Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting as a General Ultra-High-Throughput Screening Method for Directed Evolution of Glycosyltransferases
作者:Guangyu Yang、Jamie R. Rich、Michel Gilbert、Warren W. Wakarchuk、Yan Feng、Stephen G. Withers
DOI:10.1021/ja104167y
日期:2010.8.4
Glycosyltransferases (GTs) offer very attractive approaches to the synthesis of complex oligosaccharides. However, the limited number of available GTs, together with their instability and strict substrate specificity, have severely hampered the broad application of these enzymes. Previous attempts to broaden the range of substrate scope and to increase the activity of GTs via protein engineering have met with
糖基转移酶 (GT) 为合成复杂的寡糖提供了非常有吸引力的方法。然而,可用的 GT 数量有限,加上它们的不稳定性和严格的底物特异性,严重阻碍了这些酶的广泛应用。以前通过蛋白质工程扩大底物范围和增加 GT 活性的尝试取得了有限的成功,部分原因是缺乏有效的高通量筛选方法。最近,我们报道了一种基于荧光激活细胞分选的唾液酸转移酶超高通量筛选方法 (Aharoni et al. Nat. Methods 2006, 3, 609-614)。这里,我们通过引入双色筛选方案大大改进了这种方法,以最大限度地减少假阳性突变体的可能性,并通过中性糖转移酶、β-1,3-半乳糖基转移酶 CgtB 的定向进化证明其普遍性。从 > 10(7) CgtB 突变体库中快速鉴定出一种比野生型酶具有更广泛底物耐受性和 300 倍高活性的变体。重要的是,与母体酶相比,该变体能更有效地合成 G(M1a) 和去唾液酸 G(M1)