chromatographic column model: QS-C18, 5 μm, 4.6×250 mm. Mobile phase: 50 mM ammonium acetate solution:methanol=10:1. Fluorescence detection wavelength: λex=340 nm, λem=455 nm. Flow rate: 1 mL/min. Column temperature: 30° C., the peak time of L-glufosinate-ammonium was 8.5 min, and the peak time of D-glufosinate-ammonium was 10.2 min.
(2) Derivatization reagent: weigh 0.1 g of o-phthalaldehyde and 0.12 g of N-acetyl-L-cysteine respectively, use 10 mL of ethanol to assist dissolution, and then add 40 mL of a 0.1 moL/L boric acid buffer (pH 9.8), shake to fully dissolve, store in a refrigerator at 4° C. for use (not more than 4 days).
(3) Derivatization reaction and determination: add 100 μL of the sample with 400 μL of a derivatization reagent, shake on a shaker at 500 rpm and 30° C. for 5 minutes, then add 400 μL of ultrapure water to mix, and inject 10 μL of the resulting sample for HPLC analysis.
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According to the determination of enzyme activity, the enzyme activity of E. coli BL21(DE3)/pETDuet-1-PPTGDHE1 was 106.16 U/g, the enzyme activity of E. coli BL21(DE3)/pETDuet-1-PPTGDHE2 was 101.32 U/g, The enzyme activity of E. coli BL21(DE3)/pETDuet-1-PPTGDHE3 was 180.37 U/g, the enzyme activity of E. coli BL21(DE3)/pETDuet-1-PPTGDHE4 was 103.67 U/g, and E. coli BL21(DE3)/pETDuet-1-PPTGDHE3 had the highest enzyme activity.
Crude enzyme solution: the wet cells containing the glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase and the wet cells containing the glucose dehydrogenase prepared by the method in Example 2 were resuspended in a pH 7.5, 100 mM PBS, and then the cells were subjected to ultrasonic disintegration in an ice-water mixture for 10 min, the conditions of the ultrasonic disintegration are 400 W, is on, and 5 s off, thereby obtaining a crude enzyme solution.
Add the crude enzyme solution of glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase (the amount of the cells was 25 g/L buffer), 2-carbonyl-4-[(hydroxy)(methyl)phosphinoyl]-butyric acid (at a final concentration of 100 mmol/L), an inorganic amino donor (NH4)2SO4 (at a final concentration of 500 mmol/L), glucose (at a final concentration of 120 mmol/L), NADPH (at a final concentration of 1 mmol/L) and the crude enzyme solution of GDH (the amount of the cells was 50 g/L buffer) in 30 mL of a PBS buffer (100 mM, pH 7.5) to construct a reaction system. React in a water bath at 35° C. for 24 hours, automatically adjust the pH with ammonia water to a constant 7.5, take samples at a regular time interval, and calculate the substrate conversion rate using the method in Example 2. The conversion rate of BL21(DE3)/pETDuet-1-PPTGDHE1 was 65.5%, the conversion rate of E. coli BL21(DE3)/pETDuet-1-PPTGDHE2 was 61.7%, the conversion rate of E. coli BL21(DE3)/pETDuet-1-PPTGDHE3 was 69.4%, the conversion rate of E. coli BL21(DE3)/pETDuet-1-PPTGDHE4 was 63.3%, and the ee value of the product was greater than 99%. The reaction process is shown in
According to the determination of enzyme activity and reaction process, E. coli BL21(DE3)/pETDuet-1-PPTGDHE3 (WP_090325311.1) was finally selected as the strain to be modified for further experiment.
1. Use one-step cloning to insert a gene of a glucose dehydrogenase into the second multiple cloning site of plasmid pETDuet-1:
Obtain a gene of a glucose dehydrogenase with homologous sequences: take sequences of 15-20 bp on both 5′- and 3′-end of the linearized vector as the homologous sequences and use E. coli BL21(DE3)/pET28b-GDH as template to design primer 1 and primer 2, add the homology arms to 5′-end of the gene-specific forward/reverse amplification primer sequence respectively, so as to amplify the gene of the glucose dehydrogenase with the homology arms using high fidelity Pfu DNA polymerase, after digesting the template, purify and recover the PCR product with a DNA recovery and purification kit, and measure the nucleic acid concentrations respectively, thereby obtaining the gene sequence of the glucose dehydrogenase containing homologous sequences which is shown in SEQ ID NO.10.
