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Shohana Islam1,2, Dominic Laaf3, Belén Infanzón2
1DWI-Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials, Forckenbeckstraße 50, 52056, Aachen, Germany.
Abstract:
Sulfated polysaccharides such as cellulose can mimic the functionalities of pathophysiologically important glycosaminoglycans. Enzymatic sulfation offers a green chemistry route to selective (mono)sulfation of oligosaccharides (e.g., cellobiose as a building block of cellulose) in aqueous solution, at ambient temperature, and high chemoselectivity. Here, we report the first KnowVolution campaign for the aryl sulfotransferase B (ASTB) from Desulfitobacterium hafniense to advance ASTB toward a synthetically attractive biocatalyst. The generated final recombination variant (ASTB-M5) carries two amino acid substitutions (Leu446Pro and Val579Lys) leading to an up to 7.6-fold increase in specific activity (6.15 U mg-1 ) that was obtained with one round of KnowVolution. Mass spectrometry analysis confirmed a monosulfated product of cellobiose and structure elucidation by NMR confirmed the sulfation at the positions C-3 or C-4 of GlcNAc-linker-tBoc as opposed to the preferred C-6 by chemical means. Computational analysis suggested an important role of Leu446Pro in substrate-binding and recognized Val579Lys as a distal substitution.
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