Rapid screening system to identify unspecific peroxygenase activity

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Contributors

  • Marina Schramm - , Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (Author)
  • Carlos Renato Carrillo Aviles - , Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (Author)
  • Johannes Kalmbach - , Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (Author)
  • Kai-Uwe Schmidtke - , Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (Author)
  • Jan Kiebist - , Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (Author)
  • Harald Kellner - , Chair of Environmental Biotechnology (Author)
  • Martin Hofrichter - , Chair of Environmental Biotechnology (Author)
  • Katrin Scheibner - , Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (Author)

Abstract

Unspecific peroxygenases (UPO, EC 1.11.2.1) are a valuable tool for the biocatalytic synthesis of specialty chemicals such as pharmaceutical metabolites. However, the search for new UPOs that are recombinantly expressible can be tedious and dependent on expensive equipment, especially when a large number of clones has to be examined. In this study, we present a simple agar plate-based method for the screening of active, secreted UPOs heterologously expressed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This allows a real high-throughput of several thousand clones at once. The approach was successfully tested with a small gene library comprising putative UPO genes and resulted in the identification of two clones producing short UPOs from the filamentous fungi Dendrothele bispora (DbiUPO) and Aspergillus niger (AniUPO). Both UPOs were partly purified and characterized with respect to their catalytic properties. With differing efficiencies and product specificities, they catalyzed the formation of human drug metabolites, e.g., lipid mediators from polyunsaturated fatty acids and the active metabolite of the prodrug clopidogrel, respectively.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)363-373
Number of pages11
JournalClinical hemorheology and microcirculation
Volume89
Issue number4
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2025
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

PubMed 40289415
Scopus 105007116858
ORCID /0000-0002-0026-2145/work/191038635

Keywords

Keywords

  • Abts, Drug metabolism, Enzyme expression, Omega-3-lipids metabolism, Screening assay, Unspecific peroxygenase, enzyme expression, unspecific peroxygenase, screening assay, drug metabolism, omega-3-lipids metabolism, ABTS