Homologous recombination reaction with a single fragment:
The optimal amount of cloning vector={0.02*base pairs of the cloning vector}ng (0.03 pmol)
The optimal amount of insert={0.04*base pairs of the insert}ng (0.06 pmol)
The reaction system:
Mix the prepared reaction system gently with a pipette, and collect the reaction solution at the bottom of the tube after a short centrifugation. Place the reaction system in a water bath at 50° C. for 5 minutes, and then immediately cool it on ice. Introduce it into E. coli BL21(DE3) (42° C., 90 s), spread it on an LB plate containing 50 μL g/mL ampicillin, incubate at 37° C. for 12-16 hours, extract plasmids of random-selected clones for sequencing, identify and screen, thereby obtaining a recombinant strain E. coli BL21(DE3)/pETDuet-1-PPTGDHE3-GDH containing the glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase E3 and the glucose dehydrogenase. Use protein electrophoresis for verification as follows: resuspend the wet cells in a pH 7.5, 20 mM phosphate buffer (PBS), add a 2× SDS-loading Buffer, treat the mixture in a boiling water bath for 10 min, and then carry out SDS-PAGE analysis. SDS-PAGE settings: run for 70 min at 120 mV. See the identification result in
2. Preparation of wet cells containing glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase E3-glucose dehydrogenase and crude enzyme solution thereof: the recombinant strain E. coli BL21(DE3)/pETDuet-1-PPTGDH E3-GDH containing the glucose dehydrogenase and the glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase E3 was inoculated into LB liquid medium containing 50 g/mL ampicillin, incubated at 37° C. and 200 rpm for 12 h, the resulting inoculum was inoculated with 1% (v/v) incubating volume to fresh LB liquid medium containing 50 μg/mL ampicillin, incubated at 37° C. and 150 rpm until OD600=0.6-0.8 was achieved, added with IPTG at a final concentration of 24 μg/mL, incubated at 18° C. for 16 h, and centrifuged at 4° C. and 8000 rpm for 20 min, the supernatant was discarded, and the pellet was collected and washed twice with a pH 7.5, 20 mM phosphate buffer (PBS), thereby obtaining the wet cells.
The wet cells of the recombinant E. coli BL21(DE3)/pETDuet-1-PPTGDHE3-GDH were resuspended in pH 7.5, 100 mM PBS, and then subjected to ultrasonic disintegration in an ice-water mixture for 10 min. The conditions of the ultrasonic disintegration are 400 W, 1 s on, and 5 s off, thereby obtaining a crude enzyme solution.
1. Site-Directed Saturation Mutagenesis Take E. coli BL21 (DE3) IpETDuet-1-PPTGDHE3-GDH constructed in Example 2 as the starting strain.
The glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase mutant library was prepared by 4 rounds of site-directed saturation mutagenesis. The primers are shown in Table 2. In the first round, with the plasmid pETDuet-1-PPTGDHE3-GDH as a template and 107F and 107R shown in Table 2 as primers, saturation mutation PCR was carried out to mutate leucine at position 107 of the amino acid sequence of the glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase E3 shown in SEQ ID No.6 into other 12 amino acids, the first PCR product was subjected to transformation and spreading, and the superior strain was selected, thereby obtaining a glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase mutant pETDuet-1-PPTGDH E3-GDH-L107R. In the second round, with the mutant pETDuet-1-PPTGDH E3-GDH-L107R as a template and 188F and 188R shown in Table 2 as primers, saturation mutation PCR was carried out, the second PCR product was subjected to transformation and spreading, and the superior strain was selected, thereby obtaining a glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase mutant pETDuet-1-PPTGDHE3-GDH-L107R-F 188P. In the third round, with the mutant pETDuet-1-PPTGDHE3-GDH-L107R-F188P as a template and 239F and 239R shown in Table 2 as primers, saturation mutation PCR was carried out, the third PCR product was subjected to transformation and spreading, and the superior strain was selected, thereby obtaining a glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase mutant pETDuet-1-PPTGDHE3-GDH-L107R-F188P-G239K. In the fourth round, with the mutant pETDuet-1-PPTGDHE3-GDH-L107R-F188P-G239K as a template and 357F and 357R shown in Table 2 as primers, saturation mutation PCR was carried out, the fourth PCR product was subjected to transformation and spreading, and the superior strain was selected, thereby obtaining a glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase mutant pETDuet-1-PPTGDH E3-GDH-L107R-F188P-G239K-F357G.
