Journal
JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOENGINEERING
Volume 109, Issue 4, Pages 331-336Publisher
SOC BIOSCIENCE BIOENGINEERING JAPAN
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiosc.2009.10.014
Keywords
Clostridium cellulovorans; Clostridium thermocellum; Cellulase; Thermostability; in vitro DNA recombination
Funding
- Korean Government [KRF-2008-331-D00172]
- Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of Korea [309016-5]
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The thermal stability and catalytic activity of endoglucanase (EngD) from mesophilic Clostridium cellulovorans were improved by evolutionary molecular engineering. Thermostable mutants were isolated after staggered extension process (StEP) with celE from thermophilic Clostridium thermocellum performed to conduct family shuffling and overlay screening of the resultant mutant library. The relative activity of the best-evolved clone has been improved of about 2 times higher at 50 degrees C and showed a higher k(cat)/K-m value than its engD parental clone. We determined that these variants had two amino acid substitutions (L157N, Q158E) and confirmed their effects by substituting these amino acids in the parental gene by site-directed mutagenesis. These substitutions resulted in an increase in hydrophilic or charged residues. Our results demonstrate that in vitro recombination is an effective approach to improve the thermostability and enzymatic activity of a mesophilic enzyme. (C) 2009, The Society for Biotechnology, Japan. All rights reserved.
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