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    "In gel patch electrophoresis" : a new method for environmental DNA purification
    (2005) Roh, Changhyun; Villatte, Francois; Kim, Byung-Gee; Schmid, Rolf D.
    Most of the microorganism species are largely untapped and could represent an interesting reservoir of genes useful for biotechnological applications. Unfortunately, a major difficulty associated with the methods used to isolate environmental DNA is related to the contamination of the extracted material with humic substances. These polyphenolic compounds inhibit the DNA processing reactions and severely impede cloning procedures. In this work, we describe a rapid, simple and efficient method for the purification of genomic DNA from environmental samples: we added a chromatography step directly embedded into an agarose gel electrophoresis. This strategy enabled the DNA extraction from various environmental samples and it appeared that the purity grade was compatible with digestion by restriction enzymes and PCR amplifications.
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    Insight into the mechanism of the IMP-1 metallo-beta-lactamase by molecular dynamics simulations
    (2003) Ölschläger, Peter; Schmid, Rolf D.; Pleiss, Jürgen
    Two models, a purely nonbonded model and a cationic dummy atom approach, were examined for the modeling of the binuclear zinc-containing IMP-1 metallo-beta-lactamase in complex with a mercaptocarboxylate inhibitor. The cationic dummy atom approach had substantial advantages as it maintained the initial, experimentally determined geometry of the metal-containing active site during molecular dynamics simulations in water. The method was extended to the modeling of the free enzyme and the enzyme in complex with a cephalosporin substrate docked in an intermediate structure. For all three systems, the modeled complexes and the tetrahedral coordination of the zinc ions were stable. The average zinc-zinc distance increased by about 1 Å in the substrate complex compared to the inhibitor complex and the free enzyme in which a hydroxide ion acts as a bridging ligand. Thus, the zinc ions are predicted to undergo a back and forth movement upon the cycle of hydrolysis. In contrast to previous assumptions, no interaction of the Asn167 side chain with the bound cephalosporin substrate was observed. Our observations are in agreement with quantum-mechanical calculations and experimental data and indicate that the cationic dummy atom approach is useful to model zinc-containing metallo-beta-lactamases as free proteins, in complex with inhibitors and in complex with substrates.
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    A model of the pressure dependence of the enantioselectivity of Candida rugosa lipase towards (±)-menthol
    (2001) Kahlow, Ulrich; Schmid, Rolf D.; Pleiss, Jürgen
    Transesterification of (±)-menthol using propionic acid anhydride and Candida rugosa lipase was performed in chloroform and water at different pressures (1, 10, 50, and 100 bar) to study the pressure dependence of enantioselectivity E. As a result, E significantly decreased with increasing pressure from E=55 (1 bar) to E=47 (10 bar), E=37 (50 bar), and E=9 (100 bar). In order to rationalize the experimental findings, molecular dynamics simulations of Candida rugosa lipase were carried out. Analyzing the lipase geometry at 1, 10, 50, and 100 bar revealed a cavity in the Candida rugosa lipase. The cavity leads from a position on the surface distinct from the substrate binding site to the core towards the active site and is limited by F415 and the catalytic H449. In the crystal structure of the Candida rugosa lipase, this cavity is filled with 6 water molecules. The number of water molecules in this cavity gradually increased with increasing pressure: 6 molecules in the simulation at 1 bar, 10 molecules at 10 bar, 12 molecules at 50 bar, and 13 molecules at 100 bar. Likewise, the volume of the cavity progressively increased from about 1864 ų in the simulation at 1 bar to 2529 ų at 10 bar, 2526 ų at 50 bar, and 2617 ų at 100 bar. At 100 bar, one water molecule slipped between F415 and H449, displacing the catalytic histidine side chain and thus opening the cavity to form a continuous water channel. The rotation of the side chain leads to a decreased distance between the H449-N and the (+)-menthyl-oxygen (non-preferred enantiomer) in the acyl enzyme intermediate, a factor determining the enantioselectivity of the lipase. While the geometry of the preferred enantiomer is similar in all simulations, the geometry of the non-preferred enantiomer gets gradually more reactive. This observation correlates with the gradually decreasing enantioselectivity E.
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    Microbial P450 enzymes in biotechnology
    (2004) Urlacher, Vlada B.; Lutz-Wahl, Sabine; Schmid, Rolf D.