The mutation PCR system (100 μL) was as follows: 2×Phanta Max buffer 25 μL, dNTPs 1 μL, forward and reverse primers 1 μL respectively, template 1 μL, Pfu DNA DNA polymerase 0.5 μL, and ddH2O to a final volume of 50 μL. The conditions of the PCR procedure were as follows: pre-denaturation at 95° C. for 3 min; followed by 30 cycles of 95° C. for 15 s, 60° C. for 15 s and 72° C. for 7 min 20 s, and a final extension step at 72° C. for 10 min. The PCR result was checked by DNA agarose gel electrophoresis. The PCR product was treated with DpnI at 37° C. and 200 rpm for 1 h to digest the template, the DpnI was inactivated at 65° C. for 1 min, the resulting plasmid was introduced into E. coli BL21(DE3) by heat shock method, the bacteria solution was subjected to recovery at 37° C. and 200 rpm for 1 h, then was spread onto an LB plate containing 50 g/mL ampicillin, and invertedly incubated overnight at 37° C., the superior mutants were selected from the obtained mutants and sent to Hangzhou Qingke Biotechnology Co., Ltd. for sequencing and stored.
I. Establishment of a High-Throughput Screening Method for Glufosinate-Ammonium Dehydrogenase
Prepare 50 mL of working solution as follows: 0.013 g of o-phthalaldehyde, 0.032 g of N-acetyl-L-cysteine and a pH9.8 boric acid buffer to a final volume of 50 mL as a working solution for high-throughput screening. Prepare 50 μL of 1 mM racemic glufosinate-ammonium using a pH9.8 boric acid buffer, react it with 50 μL of the working solution for 30 s with shaking, then add 100 μL of ddH2O.
II. High-Throughput Screening
The mutant library obtained in Example 5 was introduced into E. coli BL21(DE3) competent cells, and the transformation conditions were as follows: add the PCR product to the competent cells, keep in an ice bath for 30 min, carry out heat shock at 42° C. for 90 s, pick single colonies on the LB plate containing 50 μg/mL ampicillin, use a sterilized toothpick to pick the single colonies into a sterilized 96-well deep well plate with 1 mL of LB medium containing 50 μg/mL ampicillin each well, cultivate on a shaker at 37° C. and 200 rpm for 8 hours, aspirate 500 μL of the bacterial solution from each well and transfer to another 96-well deep well plate with 500 μL of LB medium containing ampicillin and 24 μg/mL (final concentration) IPTG each well, place on a shaker at 18° C. and 200 rpm for 16 hours, centrifuge, collect the cells at the bottom of the 96-well deep well plate, thereby obtaining wet cells of 4576 recombinant E. coli strains containing a mutant gene.
1. Preliminary Screening:
Preparation of a reaction solution: add PPO (2-carbonyl-4-[(hydroxy)(methyl)phosphinoyl]-butyric acid) at a final concentration of 10 mM, inorganic amino donor (NH4)2SO4 at a final concentration of 50 mM and glucose at a final concentration of 12 mM in a pH7.5 phosphate buffer as a reaction medium to construct a reaction solution. Add 500 μL of the reaction solution in each well of the 96-well deep well plate while repeatedly pipetting with a pipette to resuspend the cells collected in the 96-well deep well plate, place the 96-well deep well plate on a shaker at 35° C. and 200 rpm for 4 hours, take the supernatant by centrifugation and measure the fluorescence value at λex=340 nm and λem=455 nm, and screen the strains with higher fluorescence value than the original strain.
