Product Profiles of Promiscuous Enzymes Can be Altered by Controlling In Vivo Spatial Organization

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Cheah, Li Chen
Liu, Lian
Plan, Manuel R
Peng, Bingyin
Lu, Zeyu
Schenk, Gerhard
Vickers, Claudia E
Sainsbury, Frank
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2023
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Enzyme spatial organization is an evolved mechanism for facilitating multi-step biocatalysis and can play an important role in the regulation of promiscuous enzymes. The latter function suggests that artificial spatial organization can be an untapped avenue for controlling the specificity of bioengineered metabolic pathways. A promiscuous terpene synthase (nerolidol synthase) is co-localized and spatially organized with the preceding enzyme (farnesyl diphosphate synthase) in a heterologous production pathway, via translational protein fusion and/or co-encapsulation in a self-assembling protein cage. Spatial organization enhances nerolidol production by ≈11- to ≈62-fold relative to unorganized enzymes. More interestingly, striking differences in the ratio of end products (nerolidol and linalool) are observed with each spatial organization approach. This demonstrates that artificial spatial organization approaches can be harnessed to modulate the product profiles of promiscuous enzymes in engineered pathways in vivo. This extends the application of spatial organization beyond situations where multiple enzymes compete for a single substrate to cases where there is competition among multiple substrates for a single enzyme.

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Advanced Science

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© 2023 The Authors. Advanced Science published by Wiley-VCH GmbH. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Cell metabolism

Proteomics and metabolomics

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Cheah, LC; Liu, L; Plan, MR; Peng, B; Lu, Z; Schenk, G; Vickers, CE; Sainsbury, F, Product Profiles of Promiscuous Enzymes Can be Altered by Controlling In Vivo Spatial Organization, Advanced Science, 2023, pp. 2303415

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