TY  - JOUR
A1  - Pöschel, Laura
A1  - Guevara-Martínez, Mónica
A1  - Hörnström, David
A1  - Maris, Antonius J. A. van
A1  - Buchhaupt, Markus
T1  - Engineering of thioesterase YciA from Haemophilus influenzae for production of carboxylic acids
T2  - Applied microbiology and biotechnology
N2  - Acyl-CoA-thioesterases, which hydrolyze acyl-CoA-esters and thereby release the respective acid, have essential functions in cellular metabolism and have also been used to produce valuable compounds in biotechnological processes. Thioesterase YciA originating from Haemophilus influenzae has been previously used to produce specific dicarboxylic acids from CoA-bound intermediates of the ethylmalonyl CoA pathway (EMCP) in Methylorubrum extorquens. In order to identify variants of the YciA enzyme with the capability to hydrolyze so far inaccessible CoA-esters of the EMCP or with improved productivity, we engineered the substrate-binding region of the enzyme. Screening a small semi-rational mutant library directly in M. extorquens yielded the F35L variant which showed a drastic product level increase for mesaconic acid (6.4-fold) and 2-methylsuccinic acid (4.4-fold) compared to the unaltered YciA enzyme. Unexpectedly, in vitro enzyme assays using respective M. extorquens cell extracts or recombinantly produced thioesterases could not deliver congruent data, as the F35L variant showed strongly reduced activity in these experiments. However, applied in an Escherichia coli production strain, the protein variant again outperformed the wild-type enzyme by allowing threefold increased 3-hydroxybutyric acid product titers. Saturation mutagenesis of the codon for position 35 led to the identification of another highly efficient YciA variant and enabled structure-function interpretations. Our work describes an important module for dicarboxylic acid production with M. extorquens and can guide future thioesterase improvement approaches.
KW  - Methylorubrum extorquens
KW  - Thioesterase
KW  - Dicarboxylic acids
KW  - 3-Hydroxybutyric acid
KW  - Enzyme engineering
Y1  - 2023
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/79554
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-795540
SN  - 1432-0614
VL  - 107
IS  - 20
SP  - 6219
EP  - 6236
PB  - Springer
CY  - Berlin ; Heidelberg [u.a.]
ER  -