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    Scanning Chimeragenesis: The Approach Used to Change Monoxygenase Cytochrome P450 BM3 into ω-Hydroxylase CYP4C7

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    Author
    Chen, Chiung-Kuang
    Issue Date
    2007
    Advisor
    Walker, Francis A
    Committee Chair
    Walker, Francis A
    
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    The University of Arizona.
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    It is believed that the specificity of cytochrome P450 is determined by a specific set of protein fragments that form the Substrate Recognition Site (SRS-1) and are responsible for a particular orientation of the bound substrate relative to the activated oxygen atom. Cytochrome P450 BM3 (CYP102A1) from Bacillus megaterium, is known for its high catalytic activity. Wild type BM3 catalyzes the oxidation of medium and long chain fatty acids (C12-18), and of farnesol, but the two form different metabolites, forms 9-hydroxyfarnesol and 10,11- and 2,3-epoxyfarnesol in a ratio of 3:3:2 and 12-hydroxyfarnesol, respectively. CYP102A1 and CYP4C7 share a common substrate, farnesol. Therefore, CYP4C7 has become the target for homologous replacements in CYP102A1. CYP4C7 from Diploptera Punctata (Pacific Beetle Cockroach) only catalyzes farnesol to produce 12-hydroxyfarnesol as its primary metabolite, with no activity towards fatty acids. By using the technique of scanning chimeragenesis, in this work three generations of chimeras have created twenty chimeric proteins. By starting with CYP102A1 as the experimental model and employing sequential rounds of selective mutagenesis, the third generation mutant C(78-82,F87L,328-330) was produced, which catalyzed the 12- and 15-hydroxylation of farnesol as its major products in a 3:1 ratio with a hundred-fold increase in catalytic activity compared to the wild type CYP4C7, and a two-fold increase over CYP102A1. Based on the activity assay results for the chimeric proteins with substrates geranyl-geraniol, 10,11-epoxymethylfarnesoate (JH III), methylfarnesoate, farnesol, geraniol, 3,7-dimethyl-1-octanol, and lauric and palmitic acids, most chimeric proteins showed a change in substrate selectivity and/or regiospecificity. Scanning chimeragenesis can be used as a tool to not only study the relationship between the protein fragments that form the substrate binding site, but also to help elucidate the roles of substrate selectivity and regiospecificity among any two cytochromes P450. Furthermore, this investigation has resulted in the production of highly efficient chimeric enzymes that have previously evaded other methods of sequence modification by mutagenesis or directed evolution and chemical synthesis.
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    Chemistry
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    University of Arizona
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