    Oxidations are key reactions in chemical syntheses. Biooxidations using fermentation processes have already conquered some niches in industrial oxidation processes, since they allow the introduction of oxygen even into non-activated carbon atoms in a sterically and optically selective manner which is difficult or impossible to achieve by synthetic organic chemistry. Biooxidation using isolated enzymes is limited to oxidases and dehydrogenases. Surprisingly, cytochrome P450 monooxygenases (CYPs) have scarcely been studied for use in biooxidations, although they are one of the largest known superfamilies of enzyme proteins. Their gene sequences have been identified in various organisms such as humans, bacteria, algae, fungi and plants. The reactions catalyzed by P450s are quite diverse and range from biosynthetic pathways (e.g. those of animal hormones and secondary plant metabolites) to the activation or biodegradation of hydrophobic xenobiotic compounds (e. g. those of various drugs in the liver of higher animals). From a practical point of view, the great potential of P450s is limited by their functional complexity, low activity, and limited stability. In addition, P450-catalyzed reactions require a constant supply of NAD(P)H which makes continuous cell-free processes very expensive. Quite recently, several groups have started to investigate cost-efficient ways which could allow the continuous supply of electrons to the heme iron. These include, for example, the use of electron mediators, direct electron supply from electrodes and enzymatic approaches. In addition, methods of protein design and directed evolution have been applied in an attempt to enhance the activity of the enzymes and improve their selectivity. The promising application of bacterial P450s as catalyzing agents in biocatalytic reactions and recent progress made in this field are covered in this review.
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    Biotransformation of ionones by engineered cytochrome P450 BM-3
    (2005) Urlacher, Vlada B.; Makhsumkhanov, Akhmadjan; Schmid, Rolf D.
    Wild type cytochrome P450 monooxygenase from Bacillus megaterium (P450 BM-3) has low activity for the hydroxylation of beta-ionone (>1 min-1). Substitution of phenylalanine by valine at position 87 increased the beta-ionone hydroxylation activity up to 100-fold (115 min-1). For further activity improvement methods of site-directed and random mutagenesis were applied. The R47L Y51F F87V mutant, designed by site-directed mutagenesis and the A74E F87V P386S mutant, obtained after two rounds of error-prone PCR, exhibit an increase in activity up to 300-fold compared to the wild type enzyme. All mutants converted -ionone regioselectively to 4-hydroxy-beta-ionone.
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    Cloning, expression and characterisation of CYP102A2, a self-sufficient P450 monooxygenase from Bacillus subtilis
    (2004) Budde, Michael; Maurer, Steffen Christian; Schmid, Rolf D.; Urlacher, Vlada B.
    The gene encoding CYP102A2, a novel P450 monooxygenase from Bacillus subtilis, was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli. The recombinant enzyme formed was purified by immobilised metal chelat affinity chromatography (IMAC) and characterised. CYP102A2 is a 119 kDa self-sufficient monooxygenase, consisting of an FMN/FAD–containing reductase domain and a heme domain. The deduced amino acid sequence of CYP102A2 exhibits a high level of identity with the amino acid sequences of CYP102A1 from Bacillus megaterium (59%) and CYP102A3 from Bacillus subtilis (60%). In reduced, CO-bound form, the enzyme shows a typical Soret band at 450 nm. It catalyses the oxidation of even- and odd-chain saturated and unsaturated fatty acids. In all reactions investigated, the products were the respective ù-3, ù-2 and ù-1 hydroxylated fatty acids. Activity was highest towards oleic and linoleic acid (KM=17.4 ± 1.4 ìM, kcat= 2244 ± 72 min-1), linoleic acid (KM=12.25 ± 1.8 ìM, kcat= 1950 ± 84 min-1). Comparison of CYP102A2 homology model to CYP102A1 crystal structure revealed significant differences in the substrate access channels, which might explain the differences in catalytic properties of these two enzymes.
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    Regioselectivity of CYP2B6 : homology modelling, molecular dynamics simulation, docking
    (2002) Bathelt, Christine; Schmid, Rolf D.; Pleiss, Jürgen
    Human cytochrome P450 (CYP) 2B6 activates the anticancer prodrug cyclophosphamide (CPA) by 4-hydroxylation. In contrast, the same enzyme catalyzes N-deethylation of a structural isomer, the prodrug ifos-famide (IFA) thus causing severe adverse drug effects. To model the molecular interactions leading to a switch in regioselectivity, the structure of CYP2B6 was modelled based on the structure of rabbit CYP2C5. We mod-elled the lacking 22 residue loop in CYP2C5 between helix F and G (F-G loop) which is not resolved in the X-ray structure by molecular dynamics (MD) simulations using a simulated annealing protocol. The modelled conformation of the loop was validated by unconstrained MD simulations of the complete enzymes (CYP2C5 and CYP2B6) in water for 70 and 120 ps, respectively. The simulations were stable and led to a backbone r.m.s. deviation of 1.7 Å between the two CYPs. The shape of the substrate binding site of CYP2B6 was further analyzed. It consists of three well-defined hydro-phobic binding pockets adjacent to the catalytic heme. Size, shape and hydrophobicity of these pockets was compared to the shapes of the two structurally isomeric substrates. In their preferred orientation in the binding site both substrates fill all three binding pockets without repulsive interactions. The distance to the heme iron is short enough for 4-hydroxylation and N-deethylation to occur for CPA and IFA, respectively. However, if the substrates are docked in the non-preferred orientation (such that 4-hydroxylation and N-deethylation would occur for IFA and CPA, respectively), one pocket is left empty, and clashes were observed between the substrates.
