Short communicationA P450 BM-3 mutant hydroxylates alkanes, cycloalkanes, arenes and heteroarenes
Introduction
CYP102 is a self-sufficient P450 monooxygenase from Bacillus megaterium (P450 BM-3) in which the catalytic heme domain and the FAD-containing reductase domain are naturally fused (Li and Poulos, 1997). It has been functionally expressed in Escherichia coli and is conveniently prepared and purified in gram quantities (Schwaneberg et al., 1999). Its known function is subterminal, i.e. (ω–n) hydroxylation of saturated and epoxidation of unsaturated medium- and long-chain fatty acids (Boddupalli et al., 1990, Guengerich, 1991) and its specific activity in this reaction is about 1000-fold higher than eukaryotic P450 monooxygenases of a similar specificity (e.g. CYP52A3 and CYP52A4 from Candida maltosa, Scheller et al., 1996). Moreover, B. megaterium P450 BM-3 is water-soluble and thus, other than most other members of the P450 family which are multi-protein complexes attached to membranes, can be incorporated in a bioreactor using a zinc-mediator complex instead of expensive NADPH as an external electron donor (Schwaneberg et al., 2000). As the X-ray structure of P450 BM-3 has been resolved at 2.0 Å resolution (Ravichandran et al., 1993), a number of reports have appeared on the putative substrate binding site of this enzyme and have been corroborated by site-directed mutagenesis.
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Enzyme
The P450 BM-3 (Phe78Val, Leu188Gln, Ala74Gly) mutant was obtained as described before (Li et al., 2000).
NADPH-assay
For the transformations, a 60 mM substrate solution in acetone (50 μl), 50 mM KxPO4 buffer (pH 7.5, 9.1 ml), and 2.9 nM (equivalent to 0.05 mg P450, as determined by the carbon-monoxide binding procedure) wild-type or BM-3 mutant enzyme (Li et al., 2000) were combined. For the data reported in Table 1, the mixture was pre-incubated for 5 min, and transformation was started by adding 5 mM
Results and discussion
The data in Table 1 show indeed that medium-chain alkanes as well as some alicyclic, aromatic, and heterocyclic compounds are good substrates for the BM-3 mutant though not for the wild-type enzyme. Monitoring NADPH consumption is a standard procedure to test for the substrate specificity of P450 monooxygenases (Boddupalli et al., 1990). Since one cannot differentiate, with this experimental setup, between NADPH consumption by productive processes or by side reactions, which leave the substrate
Acknowledgements
We gratefully acknowledge the help of Daniela Bezdan, Christa Kieß and Gisela Siebke for the GLC analyses, and of Dipl.-Ing. Joachim Trinkner for the GC/MS measurements. Financial support of BASF AG and of Fonds der Chemischen Industrie is gratefully acknowledged.
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