2. Re-Screening:
The crude enzyme solution of the strain obtained by the preliminary screening was used as a catalyst, 2-carbonyl-4-[(hydroxy)(methyl)phosphinoyl]-butyric acid was used as a substrate, glucose was used as an auxiliary substrate, and NADPH in vivo was used rather than exogenous NADPH or NADP+, thereby constructing a coenzyme circulation system. The reaction system was 10 mL, the amount of the catalyst calculated by the total amount of the wet cells was 50 g/L before ultrasonic disintegration, the final concentration of substrate was 300 mM, and the final concentration of glucose was 450 mM, the final concentration of inorganic amino donor (NH4)2SO4 was 1M, after the reaction was carried out at 30° C. and 600 rpm for 10 min, 100 tt. L of the reacting solution was sampled and added with 5 μL of hydrochloric acid to terminate the reaction, and then added with ultrapure water to a final volume of 1 mL, that was, the reaction solution was diluted 10-fold, the diluted reaction solution was first subjected to derivatization treatment, 200 μl of the diluted reacting solution added with 400 tt. L of a derivatization reagent were subjected to derivatization at 30° C. for 5 min, 400 tt. L of ultrapure water was added to a final volume of 1 mL, the resulting mixture was centrifuged at 12000 rpm for 1 min, the supernatant was passed through a 0.22 am membrane filter, and the filtrate was taken as a liquid sample to detect 2-carbonyl-4-[(hydroxy)(methyl)phosphinoyl]-butyric acid, L-glufosinate-ammonium, D-glufosinate-ammonium and ee value by HPLC. Using the product L-glufosinate-ammonium and the ee value as indicators, the superior mutants were screened, and the experimental results are shown in Table 3.
It is shown in Table 3 that the production of L-glufosinate-ammonium of the mutants PPTGDH-L107R, PPTGDH-L107R-F188P, PPTGDH-L107R-G239K, PPTGDH-L107R-F188P-G239Y, PPTGDH-L107R-F188P-G239C, PPTGDH-L107R-F188P-G239K and PPTGDH-L107R-F188P-G239K-F357 G is obviously higher than the original strain.
1. Purification of target proteins: the superior mutant strains (PPTGDH-L107R, PPTGDH-L107R-F188P, PPTGDH-L107R-G239K, PPTGDH-L107R-F188P-G239Y, PPTGDH-L107R-F188P-G239C, PPTGDH-L107R-F188P-G239K and PPTGDH-L107R-F188P-G239K-F357G) obtained in Example 6 and the original strain PPT-GDHE3 were used to obtain wet cells of the glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase mutants and the original enzyme according to the method in Example 2, the wet cells were respectively resuspended in buffer A (pH 8.0, 50 mM sodium phosphate buffer containing 0.3 M NaCl and 30 mM imidazole), subjected to ultrasonic disintegration for 20 min(ice bath, 400 W, 1 second on and 5 seconds off), and centrifuged at 4° C. and 12000 rpm for 20 min, then the supernatant was collected. The mutant proteins were purified by Ni-NTA column (1.6×10 cm, Bio-Rad, the USA), and the specific operations were carried out as follows: {circle around (2)}equilibrate a Ni-NTA column with 5 column volumes of a binding buffer (pH 8.0, 50 mM sodium phosphate buffer containing 0.3 M NaCl) until the baseline is steady; {circle around (2)}load the sample with a flow rate of 1 mL/min with the amount of the loading sample of 25-40 mg/mL, thereby attaching the target protein to the Ni-NTA column; {circle around (3)}wash the column with 6 column volumes of buffer A (pH 8.0, 50 mM sodium phosphate buffer containing 0.3 M NaCl and 30 mM imidazole) at a flow rate of 1 mL/min until the baseline is steady; {circle around (4)}wash the column with buffer B (pH 8.0, 50 mM sodium phosphate buffer containing 0.3 M NaCl and 500 mM imidazole) at a flow rate of 1 mL/min, collect the target protein and dialyze overnight in a pH 7.5, 20 mM phosphate buffer, thereby obtaining the pure glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase; and {circle around (5)}wash the Ni-NTA column with 5 column volumes of a binding buffer (pH 8.0, 50 mM sodium phosphate buffer containing 0.3 M NaCl) until the baseline is steady, and store the Ni-NTA column in 5 column volumes of ultrapure water containing 20% ethanol.