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    Design of acetylcholinesterases for biosensor applications
    (2003) Schulze, Holger; Vorlová, Sandra; Villatte, Francois; Bachmann, Till T.; Schmid, Rolf D.
    In recent years, the use of acetylcholinesterases (AChEs) in biosensor technology has gained enormous attention, in particular with respect to insecticide detection. The principle of biosensors using AChE as a biological recognition element is based on the inhibition of the enzyme’s natural catalytic activity by the agent that is to be detected. The advanced understanding of the structure-function-relationship of AChEs serves as the basis for developing enzyme variants, which, compared to the wild type, show an increased inhibition efficiency at low insecticide concentrations and thus a higher sensitivity. This review describes different expression systems that have been used for the production of recombinant AChE. In addition, approaches to purify recombinant AChEs to a degree that is suitable for analytical applications will be elucidated as well as the various attempts that have been undertaken to increase the sensitivity of AChE to specified organophosphates and carbamates using side-directed mutagenesis and employing the enzyme in different assay formats.
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    Catalytic hydroxylation in biphasic systems using CYP102A1 mutants
    (2005) Maurer, Steffen Christian; Kühnel, Katja; Kaysser, Leonard A.; Eiben, Sabine; Schmid, Rolf D.; Urlacher, Vlada B.
    Cytochrome P450 monooxygenases are biocatalysts that hydroxylate or epoxidise a wide range of hydrophobic organic substrates. To date their technical application is limited to a small number of whole-cell biooxidations. The use of the isolated enzymes is believed to be impractical due to the low stability of this enzyme class, to the stochiometric need of the expensive cofactor NADPH, and due to the low solubility of most substrates in aqueous media. To overcome these problems we have investigated the application of a bacterial monooxygenase (mutants of CYP102A1) in a biphasic reaction system supported by cofactor recycling with NADP+-dependent formate dehydrogenase from Pseudomonas sp 101. Using this experimental setup, cyclohexane, octane and myristic acid were hydroxylated. To reduce the process costs a novel NADH-dependent double mutant of CYP102A1 was designed. For recycling of NADH during myristic acid hydroxylation in a biphasic system NAD+-dependent FDH was used. Stability of the monooxygenase under the reaction conditions is quite high as revealed by total turnover numbers of up to 12850 in NADPH-dependent cyclohexane hydroxylation and up to 30000 in NADH-dependent myristic acid oxidation.
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    Cloning, expression, and characterization of a self-sufficient cytochrome P450 monooxygenase from Rhodococcus ruber DSM 44319
    (2006) Liu, Luo; Schmid, Rolf D.; Urlacher, Vlada B.
    A new member of class IV of cytochrome P450 monooxygenases was identified in Rhodococcus ruber strain DSM 44319. As the genome of Rhodococcus ruber has not been sequenced, a P450-like gene fragment was amplified using degenerated primers. The flanking regions of the P450-like DNA fragment were identified by directional genome walking using PCR. The primary protein structure suggests a natural self-sufficient fusion protein consisting of a ferredoxin, flavin-containing reductase and P450 monooxygenase. The only flavin found within the enzyme was FMN. The enzyme was successfully expressed in Escherichia coli and purified and characterized. In the presence of NADPH, the P450 monooxygenase showed hydroxylation activity towards polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons naphthalene, indene, acenaphthene, toluene, fluorene, m-xylene and ethyl benzene. The conversion of naphthalene, acenaphthene and fluorene resulted in respective ring monohydroxylated metabolites. Alkyl aromatics like toluene, m-xylene and ethyl benzene were hydroxylated exclusively at the side chains. The new enzyme’s ability to oxidize such compounds makes it a potential candidate for biodegradation of pollutants and an attractive biocatalyst for synthesis.