Combining an Enhanced Polyphosphate Kinase-Driven UDP-Glucose Regeneration System with the Screening of Key
Chuanqi Sun1, Miaozi Lou1, Zonglin Li1
1State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, China.
Abstract:
Nucleoside disaccharides are essential glycosides that naturally occur in specific living organisms. This study developed an enhanced UDP-glucose regeneration system to facilitate the in vitro multienzyme synthesis of nucleoside disaccharides by integrating it with nucleoside-specific glycosyltransferases. The system utilizes maltodextrin and polyphosphate as cost-effective substrates for UDP-glucose supply, catalyzed by α-glucan phosphorylase (αGP) and UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase (UGP). To address the low activity of known polyphosphate kinases (PPKs) in the UDP phosphorylation reaction, a sequence-driven screening identified RhPPK with high activity against UDP (>1000 U/mg). Computational design further led to the creation of a double mutant with a 2566-fold increase in thermostability at 50 °C. The enhanced UDP-glucose regeneration system increased the production rate of nucleoside disaccharide synthesis by 25-fold. In addition, our UDP-glucose regeneration system is expected to be applied to other glycosyl transfer reactions.
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