2. Kinetic parameters of the amino acid hydrogenase and its mutants were examined: 2-carbonyl-4-[(hydroxy)(methyl)phosphinoyl]-butyric acid was taken as substrate, the concentration was set as 2-10 mM (2, 4, 6, 8, 10 mM), the concentration of the exogenous coenzyme NADPH was set as 1-5 mM (1, 2, 3, 4, 5 mM), the final concentration of inorganic amino donor (NH4)2SO4 was 10-50 mM, and a certain amount of a pure enzyme solution of the original glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase E3 strain and its mutants PPTGDH-L107R, PPTGDH-L107R-F188P, PPTGDH-L107R-G239K, PPTGDH-L107R-F188P-G239Y, PPTGDH-L107R-F188P-G239C, PPTGDH-L107R-F188P-G239K and PPTGDH-L107R-F188P-G239K-F357G.
The reaction system was 500 μL, the collected pure enzyme solution was diluted 10-fold with a pH 7.5, 100 mM phosphate buffer, 100 μL of the diluted solution was taken and added with the substrate, exogenous coenzyme NADPH and inorganic amino donor (NH4)2SO4, a pH 7.4, 100 mM phosphate buffer was taken as a reaction medium, after reacting at 35° C. and 600 rpm for 10 min, the reaction solution was sampled to detect the concentration of L-glufosinate-ammonium using HPLC.
According to sequential mechanism in glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase's catalytic reaction, vmax, KmA, KmB can be calculated by a double-reciprocal plot, the results were shown in Table 4. Comparing kcat and Km, it can be found that the mutants PPTGDH-F357G and PPTGDH-L107R-F188P had an increase while the rest of the mutants had a certain decrease which meant an increase of affinity with 2-carbonyl-4-[(hydroxy)(methyl)phosphinoyl]-butyric acid and NADPH.
Catalytic efficiency kcat/KmB of the mutant PPTGDH-L107R-F188P-G239K-F357G (the amino acid sequence is shown in SEQ ID NO. 9) for 2-carbonyl-4-[(hydroxy)(methyl)phosphinoyl]-butyric acid reached 337.73 s−1·mM−1, which was 22.19 times higher than that of the original enzyme (kcat/Km=15.22 s−1·mM−1), and catalytic efficiency for the coenzyme NADPH reached 13703 s−1mM−1, which was 34.61 times higher than that of the original enzyme (kcat/Km=395.91 s−1·mM−1) (Table 4).
According to the method in Example 4, 0.75 g of wet cells of the glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase mutant strain E. coli BL21(DE3)/pETDuet-1-PPTGDHE3-GDH-L107R-F188P-G239K-F357G were obtained by fermentation, then the wet cells were added with 2-carbonyl-4-(hydroxymethylphosphinyl)-butyric acid at a final concentration of 500 mM, glucose at a final concentration of 750 mM and inorganic amino donor (NH4)2SO4 at a final concentration of 1.5M, thereby constructing a reaction system with a volume of 30 ml, the reaction was carried out in a magnetic stirrer at 35° C. and 500 rpm for 1 h, ammonia water was flow-added to maintain the pH of the reaction solution at 7.5. The liquid phase method was used to detect the product L-glufosinate-ammonium and change of the e.e. value during the reaction, and the reaction processing curve was shown in
It can be seen from the above experimental results that the recombinant E. coli containing the glufosinate-ammonium dehydrogenase gene obtained in the present invention have a strong catalytic ability and can use 2-carbonyl-4-[(hydroxy)(methyl)phosphinoyl]-butyric acid as a substrate for biological conversion reaction to prepare a highly optically pure pesticide L glufosinate-ammonium.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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| 201811621710.0 | Dec 2018 | CN | national |
| Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
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| PCT/CN2019/093462 | 6/28/2019 | WO | 00 |
